Karolina Ginman and working group: A Human Ensemble
Article categories: Theatre
A Human Ensemble is nine simultaneous solos and a weave of psychocorporeal formulations from the dancers' preconscious.
Nine performers of different ages (both professional and non-professional dancers) engage in a reformulation of free association for the poetic body – a stream of corpoconsciousness while inviting seeing and being seen. Operating playfully through a loose score in an austere space embraced in curtains of warm ochre, they dance an unpredictable and always unique ecosystem that is uncontrollable by any one being. A dance with their whole self, together.
With its unruly musical field, a nostalgic dive into classical choir works as well as 60s pop-rock, A Human Ensemble unfolds as a wild web of reciprocities inviting and allowing a range of diverging and merging micro and macro landscapes, intensities and energies into frictious and comforting coexistence.
The work is based on choreographer Karolina Ginman’s developing psychopshysical practice, a “suggestion for a reformulation of free association for the poetic body”, tempting an infinite spectrum of (psycho)dynamics, intensities, volumes, tempos and affects to be lived-through by both dancer and audience. During the creative process of the work, the working group has been in dialogue with psychoanalyst, psychologist Anne Kotkavirta and psychoanalyst, philosopher Jussi Kotkavirta.
Choreographer, space and sound concept, costumes: Karolina Ginman
Performers: Ingrid André, Leila Kourkia, Saija Lehtola, Marlon Moilanen, Jan Nyberg, Gesa Piper, Pihla Sudenyö, Inari Virmakoski, Minja Yletyinen
Spatial and lighting design: Jenni Pystynen
Sound design: Aki Päivärinne
Producers: Karolina Ginman and Inari Pesonen
Production: Karolina Ginman
Supported by: Arts Promotion Center Finland (Arts Council of Ostrobothnia); Vasa city