Kirsi Monni’s new creation Lichtweg – Friedenplatz challenges choreographic conventions and explores the manifold relationships between language, bodily being and movement. The piece consists of a solo, danced by Monni herself, and a trio.

The solo Lichtweg is a choreographic study around the question of what is called I? It is a bare movementportrait that is danced out in an open dialogue with a written videoscript. The trio Friedenplatz asks what is called thinking? What is the essence of democracy?  The piece is an open movement-discussion, a forum for unpredictable thinking together with a meditative piano piece by Giacinto Scelsi Suite nr 9.

with Kirsi Monni (solo), Joona Halonen, Vera Nevanlinna, Katri Soini (trio)

Choreography: Kirsi Monni
Music: Giacinto Scelsi
Audiovisual design: Mikko Hynninen
Set: Simon Le Roux
Costumes: Suvi Hänninen
Premiere: 3.11.2006 Zodiak – Centre for New Dance, Helsinki
Language: Finnish, English
Information: www.danceinfo.fi/tanka / [email protected]

Choreographer and dancer Kirsi Monni (b. 1962) has had a wide-spread influence on Finnish contemporary dance since the 1980s. In her artistic work, which consist of 30 choreographies, she explores the ontological questions of being and their bodily manifestations in performance. Monni received a Doctore of Art in Dance at the Theatre Academy of Finland in 2004. Her doctoral thesis was comprised of five choreographies and the written work The Poetic Movement of Being: philosophical interpretations of the new paradigm of dance in the light of Martin Heidegger’s thinking and the artistic work in years 1996 – 1999.