Author and choreographer: Sigrid Savi
Light design: Rommi Ruttas
Dancers: Hanna Junti, Pääsu-Liis Kens, Maryn-Liis Rüütelmaa, Elle Viies
Co-production: BETA black box
Support: Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Duration: 45 min
TROPICS is a fragmented dance performance amused by the modern constructed culture of comfort. Astounding hospitality and a somewhat sterile atmosphere create an existential space. A physical reduction to increasingly primitive forms of life and forces of nature occur.
Through an emphatically relaxing environment and an over-the-top resort vibe, we witness an arrival at a tropical primordial soup, where basic needs, abundance and – if they still exist at all – authentic desires are reinterpreted. Relaxation and fulfillment are achieved through responsible destruction – with placid indifference. Symbols indicated a culture of pleasure and mindfulness. Turquoise blue, golden salon lighting, elevator music, noise and forcefully content bodies.
Relax, don’t do it
if you want to
Sigrid Savi is a freelance performance artist working in Berlin and Tallinn. Her most recent productions are “COWBODY” (with Hanna Kritten Tangsoo) at the Kanuti Gildi SAAL and “rumours and ruins” (with Valeria Januškevitš, Keity Pook and Kadri Sirel) at STL. “COWBODY” was also nominated for the Estonian Theater Awards in the category of dance and performing arts in 2023. The performers Elle Viies and Maryn-Liis Rüütelmaa are newly graduated choreographers from the University of Tartu Viljandi Academy of Culture. Hanna Junti and Pääsu-Liis Kens have both studied in London, Junti movement management and Kens contemporary dance.
