No One, Just Your Friend found its form in the long hours of the choreographer’s sleepless nights. The work explores life and various emotions, including the dark side of the human mind. The movement language ranges form a monitoring phase to polished and dynamic expression.
Choreography Susanna Leinonen
Music Tapani Rinne
Lighting Design Hanna Käyhkö
Costumes and set design Annette Tamminen
Dancers Kaisu Hölttä, Heidi Lehtoranta and Susanna Leinonen
Duration 26 min
Premiere 23.3.2000 Finnish National Ballet Almi Hall
Production Zodiak – The Center for New Dance
Financially supported by National Council for Dance
Reviews
- Arja Raatikainen and Jyrki Karttunen on the Finnish platform - "In No One, Just Your Friend Susanna Leinonen from Finland spirals with two others to whip up some "Girlie Power", with no other means than her own cheekiness. Like the three witches from Macbeth, they seem boisterous, inappropriately and refreshingly carefree." Arnd Wesemann Ballet-Tanz 4/2000
- Images of women and wretched friendship - "No One, Just Your Friend is packed full of continuous, seamless movement energy. It is bursting with original, expressive movement material." Jussi Tossavainen Helsingin Sanomat 23.3.2000
- The Full Moon Dance Festival on Thursday was all about friendships and love - "The dance became increasingly vigorous and hypnotic as it progressed, and it stimulated the spectator's mind in many different ways." Pirjo Nenola Iisalmen Sanomat 29.7.2000
