UVENTA takes us into a physical and visual stage experience – a symbiosis of dance, parkour, technology and media. In UVENTA we move between different layers of time and “reality.” With two of the world’s leading parkour artists, a musician, and live video and light projections, the performance guides us through unexpected transitions and displacements between realities – into a surreal, multidimensional in-between space. The audience comes close to the performers. We sense their humanity here and now: they negotiate weight and gravity, search for grip, support each other. They take risks, grow red and exhausted, perch on pipes, climb or fall, balance above the audience. Displacements. The scenography – a massive construction of pipes and clamps – transforms into traveling shadow cities or into streams of pixels and light that engulf the bodies. An invisible structure of networks and connections. The bodies gain unexpected reach and resonance. Multiplying algorithms, staged identities, games, traces, and surveillance – everything becomes fluid and fleeting. The trajectories of parkour within the information network bring us back again – to the performers, to the real bodies, and to what they are astonishingly capable of achieving. It is parkour with extreme physicality yet performed with a minimalist approach. UVENTA allows the audience to be overwhelmed, but also to feel in their own bodies the recognition of risk – and, above all, of play. The performance is aimed at audiences aged 11 and up. It is presented in site-specific locations, outdoor venues, and theatre spaces, with flexible technical requirements, making it accessible to new audience groups who may not usually seek out performing arts.
Swedish-Finnish artist Antero Hein, based in Oslo Norway, works transdisciplinary across choreography, dance, parkour, and video. He challenges the usual dynamics of parkour to create a distinctive stage expression. choreography: Antero Hein, Performers: Nikolai Arnesen & Alex Schauer, composer and musician: Tommy Jansen, photo: Yaniv Cohen