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.
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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