《極光雙男》 Tero Saarinen與Kimmo Pohjonen 探索自身和彼此之間的界限 Breathe: Tero Saarinen and Kimmo Pohjonen explore the emotional boundaries of people

In photo: Kimmo Pohjonen, Tero Saarinen Photo: Mikki Kunttu

「世界文化藝術節」 北歐五國 - 極光雙男

兩副劇烈扭動的肢體，各據一方;現場 奏著電子音樂，節拍富規律;燈光慢慢 亮起，直至滲滿整個舞台;音效開始逐 漸遞增，從模糊到清晰一路向上飆，肢 體動作亦由起初的薄弱生疏，變得絢爛 嫻熟;他們像是開闢出一個共同表演 區，將舊事忘卻迎向新生。

演出由舞者及編舞家Tero Saarinen、手 風琴手兼作曲家Kimmo Pohjonen聯手 合作，在首演的晚上他們全情投入，帶 給觀眾刺激感官的感受，予人他們合作 已久的印象。

雖然已經創作無數作品，兩位享譽國際 的藝術家仍然努力不懈，透過肢體動 作、聲音和視效的實驗，力圖突破創作 的界限。在他們的職業生涯中，經常用 不同新科技豐富演出，這一次亦不 例外。

Tero Saarinen曾代表與自己同名的舞 團，到世界各地表演，遍及40個國家， 他自創獨特的動作語彙，表現人性內在 的真實。紐約時報和澳洲人報的評論 家，均指出他的當代舞作品，是近幾十 年來最好的。

他的獨舞作品HUNT，創作靈感來自Igor Stravinsky的《春之祭》，已在32個國家演出超過170次。被譽為當代舞壇其中 一位耀眼的明星，奠定Saarinen職業舞 者的生涯;他少年時上過古典芭蕾班， 曾師從日本舞踏大師大野一雄，又涉獵 不同類型的舞種和傳統音樂，造就他自 成一格的舞台表現。

被稱為手風琴界的Jimi Hendrix和 Björk，Kimmo Pohjonen在過去30年 間，曾不下數百次參加世界音樂、爵 士、藝術、實驗音樂節，以及在世界上 最負盛名的音樂廳演出。

憑藉他野性、搶眼的演奏表現，這位從 小就演奏手風琴的獲獎音樂家，創造出 強烈的個人風格。Pohjonen會創作自己 的曲目，並在芬蘭和國外與不少跨界別 藝術家合作過，包括Kronos Quartet、Pat Mastelotto、Eric Echambard......備受讚譽。

直到Saarinen和Pohjonen二人前往中國 參加一個演出展覽會，才在同一舞台上 合作。

「在我們的表演中，Saarinen有大幅度的 跳躍舞動，相對地讓我在音域上可盡情 發揮，感覺很棒!這次聯手是一次千載 難逢的創作，絕對值得大家期待。」 Pohjonen如此評論作品。

Saarinen說當二人第一次即興表演，已 有震撼的感覺。

「我們的合作，讓我腦海裡充斥著一個念 頭，那就是找回開始跳舞的初心，有返 璞歸真的動力，激起新的火花，令我想 繼續探究下去。」

包含兩位藝術家創意的成果，《極光雙 男》是一個別出心裁的創作。

當兩位各具獨特風格的藝術家走在一 起，會碰撞出什麼化學作用?他們是各 自強勢保留獨特之處，還是發現還有其 他可能性?那又是否需要放低一些自己 的堅持?

再進深一層思考，作品提出一個問題， 人願意隱藏自己到哪一程度，表演令觀 眾深思，究竟如何對待自身和彼此之間 的界限。演出伴隨著Tuomas Norvio設 計的電子節拍，震耳欲聾，冷冷地持續 重複著，就像敲響心靈的雷鳴聲。

《極光雙男》另一創新地方，是負責舞蹈 的Saarinen亦會彈奏很多不同聲音，並 通過耳機與Pohjonen聯絡，這不是舞蹈 中的常見做法。在同一時刻，Pohjonen 揹著沉甸的樂器不停旋轉，沉醉於越趨 激烈的舞動中。

「我們的演出本來傾向將憂鬱、悲傷和詩 意元素帶進藝術表演，現在我們成為合 作團隊，覺得需要帶出幽默、可笑、荒 唐的人性表現。」Saarinen說。

Mikki Kunttu─燈光設計師，已和 Saarinen 合作超過20年，這次創作壯觀 的燈效，以絢麗的燈光觸動觀眾的情 緒。由服裝設計師Teemu Muurimäki設 計的戲服，極簡潔卻惹人注目，以強調 構建角色的形象，獨立的個性猶如要與 他人分割開來，卻同時彼此呼喚著。整 體呈現普世價值，並與我們的內心 呼應。

