Shall we have a drink before I start to cry?

The performance is a homage for emotional, sentimental and melodramatic spheres. The work explores power ballads and pop culture’s heart break imagery as ‘emotional fiction’; something commercially produced but through which it is possible to dwell into personal experiences. By studying these performative gestures; embodyment of emotionality, loss and longing an expressive and dramatic movement language is created. The performers play with this materiality and the scale of vulnerability and performativity.

Credits

Choreography Marika Peura

Dancers Ella Effendy, Jan Loukas, Johanna Karlberg

Sound designer Leissi

Light designer Alina Pajula

Set designer Virpi Nieminen

Costume designer Marika Peura

Producer Salli Berghall /TEAK

Performance photos Sanni Siira

Premiere 25.1.2020 Theatre Hall, Uniarts Helsinki Theatre Academy

The work is Peura’s graduation piece from the MA in Choreography program.

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