2023 - Finland - Cha cha cha - Käärijä

Summary

Dancers in pink and a half-shirtless man come from inside a big wooden crate. He alternates between looking fiercely powerful like a wild animal and harmlessly cute, respectivaly when he sings or screams coarsely versus when the melody kicks and his face beams cuteness. It's like going from big bear to teddy bear.

Key dance: Screaming part: Crouching down, shaking head left and right, and other harsh movements. Singing part: Lifts an arm to the front and wiggles his fingers as he smiles. Then he raises and arm, bending the forearm, as if grabbing a waistcoat and bounces the arm left and right, in a dance that feels playful and silly.

 

Long description

A blue light flashes from inside a wooden crate. A man peeks from inside, and starts breaking boards. He is kinda shirtless, only with a bright green shirt with nothing below the collabone, and spiky black pants. Then he climbs to the top of the crate and we see his threathening giant shadow projected behind. He moves like a wild animal, like crouching, or looking up and putting his tongue out and wildly shaking it.

One whole side of the crate is kicked open and four dancers in all pink come from inside. They are connected to the crate by some sort of elastic textile, as if they were animals on a leash.

The bear man comes to the front. His clothes are large and bright green but topless below the collarbone. He has a tattoo. He walks around and they all have many dynamics that sometimes look sensual, like making a straight line on all fours and arching their backs like a worm, on a sequencial wave, until they reach the back person, over whom the man is sitting. Everyone dances the either cute or the powerful choreographies.

End: Everyone kneels on a line. He is at the center, kneels with one knee in a poweful position and sort of punches down at every "cha", and fireworks splash on the background.

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