From a great height
From a Great Height examines subsidence, transgression and love for grief. The choreographic sonic ceremony, for live performers and 24 speakers is a collaboration between Kemppainen, Maunuksela and Sallinen. It is an eerie invitation for the audience into an underwater world of the hidden depths and transgressing powers, playing with the emancipatory potentials of lamentation.
pictured performers Eevi Tolvanen and Marlon Moilanen.
Choreographer Suvi Kemppainen
Sound composition and Spatialization Walter Sallinen
Dramaturgy and Text Klaus Maunuksela
Creation and Dance Marlon Moilanen, Eevi Tolvanen, Kiana Rezvani
The work approaches ’transgression’ in two of its possible meanings: as a rise in sea level and a violation of norms. For Ancient Greeks, nomos meant the spirit of the law. In political theory, it refers to the idea that the sovereign power of the state rests on the ground it holds control of. We seek for new processes of power and sharing that are founded on the fluidity of the future life forms.
In the performance, possessiveness, addiction and control - all features of high modern culture we are witnessing to fall apart - make space for descending that is both slow and rapid. Aesthetics of sadness and grief are accelerated into an actual experience of subsiding that is produced by means of spatial sound and the poetics of dance.
pictured performers Eevi Tolvanen and Marlon Moilanen.