Wind Etude, 2016

Wind Etude was my final thesis project for my MA studies in choreography (Uniarts Helsinki). It was combination of an artistic and written parts. Artistic part, the piece called Wind Etude studies wind as an element or force that in itself is invisible, but becomes visible or audible when it reacts with materiality. The relationship of visible and non-visible also relates nicely to the bigger aim of the project which was to shed light to the process where ideas and theories are though 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 in different ways in my last projects. Now I wanted to find a bit more abstract and essay like approach to it. I had been troubled by the way devision into two as a given situation gives power both to unequality between people and to the western way of separating ourselves from the nature.

Concept and choreography : Soili Huhtakallio
performance : Meeri Altmets, 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