A performance about passion and aggression that combines contemporary dance, visual art and performance. Inspired by Carl Gustaf Jung's The Red Book, the performance asks what happens when pent-up energy is released.
Red delves into the diverse landscape of passion and aggression: body, mind and society. Combining contemporary dance, visual art and performance, the work builds an intense bodily ritual, where movement and dialogue between the arts open up a space for the exploration of emotions.
The performance draws its inspiration from Carl Gustav Jung’s The Red Book, a symbolic journey of inner transformation. Red gives visibility to emotions that our culture often fears and suppresses, but which can also be a human power, an engine of change and a tool for recognizing boundaries. In a time of growing tensions and increasing psychological burden, Red invites us to ask what happens when pent-up energy is allowed to become visible and how it changes us as individuals and as a community.
Red is the first part of Mamia Company’s new work series, the Tricolori Triptych. This multi-year series examines the deep layers of the psyche through three colors. Each part opens up its own psychic state or bodily situation, in which color serves as a visual, emotional and symbolic framework. The series continues Mamia Company’s long-term work in making the psyche visible through performance art and expands on the previous Triptych of the Psyche by opening a new perspective: color as a map of the psychic landscape.
Direction, sound design: Kasperi Nordman
Dramaturgy, visualization: Nina Mamia and Kasperi Nordman
Performers: Aino Strandberg and Hetkissä community dance group
Lighting design: Ruben Rissanen
Graphic design: Jarmo Wideman
Costume design Merja Thil