- Dance
- NL premiere
Renaissance
Triggerwarning
This performances uses stroboscopes, loud sounds and heavy smoke.
The Finnish arts collective WAUHAUS makes its long-awaited Dutch debut at SPRING with Renaissance, a ritual performance that merges dance, song, light, and installation into a dreamlike experience. Mythical bodies come to life, boundaries blur, and fantasy takes on a physical form. Renaissance explores how the body can renew and transform itself in a world where imagination is fading. The audience is invited to surrender to wonder, change, and play—an ode to the power of dreaming and the unknown.
WAUHAUS, a multidisciplinary arts collective from Helsinki, makes its long-awaited Dutch debut at SPRING with Renaissance, a one-hour performance ritual of transformation, radical imagination, and pleasure.
Change is always relational; it unfolds through making and remaking connections.
The Renaissance era refers, among other things, to a worldview shaped by anthropocentrism and science. Through a series of evaporations, dissolutions, transitions, and transformations, the needing and feeding bodies of the Renaissance are set against old ideals and proportions that transcend the individual human. While human statues are set in stone, human ideals bleed and leak.
In Renaissance, the audience is invited to surrender to wonder, change, and play—an ode to dreaming and the power of the unknown. The messy alienation, animality, and sexuality of human beings burst through. Bodies become streams or fountains, endlessly gushing forth or bleeding dry. Something is destroyed, while something is born and transformed anew.
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Credits
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.
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