UITKEHA

Choreography / performance JOANNA KALM
Movement dramaturgy MARI MÄGI
Scenography ARTHUR ARULA
Sound design STEN SAARITS
Light design KAROLIN TAMM 
Producer MINNA TRIIN KOHV

Videography PIIBE KOLKA
Photography KRIS MOOR, ALI SAFFARSHAMSHIRGAR

Premiered in June 2021
Co-production: Estonian Dance Agency / TantsuRUUM with support from Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn University Student Union and Research Fund

UITKEHA is of fluidity, openness and volatility of being a human organism. Softly choreographed through a body – in this case my own, Joanna’s – so to observe the subtleties of sensing and perceiving which organize one’s being.

I allow time for the body to be expressed in space.

If it is recognized that all possibilities of language – spoken and written – are already given in the experienced world, then what kind of expression is already given in the body?

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I find myself in a mist of quickly disappearing dance, which cannot be grasped by hand nor fixed into the form of it. The sensations slip through my fingers and it is not possible to step into the same river twice. A body-self is a process consisting of personal material, the environment and you in it. I am left to follow the (dis)order of my body. 

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I am led by the following questions: What is organizing me in the moment? How to organize and thus sense differently? What if I just allow my cells to express themselves? What is the relation between attention and expression? How do the internal and external relate and balance? What if I include everything into my dancing? How to dance everything present in the moment?