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Helsinki Dance Company and internationally acclaimed Hungarian choreographer Adrienn Hód invite the audience on a unique movement-based exploration of the human body and mind.

Known for his innovative works, Hód challenges cultural boundaries with the aim of freeing the body from the grip of taboos and prejudices. For Hódi, the stage is a playground for dance and dramaturgical solutions, where countless opportunities for interaction and connection are created between the performers and the audience.

At the heart of Project No. 2191 is the knowledge carried by the performers in their bodies. Through long guided improvisation rehearsals, HDC’s brilliant dancers bring their own “bodily archives” to the stage. Individual performance and movement qualities, histories, desires and fears open up to the audience by asking:

What history do we carry in our bodies?

How individual are our experiences?

How does passion come about?

What drives us forward?

How can we make room for the present?

The work appears as a radical play guided by intuition, which also resonates in the viewer’s body, inspiring, challenging and surprising. The dancers and the creative team stretch the boundaries of dance and explore the depths of human expression. In the words of Adrienn Hód: “In the performance, humanity takes place in front of people.”

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Helsinki Dance Company and internationally acclaimed Hungarian choreographer Adrienn Hód invite the audience on a unique exploration of the human body and spirit.

Known for her innovative works, Hód challenges cultural boundaries, striving to liberate the person and the body from taboos and prejudices. Hód approaches the stage as a playground, constantly discovering new dance forms and dramaturgical principles. She seeks new ways to create connections between performers and spectators.

In her work Project No. 2191, she focuses on the performers’ bodies as a form of archive. Through long sessions of guided improvisations during the creative process, HDC’s radiant dancers bring in their diverse professional knowledge and histories, their own interests, drives, individual performance and movement qualities. A self-reflective performance emerges from these and touches on questions such as: Who are these seven dancers now? What histories are inscribed in their bodies? What does it mean to dance at different stages of life? What drives them? Where does their passion lie? What does movement give them personally? Can freedom be experienced within the structures of theatre? Can we maintain dance as a live, ephemeral art form that exists only in the moment? Can we give space to the present?

The piece unfolds to the viewer as a radical field of play, leading to unexpected discoveries, like moving through a labyrinth guided by energy and intuition. It inspires, challenges, and transforms the spectator. Together, the creative team and dancers push the boundaries of dance and explore the depths of human expression. Or as Hód describes it, “people happening in front of other people”.

 

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