News
15.4.2008
Sanna Kekäläinen's solowork Puna-Red-Rouge is invited to Internationale tanzmesse nrw in Düsseldorf, Germany. The performances are on the 29th of August 2008 in FFT/JuTA –theatre at 16.00 and at 21.00.
Puna-Red-Rouge is also invited to Dansens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden. Performances are on the 26th and 27th of September 2008.
K&C is also invited to Turku, Manifesti-festival and Oulu, Tanssia tyrkylle-festival in September 2008 with Pää-Head and Love-rehearsal.
15.4.2008
K&C Demo-club
K&C Demo-club is searching for altering concepts and multiple experiences of performative realities. We find it important to broaden the working-environment to fully meet today's world. Demo-club is a way to approach the movement and it's existence as a part of everyday life. K&C Demo-club offers the possibility to live through an intensive process that is lighter and shorter and not so systematic than the usual rehearsal-processes are. We feel that work which is tolerant towards incompleteness is extremely important.
Demo-club has been active since 2007.
In the fall 2008 Demo-club continues with a process Pure Sex that investigates gender-roles.
K&C Demo-club presents in the spring of 2008:
Rakkausharjoitelma - Love-rehearsal
Choreography and concept: Sanna Kekäläinen
Performers: Sanna Kekäläinen, Lilja Lehmuskallio, Laura Norppa, Esete Sutinen and Tiia Vainonen
Our dear guest artist this year is dancer Johanna Ikola, who presents her work Seuraava kuva - Next picture in the same night with us. It is a quartet for two dancers, a musician and a photographer. The work combines live music, photographs and contemporary dance as equal elements upholding and supporting each other. It is a variable process which can adapt itself in different shapes and in different spaces depending where it is performed. The moving-force of the work has been an endless will to find new ways of contact and new forms of expression between different forms of art and communication.
Choreography: Johanna Ikola
Dance: Johanna Ikola, Hanna Korhonen
Photographs: Johannes Romppanen
Music: Antti Ikola
Rakkausharjoitelma - Love-rehearsal and Seuraava kuva – Next picture
Performances: 26./28./30./31.5. and 1.6. at 19.00
K&C Space, Cable Factory
Tallberginkatu 1 C, 4th floor
1.4.2008
Reviews on
PÄÄ-HEAD
Premiere 24th of February 2008
"In her work, Kekäläinen is again in the very heart, in which the whole art of dance as an art dwells, is born, breathes and also dies, if it looses this heart. When one has reached this heart, and has that uncompromised insight based on very deep bodily understanding and level of professionalism which Kekäläinen has, one doesn't need to invent any post-it-meanings or -narratives for ones works."
Olli Ahlroos www.liikekieli.com 4.3.2008
"Pää-Head brings back to the spectator some of those forms of bodily existing, which have disappeared from the ready-chewed bodily images that are produced by the present western mediasociety. The work both deconstructs and reconstructs the conceptions of self and its consistency."
Kaisa Kurikka, Turun Sanomat-newspaper, 27.2.2008
14.12.2007
PÄÄ-HEAD
Kekäläinen & Company's new production PÄÄ-HEAD will be premiered on 24th of February 2008 in K&C Space in Cable Factory. PÄÄ-HEAD is a new work by choreographer-dancer Sanna Kekäläinen. The work is approaching the concept of a performance as an exercise. PÄÄ-HEAD is a bundle of activities that asks in which areas of an individual communication, life and Eros are located?
The dancers in the process of rehearsing with Sanna are Lilja Lehmuskallio, Katri Soini, Laura Vesterinen and Aino Voutilainen.
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14.12.2007
Sanna Kekäläinen's solowork Puna-Red-Rouge visited Fullmoon Dancefestival in Pyhäjärvi Finland in July 2007 and Manifesti-festival in Turku Finland in September 2007. Puna-Red-Rouge had also a successfull premiere of it's new version in Kiasma-theatre's /theatre.now-festival in October 2007 in Helsinki.
18.1.2008
Donald Hutera wrote about the performance on Fullmoon Dancefestival in Dance Europe, October 07: "Sanna Kekäläinen has one of the most unforgettably peculiar stage presences of anyone working today. A limbre, living avant-garde cartoon, she fusses, fidgets, folds and unfolds her elongated flesh like origami ... Puna-Red-Rouge was surprising ... intermittently fascinating."
14.12.2007
Kekäläinen & Company is preparing a work by Sanna Kekäläinen to Kiasma-theatre for the winter of 2009. This work Onni-Bonheur-Happiness is approaching the interesting concept of Happiness from an impressionistic and chaotic angle.
Reviews on
Puna-Red-Rouge
Premiere 21st of February 2007
"Sanna Kekäläinen's latest work, the Puna-Red-Rouge solo for herself, is
awesome. It keeps you in its grip every moment because Kekäläinen fills
the time and space by constantly transforming and changing into something
new.
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No one can move like Sanna Kekäläinen. Her moving never cease to surprise
and amaze, to fascinate the viewer. In Red, Kekäläinen electrifies with
her voice and talent as a singer.
