Nuutinen, Lehtopolku & Makkonen: ANON & LEVOTON MAA

Joint Performance Night at Viirus

ANON

Is tolerance of waiting essential to our growth  and development as people?Who has the power to keep others waiting and who agrees to wait? 
Who do we wait with?

Technological developments have shortened waiting times in several respects. This has also resulted in the shrinking of our patience. Where as we were once totally comfortable to wait weeks on end for a letter to arrive from another continent, nowadays our tolerance for waiting has grown so low that it is intolerable if a mobile phone takes longer than 10 seconds to switch on.

In her latest work ANON choreographer Johanna Nuutinen utilises her customary medium of virtuoso dance to explore the unavoidable senses of surrendering and uncertainty created by waiting. ANON also examines the temporary communities created by the act of waiting and questions the power structures of waiting. The creative team consists of performers Jenna Broas and Oskari Nyyssölä, visualist Joonas Tikkanen, sound designer Tuuli Kyttälä and dramaturg Miranda Laurence.

RESTLESS EARTH

Inspired by Orientalism by Edward W. Said, the premiere work Restless Earth by choreographers Riku Lehtopolku and Mikko Makkonen explores how we encounter difference and come to terms with it. Of the phenomena that are alien to us, we tend to create a representation that fits our own worldview. Often times this representation isn’t so much an expression of reality as it is a desire to understand but also control an alternative world. There is an inseparable division to “us” and to “them” when encountering a foreign culture, and the work focuses on how we as outsiders create a controlled world that is coherent to us based on a much more multifaceted reality, defining ourselves as counter images of the others. 

Duration
2 h (includes 25 min break between performances)

Performances at Viirus
November 22th at 19:00 / November 23th at 19:00
November 24th at 15:00 and 19:00.

TICKETS

Regular price 20 € / Students, retired, branch 15 €
Tickets to Anon – The Act of Waiting, Levoton Maa and Iiris 35 €