Sfäärit (Spheres)
© Ilkka Saastamoinen
Premiere | 6th February 2025, Zodiak Center for New Dance / Sidestep festival, Helsinki, FI
Sfäärit (Spheres) is a performance initiated by harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson and choreographer Anna Mustonen, bringing together contemporary music and contemporary choreography. The starting point of is the concept of composition: how can a work be approached both as the ways in which sound is organised into music and as a reflection of the connections inherent in choreographic thinking? Light creates its own compositional layer with a kinetic character to the piece. It blends a raw and everyday quality with subtle movement of undefined reflections and draws connections from the human bodies, the musical instruments, and the air conditioning tubes in the space, to broader concepts and intergalactic relations, offering a parallel perspective on their interactions.