down below things shudder
Honey on the rocks, lava in the spine.
Lä-ääh, lä-ääh, uuuh aaah! (or how does one transcribe the ocean?)
Body rolling, body rolling, heavy waves through my muscle tonus.
Eyes low, wavy like the sea, the landscape listens.
Wait, can you feel it?
Another body wave gyrating through me.
I want you to notice it, I made it for you!
My sweat, my lava - a grandiloquent sequence.
Ooops, oh my!
Can you come closer?
The work dives into the intimacy of dancing, choreographically deriving from the context of street, club & rave culture, dances and relationalities. ‘Grinding’ as its movement landscape, five dancers engage in a search of pleasures of the dancing body; sensual and sexual energies, frantic expressions and the thrill of the social play grounded in intimate exploration.
The name of the piece is a line from poet Rebecca Tamás poem WITCH VOLCANO. (Tamás 2019: 103).
Essay of the work by Even Minn - Taking pleasure in the thickness of time
Credits
Choreography Kaisa Nieminen, Marika Peura
Dancers Selma Kauppinen, Lau Lukkarila, Kaisa Nieminen, Caroline Suinner, Marika Peura
Sound designer Tiikka Drama
Light designer Luca Sirviö
Set designer Virpi Nieminen
Costume designer Joona Huotari
Dramaturg Hanna-Kaisa Tiainen
Producer Kaisa Nieminen, Marika Peura
Co-production Tanssin talo, go to the project’s website
Support Finnish Culture Fund (as part of Dance House Helsinki’s SPARKS project), Taiteen edistämiskeskus
Promo photos Venla Helenius
Performance photos Roza Ahmad
Teaser video Eva-Liisa Orupold
Performance footage Teemu Kyytinen
Premiere 13.4.2023 Pannu Hall, Dance House Helsinki
Tour dates
15.2.2024 Ice Hot Nordic Platform, Riksscenen Oslo
5.-6.7.2024 Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA)
