Blinded Mind
“Susanna Leinonen Company celebrates its tenth anniversary – In style!”
Blinded Mind is a dance work that plays with contrasts and oppositions. Its powerful visual elements and soundworld tells the story of one individual’s bravery in swimming against the stream and the unavoidable consequences that follow. Dreamlike sensitivity is combined with stark reality. It plays with visual contrasts, in which black-and-white and colour engage in a dialogue.
Choreography: Susanna Leinonen
Music: Kasperi Laine
Costumes: Erika Turunen
Lighting Design: Marianne Lagus
Visual Design: Susanna Leinonen, Marianne Lagus, Jouka Valkama
Video: Jouka Valkama
Dancers: Elina Häyrynen, Kaisu Hölttä, Maija Kiviluoto, Jarkko Lehmus, Natasha Lommi, Pekka Louhio, Sam Vaherlehto (Liisa Pietikäinen, Eero Vesterinen, Susanna Leinonen)
Duration: 60 min
Premiere: 1.4.2011 Media Centre Lume, Helsinki
Production: Susanna Leinonen Company
Financially supported by National Council for Dance, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Uusimaa Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, and The City of Helsinki Cultural Office
“Susanna Leinonen’s new work Blinded Mind is apt to blow your mind in a storm of emotions. It overwhelms the audience in an enchanting and mesmerizing wave.“
– Helsingin Sanomat (2011)
“Leinonen’s movement language has always been very precise, polished and complicated, but now there is more soft flow and vitality. The work’s six dancers comprise a wonderful and intensive group, which moves like a dream. — The dancers have rather different kinds of solos and duets and groupings that are ever-changing. At the end all six dancers dance together and Leinonen’s movement language can be seen at its best.”
– Demokraatti (2011)
