Photo: Katri Naukkarinen
This contemporary solo performance explores the construction of meaning and the experience of meaningfulness. It considers critically the need to locate the meaning of existence somewhere outside the body, in gods and ideals, while, on the other hand, exploring the role of art as something that imitates the extrasensory.
For this performance I wanted to bring a large visual element to the stage. One that would make the performer look small and have also a reference to religions and church spaces which have many aspects in common with theatre space. In both spaces the audience sits in the darker side of the space while most of the light is concentrated in the space in front of them. One key difference is the ceiling. In western churches the height of the space is often emphasised with for example a large window above the altar where as in contemporary stage the ceiling is merely a place to hide technical equipment necessary for the performance and often the audience is encouraged to ignore it’s existence. These thoughts formed into a slightly angled large rectangle which casts diffused white light on the stage.
Working Group:
Concept, choreography and performance: Soili Huhtakallio
Dramaturgy: Soili Huhtakallio & Emil Uuttu
Light design: Teo Lanerva
Objects and costume design: Siru Kosonen
Sound design: Roy Boswell
Music: Mikko Sarvanne
Production: Zodiak - Center for New Dance
Photo: Katri Naukkarinen
Photo: Katri Naukkarinen
Sketch