Post Breakers’ Revenge
An evening of two performances by Anniina Sono-Tikka and Antti Uimonen from the Post Breakers’ Revenge group.
Photos: Antti Uimonen and Victor Sono.
Description
Together, the group has explored the relationship between the movement language of breakdance and the dancer’s identity in relation to aging. What happens to breakdance and the breaker when the art form is approached through the means of performing arts?
Following the performances, there will be a discussion session, with the group’s third member Dennis Nylund.
Antti Uimonen: Unfolding
Unfolding is a performance about transformation. During the performance, the performer examines his relationship with the changing present, the changing past and the changing future. What is something or someone, what something or someone once was, and what something or someone could someday be?
Unfolding is a performance in which the familiar and the unknown, emotions and skills, and will and chance create a dance that emerges… (you decide for yourself what it is, what it has been, what it could be).
Concept and Choreography: Antti Uimonen
Sound design: Sebastian Kurtén (production), Antti Uimonen (edit)
Dramaturgy: Rodia Vomvolou
Costume design: Andrea van der Kuil
Special thanks to Dennis Nylund from the Post Breakers’ Revenge working group and Cultuur Academy Arnhem’s support.
Anniina Sono Tikka: Kuin on pitkät pilven rannat
When the self-image changes and gains layers. When the old no longer feels familiar and there is a void in identity. When the answers can no longer be found through reasoning alone, but one must dare to trust the wisdom of nature’s continuity and ancestors. Wisdom that lives in poems, songs, and the gaze of one’s own mother.
In this performance, the past wants to reach the present, and the present wants to reach the past. But what kind of reconciliation can they make for the sake of the future?
Choreography: Anniina Sono Tikka
Concept: Anniina Sono Tikka, Victoria Mackenzie
Sound Design: Sebastian Kurtén
Music: Sebastian Kurtén, Marc Briffaud
Special thanks to Dennis Nylund from the Post Breakers’ Revenge working group, Urban Apa, the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Art Promotion Center for their support
About Post Breakers’ Revenge
The Post Breakers’ Revenge project originated from the collective discussions of Dennis Nylund, Anniina Sono-Tikka and Antti Uimonen about breakdancing and their current relationship with the art form and its associated culture. The idea emerged to explore the relationship between the movement language of breakdancing and the aging body and mind. Questions arose about how breakdancing and its movement language could be involved in the transformation of the body and mind, how over 20 years of experience in breakdancing has manifested in the body, and how the changing body and mind alter dancers’ kinetic relationship with breakdancing.
The project continued in January 2023 with residencies at Tero Saarinen Company and Villa Lill Kallvik. The team organized an open workshop on the topic in Helsinki in April 2023. In June, the team produced a three-episode podcast as part of the URB23 festival. Guests on the podcast were Ramona Panula, Tuomas Määttä and Tero Saarinen.
The project has received financial support from the City of Helsinki and the Samuel Huber Art Foundation.