On 3 December, choreographer and dancer Emmi Venna’s Grid premieres at Tanssin talo, Helsinki. We are delighted to support Benelux-based artists Mami Kang and Salim Mabrouk in the work.
Emmi Venna: Grid
Grid is a microcosm of motion, unfolding movement by movement, dance after dance.
Disguised as shapes, rhythms and formations with seven dancers, Grid merges the buzzing energy of the dancefloor with detailed patterns, tapping into a field of possibilities that opens up between movement, sound and sensation.
.Grid by choreographer Emmi Venna and collaborators is a movement-dense, constantly reforming vortex of music and dance. It calls forth dances that are at once compelling and puzzling, dances that demand to be danced.
Echoing the centuries-old artistic curiosity towards the grid as a structuring tool and an infrastructure for vision, the performance draws from both its mythical and material dimensions. A system, a device, a carved out space, Grid is a finite fragment in perpetual passage, demarcating an area for the enigma of dance.
Grid is danced by Inka Auvinen, Mami Kang (Japan/The Netherlands), Mira Kautto, Salim Mabrouk (Belgium), Marlon Moilanen, Maya Oliva and Esete Sutinen. The music for Grid is created by Sunny Seppä. The work’s scenography and light design are by Kristian Palmu, costume design by Iiris Kamari.
Choreography and direction: Emmi Venna
Created with and danced by: Inka Auvinen, Mami Kang, Mira Kautto, Salim Mabrouk, Marlon Moilanen, Nelia Naumanen, Maya Oliva and Esete Sutinen
Music: Sunny Seppä
Lights: Kristian Palmu
Costumes: Iiris Kamari
Preliminary images: Jaakko Pallasvuo
Residency support: MDT, Dansverkstaedid
Production: Zodiak – Centre for New Dance, Emmi Venna
Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Kone Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux
Teaser video: Trang Chung
Practical info
Date: 3 December at 19:00 – Premiere. 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12 December at 19:00; 13 December at 15:00
Post-performance discussions on 5 December (in Finnish) and 11 December (in English).
Venue: Tanssin talo, Pannuhalli. Learn more about the accessibility of Tanssin talo.