Premiere: 23. April 2022 Theatrum/Estonian Music Days, Tallinn
Description
How to live in a body hit by a cosmic catastrophe? The work delves into a mental and emotional state determined by the memories stored and locked in the body and psyche.
We see a person whose inner world has broken into pieces, and everything around her seems fragmentary and separated from her by an invisible wall. The character, who is embodied by two performers – a singer and a dancer – no longer perceives herself or the outside world clearly. But there is life still occuring around her and she has to move on with her somehow. How does she do it, what choices does she make, what support does she use? How does she try to express herself in a situation in which the words have not yet been created – where the words „have shown themselves to be useless and meaningless“, as Maarja Kangro notes in her novel „The Glass Child“ in 2016? In the course of the previous etched cremation process, the character has become transparent, as if an X-ray image of both the physical and mental interior had been projected continuously and everywhere. Society projects its fears and hopes into this human laboratory. But the character goes on. Despite everything.
The work is developed in the process of parallel creation using the synthesis of vocalization, analog and digital sound, word, body, movement, object, instrument, light, projection and space to say the unspeakable and to express the inexpressible in words.
Authors
Music: Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes, Scenario: Liis Kolle
When and where
2022 Theatrum/Estonian Music Days, Tallinn
Gallery
Photos: Rene Jakobson
Video
Cast
Voice Iris Oja
Movement Kärt Tõnisson
Electronics, flute Tarmo Johannes
Electronics, electric guitar Theodore Parker
Spinet, clavichord, sound objects Ene Nael
Composition Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes
Stage directing and scenario Liis Kolle
Set and costume design Ann Lumiste
Choreographie Kärt Tõnisson
Video design Sander Põldsaar
Lighting design Helvin Kaljula
Sound design Tammo Sumera
Make-up Aimi Etverk