Choreography and performance Johhan Rosenberg
Sound design Karl Saks
Scenography Julia Sara Vavra / Johhan Rosenberg
Light design Priidu Adlas
Dramaturgy Maike Lond & Netti Nüganen
Technical support: Henry Kasch, Kristiina Tang
Light technician: Hendrik Kaljujärv / Kristiina Tang
Photos: Alana Proosa
Project manager: Eneli Järs
Co-Production: Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Johhan Rosenberg
Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia
traps
“traps" can be seen as a confluence of different actions, dragged by linguistic elements. A hypnotic zoo invites the viewer into its trap. By featuring the unknown as a source of compositional information, where words, bodies and configurations morph, a collective playground is created. It is not a game, but rather an overt observation of a hidden manifesto.
Work “traps“ finds itself between the wet walls, inhabited by an unknown identity that seeks to make eye contact with the surrounding. It constantly (re)creates us by adopting different fictions. “traps“ falls into the captured within estrangement and dares to gaze back to reflect its own sociality.
Premiere 2.05.2022 / Kanuti Gildi, Pühavaimu SAAL
3 + 5 + 6 + 7.05, Tallinn
5.09.22 / draamamaa.weekend, Tallinn
15 + 16 + 17 + 18.09, Tallinn
3 + 4 + 5.05.2023 / Tartu Uus Teater, Ümberlülitus
8 + 9 + 10.06 / Theatre Takomo, Baltic Take Over, Helsinki
13 + 14 + 15.10 / Tóma Rýmið, Sequences festival, Reykjavik
“traps' ' seeks to trace our forgotten belongings. ‘traps’ is a trapping pulse and a raw meat programmed to consume. It’s a place where drugs and identities are sold and dissolved. It’s a tongue hole, wasted head, wolf-wheel, a person's dirty mouth and a leaky engine. It travels, restricts, attrapts (?), pokes, and strokes our presence while we’re caught in our own traps.
Reviews
*… räppiv pulss ja toores liha … by Urmas Lüüs /Sirp. 10.06.2022
*tõlge eemalviibijatele #14 Johhan Rosenberg 'traps' / Hendrik Kaljujärv ja Kaie Olmre /May 2022. elektron.signal
*ARVUSTUS: EELTEKSTILISE HELDUSE MÖIRGED by Sanna Kartau / Müürileht. 10.06.2022
*Teatriarvustus. Kaja Kann: koreograafid kergitavad kehalist leivatainast /edasi.org. 24.05.2022
*Gregor Kulla; "kui-uus-on-unustatud-vana"
*Urmas Lüüs; Õõvaoru Lood
*teatriauhindade-nominendid 2022
*Estonian Theatre Prize Award 2023, a nominee of Dance category - "traps“: for choreography and performance