Day of the innocents & Scale made /now & Rekolan Satu
July 9, 10, 11, 12 2015
@ Dock 11
Three works by Leyya Mona Tawil, Yannis Adoniou/Eugenia Arsenis, Tomi Paasonen
Day of the innocents [enter The Martyr]
Tawil is joined by a cast of Berlin-based artists: musicians Frank Gratkowski, Hilary Jeffery, Julia Reidy, and dancers Manuela Tessi, Yannis Karalis and Irene Cortina Gonzalez. Tawil enters this new work, The Martyr, by applying her 2 π r score for dancers and musicians. The Martyr began in Detroit, and is a multi-city project that will premiere in 2017. It is ultimately about resound: the work, the war, the warrior, the worker. This iteration at Dock11, Day of the innocents, is a ritual of absolution. The first step of the last. The last step of the first.
Photo: Ricardo Esway
A project of DANCE ELIXIR.
Scale made /now
A body transforms on stage through text and objects.
"… I see everything from above, like a ride at a luna park` you get dizzy up there but you are free, you scream your fear, you do not strangle it for one more time”.
Concept: Yannis Adoniou, Eugenia Arsenis
Choreography / Dance: Yannis Adoniou
Text Written by / Voice: Eugenia Arsenis
Scenography: Dionisis Christofilogiannis
Created in a residency at the Akropoditi dance center, Syros Greece
Rekolan Satu - The Fairytale of Rekola
As part of this shared evening, we will show a work-in-progress presentation of a solo piece that Tomi Paasonen creates together with dancer Satu Rekola. Her name Satu means in Finnish ‘fairytale’. Rekola is a small town in Finland. The point of departure for the project is to take autobiographical elements of Satu’s life and turn them into fantastic figures, fictional dreamworlds and construct kinetic landscapes into the space. Finnish words and phrases are repeated to formulate a fantasy language beyond meaning. Movements are synchronised to shift their interpretations into an otherworldliness. Laconic Finnish small town reality is mixed into fabulous fables and wild imaginative but not understandable stories. Adorably raw, disturbingly naive, and unpredictably freaky.
Direction, choreography and costumes: Tomi Paasonen
Dance: Satu Rekola
Photo: Tomi Paasonen
Co-produced by Satu Rekola and Tomi Paasonen is funded by Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Samuel Huber Foundation.