Dance and choreography Samuli Roininen
Words Samuli Roininen and Laura Uimonen’s essay The Gaze (in Place or Space, ed. Markku Hakuri, 2014)
Music James Murray: Killing Ghosts
Sound design Henri Puolitaival
Visuals Samuli Roininen
Lighting consultant Elina Nopanen
Conversation partner Anniina Kumpuniemi
”The rectangular black prism was a prop idea that emerged as I was planning the visuals for Ghost Visitors back in 2018. I’d decided to use low-cost recycled materials – milk cartons – and I was thinking about the human skeleton, this bony structure, and I also had an image of a dystopian landscape in mind, and these two things clicked, and I came up with the concept of a foreign object as an empty canvas for associations. In Ghost Drafts the black prisms are examined further, and the ”emptiness” of the prisms becomes associated with the pursuit of the immaterial and even the afterlife. I’ve just recently come across a new choreographic tool that really helps you to experience and relive spatial memories during a performance. It’s a feeling I’ve never been quite able to explain to myself. Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space also plays a major part in this process – the idea of reconnecting with lost spaces, things and people through dreaming and reimagining memories.” – Samuli Roininen