Renaissance

Change is always relational; it unfolds through the connections we create and recreate.

The historical era of the Renaissance refers, among other things, to a worldview based on anthropocentrism and science. While human statues are set in stone, human ideals bleed and leak. Through a series of evaporations, dissolvements, transitions, and transformations, the needing and feeding bodies of Renaissance become streams or fountains, endlessly gushing forth or bleeding dry.

The performance is an ode to dreaming and the power of the unknown. In Renaissance the messy alienation, animality, and sexuality of human beings bursts through. Something is destroyed, while something is born and transformed anew.

Working group:

On stage: Samuli Emery, Samuli Laine (WAUHAUS), Alen Nsambu, Ritni Ráste Pieski & Kauri Sorvari
Direction & Choreography: Juni Klein and Jarkko Partanen (WAUHAUS)
Scenography: Laura Haapakangas (WAUHAUS)
Sound design: Jussi Matikainen (WAUHAUS)
Lighting design: Kristian Palmu
Costume design: Hanne Jurmu
Assistant to the lighting designer: Saana Hannonen
Assistant to the costume designer: Salla Oinas
Costume construction: Linda Seppälä
Vocal coach: Kiia Laitakari

The choreographic material of the performance was created in collaboration with the performers.

Producer (WAUHAUS): Minttu-Maria Jäävuori
Executive director (WAUHAUS): Julia Hovi

Production: WAUHAUS & Zodiak – Center for New Dance
Residency Support: Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Supporters: Kone Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, City of Helsinki, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation Residency Program

Excerpts from choral works to be heard during the performance:
Victoria, Tomás Luis de. O Magnum Mysterium. 1572.
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da. Sicut Cervus. 1604.

World premiere: 3.12.2024 at Pannu hall, Dance House Helsinki

Upcoming dates:
30.5. at 20.30, Spring festival Utrecht
31.5. at 17.00, Spring festival Utrecht
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