Suvi Kemppainen is an internationally working choreographer, dancer, performer, and performance maker. Kemppainen's artistic works are anchored in their practice around fantastic psychopoetic corporeality, embodied knowledge, immaterial ownership and reframing the concept of spectacle. After graduating as a dancer from North Karelia College Outokumpu in Finland Suvi Kemppainen continued their choreography studies at the University of Arts Berlin HZT. Their works have been presented at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki; Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku; Sophiensaele, Berlin; Zodiak Center for New Dance, Helsinki.
From a Great Height invites you into an eerie, submerged world of hidden depths and psychopoetic corporealities.
From a Great Height by Suvi Kemppainen and their working group is a performance about the poetics of subsidence and the materialization of disappearance.
The choreographic sonic ceremony for five dancers and a multichannel speaker system draws its audience into a submerged world of hidden depths and compelling forces. Anchored in psychopoetic corporeality and combining multidisciplinary crafts, From a Great Height invites the audience to descend into the subconscious.
Through eternal orbiting¹, hollow and full bone drop, spiraling melodies, and fragments of language the piece opens an otherworldly horizon just before a page is turned. These elements converge into a dizzying vision of interregnum: threshold space where the old world has ended, and the new has not yet begun.
From a Great Height is a profound reflection on our current moment, embracing the edge of the unknown. How do we descend together from a great height, in the midst of a fall that continues to accelerate?
¹Revolving motion. Both cosmic and earthly.
Premiere on October 22, 2025 at Zodiak Stage (The Cable Factory).
