


Thar Be Dragons is a platform for theatrical dance research, education, and performance, created by Annamari Keskinen and Ryan Mason in 2018. The company functions as a platform for both choreographers to create and present their collaborative and personal works. Their research explores notions of subconscious communication, revealing dense and sometimes unseen intimacy between the layers of our inner landscapes. Their staged work shifts between rapid changes of mood, sustained states of tension, and layered imagery, often encircling themes of death, the unknowable, the paradoxical, borders, silence, light, the mystical, and the quotidian.
Annamari Keskinen
Annamari Keskinen (b.1985) is a Finnish performer and choreographer and one of the founding members of Thar Be Dragons. For the last 18 years, she has been working internationally in the field of dance. Her professional career consists of over 60 productions with more than 30 directors, including multiple works from choreographers such as Johannes Wieland and Valtteri Raekallio.
Annamari has taught and created works for professional and semi-professional dancers in Staatstheater Kassel, Staatstheater Braunschweig, b12 festival, Salzburg Experimental Academy Of Dance (SEAD), Springboard Danse Montreal, Tanssille ry, Finnish National Opera Ballet School, Dock 11, Diversions (National Dance Company of Wales), IWANSON dance school and Unite Dance Camp India, Sozo visions in motion among others.
Her first evening-length work IKIMONO premiered at the Staatstheater Kassel in Germany in 2016. Since 2018 she has created works under the name of Thar Be Dragons.
Annamari’s staged works live within sustained psycho-physical spaces suspending both audience and performers in states of contrast, pathos, empathy, and reflection.

Ryan Mason

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