Poro
Almanya
Dance and Performance: Anna Orkolainen (Finland)
Music: Gerardo Vitale (Italy)
Web: https://www.annaorkolainen.de/
MonoFest’22
5. Uluslararası Tek Kişilik Oyunlar Festivali (23-28 August 2022)
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Poro, toplumsal cinsiyet rollerini ele alan bir performans. Bunlar, insanları kendilerinden uzaklaştıran ve hapseden kalıplar, katı yapılar olabilirler. Çeşitli cinsiyet rollerine dolanmış dansçı, onları keşfeder ve bir çıkış yolu bulmaya çalışarak onları esnetir.
Acı ve hayal kırıklığı yoluyla, dans vahşi ve öfkeli bir coşkuya dönüşür.
Dansçının üzerine bir ışık huzmesi gelir: o artık bir dansçı değildir. O bir orman, o bir hayvan, o bir geyiktir.
Erkeklik ve kadınlığın farklı niteliklerini ve klişelerini somutlaştırmak için dansçı, çağdaş dansın araçlarını ve biçimlerini Butoh’un duygusal derinliğiyle birleştiriyor. Dansçı, Marja Burchard’ın çağrışımlar yaratan müziğinin öncülüğünde, fikirlerin ya da sadece temsilin değil, duyguların, mücadelelerin dansında sürekli transforma uğruyor. Katı bir cinsiyet kimliği içinde, toplumun verdiği kalıplara sığmayanlar için ritüel bir dans.
Poro is a performance that deals with the gender roles that society gives to us. They can be boxes, rigid structures which en- trap and keep people apart from themself. The dancer, entangled in various gender roles, explores them and stretches them, trying to find a way out.
Through suffering and frustration, the dance evolves into a wild and furious raptus.
A ray of light comes on the dancer: she is not a dancer anymore. She is a forest, she is an animal, she is a deer.
To embody the different qualities and stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, the dancer is combining means and forms of contemporary dance with the emotive depth of Butoh. Leaded by the evocative music of Marja Burchard, she is continuosly transforming in a dance not of ideas or merely representation, but a dance of feelings, of struggles. A ritual dance for who doesn’t fit in those boxes gave by society, in a stricted gender identity.
Anna Orkolainen
Anna is a indipendant Butoh dancer, contemporary dancer, teacher, choreographer, performer living in Hannover, Germany.
Born in 1981 in Soviet Estonia, The family roots comes from Finland trybe Inkeri, so afrer the end of Soviet Union family moves back to Finland.
When she were 10 years old Anna started to train in dance: Jazz, street dance, ballet and show dance.
1999 – 2001 Helsingin kuvataidelukio, school of fine Arts in Helsinki
2002 – 2006 BA hons. Dance Studies (2.1) University of Roehampton, London Trained in Graham, Limon, Release, Cunningham and Classical Ballet.
2005 – 2007 Graduate Diploma in Professional Contemporary Dance Performance, The Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds. Trained in Graham, Release, Cunnigham and Classical Ballet Apprentiship
as a dancer in the production of dance company “Tilted Production” choreographer Maressa von Stockert, London.
2007 – 2008 Aleksanteri Teatteri Helsinki “Tiloja Tanssille” professional training in contemporary and classical dance with Aapo Aaltokoski, Jyrki Karttunen, Petri Kekori, Arja Raatikainen, Kirsi Monni, Katri Soini
2008 -2012 MA in Dance- and Theater- pedagogie, Theater Academy, Helsinki
2008 – 2010 Helsingin Ashtanga Joogakoulu. Daily Ashtanga yoga practice of full first series.
2011 – 2021 Antagon TheaterAction Frankfurt am Main. Dancer, acrobat, acterss, performer, teacher and choreographer. Being part of six big scale outdoor productions and developing two of them. Toured to Brazil,
Mexico, Russia, Italy, Romania, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany. Organizer of yearly “Night of Dance” Programme in Sommerwerft International Theater Festival Frankfurt am Main.
2007 – 2021 Participated in several project of Slava Polunin. Performing as a green clown in “Slava’s Snow Show” tours in Galsgow, Liverpool, Toulouse, London, Hawai “Stairway to Heaven” 2007, “Mir Caravan” 2010 Moscow, “Fools in the Desert” The Burning Man Festival Nevada 2009 and several projects at the “Yellow Mill” as a dancer / performer.
2010 -2021 working with choreographer Shusaku Takenuchi “Bodytorium” in productions “Buttefly”, “Package”, “Poro”, “Spiderweb” and “Ice – Regentrude”.
2012 – 2021 student of a Jinen Butoh, Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Miaya
2020 – 2021 Theaterproductions with musician, composer Marja Burchard „Regentrude“, „Schatten vergessener Ahnen“, „Poro“, “Cage”, “Spiderweb” as a dancer, choreographer in collaboration with the choreographer and dancer Shusaku Takeuchi Japan/Neitherland
2021 teacher of Jinen Butoh in TUT – Hannover In addition she learned Orixa Dance in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil with Augusto Omulu (Odin Theater). Also had been a student for five years of Nina Dilpa (Pina Baush)
Gerardo Vitale
