Short performance evening is part of the STF 2024: Sõltumatu Tantsu Festival (26.09 - 5.10.2024).

 

Short performances are a common format in international dance art, which is rarely practiced in Estonia. At the same time, it is varied and artistically rich, as it offers the opportunity to see short works by different choreographers in one evening. In the STF's short performance evening, we will bring to the stage five short productions by three promising new generation choreographers.

 

Leila Ka is currently considered a prodigy of French dance art, who is constantly conquering the stages of Western Europe. Her first production "Pode Ser" received international recognition six times and has been performed more than 200 times to date. Leila Ka's solo "Se faire la belle" was awarded in 2022 by French Critics Union with the award as "Choreographic Revelation". In the same year, she won first place in the Danse Expandée competition organized by the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris with the work “Bouffée”, which was characterized as a paradoxical struggle with and against oneself, and whose choreographic precision carries a certain sensuality.

 

 

The classical and popular musicality of the mandolin strings is plucked by a dynamic, athletic dance. A relationship of complicity in the game between the said and the unsaid seems to characterize the movements but also the looks of the two dancers. The energy of the movements recalls an urbanity of other times, memories projected in the life of the present man. Concerto thus presents itself as a performance that embodies an adult, youthful and childish dance: music and dance are perceived as a celebration, as a space of freedom, simplicity, virtuosity, intimacy and friendship. The dancers gather their tenderness, remain still and strong, and dance to the sound of the strings, returning to the primary experience of dance with humility and joy.

 

“Megastructure” is a puzzle, a performative dance duet whose pieces are constantly being dismantled, searched for, tested and reinvented. Baltzinger and Wilson draw on their bodies in constant cohabitation to deconstruct the traditional format of theatre and dance pieces. What does the audience expect in a performance? What is necessary to create? Without music or other distractions, “Megastructure” is both an immersive experience and a captivating performance with choreographic puppeteering and dislocated bodies.

 

 

More information: https://www.stl.ee/en/lisaprogramm/festival-en/short-performance-evening