…shadows gliding on mountains; the image of wind and cloud,the passage of smoke or life: bright, dusky, bright…
– From Eeva-Liisa Manner’s poem Theorem
Would you give your hand to a child and let them read your life from the palm of your hand?
Would you sit by a stranger and let them feel your heartbeat?
Would you observe a dance in the same way you observe the sea?
Would you evoke lifeforms yet unknown?
Would you welcome what you cannot comprehend?
Would you watch gender disappear like a cloud
Would you “devour yourself and be done with it”
Would you let yourself be buried in the earth?
Would you fight the many goliaths to save your ancestral home and your people?
Would you let your dancing body merge with a cloud of distilled energy until it evaporates in the early hours of the morning?
Let’s gather together again in November.
Let’s embrace the dark, complex, radiant days and nights – under the glow of the full moon in Taurus.
I look forward to seeing you at the festival.
Satu Herrala
Artistic director