Sfäärit (2025) in Musica Nova, Helsinki

With the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Justina Repečkaitė is commissioned by Musica nova festival Helsinki to write a composition for the project Sfäärit (2025).

Spheres on the Zodiac website:

Sfäarit is a performance convened by harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson and choreographer Anna Mustonen , which brings together contemporary music and contemporary choreography.

The starting point of the Spheres work is  the concept of composition : how to approach the work both as ways in which sound is organized into a composition and as a consideration of connections included in choreographic thinking. 

Chords crashing into each other, the movement of dust, the organ roaring and the spatial intervals of the middle-tone tuning system overlap with centuries-old ideas about the harmony of the spheres – the sound produced by the movements of the universe and its vibration in smaller units of nature, such as humans. 

The dance of the performance sinks into the experiential spaces opened by the music and gathers, expands, leaves space until it condenses, weighs down and evaporates into the air. The dance curls up towards the private, expands into the environment, forms wonderful patterns and shockingly small movements.

In the Spheres, you will hear the debut performances of Justina Repečkaitė from Lithuania and Lauri Supponen from Finland, who have worked on compositional material for organ positive and harpsichord together with Henriksson and Mustonen and performers Anna Maria Häkkinen, Marlon Moilanen, Mira Kautto and Petteri Pitko . In addition, the harpsichord piece For Marianna (2020)  composed for Henriksson by the British-Iranian Shiva Fesharek is included .

Marianna Henriksson and Anna Mustonen are known for their pioneering and dedicated work in combining new dance and baroque music.  In the work Spheres, the pair continues to work on the assumptions and questions related to bringing dance and music together. 

Sfäarit is part of the activities of the interdisciplinary i dolci association and it is seen as part of the programs of the Sivuaskel contemporary dance festival and the Musica nova contemporary music festival.

Conveners and ensemble : Marianna Henriksson, Anna Mustonen
Harpsichord, organ positive : Marianna Henriksson, Petteri Pitko
Dancers : Anna Maria Häkkinen, Mira Kautto, Marlon Moilanen, Anna Mustonen
Choreographer : Anna Mustonen
Composers : Shiva Feshareki, Justina Repečkaitė, Lauri Supponen
Performance dramaturg : Masi Tiitta
Lighting designer : Meri Ekola
Space materials : Piia Rinne
Administrative coordination and content discussion : Riikka Thitz / i dolci association

Production : i dolci association, Zodiak Center for New Dance, Musica nova Helsinki
Supporters : Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Lithuanian Culture Institute, Finnish Culture Fund, Art Promotion Center, Teosto
Residencies : Elhke-tuotanto/Conkytaidetila Kutomo (Turku), Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation (Helsinki )
In cooperation with : Rendezvous association 

Time:

• Thu 6.2.2025 18:00

• Fri 7.2.2025 19:00

• Sat 8.2.2025 15:00

• Organiser:

  i dolci, Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Musica nova Helsinki

• Address:

  Cable Factory, Pannu Hall
  Kaapeliaukio 3
  00180 Helsinki

• Tickets:

  44/40/22 € (Zodiak – Uuden tanssin keskus)

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