Two hot contemporary performance-makers over 40 create a steamy & sweet duet.
Theoria explores desire and yearning, friction and queer memory, tensions between intimacy and power. Firm grips and long pauses, silences where everything is clear – as clear as in Brokeback Mountain. In this duet, touch and anticipation, absence and presence form their own logic.
How could theory be embodied? How could thinking sweat?
This is a theory of how we could be.
Breath felt on skin, in hair.
Lips part, nothing moves.
Eyeballs roll back, gaze turns inward, almost nothing is seen, not for a moment.
The body arches, towards the heavens.
The music grows louder.
Interval.
A landscape opens, a flat opens, a view to the sea opens, it begins to rush, begins to open, something opens, now.
Performers Hanna Ahti and Kid Kokko lead the direction and choreography of Theoria, working closely with dramaturg Emil Santtu Uuttu. The piece features music by Alsa Ojala, lighting by Meri Ekola, scenography by Kiia Beilinson and costumes by Hanne Jurmu.
Diretion and choreography: Hanna Ahti ja Kid Kokko in collaboration with Emil Santtu Uuttu
Performance / on stage: Hanna Ahti, Kid Kokko
Dramaturgy: Emil Santtu Uuttu
Lights: Meri Ekola
Music: Alsa Ojala
Scenography: Kiia Beilinson
Costume design: Hanne Jurmu
Production: Zodiak – Center for New Dance, working group
In collaboration with: rendezvous
Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, rendezvous
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