Photo: Vesa Loikas 

 

ENTANGLEMENT / KIETOUTUMINEN / VERWICKLUNG - dance film                                                       

Synopsis:

This film creates an embodied ecosystem in which the elements, the landscape, the human body and its gestural behaviours intertwine in a mythic palimpsest of realities. The work is inspired by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana's and Francesco Varela ́s theory of autopoiesis, a network of processes in an organism that enables internal regeneration and self-maintenance, producing crucial parts of interacting biological systems. We also intend to foreground an awareness that networks of biological systems in organisms are necessarily identified and entangled with the place where they are located, at whatever scale: the local forest, the larger natural world, the Earth, space. The textual underpinning of the work is provided by Rainer Maria Rilke's poems about trees, with sound design that blurs the relationship between natural sound (both human and non-human) and gently mechanical or artificial sound.

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Credits: 

Sound and Music: JANE SHELDON
Choreography: MARIA NURMELA

Dancers: JONNA AALTONEN, MARIA NURMELA & GESA PIPER
Director, Cinematography & Photography: VESA LOIKAS
Voice over: MARIA NURMELA
Concept: MARIA NURMELA & VESA LOIKAS

Original poems "Mein Leben ist nicht diese steile Stunde"
& "Die Liebende" by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Supported by
Performing HEL & The Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland

Filmed in Vaarniemi Nature Reserve in Kaarina, Finland

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