KÖTT collective Harp

Harp is a dance piece and live concert inspired by the myth of the harpies. According to legend, harpies were half-human woman and half-bird creatures that would steal food, eat people and act as judges sent by the gods. The work dismantles the myth and breaks it into words, syllables and sounds and reassembles and translates them into poems, embodied sensations, dramatic scenes and ballads.

The work explores the storied nature of matter and the materiality of storytelling. It weaves a playful choreographic web which gives equal weight to the pearl, the word, the song and to the dances of life and death. Other inspiration sources of the piece include significant female figures from cultural history such as Louhi from Kalevala, Mary Wigman and her Hexentanz,  Shakespeare’s Ofelia, Jane Fonda and Beyoncé. We travel along the rings of time peeling back layer after layer and revealing the pearl at the centre of it all – the crystalline form of beauty, belligerence, betrayal and bliss.