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Come experience the unique collaboration by Tero Saarinen Company and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra! After multiple pandemic related cancellations, the creation's eagerly awaited Helsinki premiere is finally taking place in the Erkko Hall in March.

Tero Saarinen’s magnum opus explores radical shifts in values and perspectives. Claudio Monteverdi’s revolutionary, breathtakingly beautiful madrigals are incarnated by twelve dancers and musicians, plus tenor Topi Lehtipuu and virtual soprano Núria Rial.

“I am interested in the way that, right now, we are having to recalibrate our existence and to rethink our humanity: our relationship to the world, to its changes and its history. At turning points there is always a chance of finding but sadly also of forgetting something. What inspires and touches me is the character of Monteverdi’s music, which was revolutionary in its time and which demands skill, while also being free-flowing and intimate. Amid the tumult of the world the Renaissance values that resonate in the Madrigals seem to be perpetually relevant as a way of anchoring ourselves. On the other hand, just as the composer once did with his newly created Seconda prattica, I too seek a new kind of expression – a third practice – in my choreography.”
– Tero Saarinen

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Audience discussions 17.3. and 22.3. right after performances until 20.30.

See Tero Saarinen Company’s full Dance House Helsinki programme: terosaarinen.com