Sofia Martila “SЮDA”
The boundaries between watching, listening and simply feeling what is happening around you start to become rather blurry.
The boundaries between watching, listening and simply feeling what is happening around you start to become rather blurry.
By the end, the boundary between performers and spectators has pretty much disappeared, with a whole group dancing together and finishing with everyone clapping along.
It was a lovely surprise and added yet another unexpected layer to an already wonderfully varied evening.
Throughout the show, we observe the seven dancers on a radical journey of courtship, ritual, sex, celebration, birth, isolation, abandonment, combat and an inevitable demise.
Köster and team have pulled together an incredible staging for the series of scenarios, an imaginative, twisted take on parental abandonment and filial devotion.
Despite the array of topics covered and formats used, Triinu’s performance is entirely cohesive and blends together flawlessly. Her ease and grace as a ballerina are mirrored in the way she conducts her show, and her control, both in her physical and spoken performance, is nothing short of impressive.
In turns heartfelt, bizarre, and confronting, the evening brought forward the conflicts between vulnerability and self-protection when facing internal and external pressures.
The show continuously explored the unities and disunities that come from being an intentionally assembled group of people in a mostly foreign land – having family, but not yet being family; building and maintaining relationships, near and far; and staying present in your own self, health, and art.
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