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ELSIAG (every love story is a ghost)

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


Performances
Fri 17.10. at 6:00pm
Sun 19.10. at 3:00pm 
Fri 24.10. at 6:00pm (artist talk after the performance)
Sat 25.10. at 6:00pm
Sun 26.10. at 3:00pm

At Stoa Cultural Center, Helsinki
Stoa is fully accessible. Read more here. 

Tickets 17,00-24,50€
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On Friday October 24th there will be an artist talk after the performance. The discussion is moderated by Rakel Similä and organised in collaboration with Kritikbyrån.



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 & Pia Lindy

Production:
Liisa Pentti + Co

Residency: 
Santarcangelo Festival x Moving in November






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Photos: Uupi Tirronen