Karolin Poska "For Your nirvana" in Tartu

Kanuti Gildi SAAL is coming to Tartu from the 18th until the 23rd of April and bringing along four performances: “For your Nirvana” by Karolin Poska, “Yokoonomatopoems” by Riina Maidre and Andri Luup, “The Well” by Maria Metssalu and “Pure Pink Pox”, a performance premiering in Tartu, by The Biofilm Sisters. A week filled with performances, artistic talks and a performative pop-up bookstore make up a festival called Switch over which is like a mixtape created with love from Tallinn to Tartu. All components of this intense week examine the possibilities and impossibilities of performing arts from different angles. Everyone can find their personal way or even a portal to better understand and experience art.

By buying two tickets to the same event a 5€ discount will apply.

The future is dark, nothing is clear yet. There were dark rings under their eyes. Dark thunderclouds. It was dark outside and I couldn't see much. River water is as dark as hard work. The mountains are darker in the foreground. They saw the future only in dark colors, 'gloomy, unhappy, discomforted'.

Karolin Poska invites you to dream in dark times with open eyes. Using body, objects, sorcery, voice, space, she tries to create consolation for the anxieties of living.

She makes her hips lie, she makes onions cry, she does things which lead nowhere - nothing is true and everything is possible. She sees forever, she waits for nirvana, hijacks, falls legs together, and longs for what the heart gets. She invites you to participate without participation. No one is forced to do anything but, is gently allowed to join.

Karolin Poska is a Tallinn based choreographer, performance artist and dancer. Through her creative activities she tries to understand what it is like to be alive nowadays. She likes to play with objects, transform reality and mess with the audience’s expectations. Poska recently completed her contemporary art studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she received the Young Artist Award for her final work. Her solo performance “For your nirvana” was nominated for the Dance Awards of Estonia in 2021.

Director/on stage: Karolin Poska
Artist: Maret Tamme
Sound designer: Katrin Enni
Light: Marko Odar
Dramaturgical support, project management: Kaie Küünal
Thank you: Hanna Kritten Tangsoo, Theodore Parker,
Supporters: Eesti Kultuurkapital, Floratrade OÜ
Co-production: Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Premiere: 5.12.2020, Kanuti Gildi Keldrisaal

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The venue is not wheelchair accessible. Apologies!