Kulkue - Parad - Parade
Dance House Helsinki 2022
Riksscenen, Oslo
Kulkue - Parad - Parade is a contemporary performance that combines dance, music, pre-recorded film and live projection.
The performance looks at the individual artistic histories of its Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian creators through an anthropological lens, with a curiosity towards what it means to inhabit and transform traditions in dance and music.
In February 2021 the working group members created a collection of “originals” - short pieces of dance, music and film - that became the source material for the nearly two-year-long process. Using different methods of passing on information - notation, translation and reconstruction, as well as improvisation, play and historical referencing - the materials have carved their way through time, place and medium to become an expression of not just their creators and carriers, but of the interwoven and layered texture of tradition itself.
In this process the makers become informants, collectors, translators and artists all at once, curiously witnessing the leaking concepts of time, genre and authorship. Kulkue - Parad - Parade wishes to celebrate this series of transformations as the most authentic state of tradition.
Concept and choregraphy: Outi Markkula
Creation and performance: Katriina Tavi, Jukka Tarvainen, Outi Markkula, Anita Vika Langødegård, Jon Bugge Mariussen, Emilia Lajunen, Eero Grundström, Juhani Haukka
Music: Emilia Lajunen, Eero Grundström
Cinematography and film: Juhani Haukka
Costume design: Aino Simola
Lighting and set designer: Oskari Kaarne
Choreographer's assistant: Anni Kaila
Dramaturgical planning: Outi Markkula, Juhani Haukka, Oskari Kaarne, Anni Kaila, Aino Simola
Costume making: Henna Elomaa, Kati Lätti, Aino Simola
Collaborative artists: Ingvill Fossheim (costume designer), Anna Öberg (dramaturge), Olof Misgeld (musician)
Production: Tanssin Talo Helsinki, Outi Markkula / Taideosuuskunta Suin päin
Co-producer: Riksscenen, Oslo
Photos: Ilkka Saastamoinen/ Tanssin Talo