SCHEDULE
18.5. at 16:30
23.5. at 19:00
28.5. at 19:00
8.6. at 13:00

LOCATION
Mustikkamaa

TIME
90min

LANGUAGE
Finnish & English

NOTE
Includes walking on varied terrain

PRICE
Free (0€)

Donations will be collected to support the activities of Sumud (Finnish Palestine Network).

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AT TENDING is a tender performance for and with Mustikkamaa island. It’s a piece interested in blurring and moving the boundaries between workshop and performance, between witnessing and being witnessed, between us and them.

AT TENDING is an invitation to attend a place and a performance with one’s whole body. It’s an invitation to arrive, to tend, to be there, to be here, situated.

It is a workshop for asking and practising how to be, witness and dance with a place, and how to place one’s agency amongst the multiple agencies of different species, weathers and humans who have arrived there through different routes.

AT TENDING thinks/dreams of performance as a possibility to gather together, to share time and to build embodied relationships with Mustikkamaa.

The piece welcomes different modes of attending. To attend and to witness can happen through a variety of distances, rhythms, paces, positions, movements and stillnesses.
 
In the seam between spring and summer, the four-part piece watches, touches, smells and listens and also asks you/us/me to watch, touch, smell and listen back – to tend and be tended, to attend and be attended.

The four-part work features Elsa Tölli, Maija Alander, Kihwa-Endale and Varjo Sarsila, with poems from each of them being read during the performances.