Emmi Venna is a choreographer and dancer based between Berlin and Helsinki.
As a choreographer, Venna makes space for the enigma of dance and creates stage works that center movement as a primary source of creation. Venna’s processes are fueled by deep curiosity towards the dancing body, a love for dance and art histories, and a search for the magical potential of the performance situation.
Recent works as a choreographer include the performance series ”This world that we imagine in this room, might be used to gain access to other rooms, other worlds, previously unimaginable” (Kiasma Theatre/Drifts/Taidekoti Kirpilä, 2022-23), commissioned choreography ”CORE” for the TaDaC collective (Zodiak, 2021) and the solo work Fabulous Muscles (Mad House Helsinki, 2020).
During 2025-2027 Venna's work is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
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.
