Swan of Tuonela

Matti Niinimäki; WHS; Sungsoo Ahn Pick-up Group

Swan of Tuonela

Matti Niinimäki (Designer), WHS, Sungsoo Ahn Pick-up Group

Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Performance › Art in coproduction

Abstract

Dance and circus performace with contemporary versions of Jean Sibelius’ music

Hands lift skirts up from the black waters of Tuonela, land of the dead. Back arches in a balance defying outreach towards the underworld. Dark figures surround the wanderer on the brinks of Tuonela river.

This international collaboration reinterprets the Swan of Tuonela by Jean Sibelius as a stage performance. New music composed for the performance is in dialogue with Sibelius’ symphonic Lemminkäinen Suite and his piano, violin and cello music.

The renowned Korean choreographer Sungsoo Ahn and Finnish circus pioneer Ville Walo get hold of Sibelius’ composition together with three exceptional musicians. In the hands of these five artists the Swan of Tuonela gets reconnected with contemporary reality by means of inventive remixing, surrealistic acrobatics and fans that flutter as a swan.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Seoul
Publisher	Seoul Arts Center
Publication status	Published - 2015
MoE publication type	F2 Partial implementation of a work of art or performance
Event	Swan of Tuonela - Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 15 Dec 2017 → 17 Dec 2017

Keywords

contemporary circus
performance
contemporary dance
digital set design
video set design

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