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Liisa Pentti +Co & rendezvous:
Baroque Pearl – Dances for Spring and Silence

3.5.2024 at 18.00 (premiere)
5.5.2024 at 14.00
7.5.2024 at 18.00
8.5.2024 at 14.00
11.5.2024 at 14.00 

On Tuesday, 7 May, there will be an artist discussion after the performance. The discussion will be moderated by critic Tove Djupsjöbacka and is organised in collaboration with Kritikbyrån.

Kiasma Theatre

Tickets: 25 / 15 €
Tickets on sale via Kiasma: 
https://kiasma.fi/en/performances/baroque-pearl/


About the work

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 Torkkeli, and it is inspired by Japanese composer Susumu Yokota’s album Baroque 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






Working group


Choreography and direction
Liisa Pentti

Dance
Maija Mustonen, Anna Torkkel, Anna Maria Häkkinen, Hanna Ahti, Anna Mustonen

Costume design
Siru Kosonen
Light design
Ina Niemelä

Sound design
Jouni Tauriainen

Choreographic support
 Pia Lindy

Production
Liisa Pentti +Co, rendezvous, Kiasma Theatre 

Supported by
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, City of Helsinki, Kone Foundation

Photo: Kansallisgalleria / Pirje Mykkänen