the pier – an amphibious dance carrier
Choreographic and sensorial sculpture investigating the ecological poetics in dance. Includes events.
The research creation reconfigures an ordinary architectural object, a pier, into a site of choreographic experimentation. Visitors are invited to inhabit the choreographic sculpture at their own pace and manner as well as welcome to attend the performative events on specific moments.
Lehtovaara has built a modular and shape-shifting pier – a choreographic research vessel. It is made for sensorially and environmentally oriented dance practices on the bodies of water. Through the summer months they will work with the pier on Lake Päijänne (Central-Finland) and Ypykkä Pond (Kainuu). After, the pier returns indoors and will become the sculptural centerpiece of an immersive installation work, which exhibits the documentation of the fieldwork.
The pier as a place, is at the same time private and exceptionally visible. As a connecting structure, it affords the bodies immediate access to the surrounding spheres of the environment—water, air, and land. When detached from the shore, it can drift on water as a center of perception and movement.
In their doctoral research project, Lehtovaara investigates embodied ecological awareness through practice of dance and choreography in relation to specific environments. The focus is on ecological poetics and choreographic writing/speech as an artistic research method.
Working group
Choreography, consept, research: Veli Lehtovaara
Sound: Jani Hietanen
Light: Jani-Matti Salo
Kantele: Pauliina Syrjälä
Production: Lisa Kalkowski
Texts: Veli Lehtovaara, ellei toisin mainita
Woodwork: Saku Koistinen, Veli Lehtovaara
Metalwork: Jussi Niemelä
Design of the pier: Juho Lindström, Heikki Rosti (1. version)
Performing weeks: 44, 45, 46, 47
The research creation reconfigures an ordinary architectural object, a pier, into a site of choreographic experimentation. Visitors are invited to inhabit the choreographic sculpture at their own pace and manner as well as welcome to attend the performative events on specific moments.
Lehtovaara has built a modular and shape-shifting pier – a choreographic research vessel. It is made for sensorially and environmentally oriented dance practices on the bodies of water. Through the summer months they will work with the pier on Lake Päijänne (Central-Finland) and Ypykkä Pond (Kainuu). After, the pier returns indoors and will become the sculptural centerpiece of an immersive installation work, which exhibits the documentation of the fieldwork.
The pier as a place, is at the same time private and exceptionally visible. As a connecting structure, it affords the bodies immediate access to the surrounding spheres of the environment—water, air, and land. When detached from the shore, it can drift on water as a center of perception and movement.
In their doctoral research project, Lehtovaara investigates embodied ecological awareness through practice of dance and choreography in relation to specific environments. The focus is on ecological poetics and choreographic writing/speech as an artistic research method.
Working group
Choreography, consept, research: Veli Lehtovaara
Sound: Jani Hietanen
Light: Jani-Matti Salo
Kantele: Pauliina Syrjälä
Production: Lisa Kalkowski
Texts: Veli Lehtovaara, ellei toisin mainita
Woodwork: Saku Koistinen, Veli Lehtovaara
Metalwork: Jussi Niemelä
Design of the pier: Juho Lindström, Heikki Rosti (1. version)
Performing weeks: 44, 45, 46, 47