Let’s let it all out! Finnish performing group Obliva was founded one year ahead of zeitraumexit. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary the company captained by dance scholar and performer Annika Tudeer has dealt with the manifold meanings and concepts of the German word Verdrängen.
The result of the collaboration with Stuttgart based composer Yiran Zhao is a minimalistic piece of music theatre focussing on the bodies while the instruments play second string. As comical as uncanny, and as human as supernatural, “Verdrängen Vedrängen Vedrängen” deals with everything that we rate as unpleasant yet cannot be dissociated from us: our physical inadequacy, human imperfection, our memories and shame.
Oblivia has been invited by zeitraumexit to showcase their work for the first time in 2018. The company mainly produces and works in Helsinki and has been touring internationally since 2006.
Von und mit: Alice Ferl, Timo Fredriksson, Anna–Maija Terävä, Annika Tudeer. Lichtdesign: Meri Ekola. Kostümdesign: Tua Helve, Komposition/Sounddesign/Live-Elektronik: Yiran Zhao.
Eine Produktion von Oblivia (Jenny Nordlund) in Zusammenarbeit mit RÖD (Katja Tolonen, Jenni Salminen) und ehrliche arbeit (Elena Polzer); in Koproduktion mit Theater Rampe, ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart, ARGEkultur Salzburg, Espoo City Theatre (FI), Tampereen Työväen Teatteri (FI).
Gefördert von Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Helsinki City, Konstsamfundet, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder, Svenska kulturfonden, TINFO – Theatre Info Finland/ MOTI, I-Portunus und Goethe-Institut Finnland sowie das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
Photo: © Saara Autere