Dance Legacy Reset Camp
EVENT WEEK INFO
14.-18.4.2026
Studio Stage
Event pass for sale for 40€ – with one ticket you get access to all performances during the week. Alternatively, you can buy tickets separately to an individual performance.
The performance space is accessible by wheel chair. An assistant accompanying a wheelchair user is admitted free of charge. Please reserve seats by email: liput@konepajannayttamo.fi
Deeds and discussions about the postmodern dance tradition and its future
Dance Legacy Reset Camp is a week-long event that brings contemporary dance to the new Stage Konepaja in Helsinki. The international programme will recall, question, remix and reframe the history of contemporary dance through performances, workshops and discussions. Built on the ethos of a camp-like process of doing and experiencing together, the event brings together dance artists from different generations and offers programme for both professionals and general audiences. The event is part of Liisa Pentti’s 40th anniversary as an artist.
schedule
Tuesday 14 April
10.00–13.00 Peter Pleyer’s Master Class (full)
At Liisa Pentti +Co Studio.
17.30–17.45 Liisa Pentti: Opening
Free entry
17.45–18.30 Kirsi Monni’s keynote: Some remarks on the (hidden?) legacies of the postmodern in contemporary dance
Free entry
What are those features and innovations that the postmodern in dance brought forth, and how are they resonating today, if at all? And what were those art theoretical debates and philosophical discourses that surrounded and enabled these innovations? How do the traces of postmodern thoughts in dance surface today or have they been buried under the developmental steps of dance history?
19.00–20.30 Bardo Ensemble: Förlösa
Tickets € 28–12
Yvonne Rainer, a 90-year-old choreographer from San Francisco, and Audhumbla, the mythical cow from ancient times, are lying in a maternity ward.
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Yvonne, who has given birth to new dance forms but never a child, and Audhumbla, who created the world’s first god by licking a stone, lie in the same ward, heavily pregnant and about to give birth. But what is it that’s about to be born?
In Förlösa, Bardo Ensemble invites the audience to philosophise and fantasise about birth in an absurd and playful way. When and how did we come into being? Does the soul exist, and if so, what is it?
Age recommendation: 15+
Language: swedish
Actors: Sara Gallardo & Klara Wenner Tångring
Musicians: Karin Johansson & PerViktor Hjalmarsson
Director: Klara Wenner Tångring
Scenographer and performance artist: Mauritz Tistelö
Thank you: Catherine Parment & Liisa Pentti
Production: Bardo Ensemble & Ögonblicksteatern
20:30–21:00 Artist Talk: Förlösa
Free entry
The artistic team of Förlösa in discussion with Liisa Pentti. The discussion will be held in English.
Wednesday 15 April
10.00–13.00 Peter Pleyer’s Master Class (full)
At Liisa Pentti +Co Studio.
18.00–19.00 Silke Z. & Liisa Pentti: The Ageing Body Pro Series #1
Tickets € 28–12
The Ageing Body Pro Series #1 is the first part in a series of dance performances dedicated to the professional challenges and particularities of female freelance dance artists in the context of ageing.
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In dialogue with choreographer Silke Z., Liisa Pentti confronts her artistic identity and the process of ageing on stage. Together they reflect on their past and present experiences, such as the need to balance artistic autonomy with earning a living as well as the physical demands and the role they play in the ageing process.
Using dance techniques to approach their questions from biographical and social perspectives, Silke and Liisa ask: Which experiences in their professional careers have been or continue to be formative? What power relations have they experienced, helped shape, endured and dismantled as women? What role does ageing play in this?
The Ageing Body Pro Series brings active professional female dancers, aged over 60 and from a variety of nationalities and dance backgrounds, to the stage, highlighting their journeys and histories and providing the audience with an accessible insight into dance creation processes.
Language: english
Performance & choreography: Liisa Pentti
Concept & choreography: Silke Z.
Sound design: Silke Z.
Lighting design: Kauri Klemelä
Production: Liisa Pentti +Co, Silke Z./resistdance
Residency: C O L O N Y winter dance summit ’26 / Low Air Vilnius City Dance Theatre
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
19.00–20.00 Artist Talk: The Ageing Body Pro Series #1
Free entry
Liisa Pentti and Maija Reeta Raumanni discuss their artistic paths with their German colleagues Silke Z. and Peter Pleyer. All four share a background of studying at the Dutch schools SNDO and EDDC, which helped reshape and challenge the field of European dance education. What kind of mark has this background left on their artistic thinking and ways of working? Led by Mary Prestidge. The Discussion will be held in English.
