Figure Solaire is dancing in urban landscapes and green parks
Choreographer Favela Vera Ortiz’s new work FIGURE SOLAIRE premiered at Parrulaituri in Helsinki. The work uses the city as a landscape to which it connects. Each performance location creates its own particular atmosphere and becomes part of the work’s scenography. At Parrulaituri in Kalasatama, for example, the urban character of the concrete pier meets the seascape. At Herttoniemi Manor Park, the lush green surroundings created an entirely different setting.
FIGURE SOLAIRE refers to a figure that carries an inner core while also embodying something greater than itself. It is an archetype, a memory and an energy – a force that repeats and transforms. The work does not depict the sun, but explores the traces of such a force in the body, in space and in movement.
Dancer Elina Valtonen carries the figure from one space to another. Sensitivity, precision and strength meet in a movement that opens, contracts, disappears and emerges again. At the heart of the work is the relationship between the body and its environment.
FIGURE SOLAIRE is a site-specific outdoor work in which each performance location transforms the landscape of the piece. The city, park, buildings, vegetation, light and weather are not merely a backdrop, but become part of the performance.
Each location gives the figure a new environment and a new way of appearing.
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Thanks to City of Helsinki, City of Espoo, City of Vantaa and Finnish Arts and Culture Agency
Choreography, costume: Favela Vera Ortiz
Dance: Elina Valtonen
Music: Michael Gordon
Dance: Elina Valtonen
Music: Michael Gordon
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