Jäljellä olevaa
Jäljellä olevaa is a dance performance about the mouth. The title Jäljellä olevaa can be translated as “remaining traces” as well as “something remaining after most things are gone”.
The mouth reaches to encounter, it reaches towards the skin and nourishment. The mouth can sense the world, yet also harm, disassemble and threaten. The working group puts itself on display on stage while opening to the contradictions of the mouth and questioning the definition of the stage.
The tone of the dance performance is created by the experience of the mouth – it is a pulsating concert, a landscape, and a space where bodies connect within themselves, with others and the infinite.
The audience members encounter the work as a collective who is invited on a journey to be nourished and stimulated.
Jäljellä olevaa creates space for the mouth, unshackling its expression and allowing the body to become visible. The working group relaxes into the essence of the mouth – its ephemerality and sensuality.
Choreographer Lin Da’s longing to be with a limited area and theme evokes its limitless potential. Reflection on the mouth, corporeality, experientiality, and the inner world have expanded into reflections on infinity and limitlessness, where all beings are connected.
The performance was accompanied by an exhibition that took place in Stoa’s gallery 19.5-9.6.2024. Lin Da’s Jälkiä ja kaikuja (Traces and echoes) exhibition asked whether the cavity of the mouth could be perceived as a landscape.
Writer and pedagogue Hanna Helavuori wrote a beautiful text about the performance and the exhibition on her blog (available in Finnish).
Working group
Choreographer and director Lin Da
Performers Taru Aho, Geoffrey Erista, Amita Kilumanga and Jyri Pirinen
Costume designer Amita Kilumanga
Sound designer Jyri Pirinen
Production Lin Da
Co-producers Esitystaiteen seura (Live Art Society) ja Stoa
Supporters Jenny ja Antti Wihurin rahasto (Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Niilo Helanderin säätiö (Niilo Helander Foundation), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Arts Promotion Finland), Helsingin kaupunki (City of Helsinki), Esitystaiteen seura (Live Art Society) and Stoa
Performance premiered on 31.5.2024 at Stoa (Helsinki).
Age recommendation: 12+
The languages are Finnish and English.
There are seats for the audience.
Lin Martikainen aka Lin Da 