Ariel at Kaapelitehdas

Performed in Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, 3.12.2016
Concept and dance: Tuula Turunen
Music: Elias
Filmed by Jenna

"Everything flows and nothing stays."
Heraclitus of Ephesus

Ariel is a modern dance solo diving into the original story of the Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. The piece consists of improvisational tasks approaching this subject of mermaid´s transition from mermaid to human. It discusses for example these questions:

How did the mermaid feel as she woke up from the beach and noticed her dream had come true and she had been given a chance to look at the world trough human eyes?

How much fear and hope is included in such a chance?

(text besides the quote by Tuula Turunen)