SWAN SONG

2021-2022

Performers: Sally Davison, Gunilla Sjövall

Mentors: Georgie Goater, Maija Mustonen, Rea-Lina Brunou

Sound: Riku-Pekka Kellokoski

Light: Sofia Palillo

Costume/Set: Heli Hietala

Film and Image: Rea-Lina Brunou

Venue: Monitoimitila O.

Producer: Sally Davison / Raila Knuuttila

Supported by: Kone Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden

SWAN SONG unveils and unravels nuances of space, time, and dimension from the relational space between the two bodies of Sally Davison and Gunilla Sjövall. The space is informed by their fifteen-years working together as dancers, collaborators, and organisers of inclusive dance in Finland. Between them, they inhabit 133 years of life shaped by disability, age, and life on the periphery. Both dancers started or resumed dancing at ages when it is usually considered time to cease. The enduring quest to promote dance for all people has been the fuel of their relationship.

SWAN SONG is a journey of desires, motivations, and impulses that shape space when two bodies align for a common goal. The dialogue of body tissue shaped in flesh by biology, anatomy, physiology, history, society, phenomena, and the relational as it moves towards endings, change, and letting go….