Uventa

HeinCo: Uventa (Norway)

Sat 14 March at 2 p.m. Stoa, Helsinki (Bravo! Festival opening) Tickets
Sun 15 March at 2 p.m. Stoa, Helsinki Tickets
Wed, March 18, 6 p.m. Kerava-sali, Kerava Tickets
Fri, March 20, 6 p.m. Cultural House Martinus, Vantaa Tickets

School performances:
Mon, March 16, at 12 noon, Stoa, Helsinki. Reservations starting Jan. 13 at 10 a.m. at kultus.hel.fi
Fri, March 20, at 1 p.m., Martinus, Vantaa. Registration from January 15 at tapahtumat.vantaa.fi/bravo

Non-verbal
Duration: approx. 50 min
Recommended age: For everyone over 8 years old

A physical and visual performing arts experience - a fierce symbiosis between dance, parkour, technology and media.

Two parkour athletes balance on a massive structure of pipes and clamps. They have to negotiate weight and gravity, find grip or help each other. They take risks, get red and tired, sit on the cradle, climb, balance - or fall. Multiplying algorithms, staged identities, games, tracks and surveillance - everything becomes fluid and fleeting. Until the trajectories of parkour shift us back again, to the athletes, the real bodies and what they can incredibly accomplish.

Live projections of video and light create unexpected transitions between different layers of time and reality. It provides an experience of displacement, which is reinforced by the electronic soundscape. How we as humans are affected and influenced by visible and invisible networks - just as the performance also asks what it means to break with established patterns. The parkour shows extreme physics, but with a minimalist approach. It both overwhelms and delights - we recognize the risk in our own bodies, but also the play.

Finnish-Swedish Antero Hein is one of the pioneers of parkour in the Nordic countries and the founder of the Oslo Parkour Park. Hein, who graduated as a dancer from the Oslo Academy of the Arts, has worked as a dancer and choreographer both in his home country of Norway and internationally. 

Artistic director, choreographer, lighting design, costume design, producer, photo/animation/video, technician: Antero Hein
Dancer, performer: Severin Romer Iversen
Performer, other: Nikolai Arnesen
Performer, composer: Tommy Jansen
Set design: Carl Nilssen Love
Co-production: Dansens Hus, DansiT, Dansens Hus, Bærum Kulturhus/Sprang
Supported by: Fond for lyd og bilde, Fond for utøvende kunstnere, Oslo kommune, SPENN, Kulturrådet, Viken fylkeskommune.
Photography: Yaniv Cohen