Netti Nüganen, Pire Sova, KISLING (EE) - ASH, HORIZON, RIDING A HOUSE

Duration: 75 min.

The performance is part of the Baltic Dance Platform programme.

ATTENTION: The performance includes loud sounds and smoke.

In "Ash, horizon, riding a house" Nüganen and her two collaborators reflect on

identity and belonging as fluid constructs, shaped by weather and place. By facing

the instability of our environment, the audience is invited to consider how we might

belong to a landscape that cannot stay the same.

Responding to a world where land, language, and folklore have become commodities, Nüganen, Sova and Kisling surround themselves with ice. The audience is invited to tend to ice-objects, while dripping ice panels become the center of gravity.

The performance unfolds as a series of chain reactions that Nüganen threads as a narrator.

She proposes multiple perspectives on locality by morphing through characters like a real estate agent, an auctioneer and a tourist.

“Ash, horizon, riding a house” explores how identity, as something shaped by

geography, can open up space for fluidity, movement, and transformation. In the

backdrop of constant dripping, the expectation of permanence is fully abandoned.

After ice there is water, and melting becomes an act of resistance: against control

and the desire to conquer.

Concept, choreography: Netti Nüganen

Performance: Netti Nüganen, Pire Sova, Michaela Kisling

Sound design: Michaela Kisling

Scenography, costumes: Pire Sova

Text: Netti Nüganen

Light design: Klimentina Milenova

House-costume: Zody Burke

Ice-moulds: Madlen Hirtentreu

Production management: partner in crime and Kaie Küünal

A production by Netti Nüganen in co-pruduction with Tanzquartier Wien and Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn.

Curator for Tanzquartier Wien: Lewon Heublein.

Supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Valmiera Summer Theatre Festival.

Photos by: Emilia Mileska, Ive Trojanović, Ronja-Elina Kappl.

The Baltic Dance Platform is a biennial event held in a different Baltic capital since 2019.  It consistently and purposefully showcases contemporary dance from the Baltic region and its artists in both international and regional contexts. At the same time, the Baltic Dance Platform provides opportunities for collaboration among cultural professionals and the exchange of knowledge and experience. This year The Baltic Dance Platform will take place on April 22–25 in Vilnius.