Ami Karvonen – Kid Kokko – Anna Mustonen: Liike ja tyhjyys (Movement and emptiness)

You wouldn’t think of form by the ocean, Agnes Martin remarks

Liike ja tyhjyys (Movement and emptiness) is a performance co-thought, co-discussed, co-danced and co-written by Ami Karvonen, Kid Kokko and Anna Mustonen. The performance includes light art by Meri Ekola.

The performance settles in the areas of empty, spacious, dim, loose, minor, grids, cavities, deserts, starry night skies, no, exhaustion, omitting, goodbyes and exits. It senses the feel of refusal, the extent of the space that it unfolds. It looks at the areas that remain between the lines, the space outside of focus. A fitting landscape appears.

The performance has the feel of the miraculous and the ordinary.

Text, dramaturgy, choreography and performance: Ami Karvonen, Kid Kokko and Anna Mustonen
Light art: Meri Ekola
Photo: Hertta Kiiski
Internship: Iiris Miettinen
Production: Karvonen, Kokko and Mustonen, Takomo, Helsinki City Theatre’s Stage for Contemporary Performance

The performance has been supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Niilo Helander Foundation, and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Premiere: Teatteri Takomo, Feb 10th 2023

Stage for Contemporary Performance is a pilot project implemented in studio Pasila during 2022 and 2023. The objective of the project is to include different forms of contemporary performance in the Helsinki City Theatre’s seasonal programme. In 2023, the activities of the Stage for Contemporary Performance are divided into three premieres and two guest performances. The pilot project is supported by the Kone Foundation.

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