TICKET RELEASE 6/12

What happens when bodies, stories, and living art take place in a building that has become a symbol for Malmö? An evening with the performances We forgot who we are and Play Overlay.

Most recognize the silhouette. The twisted skyscraper that stands like a beacon in Malmö's skyline. One of the city's most iconic landmarks – known by all, visited by few. For one evening, we open the doors to Turning Torso and invite you to something that rarely takes place there: performing arts. Just like the building itself, performing arts can sometimes be perceived as exclusive or inaccessible. Therefore, we want to place two experimental performances in a room that already carries the same contradictions.

Turning Torsos is an evening where bodies twist around each other and take the space in total domination. Maybe you come for the art. Maybe you come for the view. Maybe to finally see what's inside.

Whatever the reason, you are welcome.

About the evening's performances

WE FORGOT WHO WE ARE – Estelle Quarino & Liza Shkirando\

~20 min

Constant tension between grounding and transformation.

We forgot who we are explores the fluidity of identities and cultures in a conflict with search for belonging and reclaiming the roots.

The performance reflects on how language, memory, and materiality shape self-perception. Tension dictates each next move, becoming both a generative and destabilizing force. This tension and gravity creates meaning through unpredictability. While losing the ground we find ourselves and recreate our identities. The work explores bodily memory and fluid identity. Latex, the central material, serves as both partner and constraint, surface and second skin, ground and roots. Through touch and resistance, latex exposes processes of confrontation and transformation. Body and material form a fragile choreography where tension becomes language.

Concept, performers, production & costumes: Estelle Quarino & Liza Shkirando

PLAY OVERLAY– Teo Ala-Ruona & Working group\

~40 min

What are you wearing? Play Overlay is a dance for the unnameable self that, in everyday life, is translated into roles through the act of coding ourselves with clothing. Undressing roles becomes a moment of collective attention and renegotiating assigned categories.

Play Overlay is a dance for the unnameable self that, in everyday life, is translated into roles through the act of coding ourselves with clothing. It is a solo performance by Teo Ala-Ruona and the working group, asking how our everyday roles can be shaped, slip away, and be shed?

Play Overlay explores the friction between the body’s internal experience and the layers of clothing on top. Each garment that is removed, and each part of the body that is revealed, invites the audience to examine the ways in which we project categories upon others. Clothing is central to  Play Overlay, here framed as a technology that can be applied and discarded, layer by layer.

Undressing roles becomes a moment of collective attention and renegotiating assigned categories. The performance seeks to uncover clothing’s ability to shape the body – both architecturally and symbolically. Eventually, the audience becomes part of a shared gesture of dressing and undressing, a collective play of decoding through clothes.

Concept, direction, performance: Teo Ala-Ruona
Choreography: Pauliina Sjöberg
Sound design: Tuukka Haapakorpi
Costume design: Ervin Latimer
Production: Sanna Ritvanen
Commissioned: ArkDes in collaboration with MDT as part of Worldglimpsing: Roleplay and Design of Alternate Realities
Supported by: Zodiak: Center For New Dance and Arts Promotion Centre Finland