Wind Etude

Wind Etude was my final thesis project for my MA studies in choreography (Uniarts Helsinki). It was a combination of artistic and written parts. The artistic part of the piece, called Wind Etude, studies wind as an element or force that is invisible in itself but becomes visible or audible when it reacts with materiality. The relationship between visible and non-visible also relates nicely to the bigger aim of the project, which was to shed light on the process where ideas and theories are thought about within the materiality of the artistic performance. My starting points were wind or wave resonating in material, resonance in space and body and setting audible information as priority for the composition instead of sight. This was a way of questioning the dualistic setting that sight-centeredness creates for us. I had been thinking about dualistic structures and working with them differently in my last projects. Now I wanted to find a more abstract and essay-like approach to it. I had been troubled by how division into two as a given situation giveslity between people and power to inequa the Western way of separating ourselves from nature.

Concept and choreography: Soili Huhtakallio
performance: Meeri Lempiäinen, Elisa Keisanen, Anni Koskinen and Katriina Tavi
Sound design: Lukas Nowok
Lighting design: Teo Lanerva
Consume design: Anton Vartiainen
Production: Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy
Photos: Jouni Ihalainen & Teo Lanerva
Duration: 70 min
Premier: Helsinki, 2016