Oblivia: Turn Turtle Turn - the lecture performance
Annika Tudeer, founder and artistic director of Oblivia, celebrates her 60th birthday with her most personal work yet: Turn Turtle Turn - the lecture-performance is a solo on life, death and dodos.
Through text, sound and fragmented dance delivered with great poetic force, Annika narrates theuniqueness and vulnerability of her life, drawing volatile timelines from dinosaurs to Greekmythology and on to today, all the while shedding light on the great dichotomies of living – birthand loss, unwanted and chosen parenthood, childhood and age. During the course of the evening,her personal story shifts more and more towards a universal reflection, that life-long search forbelonging that we all share.
An intimate epic about mothers, daughters, ancient histories and everything in between, Turn Turtle Turn – the lecture performance is created within the frame of Oblivia’s ongoing series on the Anthropocene, and includes musical elements from Yiran Zhao’s highly praised compositions from the music theatre performance Turn Turtle Turn, which premiered at Munich Biennale in June 2024.
“Time is such a strange construct. Billions of years since life began on earth, thousands sincethere have been humans. Constant life, constant death, but Earth is not impressed at all and keepson turning – and always it is just our own life, that speck of sand within eternity’s sandstorm, thatlies in the centre of how we perceive time.”
- Annika Tudeer
Text, on stage: Annika Tudeer
Dramaturgy, direction: Timo Fredriksson, Tua Helve, Annika Tudeer
Costume design: Tua Helve
Lighting design: Meri Ekola & Stine Hertel
Sound design: Yiran Zhao
Producer: Jenny Nordlund
Communications: Essi Brunberg & Viestintätoimisto Röd
Production: Oblivia, Mad House Helsinki
Thanks to: Juha Valkeapää, Anna-Maija Terävä & the whole Turn Turtle Turn team
Supporters: Taiteen edistämiskeskus, City of Helsinki, Svenska kulturfonden, Stiftelsen Tresmeder, Konstsamfundet
The last three performances are part of the Focus on the Local Landscape programme of Moving in November.
Photo by Saara Autere
SCHEDULE
1.11.2024 at 19 (premiere)
2.11.2024 at 19
3.11.2024 at 16
8.11.2024 at 16
9.11.2024 at 19
10.11.2024 at 19
11.12.2024 at 19 (encore)
12.12.2024 at 19 (encore)
Artist talk on Saturday, 9 November after the performance with Annika Tudeer and Tua Helve. The discussion is moderated by Otto Ekman, and organised in collaboration with Kritikbyrån.
LOCATION
Mad House Helsinki
Lintulahdenkatu 3, 00530
DURATION
60 min
LANGUAGE
English
NOTE
N/A
ACCESSIBILITY
The work is not inclusive. No subtitles or other interpretation. The work contains a lot of English speech.
AGE RECOMMENDATION
12+
TICKETS
5-30€