BILJETTSLÄPP 12/6

Vad händer när kroppar, berättelser och levande konst får ta plats i en byggnad som blivit en symbol för Malmö? En helkväll med föreställningarna We forgot who we are och Play Overlay.

De flesta känner igen silhuetten. Den vridna skyskrapan som sticker upp som ett fyr i Malmös skyline. Ett av stadens mest ikoniska landmärken – känt av alla, besökt av få. Under en kväll öppnar vi dörrarna till Turning Torso och bjuder in till något som sällan får ta plats där: scenkonst. Precis som byggnaden själv kan scenkonst ibland uppfattas som exklusivt eller otillgängligt. Därför vill vi placera två föreställningar mitt i ett rum som redan bär på samma motsättningar.

Turning Torsos är en kväll där kroppar vrider sig runt varandra och tar platsen i belägring. Kanske kommer du för konsten. Kanske kommer du för utsikten. Kanske för att äntligen få se vad som finns där inne.

Oavsett anledning är du välkommen.

Om kvällens föreställningar

### 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