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Kantola & Seppänen Company: Lovekicks

Livestreamed guest performance from Hällä Stage on Friday 8.1. and Saturday 9.1. at 7 pm

Lovekicks, a Kantola & Seppänen Company production, is a contemporary dance duet performed by Katriina Kantola and Antti Seppälä. Choreographed by Anniina Kumpuniemi and with lighting design by Teemu Kiiskilä, it explores the concept of a shared love story, looking for a universal narrative and examining the feelings, thoughts and impulses we experience when falling in love and being in love. How does love affect a body or a person? What words, sounds or tones does love cause? What is love as a thing we feel and remember?

Lovekicks is truly a collective effort, where the entire creative team breathes together, the dancers’ movement and their on-stage sounds seamlessly merging with Kiiskilä’s recordings, which have been created with improvised instruments found around the practice space, such as stair rails, plumbing and drain covers. At every performance, Kiiskilä does a live mix to enhance the flow of the piece, adjusting his material to the movement and breathing of the dancers. This makes each show stand out as a unique combination of motion, space, sound and a particular audience.

Duration
30 min

Choreography Anniina Kumpuniemi
Dance Katriina Kantola ja Antti Seppänen
Sound design Teemu Kiiskilä
Photos Emil Bobyrev
Production Kantola & Seppänen Company

Founded in 2015 by Katriina Kantola (MA in dance) and Antti Seppänen (BA in dance), the Kantola & Seppälä Company focuses on contemporary dance and physical theatre. Sound has been a major element in all of their productions. So far the company has performed mainly in the Pirkanmaa region in Finland, but their tours in Germany have furthered an interest in expanding their operation abroad.

Anniina Kumpuniemi has been working as a dancer-choreographer at Dance Theatre MD since 1997. Lovekicks is her second duet made for Kantola & Seppänen in collaboration with Teemu Kiiskilä.

Teemu Kiiskilä is a musician and sound designer residing in Tampere. He is a member of groups such as UTU, Minä ja Nieminen and Dark Bottle.

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