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Kaaoksen merkittäviä teoksia.
Pond
Pond is a small retreat, where we gather around water and give ourselves into it.
We float, we give in to the water, we get heavy, in the water, waterlike.
Kaaos Company’s performance Pond is a collaboration between choreographer Maija Mustonen and designer Erno Aaltonen. Pond premiered in the programme of Mad House Helsinki in January 2017. Since then it has been performed at ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, 2017 and List án Landamæra Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2018.
Working group
Performance and choreography: Sally Davison, Georgie Goater, Jonna Lehto, Gunilla Sjövall, Sanna Valkeapää, Noora Västinen
Performance concept and direction: Maija Mustonen
Lightning and sound design: Erno Aaltonen
Lightning design in Kuopio: Sofia Palillo
Costume design: Venla Korvenmaa
Costume consultation: Laura Haapakangas
Producer: Riikka Thitz
Production: Kaaos Company
In collaboration with Mad House Helsinki, Hotelli Korpilampi & Ruohonjuuri
Supported by Kone foundation, City of Espoo
Photos: Saara Autere, Pekka Mäkine
Patella
Patella: floating bone is a cooperation project between Georgie Goater (choreographer), Elina Sarno (theatre artist) and Kaaos Company. The piece premiered in Finland at the Theatre Academy Helsinki in March 2018 and was also part of the performance program of X Dance Festival at Zodiak, Kaapelitehdas in June 2018. (XDF is an inclusive dance festival held yearly in Helsinki, since 2016).
Patella: floating bone will carry its original integrity with new developments, and a minimal tourable set design. We feel this performance is artistically and socially relevant for Slovakia as there is no mixed ability and inclusive dance art happening. Patella: floating bone gives access to the experience of inclusive dance through performance. As the performance is accessible and immersive in nature, the audience are free to move around during the piece and can participate if they wish through touching materials or equally by winessing.
From an audience participant at Theatre Academy
“The spirit and the body – the spirit is going into THINGS – people – things – bones – skins – the group of performers summoning … a… spirit of something, never contained, always about to, always about into, who knows, into, just trying, playing, light – ok that was interesting, this is also interesting, the aliveness of everything, no pretending, always playing, going into possibility, endless.”
From another audience member at Theatre Academy
“I thought of how “disabilities / abilities” became passing concepts. Disability is the lack of a certain ability (ies) but what if there is an overflowing presence of ability (ies)? Doesn’t such phenomena create mega- / over- / utra- abilities? What does this imply, then?”
Choreographers and performers: ELINA SARNO, GEORGIE GOATER, JONNA LEHTO, SIIRI TIILIKKA, NOORA VÄSTINEN
KAAOS Company
Performance concept and direction: GEORGIE GOATER and ELINA SARNO
Producer: AAPO JUUSTI, Teak
Scenography design: IA ENSTERÄ
Light Designer: SOFIA PALILLO
Sound: GEORGIE GOATER
Stage Manager: MARJA ZILCHER, Teak
Propps: HELI HYYTIA
Costume: WORKING GROUP and Johanna Ilmarinen and Arja Nuppola
Rehearsal mentors: SALLY DAVISON, GESA PIPER
Photos: AAPO JUUSTI
Producer: KAAOS COMPANY
Funded by THEATRE ACADEMY HELSINKI and X DANCE FESTIVAL 2018, DanceAbility Finland Ry
Swansong
When I die, life consumes me.
Things become formless, wings shed their feathers and become featherless wings.
My hands, your hands – “i know this hand” – a featherless wing holding the sky.
“I know what it is to listen to this hand. I recognise the softness of the skin”
Georgie Goater and performers (Sally Davison & Gunilla Sjövall)
SWAN SONG unveils and unravels nuances of space, time, and dimension from the relational space between the two bodies of Sally Davison and Gunilla Sjövall. The space is informed by their fifteen-years working together as dancers, collaborators, and organisers of inclusive dance in Finland. Between them, they inhabit 133 years of life shaped by disability, age, and life on the periphery. Both dancers started or resumed dancing at ages when it is usually considered time to cease. The enduring quest to promote dance for all people has been the fuel of their relationship.
SWAN SONG is a journey of desires, motivations, and impulses that shape space when two bodies align for a common goal. The dialogue of body tissue shaped in flesh by biology, anatomy, physiology, history, society, phenomena, and the relational as it moves towards endings, change, and letting go….
Swan Song is a ode to the shifting sands we have found ourselves immersed in during these present times when we can often not be in the same space together. Swan Song found new ground and ways to be during this time in flowing with the changes. In spring 2021 we rehearsed online and in the autumn Gunilla and Sally were able to move in the same space together. However, by January when the performance was to premiere this had again shifted. During X Dance Festival 2021 we offered an audio version reflection of our process. And in the January phase of the work we developed a video of the process as we were not able to be in the space at the same time. The video will be included in the live performance.
Working group
Performers: Sally Davison, Gunilla Sjövall
Mentors: Georgie Goater, Maija Mustonen, Rea
Sound: Riku-Pekka Kellokoski
Light: Sofia Palillo
Costume/Set: Heli Hietala
Film and Image: Rea
Venue: Monitoimitila O.
Producer: Sally Davison / Raila Knuuttila
Sjövall and Davison met at ImPulsTanz Dance Festival in Vienna in 2007 during the DanceAbility Certification Program. The significance of this meeting aligned a focus the two have shared and held during the last fourteen years. During this time they created DanceAbility Finland ry in 2008 and Kaaos Company in 2010. There have been many people who have contributed to both organisations over the years, however, Sjövall and Davison have remained a constant until now – now it is time for change – Swan Song marks this moment.
Swan Song is a performance narrative of the combined working relationship and friendship that has been a constellating force in the lives of both Sjövall and Davison. ‘The space is shaped by our history of dancing together over these years and it is our privilege to share this journey in the performance of Swan Song. The piece heralds the necessity of endings and change in the context of life both personally and collectively in letting go into the unknown….’