Thank you to choreographer and dancer Saga Elgland (of Saga Elgland Company) for her brilliant performance of my sound-poetry composition PIENIÄ TOSIASIOITA at Villa Rana, Jyväskylä FI, last night!

More info on the composition and its origins here.

Her “reactive dance house game” to my “meditative opera” appears to have been an inventive, immersive, captivating and elevating experience for the audience full of praise afterwards (based on the feedback I’ve received).

Watching the several clips I’ve so far received, it’s fascinating to observe whether the poetic and sonic content follows the performance or the other way around; and how the movements, gestures, acts and objects keep constantly acquiring and shifting between different meanings and interpretations, depending on the words and sounds emerging. The entire stage seems to exist in a state of constant becomings: endless virtual possibilities becoming actual in plain sight, a multitude of stories seamlessly flowing into one another and unfolding in parallel, suggesting unexpected realities.

Naturally, thank you to everyone who attended the performances – the audience becoming part of the stage design was an inspired choice! – as well as to the participating partners who made this collaboration possible: Keski-Suomen Tanssin Keskus ry, Keski-Suomen Kirjailijat ry and Kulttuuritalo Villa Rana.

The featured poets:

Olli-Pekka Tennilä
Suvi Valli
Kristian Blomberg
Riikka Simpura
Petri Turunen
Anniina Louhivuori
Niklas Salmi
Riitta Cankoçak
Vesa Lahti

My deepest gratitude X

*** Have a warm and wonderful holiday season ***

P.S. Here are three rough clips from one of the performances, recorded with a phone camera by one of the featured poets, Vesa Lahti.

Choreography and dance: Saga Elgland

Music and sound: Ilpo Jauhiainen

Light and stage design, technical realisation: Lasse Saari, Timo Hanhisalo, Toivo Niemi

Production: Keski-Suomen Tanssin Keskus ry in collaboration with Keski-Suomen Kirjailijat ry and Kulttuuritalo Villa Rana