NASTY MAKES A COMEBACK IN 2025
NASTY, loved by critiques and audiences, will return to the stage 2025!
Nasty is Susanna leinonen Company’s arrestingly topical work about expectations, attacks and limitations on the female body. The work presents the viewer with an unvarnished interpretation of a reality in which evil nests both in the structures of society and in ourselves. We vent the injustice and ruthlessness we face on each other, putting evil in circulation…
Susanna Leinonen Company’s works are known for their extremely skillful and demanding movement. This time choreographer Leinonen and her ensemble have chosen to examine our bodily limits , as well as how constantly being looked at and under conflicting demands and expectations shape the female body and experience. In the center of the work are dancers and their bodies as tools of artistic work. In Nasty, the highly trained physique becomes a machine that stretches, bends and creaks to fulfill its full potential. But the question remains: who gets to define that potential?
“….utterly brilliant and undoubtedly one of the finest contributions to the debate on women’s right to self-determination.”
Annikki Alku, Demokraatti 10.9.2018
The show contains loud sound, flashing lights and intense scenes.
The show is not recommended for children.
Susanna Leinonen (SLC’s Executive Artistic Director) leads an international ensemble from Finland. For over 20 years, SLC has been an active incubator of new directions in the field of Contemporary Dance. Through ongoing presentations on the local, national, and international stage, SLC invests deeply in the creative practices of visionary national and international artists, realizing projects through a commitment to artist-led process.
PERFORMANCES
Jan 24, 2025 at 7 pm.
Cultural House Valve, Oulu
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CREDITS
Choreography: Susanna Leinonen
Music: Arvo Pärt, Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhansson, Hildur Gudnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey, Teemu Korpipää
Sound design: Teemu Korpipää
Costumes: Sari Nuttunen
Lighting design: Harri Peltonen
Video projections: Ville Seppänen
Dancers: Phet Haanpää, Christy Ma, Ninni Niemikunnas, Aino Päivike, Tatiana Urteva
