Productions

Fine5 Dance Theatre's new production "TO TRAVEL IN EACH OTHER'S LIVES" consists of two different parts: "Show Me the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven" and "QUARTETS"

"Show Me the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven"

Author, choreographer and performer Marta Jamsja
Sound Designer Israel Bañuelos

The first solo "Show Me the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven" is a joint creation of Marta Jamsja and Israel Bañuelos, which is a story of transformation.

Amidst the fog and darkness, Marta meets Ophelia in her last breaths as she prepares to leave this world. Shakespeare thought that the conflicts between the groom (Hamlet) and the father are unbearable for Ophelia. Oh, how he misjudged her character.

In this production, the dancer gives herself the opportunity to be as honest, as real and as wild as one can really be. In this hazy experience, the souls of Marta and Ophelia meet to wander each other's lives and dream of a better future.

Marta Jamsja majored in choreography at Tallinn University (2019) and is currently finishing the dance major at the Antwerp State Conservatory. The performance "Show me the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven" was created in Antwerp.

"QUARTETS"

Author and choreographer Rosanna Gamson (USA)
Dancers Tiina Ollesk, Anita Kurõljova, Helen Reitsnik, Simo Kruusement, Endro Roosimäe, Richard Beljohin

The second part of the evening "QUARTETS" is the first collaboration between US choreographer Rosanna Gamson and Fine5 Dance Theatre.

Choreographer Rosanna Gamson's project QUARTETS is inspired by Olivier Messiaen's well-known "Quartet for the End of Time". Messiaen's work was premiered in 1941 at the Stalag POW camp in Silesia, where the composer was a prisoner. The quartet's instrumentation was determined by the instruments at hand and the performers. The music refers to the Book of Revelation and the angels announcing the end of the world.

In our present dark age, Gamson imagines modern angels as tired and abandoned clowns, urgently warning people who no longer hear them. Gamson and Messiaen's innovative and resonant work aims to find hope, resilience and inspiration even in the darkest of times.
Gamson directs different parts of Messiaen's work in different parts of the world: the first part of the work was premiered in the choreographer's hometown in Los Angeles, while the next part was commissioned by, for example, the prestigious dance company Contradanza in Mexico City. This fall, Gamson will choreograph two parts of the "Quartet" with Fine5 Dance Theater in Tallinn.

Support: Cultural Endowment of Estonia