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My Dreams Are Not Afraid of the Dark

Choreographer Korhonen, Hanna
First Performance 6.10.2023
Place of First Performance Liikelaituri, Tampere
Finnish premiere 6.10.2023
Place of Premiere Liikelaituri, Tampere
Style Contemporary Dance
Duration (min) 40
Scenography Työryhmä / working group
Costume designer Työryhmä / working group
Lighting Designer Elina Nopanen
Sound designer Niina Hannula
Music composed for the work Niina Hannula
Description My Dreams Are Not Afraid of the Dark
A dancer, musician and poet work together to create a multi-art experience. They release words into the wind, take steps with their eyes closed, dance to the brown hares, wonder at the evening clouds. They count the grains of sand on the beach, the stars in the sky and wistful thoughts in the mind.
Performed in Finnish, the work explores the kinds of resonance surfaces that words can create in dance, soundscapes and music. Do they struggle against each other, argue, comment, sparkle, or do they occasionally find harmony?
The performance lingers in the moment, remembers the past and feels the future. It steps from the moss to the concrete and returns to the reedy shore.
(The language of the performance is Finnish.)

"On the way back, my mind meanders
down a different route.
Revealed from behind the trees,
the wrong landscape pulls the path from under my feet
and for a few seconds I fly free."

– Pekka Kytömäki

My Dreams Are Not Afraid of the Dark is part of the Moving Poems concept and series of works. The Moving Poems is an ongoing concept created by dance artist Hanna Korhonen in 2018. In this concept, contemporary dance and soundscapes are created for contemporary poems and prose texts. Korhonen continues to work on the concept every year whenever possible, always creating new moving poems with new communities and artists.
Other Information Concept: Hanna Korhonen
Poems: Pekka Kytömäki
Other performers: Niina Hannula, Pekka Kytömäki
Dancers Korhonen, Hanna