Tsuumi Dance Theatre & Metamorfoosi: TRUST
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Date
15.4-16.4.2026
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Duration
1 H 45 min (no intermission)
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Venue
Erkko Hall
Show times
Wed 15.4.2026 at 13.00 (Art Testers performance)
Thu 16.4.2026 at 13.00 (Art Testers performance)
Thu 16.4.2026 at 18.30
Language
The performance is in Finnish & English.
Subtitles in English via app.
Please note
Strong flashing lights, theatrical smoke, and loud music are being used in the performance.
Subtitles in English
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About the work
What do we trust in – and what happens when that trust is shaken?
TRUST examines life in a world where people build their relationships and identities amidst uncertainty, economic crises, and global upheavals.
The work highlights themes of trust in relation to economic systems, technology, loved ones, and ourselves, and asks how we can truly trust anything today.
TRUST is a fast-paced dance theater piece in which the movements, speech, and music of five performers and a musician intertwine into a single scenic tapestry.
TRUST offers the viewer the opportunity to experience the work not only intellectually but also through physical sensations: what do the movements, lines, and images evoke in the body, and what kinds of feelings, memories, and questions do they raise?
Based on the preview, the performers’ movements and the punchy text have been synchronized in an almost hypnotic way.
– Tuomas Rantanen, Voima 3.9.2025
TRUST is based on a play written in 2008 by German playwright and director Falk Richter, which was created in the midst of the financial crisis. Richter’s theater is not content with depicting the private sphere, but brings society to the stage.
When corrupt bankers were allowed to continue, it undermined confidence in the entire political system. I explored (in Trust) how that atmosphere was also reflected in interpersonal relationships.
– Falk Richter, Helsingin Sanomat 4.6.2025
The interpretation by Tsuumi Dance Theater and Theater Metamorphosis brings TRUST to the present day, when trust in institutions, people, and the future feels more fragile than ever.
Falk Richter
Falk Richter (*1969, Hamburg) is considered one of the most important contemporary theater directors and playwrights. Since 1994 he has worked at many renowned national and international theaters such as the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Schaubühne Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater, Hamburg State Opera, Nationaltheater Oslo, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Théâtre National de Bruxelles, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Festival and the Festival d'Avignon.
His most famous and successful texts include GOD IS A DJ, ELECTRONIC CITY, UNTER EIS and TRUST. His pieces, which are highly topical, are available in more than 30 languages and are performed worldwide. In recent years he has increasingly developed free projects based on his own texts together with an ensemble of actors, musicians and dancers. With choreographer Anouk van Dijk he developed several dance theater projects, which in their special combination of text, dance and music founded a new aesthetic form. Their joint productions NOTHING HURTS, TRUST, PROTECT ME, RAUSCH and COMPLEXITY OF BELONGING have toured with great international success.
In 2013, he won the Friedrich Luft Prize for his music-dance-theater production FOR THE DISCONNECTED CHILD, which premiered at the Schaubühne Berlin in cooperation with the Staatsoper in the Schillertheater. In 2014 he celebrated a highly acclaimed premiere
with his piece SMALL TOWN BOY at the Maxim Gorki Theater and founded his collaboration with choreographer Nir de Volff at the Schaubühne with the production NEVER FOREVER.
In August 2018, Richter was voted "Director of the Year" in the critics' survey conducted by the trade journal Theater heute for his production of Elfriede Jelinek's AM KÖNIGSWEG. In 2020, he was nominated for the Mülheim Drama Prize with his celebrated production IN MY ROOM, which he directed at the Maxim Gorki Theater. Richter teaches directing as a visiting professor at the renowned Ernst Busch School in Berlin and has been in-house director at the Munich Kammerspiele since the 2020/2021 season, where his most recent collaboration with Anouk van Dijk with TOUCH ensured a brilliant start to the new directorship.
From the audience
A visual ORGASM! Every sound and every single song was just perfection. There was so much to observe, I love it!
Contemporary, captivating, visually impressive… catchy music, interesting themes.
As a millennial and a child of the recession, living through the rush years, it really resonated with me! The body language was compelling… The group’s unison recitations were like modern prayers and capitalism as a religion.
Thank you so much! Intense, thought-provoking, dystopian in a good way!
Artistic team
Performers: Salla Korja, Anna Kuusamo, Leena Nordberg, Miro Puranen, Sofia Smeds
Musician: Joonas Outakoski
Direction, dramaturgy, choreography: Davide Giovanzana, Samuli Nordberg
Assistant director: Asko Halonen
Lighting and video design: Ilari Kallinen
Costume and set design: Mirkka Nyrhinen
Sewer: Jenni Nykänen
Assistant sewer: Päivi Pursiainen
Metalwork: Lavasteverstas graniitti Oy
Sound design, music, and composition: Joonas Outakoski
Sound engineering: Joonas Outakoski & Katri Antikainen
Media and video dramaturgy: Asko Halonen
Text: Falk Richter
Finnish translation: Maria Peura
English subtitles: Maja Zade
Marketing videos and photos: Kim Saarinen
Production
Tsuumi Dance Theatre: Salla Korja, Minna Rouni, Heidi Yli-Yrjänäinen, Alli Mattila, Essi Brunberg
Teatteri Metamorfoosi: Luc Gerardin, Eveliina Aaltonen, Laura Kangasniemi
The rights to the performance are controlled by Nordic Drama Corner
Tsuumi Dance Theater is supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the City of Helsinki.
Teatteri Metamorfoosi is supported by the Arts Promotion Center Finland and the City of Helsinki.
Thank you
The staff of Dance House Helsinki, Teatterimonttu, Dance Theater Raatikko, Performance Sirkus, and Liisa Pentti & Co.
NÄTY
Tampereen Työväen Teatteri
Klockricketeatern
Test audiences at Raatikko
Goethe-Institut Finnland, Laura Åkerlund
City of Vantaa
Pietu Pietiäinen
Elina Hjelt
Scantarp
Alma Nordberg
Julianne Mikkonen
Pigga Filenius
Satu Pieski
All those who supported the rehearsal and production process of the performance
Upcoming
International Dance Day with Tsuumi Dance Theatre and KokoTeatteriTo celebrate the International Dance Day, Tsuumi Dance Theatre and KokoTeatteri are hosting an evening filled with dance at KokoTeatteri's locale on April 29, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Come celebrate dance with us!