MEMORY MATTER

2020

Choreography and performance: Georgie Goater, Maikki Palm & Gesa Piper

Spatial and lighting design: Sofia Palillo

Sound design & dramaturgical support: Riku-Pekka Kellokoski

Costume design: Iiris Herttua

Conversation partner: Maija Hirvanen

Production: Zodiak – Uuden tanssin keskus; Georgie Goater, Maikki Palm, Gesa Piper

In collaboration with: Globe Art Point

Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Uusimaa Foundation

Memory Matter by Georgie Goater, Maikki Palm and Gesa Piper, explores and unpacks embodied ancestral lineage(s) through the lens of ”grandmother”. The ”the grandmother” is not only the literal family relation, but a portal to meeting concepts of time travel within oneself, and the impossibilities of encountering what is no longer present.

The three choreographers/dance makers have varying immediate lineages (New Zealand, Finland and Germany). The work delves into reimagine the line of heritage through herstorical perspectives. These perspectives collide and intertwine in corporeal explorations of real and imagined auto-narratives through time, in relation with one another, and with the grandbody that resides as immanent potentiality in each of us. 

The sound for the performance was inspired by the eeriness of memories, the spoken word of story tellers and music supporting the movement based material born out of collaborating with embodied ancestral lineages. Diffused sound was used to open the scenography of lineages into a wandering sea of thoughts and textures, like a primeval waves rushing through the space.

”…Pärlor, delfiner, fjärilar och stjärnor hänger i rader på tunna nylontrådar som när nästan anda ner till golvet. Det kunde vara ironiskt, precis som synthmusiken, de små klockklämtningarna och de andra lite mystiska ljudeffekterna som präglar Riku-Pekka Kellokoskis ljudvärld. Ett sätt att driva med den västerländska kulturens flum och syn på spiritualitet? Men koreograftrion Georgie Goaters, Maikki Palms and Gesa Pipers Memory Matter (Minnesmateria) opererar inte bara på ett ironiskt plan, utan lyckas faktiskt göra en genuint känslomässigt betagen. Den är oerhört stämningsfull och suggestiv och bjuder på stunder av magisk dans framförd av de tre koreograferna själva.” – Hufvudstadsbladet 24.10.2020