Laura Jantunen: ympyrät, jotka kuvittelevat olevansa viivoja
pe 10.4.
|Zodiak
Our second collaboration with choreographer Laura Jantunen gets 9 performances at Zodiak Helsinki this spring.
Time & Location
10.4.2026 klo 19.00 – 20.00
Zodiak, Tallberginkatu 1B, 00180 Helsinki, Finland
About the event
Multidisciplinary artist and choreographer Laura Jantunen's new work examines disorientation as a creative, revitalising force.
Laura Jantunen’s ympyrät, jotka kuvittelevat olevansa viivoja (circles that imagine they are lines) combines dance and contemporary music to explore disorientation as a transient, everyday bodily phenomenon. It’s a gentle, playful rebellion against conservatism and our longing for permanence.
The work dwells in a state of constant change, inviting us to embrace unsteadiness rather than cling to stability and safety. What if the corporeal experience of disorientation were the very foundation of our existence and the key to navigating perpetual uncertainty?
Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology (2006), the work treats disorientation as a creative space that opens new perspectives on our time and its crises. On stage, the recognisable and unrecognisable, the placed and displaced, the known and unknown appear simultaneously – generating wavering, contradictory moments that constantly seek their form. Here, confusion isn’t about being lost: it’s…