Charge

Event Introduction

Site-specific dance performance CHARGE researches ways of charging and embodies a human battery. The dance piece gets its inspiration from superheroes, electro-acoustic and techno music (specifically the techno hit Pump up the Jam by Technotronic), exhaustion of body and mind, euphoria of dance, Formula 1 and acceleration, video games and trancelike repetition – from energy that (re)creates energy. The work scrutinises the unsustainable western energy production at large and searches for playful ways to be its own bionic light and fleshy battery. Charge is situated at Parrulaituri around the contemporary sculpture Big-Be Hide by Alicja Kwade. The sculpture functions as a portal to other dimensions, as well as a solid co-performer. The location of Parrulaituri in the urban Kalasatama area is situated at a meeting point of the energy producer Helen, rough urban city planning and the sea.
The artists form an international working group, coming together from various countries and local fields to charge together in movement.

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Choreography, production & costumes: Karoliina Loimaala

Dance and co-choreography: Krista-Julia Arppo, Anika Edström-Kawaji, Maurice Bessanh, Anni Kaila, Louis Nam Le Van Ho, Karoliina Loimaala, Maya Oliva
Sound design and music: Iida Hägglund
Duration: 35min
Picture: Karoliina Loimaala & Krista-Julia Arppo
Supported by: Finnish Cultural Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre, Wihuri Foundation, The Finnis Institute of the Benelux-TelepArt, UrbanApa, Friskis&Svettis

Time: 15.08.2021 at 21 PM
Venue: Parrulaituri, Big-Be Hide sculpture, Kalasatamanpuisto Helsinki
(a pier at the end of Kalasatama parc, 5min walk from mall of Redi)
-Free admission-

Worth noting: The performance space is an outside space and it gets windy! We recommend clothing according to the day’s weather.
In case of heavy rain the performance will be moved to south end of Redi at Nereidi scultpure.

Categories

Open rehearsals, Outside, Dance