Dance Theatre Minimi & Šeiko Dance Company: SUPERTHING
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2 performances
8.9-9.9.2026
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Duration
approx. 75 min (no intermission)
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Venue
Erkko Hall
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Tickets
41-25 €
Show times
Tue 8.9. at 19.00
Wed 9.9. at 19.00
Introduction
A Finnish–Lithuanian large-scale production invites audiences into a landscape where reality and imagination intertwine.
SUPERTHING is a rare opportunity to witness seven outstanding artists from Finland and Lithuania sharing the same stage. Striking choreography, a layered soundscape and constantly shifting visual worlds create a living landscape where longing and hope breathe side by side. Space and bodies vibrate with untold stories that echo through suspended moments. The work invites audiences to sense what has been lost, what remains, and what is still possible.
SUPERTHING is a place where patience and emptiness open a path towards reimagined futures. Multilayered and contemplative, the work encourages audiences to slow down, notice the unnoticed, and ask how we might learn to dream together again.
The work will receive its Finnish premiere on 8 September in the Erkko Hall at Dance House Helsinki. It will also be performed in Kuopio, the home city of Dance Theatre Minimi, on 24 November at the Minna Stage of Kuopio City Theatre. SUPERTHING had its world premiere in Klaipėda, Lithuania, on 16 April and was performed to sold-out audiences in Vilnius on 18–19 April as part of the New Baltic Dance Festival. This extensive collaboration project marks the beginning of Dance Theatre Minimi’s 35th anniversary season in autumn 2026.
Organiser: Dance Theater Minimi
Trailer
Choreorographers' note
There are silences that tremble at the edge of every story. There are spaces, half-remembered and almost lost, where presence flickers in the folds of absence. Superthing began here, in these in-between places.
What opens up when our narratives no longer bind the future? When our stories, untethered, drift beyond language and memory? We move slowly, sometimes not at all, listening for a pulse, a pause, a breath that signals life in what is missing. We follow traces and shadows, gestures that suggest but do not resolve, bodies that appear and withdraw, choreographies shaped just as much by what does not happen as by what does.
This piece is an invitation to dwell in borders: of the real and the imagined, of togetherness and distance, of sound and its hush. The dancers inhabit a landscape of shifting temporalities where meanings fray and renew themselves in the moment of watching.
We have worked, both impatiently and patiently, toward an art of waiting. We move toward a room where you, too, might notice what isn’t, along with what is. Here, absence becomes weighty and textured – a quiet companion, not an empty void.
We invite you to remain for a while and listen to the stories in the silences.
Credits
Annamari Keskinen
Annamari Keskinen (s. 1985) is a Finnish performer and choreographer. With over 20 years of international experience in the field of performing arts, she has worked across a diverse range of contexts, both as a company dancer in municipal and state theater dance companies in Europe, as well as a freelance artist. Since the founding of Thar Be Dragons 2018, she has choreographed 12 productions, including commissions to municipal and city theaters and pre-professional institutions.
Her choreographies are noted for their poetic vividness, guiding audiences through liminal and dreamlike landscapes, with a strong affective presence. As a director and teacher, Annamari draws upon her extensive performance experience to guide participants through multi-layered processes of research and performance.
Ryan Mason
Ryan Mason (s. 1980) is an Helsinki based American choreographer, performer, and educator with over 15 years of international experience. Ryan began his professional dance career in New York as a company member of the Jose Limon Dance Company and eventually found himself in Europe performing work under the direction of choreographer Johannes Wieland and many others.
His experience as a teacher spans from rehearsal directing for Staatstheater Kassel to guest lecturer at pre-professional institutions in the EU and North America and facilitating workshops in dance festivals. His work relies heavily on intuition and is often characterized by a physical dialogue with objects and an openness to chance, exploring how different mediums, such as human physique, materials, and different environments, interact and shape the artistic process.
Choreography: Annamari Keskinen ja Ryan Mason yhteistyössä esiintyjien kanssa
Performers: Agnija Šeiko, Giedrė Kirkilė, Mantas Stabačinskas, Andrius Katinas, Erika Vizbaraitė, Taneli Törmä ja Ryan Mason
Sound design: Timo Tikka
Set design: Sigita Šimkūnaitė
Costume design: Sandra Straukaitė
Lighting design: Andrius Stasiulis
Production: Dance Theater Minimi, Šeiko Dance Company and Thar Be Dragons
Funding: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Ministry of Education and Culture, City of Kuopio, Ministry of Culture of Lithuania, City of Neringa, City of Klaipėda, Lithuanian Culture Institute
Premiere: 19.4.2026 New Baltic Dance Festival, Vilnius, Liethuania
Ticket information
Early Bird standard ticket 34 € available until 14 June.
Standard ticket | 41 €
Pensioner ticket | 34 €
Discount ticket | 25 € Under 25s, students, unemployed persons, and those completing civilian or military service.
Group ticket | 34 € Minimum 10 people.
Professional ticket | 25 € Dance and theatre professionals.
Please be prepared to present proof of eligibility for the discount.
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