Uventa

HeinCo: Uventa (Norway)

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

School screenings:
Mon, March 16, 12 noon Stoa, Helsinki
Fri, March 20, 1 p.m. Martinus, Vantaa

Wordless
Duration: approx. 50 min
Recommended age: For everyone over 8 years old

Two parkour athletes and a huge structure made of metal pipes... Uventa is a wild symbiosis of dance, parkour, and technology!

Uventa (meaning "unexpected" in Finnish) is a performance full of surprises. Two parkour athletes challenge both gravity and each other. They must find their footing and help each other. In addition to the performers, lights, videos, and music create Uventa's own world, where anything is possible. The audience can feel the risk-taking, but also the playfulness, in their own bodies.

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, production, photography and video, technician: Antero Hein
Dancer, performer: Severin Romer Iversen
Performer: 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.
Photos: Yaniv Cohen