撰文: Hannele Jyrkkä (自90年代起，作者便撰寫關於舞蹈的文 章，並身兼評論人。)

譯者: Carey Li

World Cultures Festival: The Nordics - Breath

Two convulsing creatures. Each on their own pier. A steadily pulsing electronic beat, a horizon that slowly fills with light. The soundscape that advances little by little from a mumble and a rumble to soaring heights, combined with movement that builds up from fragility to gorgeousness and harmony, seems to give rise to a third pier of their own. The other can only be reached by overstepping the familiar.

We feel all this and much more flooding our senses as dancer and choreographer Tero Saarinen and accordionist and composer Kimmo Pohjonen throw themselves into their first full-evening duet. Right from the start, it is as though the two have always performed together.

In work after work these internationally acclaimed artists have not hesitated to experiment with movement, sound and visuals, breaking through the bounds of creativity. Throughout their careers both have also employed the latest technology in various different ways. And this time is no exception.

Saarinen has performed with Tero Saarinen Company on all continents, in 40 countries, and over the decades has developed a totally unique movement language that drills down into the core of humanity. Critics from T he New York Times to The Australian have ranked his contemporary dance works among the best of recent decades.

Saarinen performed HUNT, his solo creation based on Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, over 170 times in 32 countries. His reputation as one of the brightest stars of contemporary dance is firmly grounded in his career as a dancer, in his unique stage presence, and in the mesmerising potions that he conjures out of knowledge gained both from the ballet classes of his youth and from the Butoh teachings of his master Kazuo Ohno in Japan, as well from various igniting sparks from different dance and music traditions.

Known as “the Jimi Hendrix” and ”the Björk” of the accordion, over the last 30 years, Kimmo Pohjonen has appeared as a performing artist at hundreds of world music, jazz, art and experimental music festivals, as well as in the world’s most prestigious concert halls.

Through his untamed, luminous performing and playing, this prize-winning musician who played accordion from a young age has created an absolutely distinctive style of performing art. Pohjonen, who composes his own repertoire, has created acclaimed, multiartistic collaborations in Finland and abroad, with Kronos Quartet, Pat Mastelotto, Eric Echambard and others.

Saarinen and Pohjonen still had to travel all the way to an art showcase in China to end up on the same stage.

“In our short performance together, Tero provided me with such a great counter movement that I didn’t need to hold back at all. What a great feeling! This duet is a once-in-a-lifetime creation, and I feel it was worth us waiting until this moment to realize it,” Pohjonen comments.

Saarinen says that the very first improvisation session for the new duet was a wake-up experience.

“I was overcome by a sense that together we had been able to put a finger on the reason I originally started dancing. A kind of primal force or initial spark. I just wanted to dive into that feeling.”

The end result, the work of five visionary artists, Breath, is an ingenious creation.

What happens in practice when two strong artist identities that have evolved in the same way collide? Can they both stay equally strong, and maybe even discover a third force? And do you then have to let something of yourself go?

On a deeper level, the question arises of how far a person is willing to shield themself. The work inevitably compels spectators to think about how fanatically we hold on to our own, and even to each other’s boundaries. In the midst of all this, the quaking electronic beat built up by

Tuomas Norvio inexorably repeats like the thunder of a heart.

Another innovation in Breath is that Saarinen produces a lot of sound and communicates with Pohjonen via an in-ear monitor, not a common practice in dance. Pohjonen, meanwhile, surrenders to an increasingly intense whirling movement, together with his heavy instrument.

“We both have tendency to sink into melancholic, sad, poetic depths in our art. Now, working together, we also needed to go through humour, grotesqueness, and the absurd manifestations of humanity,” Saarinen comments.

Mikki Kunttu – Lighting Designer and Saarinen’s collaborator of more than 20 years – has created spectacular lighting that densely unleashes the mood. While Costume Designer Teemu Muurimäki’s costumes in all their minimalism cry outto be noticed, accentuating the vision of the characters as the last of their kind, alienated from everything – yet tenaciouslyreaching out to the other. The wholeness grows into a universal vision. Within all of us.

Written by: Hannele Jyrkkä

(The author has worked as a dance journalist and critic since the 1990’s.)

Permission of use of text is granted by Tero Saarinen Company

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