Events

CIRKO GUEST: LIISA PENTTI +CO: THE BODY
22.-29.9.2017,  Cirko - Center for new circus, Maneesi, Kojehuone (building 8), Suvilahti

The Body is a performance about beauty and its simultaneous impossibility; about the complexity of signifying and about human fragility.

The work has two intertwining themes: the simultaneity of the past and the future and the collision of thought and sensoriality. The performers create bodily transformations that resonate the timeless and eternal as well as the fleeting nature of life.

Liisa Pentti’s duet with the award-winning Danish performance artist Bo Madvig lets the body to take centre stage. The unspoken dialogue between the performers does not present but rather makes visible the interaction between mind and body in time and space. The movement arising from within examines the possibilities and impossibilities of bodies in space. What do we see when we look at the body? Are we able to look at it as separate from signifying? And is it at all necessary to do so?

Performances:
Fri 22.9. at 19
Sat 23.9. at 19
Sun 24.9. at 16
Wed 27.9. at 19
Thu 28.9. at 19
Fri 29.9. at 19

Running time 70 min.
Suitable for ages 18+

Tickets:
10 € / 25 €, holvi.com/shop/liisapentti

Concept: Liisa Pentti
Performers: Bo Madvig (DK), Liisa Pentti
Lightning design: Meri Ekola
Sound design: Jouni Tauriainen
Costume design: Tua Helve
Producer: Inari Pesonen
Production: Liisa Pentti +Co
Supporters: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, City of Helsinki, Nordic Culture Point and Finnish-Danish Cultural Foundation

liisapentti.com/the-body-2017