Liisa Pentti +Co & rendezvous: Baroque Pearl – Dances for Spring and Silence
The contemporary dance performance explores the encounters of dance and music. The performance is part of Feels Like Home exhibition program.
About
Due to sickness, Trio Variation from the work “Baroque Pearl – Dances for Spring and Silence” will be presented. Performers on Saturday are Hanna Ahti, Anna Maria Häkkinen, and Anna Torkkel.
Baroque Pearl – Dances for Spring and Silence is a work choreographed for five dancers, Hanna Ahti, Anna Maria Häkkinen, Anna Mustonen, Maija Mustonen and Anna Torkkel, and it is inspired by Japanese composer Susumu Yokota’s album Baroque and and French writer Marguerite Duras’ work.
The performance is based on the relationship between dance and silence, music and the associations created by textual excerpts. Commissioned by the rendezvous collective, it continues choreographer Liisa Pentti’s exploration of the fundamental questions of sound, space and movement in dance.
Baroque Pearl – Dances for Spring and Silence is a poetic choreography in the space between the human and the inhuman, a landscape that is difficult to verbalise and where the place of dance is constantly reshaped. Perhaps it is a spatial love story – for dance.
”I’m trying to achieve that beautiful thing. There is always fear, rage, and ugliness existing behind beauty. I have been trying to express ki-do-ai-raku (the four emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness) through music. I would like to express even one’s hidden emotion with reality. It’s my eternal goal.” – Susumu Yokota
Liisa Pentti +Co
Liisa Pentti +Co is a Helsinki-based dance group whose central values are artistic relentlessness and ingenuity. Founded in 2000, the group’s artistic profile is situated in a field between dance, performance art and contemporary theatre. Experimentation and searching for new forms of expression are emblematic of Liisa Pentti +Co’s work. liisapentti.com
rendezvous
rendezvous is the work community and artist association of six artists who have worked in the fields of dance and performance art for a long time. The artists are Hanna Ahti, Anna Maria Häkkinen, Anna Mustonen, Maija Mustonen, Masi Tiitta and Anna Torkkel.
Working group
Choreography and direction: Liisa Pentti
Dance: Maija Mustonen, Anna Torkkel, Anna Maria Häkkinen, Hanna Ahti, Anna Mustonen
Sound design: Jouni Tauriainen
Lighting design: Ina Niemelä
Costume design: Siru Kosonen
