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Cosmic Latte
| Choreographer |
Lindfors, Sonya |
| First Performance | 15.5.2018 |
| Place of First Performance | Pannuhalli, Cable Factory, Helsinki |
| Finnish premiere | 15.5.2018 |
| Place of Premiere | Pannuhalli, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki |
| Style | Contemporary Dance |
| Duration (min) | 75 |
| Performers of the premiere | Deogracias Masomi, Ima Iduozee, Pauliina Sjöberg, Geoffrey Erista, Sonya Lindfors |
| Other music |
Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come Sun Ra: Door of the Cosmos Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Sun Song Johan Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canones diversi: Canon 5 a 2 (per Tonos) |
| Description |
COSMIC LATTE asks what a utopian future that comes after the confrontations and breaking up of structures would look like. The logic of our thinking has changed, because black and white are no longer opposites. Instead, they contain one another. Borderlines have become less steep, meanings mix like liquids. Afrofuturism, a term coined in 1993 by Mark Dery, provides the framework for the radical dreaming that is COSMIC LATTE. The term, initially used in sci-fi contexts, defined, reimagined and dreamed blackness and black identity. Afrofuturism dreamed of a place where freedom, equality, past, present and future are come together in a mystical interzone that escapes all limitations and borders. Cosmic Latte is a name given by researchers for the average colour of the universe. |
| Other Information |
Direction and concept: Sonya Lindfors Working group: Deogracias Masomi, Ima Iduozee, Pauliina Sjöberg, Geoffrey Erista, Sonya Lindfors, Erno Aaltonen, Jussi Matikainen, Sanna Levo, Esete Sutinen Spatial and lighting assistant: Sofia Pallillo Texts: working group COSMIC LATTE is also the third instalment of Sonya Lindfors' series of works focusing on blackness. |
| Dancers |
Lindfors, Sonya (2018) Iduozee, Ima (2018) , (2018) Sjöberg, Pauliina (2018) Erista, Geoffrey (2018) |