CHOREOGRAPHY+ is a space and time where choreography breathes wider than dance. It is a place where movement meets language, sound touches the body, light draws the rhythm and a thought dances into the unknown.
This space asks in a whisper, can choreography be independent and exist in its own gravity? Or does it still need other worlds around it to grow, expand and create new horizons?
CHOREOGRAPHY+ is a promise to discover new fields of tension: between movement and stillness, structure and freedom. It is an invitation for the audience to witness the possibilities of choreography. Chaos, rhythm and form will lead the way.
CHOREOGRAPHY+ is an evening of performances, where choreographers who have chosen an artist from another field to cooperate with on the stage. Together they have created a short performance to experience the possibilities of choreography.
Juulius Vaiksoo + Hirvo Surva
“Song and Dance Celebration”
Juulius is a dancer, Hirvo is a conductor. Juulius cannot understand what Hirvo’s profession is all about and what makes it such a valued profession. Both professions are physical and can be perceived as choreography. During this joint process, they learn about each other’s professions and try to find a common vocabulary in order to combine their strengths for the stage. Juulius dances according to Hirvo’s baton. Hirvo conducts something completely new for him. How does a conductor affect a dancer’s performance? How to conduct silence and body language?
Rebecca Green + Maret Lüllman
“Body of Work”
“Body of Work” explores both physical and invisible labor, maneuvering through gender roles, expectations, and power dynamics within the traditionally male-dominated field of construction. Dripping sweat, grunts and groans accompany the repeated lifting of heavy objects from place to place. What is the choreography of a catcall?
Civil engineer Maret Lüllman will act as stage designer in collaboration with Rebecca Green, who will direct and choreograph. As a civil engineer and builder, Maret Lüllman has worked for many years in strongly male-dominated fields. Her unique observations around respect, behavior, and power dynamics are both insightful and informative in the work. Rebecca Green has long explored the themes of entanglement, emotional labor, femininity, sexuality, and power structures in human relationships, and she continues to investigate these topics through movement and the body in this latest collaboration.
Mark Monak + Kärt Hammer
“My House”
Family. Or just close people. One common space where we belong. The contact, collision and separation of the physical and spiritual. The complexity and self-evidentness of feelings, their obviousness and complete incomprehensibility. Being and the endless search for existence. How to be, how one must be? How to find the way to oneself and from there to others? Having reached another person, having loved, sooner or later grief comes into play. Grief is like a terrible reminder of the depth of love. Grief brings us together with the deeper essence of things. Pain is a transformative tool through which re-creation takes place. From this new energy can be born, new life and a previously unknown deeper joy. Because everything has changed.
Step by step, “My House” creates an experimental space for this risky expedition. Feelings are supported by beauty, life is amplified by death. Something always shines in the darkness. We need to talk about it so that we can understand it.
Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (STL) • Telliskivi tänav 60a/9, 10412 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
