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Skymningsfåglar (Dusk birds) - Katja Seitajoki & Arena Baubo

föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Skymningsfåglar - Katja Seitajoki & Arena Baubo
Foto: José Figueroa

The jury’s motivation

Using darkness as a stage, this performance is full of sound, life and movement. It's a beautiful and carefully crafted spectacle that awakens the imagination and sharpens the senses. Mysterious night creatures come into view, creating evocative tableaux that remind us of the vastness and mystery of nature. There is a whole world that lives in the dark hours of the day and Arena Baubo's production brings it to life.

 

A reflection on the significance of darkness for the living.

Here you encounter the multitude of lively activity that occurs in nature while humans are usually asleep. An infinite darkness that we can neither explain nor understand, which is still a place with treetops looming in moonlight. Insects hard at work, bats hunting and glow worms playing hide and seek in the vegetation at night. An experience where we, just as during the hours of dusk, sense how light decreases and how the murky world of darkness takes over.

During the performance sound, movement, and light folds us into dark nature where eyes and ears, feelers and sensory bodies observe us in the night. The audience become part of the staging and in the darkness their outlines become vague, as the surroundings seep into them. Movement from bats, moisture, wind and glow worms shape the dancers’ bodies and leads the dance into the point of intersection between darkness and light. We speculate about how it is to be an animal, a plant or an insect with abilities especially adapted to the darkness.

In a time of round the clock consumption, light pollution and climate change we want to contemplate the darkness and ask ourselves what humans are in the opacity of nature. Through movement, text and sound beautiful and cruel scenes are created where we let the more-than-human lead us.

Credits:

Idea and choreography: Katja Seitajoki in collaboration with the dancers and Lisen Pousette

Dancers: Ellen Söderhult, Noah Hellwig and Lisen Ellard

Composer: Tomas Björkdal and Lena Swanberg

Text: Alexandra Loonin

Costume and scenography: Maline Casta

Light: Mira Svanberg

Photo: Jose Figueroa

Production: Arena Baubo

From 13 years

Time and place

16:00 - 16:45
18:00 - 18:45
10:00 - 10:45
13:00 - 13:45

Play time: 45 minutes

Skymningsfåglar (Dusk birds) - Katja Seitajoki & Arena Baubo

Skymningsfåglar Trailer from Arena Baubo on Vimeo.