no, but very close to the bone
no, but very close to the bone is a psychopoetic dance piece about momentary body archive, mental wealth and lovers’ last push up.
The piece is a continuation of Suvi Kemppainen’s series of works (teething, 2021) on performers agency and rights in artistic processes, and how a person of love is always also a destroyer. These questions have inspired Kemppainen towards a movement practice that is informed by the ownership of the body and its bones – and also the letting go of this ownership. Who owns a dance that has been danced?
In Kemppainen’s work the psychopoetic body refers to a precisely choreographed, associative travel in the sphere of performance, deep into the psyche. The poetry of dance is also one of time and space.
Choreography, Text and Performance Suvi Kemppainen
Lighting Design Mateus Manninen
Sound Design Fjóla Gautadóttir
Costume Nina Niemistö/Puolalan Ommel
Production Ehkä-production and Suvi Kemppainen
Residency Ehkä-production/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo (Turku)
Photos Venla Helenius
Supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Premiere 12.5.2022 Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku