Hunt

The Finnish choreographer sought to distinguish his work from the many existing interpretations of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring by focusing on a single character. Wearing a shapeless tutu, Tero Saarinen portrays a being in search of identity, torn by contradictions and ambiguities, suspended between past and future—an androgynous figure who is both strong and fragile, struggling to survive amid the precariousness of the present and the passion to take flight.

Both hunter and hunted, masculine and feminine, Tero Saarinen creates and develops his powerful crescendo of action and emotion, in keeping with the composer’s music. A choreography that emphasizes slow, sweeping movements, making the expression all the more poignant.

Source: Maison de la Danse de Lyon