Photo: Riku Saastamoinen
 
Välttämätöntä mutta ei hyödyllistä  /  
NECESSARY BUT NOT USEFUL     (2021)                                                 

A combination of hands, feet, and dusty clothes in the shape of an evening gown appears slightly too large on the right side of the stage.

The program includes semi-fictional fog, recitation, and disco beats.

Welcome!

Observation proposal

a) The performance is not directed anywhere in particular, or

b) The performance is heavy, even though it occasionally or frequently floats, or

c) It is like the feeling of sitting on a bus that passes your stop,

even though you are not asleep, or

a) The performance tells a joke, but cannot get the words out, or

b) The performance has many threads, or

c) The disco atmosphere and beat cause you to drift off, or

d) Joining in is not compelled by necessity

like work, nor initiated by usefulness,

like manufacturing, or

a) There is always a party going on somewhere

Performances:

Mon 11 Oct 2021 at 7:37 p.m.

Tue 12 Oct 2021 at 8:37 p.m.

Wed 13 Oct 2021 at 8:37 p.m.

Thu 14 Oct 2021 at 7:37 p.m.

Venue:

University of the Arts Helsinki, Theater Academy

Studio 2

Haapaniemenkatu 6

Duration:

55 min

This event is part of the artistic-pedagogical event organized by second-year students in the Master's programs in theater and dance education Three directions towards. The starting point for the artistic-pedagogical event is the idea of performance as an event in which different possibilities for interaction, encounter, and change are explored and tested.

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