Here be dragons explores the unknown in the body through digging into the legend of Saint George.

 

A dragon held a city captive. The king’s daughter was about to be sacrificed to appease the dragon. Right before the sacrifice was performed, Saint George the knight came about. Saint George fought and slayed the dragon, freed the city and married the king’s daughter. 

 

The title refers to the practice of depicting monsters on the unexplored territories in the maps made in medieval Europe. In the felt, sensed body, the dragon resides at the edges of the experienced, in the shadowy zone between the known and the unknown. What is our relationship with the monster? What does it mean to battle with it?

 

The live soundscape is made by Jaakko Kuikka.

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Emilia Liimatainen is interested in the moving body in the places where the processes of art, mystery and healing overlap. Her way of approaching movement is inspired by butoh and other practices that explore the subconscious in the body, such as Authentic Movement.

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Jaakko Kuikka researches the terrains of the body-mind through stillness, movement and sound. He has studied butoh dance with Masaki Iwana, Rhizome Lee and Ken Mai among others.

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