Credits
Choreographer, composer, musician, performer: Liina Magnea
Composer, musician, performer: Reetta Nummi (SITOI)
Performer, musician: Heidi Finnberg
Performer, musician: Gabriel Pedrosa / Niklas Niki Blomberg
Lighting design: Titus Torniainen
Music Consultant: Noah Kin
Post Production Music and consultant: Haraldur Thrastarson
Assistant Choreography: Tuukka Leijavuori
Mentor: Elina Pirinen, Harri Kuorelahti
Photo, video: Nathan Ceddia, Kristin V Jam
Artistic Production Manager: Ayako Toyama
Performance photos: Sanna Lehto, Katri Naukkarinen
Production: Zodiak, Liina Magnea
Co-production: Tanznacht Berlin
Supported by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Goethe-Institut, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Arts Promotion Center Finland
Special Thanks to: Anna Bergel, New Fears Gallery / Julian Weber, Aikido Dojo am Gleisdreieck, Julianna Schreyer, Laurean Wagner, Jacopo Lanteri, Lauri ja Ilkka Matila, Amma, Maria Solrun
Video documentation upon request: liina.magnea@gmail.com
Musical 70 min, Zodiak New Dance Center Finland
Funny Things Before Panic is a coping mechanism dressed up as a musical. Three dancers embody three true stabbing stories that have happened around the choreographer, Liina Magnea.
In hopes of finding a way to emotionally cope with the situation and truly any dramatic situation, the performers compulsively sing songs and dance, retelling the traumatic events. This ultimately leads them to panic – a physical state riddled with tics, cramps and sounds that they have experienced in their personal lives. To distance themselves from the drama of a panic attack, they transform the symptoms into new dances and songs, turning the symptom to a creative tool.
By turning the knife around they realise that these stories illustrate their internal self stabbing. The conclusion is an ode to the absurd, one's own incapability to grasp injustice in the world and finding a smirk even in the darkest of days.
The work does not literally represent or re-enact the acts of violence.
Read more about the work and the working group in Liina Magnea’s interview, published on Zodiaks web page.
Musical 70 min, Zodiak New Dance Center Finland
Funny Things Before Panic is a coping mechanism dressed up as a musical. Three dancers embody three true stabbing stories that have happened around the choreographer, Liina Magnea.
In hopes of finding a way to emotionally cope with the situation and truly any dramatic situation, the performers compulsively sing songs and dance, retelling the traumatic events. This ultimately leads them to panic – a physical state riddled with tics, cramps and sounds that they have experienced in their personal lives. To distance themselves from the drama of a panic attack, they transform the symptoms into new dances and songs, turning the symptom to a creative tool.
By turning the knife around they realise that these stories illustrate their internal self stabbing. The conclusion is an ode to the absurd, one's own incapability to grasp injustice in the world and finding a smirk even in the darkest of days.
The work does not literally represent or re-enact the acts of violence.
Read more about the work and the working group in Liina Magnea’s interview, published on Zodiaks web page.