Mercedes Krapovickas – Listening to Movement
Mercedes Krapovickas’s third doctoral concert.
Please find the registration link here. Entry to the event is limited.
Listening to Movement is a cross-disciplinary performance that brings together bandoneon performance, contemporary dance, and composition. It explores the porous boundary between sound and movement, asking: How can the movement of a dancer score the sounds of an instrument?
What does a dancer’s movement sound like? Can the gestures of playing the bandoneon become a choreography of their own?
Through a collaborative process with dancer Saara Töyrylä and composer Mareike Dobewall, I explore how gestures (those of playing, breathing, and moving) can form a shared language. Sound becomes movement, movement becomes sound; each action folds into the other. The performance emerges from this continuous translation, where no single author leads, and the work itself becomes a living organism in constant transformation.
The project sees performance as a web of relations: a collective field where bodies, instruments, sounds, and presences interact. In this sense, Listening to Movement is about becoming together: a practice of attention, vulnerability, and shared agency.
In rehearsal, failure and unpredictability are not obstacles but conditions of listening.
For audiences, the performance invites to experience how movement and sound continually remake one another. It is both intimate and expansive, rooted in the subtle tensions between control and release, presence and disappearance.
Performers
- Mercedes Krapovickas
- Saara Töyrylä
- Mareike Dobewall
- Bandoneon, Electronics, Movement, Dance, Voice, Composition, Listening
Changes are possible.
Further information: Janne Ikäheimo, janne.ikaheimo@uniarts.fi
Please find the registration link here. Entry to the event is limited.
Listening to Movement is a cross-disciplinary performance that brings together bandoneon performance, contemporary dance, and composition. It explores the porous boundary between sound and movement, asking: How can the movement of a dancer score the sounds of an instrument?
What does a dancer’s movement sound like? Can the gestures of playing the bandoneon become a choreography of their own?
Through a collaborative process with dancer Saara Töyrylä and composer Mareike Dobewall, I explore how gestures (those of playing, breathing, and moving) can form a shared language. Sound becomes movement, movement becomes sound; each action folds into the other. The performance emerges from this continuous translation, where no single author leads, and the work itself becomes a living organism in constant transformation.
The project sees performance as a web of relations: a collective field where bodies, instruments, sounds, and presences interact. In this sense, Listening to Movement is about becoming together: a practice of attention, vulnerability, and shared agency.
In rehearsal, failure and unpredictability are not obstacles but conditions of listening.
For audiences, the performance invites to experience how movement and sound continually remake one another. It is both intimate and expansive, rooted in the subtle tensions between control and release, presence and disappearance.
Performers
- Mercedes Krapovickas
- Saara Töyrylä
- Mareike Dobewall
- Bandoneon, Electronics, Movement, Dance, Voice, Composition, Listening
Changes are possible.
Further information: Janne Ikäheimo, janne.ikaheimo@uniarts.fi