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An auto-fictional performance about queer family fantasies.
After the successful premiere at Treibstoff Theatertage, Eevi Kinnunen and Olivia Ronzani are back to present their performance about queer family fantasies. Two performers embark on a mission to make a baby. Moving through each other's minds and talking through their bodies, they tell a love story reaching towards the baby - empathic, care-taking, rough and soft. They embody and deconstruct images of family in search for one that feels their own. Eevi, Olivia and Baby fall in and out of love and back again as they navigate utopias, biological barriers, political uncertainties and societal expectations of family. A Long Story About Our Baby is a touching auto-fictional performance piece and embodied storytelling, where a space opens up for dreaming and re-romanticising a queer experience of family.
Content notice: The show contains stage fog, theatrical blood, nudity and flashing lights. Some scenes may evoke associations of miscarriage, which may be uncomfortable for some audience members.
The show is in english, german translation available on paper.
Duration: ca. 70 Min.
Biografien
EEVI KINNUNEN (they/he/she, dance artist FI) and OLIVIA RONZANI (she/her, dance/theatre artist CH) both work in the independent scene in performance, choreography and improvisation. Eevi studied dance at North Karelia College Outokumpu (FI) and at the London Contemporary Dance School (UK). Olivia studied Physical Theater at the Accademia Teatro Dimitri (CH). They met in 2020 and started to explore spontaneous performative encounters with dance, voice and physical theater. They founded Project.tgthr as a platform for artistic collaboration and companionship for a continuous queerfeminist exchange about their personal and artistic perspectives. A Long Story About Our Baby is the first piece to emerge from the ongoing research.
Credits
Eevi Kinnunen, Olivia Ronzani Artistic direction / choreography / performance
Katri Saloniemi, Helene Scheithe Costume / Stage
Gil Schneider Sound Design / Music
Pina Schläpfer Lighting Design / Technology
Lola Rosarot Technical management on tour
Nora Wyss Audio Collage
Louis Caspar Schmitt Video Animation
Robin Nidecker Projection Mapping
Sophia Rodríguez Outside Eye / Artistic Collaboration
Camille Jamet Production Management
Kathrin Walde Tour management
Franziska von Blarer Babysitter
Realization Landholz Productions
Co-production: Treibstoff Theatertage Basel, Tojo Theater Reitschule Bern
Supported by: Fachausschuss Darstellende Künste BL/BS, Tanzbüro Basel, SWISSLOS/Kultur Kanton Bern, Kultur Stadt Bern, Taike Art Promotion Centre Finland, Olivia Ronzani, Eevi Kinnunen and Nora Wyss were residents of the residency program “Labor à trois” of POLE-SUD, Roxy Birsfelden and Tanznetz Freiburg, funded by the cross-border cultural fund of the German-French-Swiss Upper Rhine Conference
