Residencies Detail

Residency of Keithy Kuuspu and Liisa Saaremäel

hosted by SAAL Biennaal
Participating countries:
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • Latvia
  • Dance
  • Theatre
© Keithy Kuuspu, Liisa Saaremäel

Period

  • From 28-08-2024 to 06-10-2024
Generation #3

Website

Address

TALLINN

Project summary

Kanuti Gildi SAAL, the organiser of SAAL Biennaal is organising an exchange project with partner festivals ANTI in Finland and Homo Novus in Latvia to offer a residency opportunity for performing arts duo Keithy Kuuspu and Liisa Saaremäel. The duo is in development process of their piece Body Slam: RAW a third piece in a trilogy, where the central material in research is clay, RAW dwells into the materials undone form. Artists bring with them the ironic standpoint of their generation (the millennials) who grew up watching MTV with their hands in the mud. Two women, uninterested in achieving steadiness neither on stage nor in the social sphere, explore the relationship between material and body, giving rawness a form.
© Kertin Vasser

Artist

Keithy Kuuspu and Liisa Saaremäel

Biography: Keithy Kuuspu are Liisa Saarmäel are both individually intriguing artists who have worked and created also as a duo in two big projects. While Kuuspu is first educated in choreography and Saaremäel in classical theatre they both graduated the first class of Contemporary Performance Making MA studies. Both have created a full length pieces that have been highly regarded in Estonia, latest for Kuuspu Standstill, (STL) and for Saaremäel Scream box, (Kanuti Gildi SAAL). Both Standstill and Scream Box are nominated for this year's Estonian theatre awards, in 2021 Saaremäel was also nominated for the performance award with her MA graduation piece Tiny Home Production presents: LARGER-THAN-LIFE:
Contact: keithykuuspu@hotmail.com
Website: https://www.keithykuuspu.com/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/liisasaaremael/ https://www.instagram.com/keithyjakuuspu/
Work: https://www.keithykuuspu.com/as-choreographerdirector/bodyslam https://www.keithykuuspu.com/as-choreographerdirector/home-stage-kodupeatus https://www.liisasaaremael.ee/screambox.html

Participating festivals

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