OuDance Festival

In the pie­ce Fu­gue in Two Co­lors Knif exp­lo­res the exp­res­si­ve po­wer of mo­ve­ment. The pie­ce it­self is a stu­dy of the an­cient re­la­tions­hip bet­ween mu­sic and dan­ce. In the pie­ce the st­rict mu­si­cal form of Dmit­ri Šos­ta­ko­vitš’s pre­lu­des and fu­gues is jux­ta­po­sed with the ramb­ling mo­ve­ment of the dan­cers.

The pie­ce is ba­sed on cho­reog­rap­hic sco­res crea­ted with Knif`s met­hods of imp­ro­vi­sa­tion. The re­la­tions­hip bet­ween the pre­lu­de and  fu­gue, two en­ti­ties, re­la­ted but yet dif­fe­rent, is a ba­sic cha­rac­te­ris­tic of the cho­reog­rap­hy. On the ot­her hand the au­dio­vi­sua­li­ty of the pie­ce de­li­be­ra­te­ly breaks the form of the mu­sic, a form that Šos­ta­ko­vitš has bor­ro­wed from Bach, the­re­fo­re crea­ting a third ge­ne­ra­tion adap­ta­tion of the tra­di­tio­nal form.

Fu­gue in Two Co­lors is a stu­dy of the enig­ma­tic na­tu­re of the con­cept of per­for­man­ce and per­for­ming. The dif­fe­rent sec­tions of the ve­nue are all spa­ces of the pie­ce, at the sa­me ti­me they are pla­ces sha­ped by the con­ven­tions and tra­di­tions of the per­for­ming arts.

​Cho­reog­rap­hy: Carl Knif | Dan­ce: Jon­na Aal­to­nen, Jyrki Kasper, Carl Knif, Mikko Paloniemi, Anna Stenberg, Terhi Vaimala | Set and light de­sign: William Iles | Sound de­sign: Jan­ne Hast | Cos­tu­me de­sign: Ka­ro­lii­na Koi­so-Kant­ti­la | Masking: Milja Mensonen | Photos: Yoshi Omori | Co-pro­duc­tion: Carl Knif Com­pa­ny & Helsinki City Theatre | Pre­mie­re: 12.10.2020 | Production of the visit: JoJo – Oulu Dance Centre | Duration: 60 Min.

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