Eläväksi liikutettu runo
A contemporary dance performance sprouting from movement, words, and sound; branching from sitar and the Finnish language; vibrating in the bloodstream and composting into a memory of space.
Eläväksi liikutettu runo is a circulatory event, burrowing into the connections between movement, language, and sound, and regenerating itself in every single moment. This trio, larger than itself, moves along the interfaces of dance and performance art, music, and word art.
The backbone of the poem-creature consists of poems by dance artist-poet Maija Tuomi, exploring the connection between earth and space. The sonic world of the work is created acoustically with sitar, guitar, balalaika, singing bowls, bells, wooden sticks, and the human voice, as well as electronically through a looper.
This multidisciplinary piece offers its performers and witnesses a shared space of stillness. It carries the recycled cosmos of our bodies.
We are all the same breath.
Eläväksi liikutettu runo will premiere at Liikelaituri in April and will ripple across various locations in Tampere.
Performances
- Fri 24.4. at 7 pm Liikelaituri (premiere)
- Wed 29.4. 7 pm Liikelaituri (International Dance Day)
Other performances:
- Sat 25.4. 7 pm Pethaus
Pispalan valtatie 47, 33250 Tampere | More info: https://www.pethaus.fi/ - Sat 9.5. 8 pm Mahdollisuuksien tila
Selininkatu 5, 33240 Tampere | More info: https://www.mahdollisuuksientila.fi/
Duration of the performance approx 40 mins.
Age recommendation 12+.
Tickets (Liikelaituri performances)
20 e | Basic
10 e | Discount ticket
(students, pensioners, unemployed, performing arts professionals)
10 e | Wheelchair ticket + assistant ticket
Makers
Performers: Antero Mentu, Marja Skaffari, Maija Tuomi
Pictures Saara-Maija Nevalainen
Production: Maija Tuomi/working group, Pirkanmaa Dance Centre
With the support of Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Pirkanmaa Dance Centre
Accessibility
The studio Liikelaituri is located at Yliopistonkatu 58 D, 1 krs, 33100 Tampere.
Accessible entrance from Pinninkatu at the address Pinninkatu 55 A. At the gate entrance, the door is on the right at 58 D, from where access to the 1st floor is via elevator. Please note that Liikelaituri does not have a lobby or refreshments service. Accessible access to the space can be arranged.
Maija Tuomi
Dancer-poet Maija Tuomi is interested in embodying and verbalizing the invisible, making it visible. The realms of the here and beyond, as well as movement and language, go hand in hand in her artistic practice. In recent years, dance has found Maija in, among other places, a free-stall cowshed, a field, a garden, hip rotation trajectories, compound-word asteroid belts, and the borderlands between sleep and wakefulness.
Maija has worked for over 15 years in the independent dance field as a performer, choreographer, writer, and teacher. She holds a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre from Laban, London, and a Master of Philosophy degree from the Nordic Master of Dance Studies program at Tampere University.
Antero Mentu
Musician-composer Antero Mentu specializes in diverse modal music traditions, particularly North Indian classical music. Since his late teens, he has studied the raga tradition and the sitar intensively alongside his broader musical practice. Antero is active in several jazz and folk ensembles and has participated in a wide range of cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary productions, as well as composing music for films and theatre, among other contexts.
Antero studied ethnomusicology at Tampere University and North Indian classical music at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in London, as well as privately in India under master musician Sanjay Guha. In his musical expression, one journeys through interstellar darkness into hidden valleys of light, pulsing in the rhythm of generations orbiting counterclockwise.
Marja Skaffari
Performance artist and actor Marja Skaffari is particularly interested in improvisation, the human voice, and identity. Skaffari has been creating solo performances since 2002. She graduated as a musical theatre actor from Turku Arts Academy and holds a Master’s degree in Drama Pedagogy (Theatre Expression Instructor).
Skaffari has worked as a performer in both theatre and film. She is also a director and educator. Over the past ten years, she has studied Roy Hart voice work in various workshops in France and Germany. For Skaffari, the voice is the muscle of the soul — a way to express infinities and to connect with the eternal. The use of a looper enables the creation of spiral-like vocal textures and the strange coexistence of elements foreign to one another.
