DISTORTION
DISTORTION explores Taneli Törmä’s background as a go-go-dancer. Accompanied with a 2 x 2 m podium and a sound system he attempts to make the audience dance, but also stages himself as an object that has no real power over the audience reactions. Being past 30 years old his go-go dancing is not what it used to be. However the situation provides him a possibility to investigate the line between being an object and the subjective freedom – the freedom of being a person. The original music for the performance is produced by Lappish sound designer Esa M. Mattila, whose main musical inspiration lays in the early 90’s US house and techno tracks of his youth.
Choreographer & performer: Taneli Törmä
Sound artists: Esa Mattila
Duration: 25min
The solo work DISTORTION has been also adapted for 3 dancers and was performed as DISTORTION TRIO at the Haut / Warehouse9 in February 2020.
Choreographer: Taneli Törmä
Performers: Birgitte Skands (DK) & Bjørk-Mynte Buchgraitz Paulse (DK) & Taneli Törmä (FIN/DK)
Sound artists: Esa Mattila
Duration: 25min
Supported by: O Espaco do Tempo (PT), L1DanceFest (HU), FinnAgora (HU), Haut (DK) and Warehouse 9 (DK).
PERFORMANCES
O Espaco do Tempo / Monte Mor o Novo, Portugal
28th of July 2018 (working progress showing)
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L1DanceFest / Bakelit Multi Art Centre, Budapest, Hungary.
4th of September 2019 (PREMIER)
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Haut / Warehouse 9, Copenhagen Denmark
21th of February 2020 (DISTORTION TRIO, working progress)
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Online Performing Art Festival
1th of April
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P-Noise LONG DISTANCE event in ONLINE
4th of April 2020
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L1DanceFest / Bakelit Multi Art Centre, Budapest, Hungary. ONLINE
4th of May 2021
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Dynamo / Odense Denmark
20th of November 2021