★★★★✰ Power is a work borne of reimagining what Black Shaker worship was like in all its amazing complexity. The piece was inspired by Wilson’s enduring curiosity about the Shakers and his discovery of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson, a black woman spiritual leader...
Tag - Tero Saarinen
Some dance can be really thought provoking and that seems to have been the case with Tero Saarinen's "Morphed" - at least for Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer who recently caught up with the work at the Joyce in New York.
This month Jarkko blogs candid views on ballet and contemporary dance plus talks about all the projects he has coming up, not least the next OuDance Festival...
This month Jarkko blogs on himself, trust in the arts, pays homage to Tero Saarinen and talks about his OuDance Festival, which runs from 10-14 September 2014...
Jarkko has just taken over as Artistic Director of the JoJo - Oulu Dance Centre based in Northern Finland. This month he starts to explain what his directorship is about...
So what’s new under the sun? It’s only been a couple of weeks since the least posting, so you’d think there’s not much to report. A bit of this a bit of that...
The most successful piece from Göteborg’s troupe was OreloB (Bolero spelled backwards), created by Finnish choreographer Kenneth Kvarnström as part of the program titled 3xBoléro – a dance-triptych which interprets Ravel’s Bolero from three different perspectives.
Like the Stravinsky score, HUNT is a tour de force. The monumental orchestral chants of The Rite inspired the choreographer to create a dance-as-ritual in which music, movement, and multimedia blend together...