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The controlled and the uncontrolled, the general and the personal, are
simultaneously written in Kekäläinen's movement and voice, her body."
Kaisa Kurikka, Turun Sanomat-newspaper
"Very few of our dance artists can create a solo like Sanna Kekäläinen,
one that opens out at myriad levels, including the political, cultural,
philosophical and personal.
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In her hands the solo form grows into something entirely different from a
personal manifestation. Dance and the corporality become a form of
expression for thoughts and reflection. And vice versa.
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There is nothing in the whole that could be classified as detached or
unmotivated. Kekäläinen has the ability to create a thrilling impression
that anything could happen at the next instant.
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Her unrestrained metamorphoses are purely phenomenal in terms of both
concept and physical expression. The work as a whole gives us great
freedom to construct our own understanding and, through that, to partake
in the creative process."
Jan-Peter Kaiku, Hufvudstadsbladet -newspaper
12.4.2007
Reviews on The Afternoon of a Faun (premiere on the 22nd of April 2006)
The Afternoon of a Faun (2006)
"This performance reflects perfectly the style of Sanna Kekalainen
presented at previous editions of Lublin Festival: after performances
exploring the human's body and the social circumstances influencing its
existence, this time the Finnish choreographer and dancer has reached for
the myth and created again a fascinating performance."
Andrzej Z. Kowalczyk, Extra 16 November 2006
12.1.2007
Puna-Red-Rouge
Kekäläinen & Companys new production Puna-Red-Rouge is a solo of choreographer-dancer Sanna Kekäläinen. The work has its premiere in Kiasma-theatre in February - March 2007.
In the work the opposite poles of scrutiny are the extreme private and the universal, the common that we all can identify. The choreographer asks Is it possible that by showing or living the extremely private we can end up with universal and common experience.
Premiere: February - March 2007, Kiasma-theatre
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27.9.2006
Sanna Kekäläinen: Afternoon of a Faun,
Mobile Dance -programme / IETM Helsinki
K&C Space, Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 C , 4th floor.
Thursday 9.11.2006, 21.00 PM
Friday 10.11.2006, 22:00 PM
Saturday 11.11.2006, 17:00 PM
Duration: 30 min
22.5.2006
Reviews on The Afternoon of a Faun and La Petrushka (premiere on the 22nd of April 2006)
The Afternoon of a Faun and La Petrushka (2006)
"The half an hour long solo is a wild combination of Kekäläinen's characteristic movement language and Kari Hukkila's text, which are complemented by Debussy's impressionistic composition. Kekäläinen's figure, a human transformed to an animal, functions in a state of narcissism and auto-eroticism. In the movement the animal and the human blend, the figure kisses itself occasionally and sniffs its own scent. One IS following Kekäläinen's movement and doing intensively, it does not let go"
" Kekäläinen's movement language is original and truly demanding and so captivating for the audience."
Kaisa Kurikka, Turun Sanomat 24.4.2006
"The place of performance, groups intimate rehearsal studio in Cable Factory, functions perfectly for these crystallised intensive as well as strongly thought-provoking and emotionally charged works in the smaller scale"
"Her interpretation has steadfast authority and a subtle grasp to this versatile and physical performance with its conceptual depth."
Jan-Peter Kaiku, Hufvudstadsbladet 1.5.2006
9.3.2006
New Productions
Kekäläinen & Company's spring performances celebrate dance history in the spirit of Vaslav Nijinsky. The Afternoon of a Faun and La Petrushka will have their premiere on the 22nd of April 2006 at K&C Space.
9.3.2006
Kekäläinen & Company's CREATURE and Unidentified dancer had their premiere on the 10th of January 2006 at STOA, Helsinki. Here are some reviews:
"The Works are philosophical and conceptual, and in the context of Finnish contemporary dance, Kekäläinen has a unique way of embodying abstract concepts."
"Kekäläinen and Soini are magnificent dancers, who are aware of their every gesture and movement."
Kaisa Kurikka, Turun Sanomat, 12.1.2006
"Kekäläinen's conceptual aesthetics and novel way of representing femininity is pathbreaking in the Finnish dance scene."
"Most meaningful is however the movement language."
Jan-Peter Kaiku, Hufvudstadsbladet, 12.1.2006
6.9.2005
Kekäläinen & Company performing in France
The artistic leader of Kekäläinen & Company Sanna Kekäläinen has been invited to perform in the Festival Les Plateaux 2005, Biennale nationale de danse du Val-de-Marne. She dances her solo, IHO - Skinless, from 2001. The work has been characterised as meditative and deep dive into cultural identity via physical metamorphoses.
For further info: Les Plateaux
23.9.2004
The artistic leader of Kekäläinen & Company Sanna Kekäläinen recieved the five-year state grant from the National Council of Dance. The Council received 97 applications and supported 13 artists with one five-year grant, 2 three-year grants and 10 half-year grants.
For further info: www.taiteenkeskustoimikunta.fi
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