With Attitude, Tomi Paasonen returns to ballet and returns to what used to be his dance focus for 30 years. It is time to examine processes, forms and techniques from his choreographic practice in the 1990s from today's perspective.
Attitude is a contemporary ballet etude created for Berlin-based queer ballet dancers who dance on pointe and a drag performer - American-born dancers Kai Braithwaite (Komische Oper, Oper am Rhein, Dance Theatre of Harlem) and Ted Littlemore (Canada, Ne.Sans Dance Company, Joshua Beamish/ The Vancouver Opera) and the brilliant Scottish drag performer Gieza Poke. Attitude is a study of what happens when you mix the rigorous academic vocabulary of classical ballet and pointe dance with contemporary choreographic and dramaturgical impulses. It is an experiment that uses technical skill and virtuosity for new critical perspectives on the classical form. Fusing the dancers' autobiographical narratives with pop culture and queer sensibilities, it aims to expand the uses of the pointe shoe, which becomes the fuel for movement and choreography.
Choreography, direction, soundtrack, costumes: Tomi Paasonen
Dance: Kai Braithwaite, Ted Littlemore , Gieza Poke
Lighting design: Asier Solana
Photo: Teodora Simova
Language: English
Duration: 60 min
https://itsamatch.art/en/event/?event=attitude-von-tomi-paasonen/
Language & Art Lovers promises a lively exchange about art, languages and life in the Foyerbar. After all, what better way to practise a language than by talking about what we experience together?
A production by Tomi Paasonen in co-production with DOCK ART, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
