Country Path Conversation [working title]
Tijdens deze residentie dansen, lezen en werken we rond vragen als: Hoe uit het doorgeven van informatie en energie zich als gedachten tussen veranderende lichamen in een dans? Wat betekent wachten in gedachten tijdens het dansen?
Het trio is relelateerd aan een tekstt van Martin Heidegger: A Triadic Conversation on a Country Path between a Scientist, a Scholar and a Guide.
Veli Lehtovaara (1982) is a choreographer and dancer based in Brussels. He works regularly in Helsinki and lives part of the year at Villa Kaunisto by the Lake Päijänne, Central-Finland. Lehtovaara studied philosophy, dance and choreography in Finland and Belgium.
His artistic practice is focused on giving attention to what we share as human beings with other beings, living and nonliving. His desire for a holistic approach arises from the experience of tension between western and eastern traditions of movement and thinking.
Currently Veli is conducting Natural resources -research project. Parallel to the research he is creating a performance Country Path Conversation with dancers Liza Penkova and Mikko Hyvönen and costume designer Heide Vanderieck. In 2015-16 He created Clandestine sites: Displaced, a series of solo performances in relation to two texts A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes and Orlando by Virginia Woolf. Veli has amongst others worked with Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker, Benjamin Vandewalle, Chrysa Parkinson, Eleanor Bauer, Mikko Hyvönen, Marianna Henriksson, Piet Arfeuille and Vincent Dunoyer.