Thar Be Dragons/Annamari Keskinen

Thar Be Dragons/Annamari Keskinen

Thar Be Dragons is a platform for theatrical dance research, education, and performance, created by Annamari Keskinen and Ryan Mason in 2018. The company functions as a platform for both choreographers to create and present their collaborative and personal work. Their research explores notions of subconscious communication, revealing dense and sometimes unseen intimacy between the layers of our inner landscapes. Their staged work shifts between rapid changes of mood, sustained states of tension, and layered imagery, often encircling themes of death, the unknowable, the paradoxical, borders, silence, light, the mystical, and the quotidian.
Thar Be Dragons has since produced four full evening works dying animals don’t feel sorry for themselves (Kaiku club 2018, Helsinki), ei (commission Staatstheater Kassel 2018), eternal return (JoJo Dance Centre Oulu 2021) and blink (commission Staatstheater Braunschweig 2022).

Photo: Pano Isoaho