Performance 
Netti Nüganen

The Myth: last day

Netti Nüganen

uses the performative moment to format the ways of storytelling with the aim of challenging existing structures and habits. As a doomer, she seeks ways to (re)establish connections with the past, enabling an intentional look upon the present and extending the perspective towards the future. She is experimental in her approach to genres, placing her works on the border of performance, concert, and theatre. Nüganen attained her BA in choreography at the Amsterdam School for New Dance Development (SNDO). Her video and stage works have been shown at My Wild Flag Festival, Bâtard Festival, Tartu Art Museum, KIM? gallery, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Uferstudios, Lisbon Film Festival, Sequences Festival and more. Next to that, she has been touring since 2017 with Florentina Holzinger’s performances Apollon, Tanz, and Ophelia’s Got Talent.

Credits

Director, performer Netti Nüganen Uma Johhan Rosenberg Stage design, costumes Pire Sova Dramaturgy Sabine Cmelniski Sound design Artjom Astrov Light design Priidu Adlas Text advice Keiu Krikmann Photos Alana Proosa Graphic design Yunie Chae Project management Siim Tõniste, Eneli Järs Co-production Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Netti Nüganen Supported by Eesti Kultuurkapital Thanks to Johhan Rosenberg, Anna Viik, Henri Künnap, Henry Kasch, Tuuri Viik, Kristiina Tang, Anne Reemann, Tiia Rosenberg, Ando Naulainen, Heneliis Notton, Ahmed El Gendy, Tea Teearu, Laura van Bergem, Maike Lond

The Myth: last day

Rumour has it that the layers underneath the ground have preserved friction energy from sociologic changes and collective reconfigurations over centuries. The earth’s crust has stored geological activities, memories, and marches, generating magnetic heat and making it possible to defeat the decomposition of flesh in ideal circumstances.How long has she been there, defying decomposition? Nobody knows. The layers are getting thicker as she crawls and crawls and crawls and crawls. Up, towards the sunlight that pierces through the open cracks and her lengthy fingernails are clawing through the soil. She is boiling, roasting, red-hot fuming. The cold, fresh air too unbearable to be inhaled, the light too bright to be absorbed – so she vents. Completely chaotic, headless, spineless. She needs a form – any distinct style – to clasp onto. So, she could tend to some temporary business – and then be gone again, forever.

The Myth: last day is centred around a prefabricated archaeological mine, where a pseudo-archaeologist digs objects from the ground. It intertwines reality and fiction and creates myths, thereby constructing speculative pasts and futures. The show’s second part is a black-metal-inspired doomsday concert, where the researcher becomes a chaotic punk-metalhead. It animates the ruins, explores reasons to project towards the future and stay on the surface.

The Myth: last day won the prize for the best Estonian performing arts production in 2022.

Netti Nüganen

uses the performative moment to format the ways of storytelling with the aim of challenging existing structures and habits. As a doomer, she seeks ways to (re)establish connections with the past, enabling an intentional look upon the present and extending the perspective towards the future. She is experimental in her approach to genres, placing her works on the border of performance, concert, and theatre. Nüganen attained her BA in choreography at the Amsterdam School for New Dance Development (SNDO). Her video and stage works have been shown at My Wild Flag Festival, Bâtard Festival, Tartu Art Museum, KIM? gallery, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Uferstudios, Lisbon Film Festival, Sequences Festival and more. Next to that, she has been touring since 2017 with Florentina Holzinger’s performances Apollon, Tanz, and Ophelia’s Got Talent.

Credits

Director, performer Netti Nüganen Uma Johhan Rosenberg Stage design, costumes Pire Sova Dramaturgy Sabine Cmelniski Sound design Artjom Astrov Light design Priidu Adlas Text advice Keiu Krikmann Photos Alana Proosa Graphic design Yunie Chae Project management Siim Tõniste, Eneli Järs Co-production Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Netti Nüganen Supported by Eesti Kultuurkapital Thanks to Johhan Rosenberg, Anna Viik, Henri Künnap, Henry Kasch, Tuuri Viik, Kristiina Tang, Anne Reemann, Tiia Rosenberg, Ando Naulainen, Heneliis Notton, Ahmed El Gendy, Tea Teearu, Laura van Bergem, Maike Lond

19.01./
20.01.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
90 min
19.01./
20.01.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
90 min
TQW Studios
€ 15/10

In English

Double bill ticket including New Old: € 20/15 – sold out

Note: The performance contains loud music, clay dust and nudity.

 
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