Baroque Pearl – Dances for Spring and Silence

Baroque Pearl – Dances for Spring and Silence is a work choreographed for five dancers, Hanna Ahti, Anna Maria Häkkinen, Anna Mustonen, Maija Mustonen and Anna Torkkel, and it is inspired by Japanese composer Susumu Yokota’s album Baroque and and French writer Marguerite Duras’ work.

The performance is based on the relationship between dance and silence, music and the associations created by textual excerpts. Commissioned by the rendezvous collective, it continues choreographer Liisa Pentti’s exploration of the fundamental questions of sound, space and movement in dance.

Baroque Pearl – Dances for Spring and Silence is a poetic choreography in the space between the human and the inhuman, a landscape that is difficult to verbalise and where the place of dance is constantly reshaped. Perhaps it is a spatial love story – for dance.