The exact time and place of the performance will be announced later.
Lilluminen is a two-part work by choreographer Anna Mustonen, consisting of a performance and a video piece. On this page you will find the information and dates of the performance.
The Lilluminen performance takes place on the outdoor stage on Kuopio market square, a place many locals associate with gathering around dance. It is also the first stage where Mustonen ever performed. In the performance, she returns to the market square stage with the audience, witnessing the city awakening to a new morning, lingering with the slowly rising day.
The Lilluminen video piece is experienced by the waters of Kallavesi, at Luoto, located at the end of the harbor’s breakwater. Read more and see performance times.
This pair of works is built on the artist’s personal relationship with her home region. Mustonen, who spent her childhood in Kuopio but moved to Helsinki as a teenager, constructs her piece from layers of memories and emotions, forming at times a friction-filled relationship with a place she no longer lives in. As a choreographer and dancer, the work is also an attempt to dance in a place where she primarily experiences herself as a family member.
The works form a pair that undulates toward each other, where the past and present merge and bring to the surface sorrow, nostalgia, everyday life, and boldness—a landscape shaped by Kallavesi, the market square, the changing seasons, flickers of light, and dance, both intimate and shared.
Mustonen has created the works in collaboration with the working group Rea-Liina Brunou, Marianna Henriksson, Tatu Nenonen, and Piia Rinne.
Waterways
Lilluminen is part of the multidisciplinary Waterways project, which features works exploring the mythical, ideological, and emotional dimensions of the waterways in eastern Finland. The curator of the Waterways project is Riikka Thitz, who works in the fields of contemporary performance and visual arts, and the project is produced by i dolci ry. More information about Waterways can be found here.
The performance is part of Kuopio250 anniversary year programme and it has received production support of the anniversary year.
