THE WINTER WAR - A Ski Ballet on Rollerskis

BRAVO TOGA presents an outdoor radio drama about intergenerational healing, post-memory, and the Finnish-Soviet Winter War—on rollerskis.

From a camouflaged tent, with binoculars and headphones, the audience follows the therapeutic aftermath of the Winter War of 1939-40.
By listening to the fictional radio channel “Post Memory Radio,” the audience hears authentic interviews on epigenetics, personal post-war memories, and more poetic reflections from the cold.

With the audience seated on the edges of a field in a public forest—amid everyday public life—two performers, dressed in white snow camouflage, bring history into the present.
Using therapeutic and choreographic methods, The Winter War explores inherited traumas, national mourning processes, and the effects of collective war memory. By addressing our current period of military defense build-up, this performance tunes to the war history of the Nordic region.

With a deliberately failing attempt at performing ski ballet on roller skis, The Winter War is a unique combination of immersive outdoor radio drama and a new genre: ski theater.

This is what happens when ski ballet meets roller skiing and our (invisible) inherited war history.

        Duration
        The performance is 1 hour long

        Language
        We speak (scandinavian) english.