Spring Thing brings Tanssivintti’s young dance groups to the Zodiak stage with choreography by Jenna Broas and Marlon Moilanen.
Jenna Broas: Sedimenting
Sedimenting explores a series of spatial, temporal and material sketches of the present, revealing the sediments accumulated in the body. The performers’ movements glide, intertwine and multiply across the space in shifting temporal patterns. Through repetition, they weave a choreographic tapestry that draws you into a gentle celebration of life.
Created in collaboration with Zodiak’s and Tanssivintti’s Young Dancers group, Sedimenting continues Broas’s broader artistic exploration of landscape, the relationships between terrestrial and subterranean life, and the echoes that dwell in the body.
Jenna Broas: Sedimenting
Marlon Moilanen: Zz z
Zz z is a miniature piece inspired by the embodiment of dreams, performed by Zodiak’s and Tanssivintti’s Young Dancers group and Tanssivintti’s Intensives group.
This performance explores dance as a way to give form to dreams – and as a force that can jolt us awake from endless sleep. On stage, strange situations unravel one after another, inviting you to oscillate between waking and dreaming life.
The artistic process encouraged the dancers to explore human interiority and collective consciousness, blending the absurd with the humorous and the ethereal with the raw. Drawing on the dancers’ own dreams, theories of the ‘dreambody’ and ancient wisdom regarding the dreamlike nature of waking life, the performance attempts an alchemical transformation: materialising the world of dreams through dance.
Nuoret tanssijat (Young Dancers) is a performing group co-organized by Tanssivintti and Zodiak, created out of the need to provide young dance enthusiasts with opportunities to practice performing and to engage with the process of creating a piece. Intensiivit (Intensives) is a group that has been active at Tanssivintti for decades, serving as a unique bridge between amateur dancers and the professional field.
Tanssivintti is a dance school that has operated in Helsinki for nearly 40 years, actively working to bring together dance enthusiasts and the professional dance scene. The school’s teaching includes advanced-level open weekly classes and a more in-depth program. A key aim of Tanssivintti is to serve as a support network for young people who want to pursue dance as an art form even before applying to professional dance education.