Kaisa Nieminen & Marika Peura: down below things shudder

Honey on the rocks, lava in the spine.
Lä-ääh, lä-ääh, uuuh aaah! (or how does one transcribe the ocean?)
Body rolling, body rolling, heavy waves through my muscle tonus.
Eyes low, wavy like the sea, the landscape listens.
Wait, can you feel it?
Another body wave gyrating through me.
I want you to notice it, I made it for you!
My sweat, my lava - a grandiloquent sequence.
Ooops, oh my!
Can you come closer?

The work dives into the intimacy of dancing, choreographically deriving from the context of street, club & rave culture, dances and relationalities. ‘Grinding’ as its movement landscape, five dancers engage in a search of pleasures of the dancing body; sensual and sexual energies, frantic expressions and the thrill of the social play grounded in intimate exploration.

The name of the piece is a line from poet Rebecca Tamás poem WITCH VOLCANO. (Tamás 2019: 103).

DETAILS

FORMAT:
new dance

CONTENT NOTES

street, club & rave culture

WORKING GROUP

Choreography
Kaisa Nieminen, Marika Peura

Dancers
Selma Kauppinen, Lau Lukkarila, Kaisa Nieminen, Caroline Suinner, Marika Peura

Sound designer
Tiikka Drama

Light designer
Luca Sirviö

Set designer
Virpi Nieminen

Costume designer
Joona Huotari

Dramaturg
Hanna-Kaisa Tiainen

Producer
Kaisa Nieminen, Marika Peura

Co-production Tanssin talo

Support Finnish Culture Fund (as part of Dance House Helsinki’s SPARKS project), Taiteen edistämiskeskus

Teaser video
Eva-Liisa Orupold

Performance footage
Teemu Kyytinen

EXHIBITED

Premiere
13.4.2023 Pannu Hall, Dance House Helsinki

Tour dates
15.2.2024 Ice Hot Nordic Platform, Riksscenen Oslo

5.-6.7.2024 Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA)

PHOTOS

Promo photos
Venla Helenius

Performance photos
Roza Ahmad