Shall we have a drink before I start to cry?
The performance is a homage for emotional, sentimental and melodramatic spheres. The work explores power ballads and pop culture’s heart break imagery as ‘emotional fiction’; something commercially produced but through which it is possible to dwell into personal experiences. By studying these performative gestures; embodyment of emotionality, loss and longing an expressive and dramatic movement language is created. The performers play with this materiality and the scale of vulnerability and performativity.
Credits
Choreography Marika Peura
Dancers Ella Effendy, Jan Loukas, Johanna Karlberg
Sound designer Leissi
Light designer Alina Pajula
Set designer Virpi Nieminen
Costume designer Marika Peura
Producer Salli Berghall /TEAK
Performance photos Sanni Siira
Premiere 25.1.2020 Theatre Hall, Uniarts Helsinki Theatre Academy
The work is Peura’s graduation piece from the MA in Choreography program.