Inspired by Violeta Parra’s music, Celebration is a hypnotic and meditative two-act piece that combines contemporary dance, live music, visuality and myths.
“Celebration brings together the last twenty years of my 40-year career as a dance artist and the important fellow artists with whom I have shared this journey.
I spent my early youth in the 1970s. My most vivid memory from that time is the military coup in Chile in 1973 and the massive solidarity movement that followed, the experience of solidarity and community, and the songs of Violeta Parra, which have resonated in my heart ever since.
That entire decade later took shape as dance. Into small, somewhat rough images and dance pieces that resemble myself.
Violeta Parra’s songs are the spark for the work Celebration, in which lived life is transformed into dance, movement, and a series of dreamlike, surreal scenes. Into a colorful stream of images. Into a celebration.” – choreographer Ari Numminen
Performers: Suvi Eloranta, Anniina Kumpuniemi, Samuli Roininen, Mari Rosendahl, Minja Koski, Tuomas Luukkonen, Petri Tiainen
Music f.ex.: Violeta Parra, Händel, Otto Donner, Jose Afonso, Minja Koski, Tuomas Luukkonen, Petri Tiainen
Costume design: Tiina Helin
Light design: Sari Mayer
Sound design: Henri Puolitaival
Photos: Harri Hinkka
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