Mareld
2020
Premiere: September 9, 2020
Venue: Turku City Theatre
When: 10.9.-26.9.2020 15 performances, 10.-20.11.2021 9 performances. Kuopio Dance Festival 2 performances & World Stage Design Calgary, Canada 2022 2 performances.
Link: tkteatteri.fi
Every light has a story of its own.
There is not a single world for us all to experience. Our own worlds inside the worlds are constantly changing according to our thoughts about them, how we interpret them and how we participate. The performance travels through the layers of the sea, it begins from familiar humanity to end with otherness of an single-celled organism. What does unicellularity feel like? Can the glow of fellow creatures be sensed? The performance is a torrent of kinaesthesia, mechanical stimulation, light art, darkness art, an audio piece and a radio play, it is subaquatic and time warp. There are people too
Income from the ticket sales of the performance is used to buy forest for preservation as carbon sink.
Algae used in the performance is cultivated in the laboratory in the University Åbo Academy.
Working Group
Timo Tamminen Dancer
Ilona Salonen Dancer
Vespa Laine Concept
Markus Heino Sound Design
Samuel Salminen Graphic & Interactive Projection Design
Conny Sjöqvist Marine Biologist
Dinoflagellate Alexandrium ostenfeldii
Collaborators
Fern Orchestra, Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland, Turku City Theatre, Åbo Akademi