Description
Maria Nurmela’s sensitive dance work Falling Through The Disappearing Light explores themes of the constant presence of life and death, uncertainty, poverty, illusions, and dream worlds. Choreographer Maria Nurmela creates the piece together with an international team of artists. The performance also features talented dancers from the Kuula Institute.
Inspired by H.C. Andersen’s fairy tale The Little Match Girl (published in 1845), this contemporary dance piece offers the audience an opportunity to reflect on the transience of life through movement. The team’s interpretation of the familiar story is abstract, metaphorical, and associative, and the work aims for a multisensory experience. The creative process has taken place at the intersection of various art forms.
Concept, choreography, and direction: Maria Nurmela
Performance, dance, and co-choreography: Jonna Aaltonen, Janne Aspvik, Georgie Goater, Gesa Piper, Meri Pajunpää
Choreographic assistant: Gesa Piper
Composition and sound design: Jane Sheldon & Jaakko Vastapuu
Costume design and visuals: Heidi Wikar
Lighting and spatial consultation: Kalle Ropponen
Costume production: Heidi Wikar and Anni Korkalo
Production: Maria Nurmela, Western Dance Centre
Supporters: Western Dance Centre, Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi, Turku Cultural Committee, Turku Theatre Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden, Finnish Cultural Foundation / Southwest Finland Fund, Arts Promotion Centre Finland / Southwest Finland, Jenni and Antti Wihuri Foundation
No intermission.
