From a Great Height invites you into an eerie, submerged world of hidden depths and psychopoetic corporealities.

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From a Great Height by Suvi Kemppainen and their working group is a performance about the poetics of subsidence and the materialization of disappearance. Through eternal orbiting¹, hollow and full bone drop, spiraling melodies, and fragments of language the piece opens an otherworldly horizon just before a page is turned. In the piece a post-apocalyptic community attempts to materialize to a world both lost and imagined.

The choreographic sonic ceremony for five dancers and a multichannel speaker system draws its audience into a submerged world of hidden depths and compelling forces. Anchored  in psychopoetic corporeality and combining multidisciplinary crafts, From a Great Height invites the audience to descend into the subconscious.

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The choreographic language of the piece moves along the thresholds of inner experience, the sociability of dance, and the affective registers of unison. In a time shaped by militarization, it feels urgent to ask militarized thinking weaves itself into the collective subconscious—and how it is embodied in the material reality of art. Shared rhythm and synchronized movement carry affective power—a power also harnessed by militarism: order, repetition, form. Unison resonates with familiarity and longing, but also with control and discipline. Choreography is not merely the organization of movement; it is a way of asking: What does community mean today—and to whom?

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From a Great Height is a profound reflection on our current moment, embracing the edge of the unknown. How do we descend together from a great height, in the midst of a fall that continues to accelerate?

¹Revolving motion, walking in a circle. Both cosmic and earthly.