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.