Quartetto
(Kokkola Winter Dance Festival 2019)
Quartetto is a gently radical commentary on the right of people defined as having intellectual disabilities to be dancers on the stage of dance art, to be social agents, and to be sensory, desiring, and longing human beings.
Choreography: Kati Raatikainen
Sound design: Markku Essel
Space and lighting design: Milla Martikainen
Costume design: Roosa Marttiini
Dancers: Maria Lahti, Jarmo Patana, Sanna Tornikoski
Quartetto has been performed at the Tampere Theatre Festival in 2021, the Edinburgh Fringe Online Edition as part of the From Start to Finnish program in 2021, at Zodiak Center for New Dance in 2021, and at several venues in Ostrobothnia in 2019.
Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/402587629
Recording of the piece:
https://youtu.be/Wjk2UvoUkDY
Reviews:
https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/kvartetto-review-at-summerhall-edinburgh-by-kati-raatikainen
https://www.theatrefullstop.com/2021/08/27/kvartetto-summerhall-online-edinburgh-festival-fringe-2021-review/
https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-kvartetto-summerhall-online/
https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000007987343.html
https://lahenuutisia.vuodatus.net/lue/2021/08/kvartetto-nykytanssin-puheenvuoro
https://ketju-lehti.fi/aiheet/kulttuuri/tanssi-on-liikkeellista-alykkyytta/ere to edit.
(Kokkola Winter Dance Festival 2019)
Quartetto is a gently radical commentary on the right of people defined as having intellectual disabilities to be dancers on the stage of dance art, to be social agents, and to be sensory, desiring, and longing human beings.
Choreography: Kati Raatikainen
Sound design: Markku Essel
Space and lighting design: Milla Martikainen
Costume design: Roosa Marttiini
Dancers: Maria Lahti, Jarmo Patana, Sanna Tornikoski
Quartetto has been performed at the Tampere Theatre Festival in 2021, the Edinburgh Fringe Online Edition as part of the From Start to Finnish program in 2021, at Zodiak Center for New Dance in 2021, and at several venues in Ostrobothnia in 2019.
Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/402587629
Recording of the piece:
https://youtu.be/Wjk2UvoUkDY
Reviews:
https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/kvartetto-review-at-summerhall-edinburgh-by-kati-raatikainen
https://www.theatrefullstop.com/2021/08/27/kvartetto-summerhall-online-edinburgh-festival-fringe-2021-review/
https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-kvartetto-summerhall-online/
https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000007987343.html
https://lahenuutisia.vuodatus.net/lue/2021/08/kvartetto-nykytanssin-puheenvuoro
https://ketju-lehti.fi/aiheet/kulttuuri/tanssi-on-liikkeellista-alykkyytta/ere to edit.