The collaboration between Sanna Blennow and Mikko Niemistö is a dream about leaving the mundane repetition of everyday life, a proposal to merge and to get lost in the limbo. It embraces nothingness and the animal inside of us, venturing to the dark side.
In a landscape of swinging microphones, traces of sweat lingers in the air. Two bodies on the threshold of tipping over are fighting against gravity, speaking in languages we can’t understand, moving in uncanny ways.
The performance dwells in states of emptiness, anger and frustration and is searching for channels through which these can be projected. It zooms in on individuals caught in between action and apathy, trying to figure out their role in an ever growing reality of imaginary needs and emotional triggers. It embraces nothingness and the animal inside of us, venturing to the dark side.
SOMETHING AND NOTHING ABOUT DARKNESS is an energetic performance where two bodies are constantly on the move. It is a collage of movement, text and sound which all arise from dream-like states coupled up with the urge to swim against the current. The performance is a dream about leaving the mundane repetition of everyday life, a proposal to merge and to get lost in the limbo. The performers are being pushed and pulled, forced into different constellations, scenarios and doings.
WORKING GROUP
Choreography and performance: Sanna Blennow and Mikko Niemistö
Sound design: Olli Lautiola
Lighting design: Teo Lanerva
Costume design consultation: Siru Kosonen
Dramaturgy: Simone Gisela Weber
Production: Mikko Niemistö and Zodiak - Center for New Dance
Supported by: Kone Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland
Premiere in Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki on 23rd February 2023
Photo Jussi Ulkuniemi
Photo Jussi Ulkuniemi
Photo Jussi Ulkuniemi