SPRING: Renaissance

Change is always relational; it unfolds through making and remaking connections.

The Renaissance era refers, among other things, to a worldview shaped by anthropocentrism and science. Through a series of evaporations, dissolutions, transitions, and transformations, the needing and feeding bodies of the Renaissance are set against old ideals and proportions that transcend the individual human. While human statues are set in stone, human ideals bleed and leak.

In Renaissance, the audience is invited to surrender to wonder, change, and play—an ode to dreaming and the power of the unknown. The messy alienation, animality, and sexuality of human beings burst through. Bodies become streams or fountains, endlessly gushing forth or bleeding dry. Something is destroyed, while something is born and transformed anew.

WAUHAUS is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary arts collective founded in 2016. Their work moves between different artistic genres and has been presented in a wide range of venues, from galleries and intimate black box theaters to urban spaces, large stadiums, and the main stages of renowned theater houses.

Known for their comprehensive audiovisual aesthetics and collaborative creative process, WAUHAUS consists of scenographers Laura Haapakangas and Samuli Laine, director Juni Klein, sound designers Jussi Matikainen and Heidi Soidinsalo, choreographer Jarkko Partanen, and managing director Julia Hovi.

The performance is supported by The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux as part of the pARTir initiative funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU.