Excerpts of SPEECH & SPECTACLE (2014)

SANANVAPAUS & SPEKTAAKKELI SPEECH & SPECTACLE Premiered 17.5.2014 in Pannuhalli, Cable Factory, Helsinki "A few concepts, through which I think about representing gender on stage: The locus: Where does the stage exist? How does the context affect performance and it's reception? Right now the stage is in Finland, in a familiar culture. The resources: What are the resources for realizing the performance? In what framework does the performance take place? What is its relationship to money and societal power? Private or common discourse: Meanings are formed and received differently depending on whether the performance on stage is private or spectacular. That is why I divide art into two separate discourses, private and spectacle. The question is: how does the private combine meanings and how does the spectacle combine meanings? My stage is private. The work consists of two parts and continues as their anarchic dialogue. This is a proposal for a representation of gender on stage." - S. Kekäläinen Script, choreography, text: Sanna Kekäläinen Dance: Sanna Kekäläinen, Janne Marja-aho, Panu Varstala Lighting design: Heikki Paasonen Music: Niko Likainen Production: K&C Kekäläinen & Company / Zodiak - Centre for New Dance Filming & editing: Lilja Lehmuskallio www.kekalainencompany.net www.zodiak.fi