Divisions - Rankids Finnland

The world is full of dividing lines between us and them. Between others and those opposite to them. How many more divisions do we want to make? How do we want to see and face the world and each other? The Divisions performance examines concrete and abstract walls between kingdoms, communities and people. Mental walls are often even found inside the heads of individual people. The scenes in this performance examine the effects of these various walls on the surrounding communities and the individuals there. On you, on me, on us. This episodic play consists of several stories, the focus of which is moving to extremes and concretizing the walls that arise from small or big things. The performance is punctuated by piano music, songs, and dances. There are alternatives in the execution of episodic play. The performance can be only physic and dance theatre with songs and between 30-60 minutes. The refugee and immigrant stories are told using the means of documentary theater, and the storytellers are both real immigrants and fictitious people. Sometimes concrete walls completely separate people from each other. Fear, courage, hilarity, snobbery, seriousness, prejudices, and openness don't always fit in the same encounter. How do these characteristics and attitudes make us behave, and who has the power in which situation? LEITUNG Director: Maria Pikkarainen Choreographers: Natalya Shalkovskaja, Aino Pesonen