Thursday 16 April
10.00–13.00 Peter Pleyer’s Master Class (full)
At Liisa Pentti +Co Studio.
16.00–17.30 Discussion: The Other Reality of Dance
Free entry
What kinds of visions, hopes and nightmares does our time give rise to about the future of dance and the place of art and dance in the world? The discussion brings together Mikael Aaltonen, Laura Jantunen, Eeva Muilu, Peter Pleyer and Mary Prestidge. Led by Virve Sutinen. The discussion will be held in English.
18.00–19.00 Elina Pirinen, Tom Rejström & Jenni-Elina von Bagh: Quattro Stagioni
Tickets € 28–12
Quattro Stagioni is a four-part theatrical pizza baked by dance artist Elina Pirinen, theatre artist Tom Rejström and dance artist Jenni-Elina von Bagh.
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It brings together vivacious and refined flavors, the troubling swings of the seasons, pastoral farce, family and nature relations, neoclassism and old modernism, ruthless composition, cheeky characterisations, overflowing speech and austere attitudes, grand beautiful dance, a character named Spring, the rhythm and dislocation of four-part form, the empty pockets of Granny and Grandpa, summer wind, and the craft of expression.
Each author signs a slice of the pizza, haphazardly mashing their creative desires into the Vivaldian cycle. The agony of creation helps with the agony of the world. One season is dedicated to 14-year-old Olavi von Bagh and his vision. As these four artists collect their thoughts, knowledge, visions, experiences, practices and politics, and as deeply intertwined artistic currents and chemistries merge with a topographical quadruple perspective, a new, impossible mutation is born. At Stage Konepaja lives a shared dream of the four seasons – something for everyone and nothing for no one.
Language: English, Finnish, Italian
Concept, direction, choreographic practice, performance, texts, costume, and materials:
Jenni-Elina von Bagh, Elina Pirinen, Tom Rejström
Adolescent artist: Olavi von Bagh
Composition and sound design: Linda Lazarov
Light design: Rasmus Strandell
Production: Libidian Wonders
Residencies: Teisko Radicalization, Wild Horses Atelier
Supported by: City of Helsinki, Otto A. Malms Donationsfond, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
In collaboration with: Föreningen Brage i Helsingfors r.f
Heartfelt thanks to: Lauri Lundahl, Oscar Fagerudd, Kalle Ropponen, Yusuke Takaoki
Friday 17 April
10.00–13.00 Peter Pleyer’s Master Class (full)
At Liisa Pentti +Co Studio.
15.00–20.00 Post-Postmodern Open Stage
Free entry
Postmodern dance deconstructed representation, spectacle and virtuosity. It brought everyday movement, function, structure and concept onto the stage. But what happens when the deconstruction itself becomes a tradition? What kind of relationship does dance now build with time, space, audience and history?
Post-Postmodern Open Stage invites five dance artists to suggest a deed, idea, gesture or performative opening. This is a space where performance and discussion intertwine. The artist discussions are led by dance artist Johanna Karlberg.
On stage: Suvi Kemppainen, Chen Nadler + three other dance artists whose names will be published later this spring
In conversation: Johanna Karlberg
The event’s exact schedule will be published in the beginning of April.
Sat 18 April
15.00–15.45 Artist Talk: Quattro Stagioni
Free entry
The artistic team of Quattro Stagioni in discussion with Johanna Karlberg. The discussion will be held in English.
16.00–17.15 Peter Pleyer & working group: VIEW.POINT.MARY (demo)
Tickets € 10 / 6
Twelve performing arts professionals have been working for four days on the theory and practice of Mary Overlie’s SIX VIEWPOINTS method. Under the direction of Berlin-based choreographer Peter Pleyer, these artists will present a unique demo version of VIEW.POINT.MARY, a piece by Cranky Bodies a/company…
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…that premiered at Berlin’s DOCK 11 in November 2024.
In this version of VIEW.POINT.MARY we celebrate the work of Mary Overlie, an original anarchist of postmodern dance. In an installative performance, the dancers articulate her SIX VIEWPOINTS (Space, Shape, Time, Movement, Emotion/Presence and Story/Logic) in various ways. Different floor patterns and spaces are created and filled with solos, duos, and group scores. Her legendary horizontal laboratory, where all the SIX VIEWPOINTS are explored with even value, is now created in the landscape of Stage Konepaja.
Language: non-verbal, introduction in English
Performers: TBC
Director and course leader: Peter Pleyer
17.15–18.45 Artist Talk: VIEW.POINT.MARY
Free entry
18.45– Postmodern afterparty
Free entry
