A Piece For a Small Stage
By: Tommi KittiFrom the repertoire of Tommi Kitti & Co
Choreography: Tommi Kitti
Dancers: Satu Halttunen, Virpi Juntti, Tommi Kitti, Valtteri Raekallio, Mammu Rankanen, Inka Tiitinen
Composer: Eero Hämeenniemi
Music: Stuthi Laya and Nada
Lighting design: Janne Teivainen
Costume design: Marja Uusitalo
Stage design: Tommi Kitti, Metti Nordin and Marja Uusitalo
Duration: 35 minutes
First performed: 2004
Production: Zodiak –Center for New Dance, Riemu ry
A dancing human body is sufficiently “different” from a sound that forms a musical experience when perceived. Dancing a piece of music does not mean that the music becomes “visible”.
I have not wished to interfere with the independent integrity of the musical form. The deep world that the musicians have created earlier is constantly present – as their world. They have invited us to join them and not vice versa. The fact that we are dancing their music transforms one’s experience of the music, because in this context the music settles into a dialogue with our dance.
I do not feel that I am interpreting the music. Instead, I place myself in the same performance situation and dance to what they are playing.
Beauty is someone’s evaluation of something. It is a point of view. Reasons, meanings and values in art are generally based on points of view. Humanity is realized as an experience when confronting beauty, or as presence in dance movement. Revealing is existence. Whether it is valuable can only be answered by the person asking the question.
- Tommi Kitti
