MART KANGRO
Medium
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Mart Kangro’s new solo production, MEDIUM, unfolds at the intersection of body and screen, delivering messages and carrying meanings.
MEDIUM begins where his previous work, Pantheon, left off. While Pantheon examined world cultural history as a vast network, Kangro now stands with his own body in the midst of today’s fragmented avalanche of information. "What and how we consume within the media field creates the body we actually live in," says Kangro. Are we becoming exactly who today's news designs us to be?
Kangro has long been fascinated by the process of piecing together a whole from shards. Out of seemingly disconnected fragments, an unexpected narrative emerges. "I work in the hope that the sum of these life-shards reveals something beyond the eye's grasp, something that doesn't yet have a name," Kangro explains. "Something operating in the in-between, which we only become aware of with a delay. It is always there before us. We are always late."
We have the freedom to participate in everything. But with what meanings do we allow our bodies to be shaped—and by whom? What’s real? What’s no longer real? Where is the line between the physical world and the imaginary?
Once again, Kangro and his worn-out body are stuck under a waterfall of information overload, trying to figure out how to cope. He’s a funny one, this Kangro: simultaneously denying and despising the whole mess, yet hopelessly addicted and right in the thick of it.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes, no intermission
Language: English or Estonian
Performances:
Sat, 4.07 at 20.15 in Hõõg (in English) (BUY TICKET, ticket sale starts at 15th of April at 12.00)
Sun, 5.07 at 16.00 in Hõõg (in Estonian) (BUY TICKET, ticket sale starts at 15th of April at 12.00)
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Mart Kangro is a freelance choreographer, director and dancer. In his works, he focuses on the meaningfulness of the human body and movement in theatre as semiotic space-time, and on existential issues of stage situation. His productions have been performed at major festivals in more than 20 countries across Europe. During the past seven years he has created collaborative performances together with actor and director Juhan Ulfsak and dramaturge Eero Epner. Besides that he has directed performances where he himself is not cast.
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Author and performer: Mart Kangro
Dramaturge: Nicolette Kretz
Text dramaturgs: Eero Epner and Mart Kangro
Scenographer: Kristel Zimmer
Sound designer: Raido Linkmann
Light designer: Priidu Adlas (Eesti Draamateater)
Space: Mart Kangro
Project managers: Jaak Prints and Mart Kangro
Technical solutions: Herkko Labi
Video: Kristel Zimmer, Herkko Labi, Mart Kangro
