MEDIATHEK

As a woman I'm taking a stand on the world. It is shocking to see the current division into east and west, north and south, rich and poor, A- and B-class citizens. I have investigated how very private things experienced in the body can be linked to broader contexts. For instance, I think that the importance of intimacy as a physical experience concerns individuals as well as states. The opposite of intimacy is then violence: abusive terror, ethnic cleansing or a state of war. I want to stress the possibility of discovering shared opportunities as opposed to division and isolation. As a form of art, contemporary dance has potential and is evolving. It combines several things to make a fascinating whole. My great passion is to find out how to instil as much information and thought as possible into movement. I am convinced that movement can be as accurate a tool for communication and expressing the mind as any other form of communication. A performance brings people together, whether it's theatre, dance or some other art form. That is in itself significant and seems to be an archaic need for people. I have contemplated the use of the word and the meaning of a performance, that if the aim of a performance is to deconstruct its content and meanings and observe the situation as interactively as possible, is it a performance rather than a western ritual? I dislike the vocabulary of market economy, which is appearing more and more in the areas of culture and art. I don't consider myself a provider of services, perhaps more like a servant. I work because of the fear of the increasing lack of values and the growth of the meaning of money in the world: the commercialism in art, the disappearance of humanism and the increasing of inequality and exploitation. I see my role as an artist as a role of an observer, provocateur, problem-setter, poet and promoter of female existence. (Quelle: http://www.kekalainencompany.net/company_sanna.html) egd