What happens when text and motion encounter?
A multidisciplinary artwork that combines stories by the audience, modern poetry and dance improvisation. The artwork explores encounters and their interfaces; instants turned into encounters, stories of these moments turned to texts and text interpreted as emotions through motion.
Galleria Forum Box
first public performance of the project May 2019
Working group 2019
Creative director, concept and production / Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen
Assistant Director / Alejandro Flores Monroy
Text / Henrik Pathirane
Motion / Elina Valtonen, Meri-Tuuli Hirvonen, Veera Leppänen, Taru Miettinen, Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen
Voice / Outi Ikonen, Heikki Mäkäräinen
Pictures / Martina Näreharju
yet we were together in the most peculiar way
with the visitors from different instances
a freely traduced exerpt
from henrik pathirane’s poetry for textual motion project
Working group 2020-2021
Creative director, concept and choreography / Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen
Assisting Director and choreographer / Alejandro Flores Monroy
Text / Henrik Pathirane
Motion / Elina Valtonen, Veera Leppänen, Taru Miettinen,
AI / Gaurav Dixit
Textual Motion Company 