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ELSIAG (every love story is a ghost)

Premiere 17.10.2025, 6:00pm
Stoa Cultural Center, Helsinki


Performances
Sun 19.10. at 3:00pm 
Fri 24.10. at 6:00pm
Sat 25.10. at 6:00pm
Sun 26.10. at 3:00pm
Stoa Cultural Center, Helsinkii


Tickets go on sale August 4th at lippu.fi ︎︎︎




About


ELSIAG (every love story is a ghost) is a dance piece about an ongoing love story.


It is based on the concept of the body as a vessel for dance heritage and personal dance history. The body is a platform for the layered traces of fleeting moments related to people, spaces, and the spaces between them; encounters with different species, entities, thoughts, feelings, and intuitions. Memories and the future intermingle to create something new.


Dance, as an art form, has a special and enduring relationship with ghosts, beginning with Giselle — the embodiment of romantic ballet. In this solo, Liisa Pentti confronts the ghosts of her dance past, often with a sense of humour.



ELSIAG is a dance for our unpredictable times — a dance of joy and enchantment; a dance of deep, free breathing; a dance of faith in a better future for our planet and all its living, feeling beings. It is a love story that is uncertain and ever-changing, yet still alive.



Credits


Performance and choreography:
Liisa Pentti

Sound design:
Jouni Tauriainen

Lighting design:
Ina Niemelä

Costume consultation:
Siru Kosonen

Dramaturgical support:
Frans Poelstra

Dancing support:
Jenni-Elina von Bagh

Production:
Liisa Pentti + Co

Residency: 
Santarcangelo Festival






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Photos: Uupi Tirronen