HUNT
Choreography and Dance:Tero Saarinen
Music: The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky
Multimedia and Photographs: Marita Liulia
Multimedia Programming: Jacke Kastelli
Light Design: Mikki Kunttu
Costume Design: Erika Turunen
Recording: Esa Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra, permitted by Sony Classical.
Music rights: by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes
Production: Tero Saarinen Company and the Venice Biennial in collaboration with the Octobre en Normandie -festival in France
With thanks to: The National Council for Dance in Finland, the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland
Duration: 40 minutes
Premiere: 2 June 2002, Venice Biennial
Hunt has been performed in 20 countries (2002-2004)
Contact: Iiris Autio, Managing Director,
Tero Saarinen Company
Bulevardi 23-27,FIN-00180 Helsinki, Finland
Tel/Fax: +358(0)9 681 31 881
e-mail: iiris.autio@terosaarinen.com
ABOUT HUNT
Unlike most versions of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Saarinen concentrates on one single person - his masculinity/femininity and the fading of beauty.
Saarinen's ecstatic interpretation also raises the question of the role that information plays in contemporary people's lives. Are we sacrificing our bodies, our senses, our memories and our knowledge for a flood of information? The starting point is that the choice has already been made
The leading Finnish multimedia artist Marita Liulia adds a virtual level to the stage.
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PRESS QUOTATIONS
In ”Hunt”, a mesmerizing solo he created for himself to Stravinsky's ”Rite of Spring,” he [Saarinen] is both the hunter and the hunted, assaulted by inner demons. These are symbolized by a stream of animated images that the highly creative media artist Marita Liulia generates on the spot and projects on his body. It is time for Mr. Saarinen and his company to be seen at length in the United States.
Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, October 2004
Hunt proved to be extremely popular with the audience and indeed it is a very effective piece, perfect to show the art and body-mastery of a great dancer like Saarinen.
Francois Fargue, Dance Europe, December 2002
Saarinen's first self-created solo in nearly a decade is a bold, risky take on Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, with a decided technological slant. - - - There's a danger that the dance's layer of technology overtakes its physical expressiveness. Yet that very potentially negative quality might make this version of Rite one that is most relevant to our times.
Donald Hutera, Dance Europe, October 2002
The streaks of light projected by Marita Liulia are refined and imaginative. Tero, extremely focused, with a bear torso and feet, creates and develops a strong crescendo of action and emotion with ease. He burns up all his energy and gets exhausted at the very end, exactly like ”The Chosen One”, a mythical figure, should.
Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino, Ballet2000, July/August 2002, no 67
The stunningly elegant movement implies great inventiveness, which intrigues one's mind. It abolishes the stereotypical male-female image, turning the dancer into a mythical figure: a scapegoat, a mythical white swan, or -why not - Giselle, dying of love.
Paola Bruna, Il Gazzetino, 5 June 2002
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