TSC Third Practice nelio Kai Kuusisto
Show photographer Kai Kuusisto

Tero Saarinen Company & Helsinki Baroque Orchestra: Third Practice

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  • Schedule

    Thu 16.3.2023 at 19:00


    Fri 17.3.2023 at 19:00


    Sat 18.3.2023 at 19:00


    Wed 22.3.2023 at 19:00


    Thu 23.3.2023 at 19:00


    Fri 24.3.2023 at 19:00

  • Duration 1 h, no intermission.
  • Audience discussions

    Fri 17.3. and Wed 22.3.


    Right after performances

  • Duration 30 min

Ticket information

Come experience the unique collaboration by Tero Saarinen Company and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra! After multiple pandemic related cancellations, the creation's eagerly awaited Helsinki premiere is finally taking place in the Erkko Hall in March.

Tero Saarinen’s magnum opus explores radical shifts in values and perspectives. Claudio Monteverdi’s revolutionary, breathtakingly beautiful madrigals are incarnated by twelve dancers and musicians, plus tenor Topi Lehtipuu and virtual soprano Núria Rial.

“I am interested in the way that, right now, we are having to recalibrate our existence and to rethink our humanity: our relationship to the world, to its changes and its history. At turning points there is always a chance of finding but sadly also of forgetting something. What inspires and touches me is the character of Monteverdi’s music, which was revolutionary in its time and which demands skill, while also being free-flowing and intimate. Amid the tumult of the world the Renaissance values that resonate in the Madrigals seem to be perpetually relevant as a way of anchoring ourselves. On the other hand, just as the composer once did with his newly created Seconda prattica, I too seek a new kind of expression – a third practice – in my choreography.”
Tero Saarinen

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Audience discussions 17.3. and 22.3. right after performances until 20.30.

See Tero Saarinen Company’s full Dance House Helsinki programme: terosaarinen.com

Ticket information

Standard tickets | A 62€ – B 49€ – C 38€
Discount tickets | Under 25, Students, Unemployed, Civil Servants, Conscripts | B 22€ – C 16€
Pensioners |
A 59€ – B 46€ – C 35€
Groups |
15+ pax A 59€ – B 46€ – C 35€

Discounts can not be combined with offers.

With a serial card you get a -10% discount when you buy tickets for two or more performances at the same time!

Pay What You Can | A small number of "Pay What You Can" tickets are also on sale for all Dance House Helsinki's own productions as well as for Zodiak and TSC productions. PWYC tickets for Third Practice are available at the Cable Factory's info point and here.

Please check the terms and conditions of the Tero Saarinen Company ticket sales here. For all ticketing enquiries, please contact tickets@terosaarinen.com.

Note: The stand in Erkko Hall rises steeply and there is no lift to the upper section. Only the first row seats are fully accessible. For people with reduced mobility, we recommend buying a seat in the first row.

An ambitious union of dance and music — Unforgettable moment

— HELSINGIN SANOMAT, 2019

Sophisticated — Fluidity and lightness required by the baroque era, transposed into Western contemporary discipline

— LA PROVINCIA DI CREMONA (ITALIA), 2019

A total artwork — Magic

— HUFVUDSTADSBLADET, 2019

Choreography & Concept

Tero Saarinen

Music

Claudio Monteverdi

Music direction, Arrangement

Aapo Häkkinen

Lighting design

Eero Auvinen

Tampereen Työväen Teatteri

Projection design

Thomas Freundlich

Costume design

Erika Turunen


Sound design

Marco Melchior

Choreographer’s Assistants

Henrikki Heikkilä, Satu Halttunen

Tenor

Topi Lehtipuu

Virtual soprano

Núria Rial

Dance: Tero Saarinen Company

Elina Häyrynen, Annika Hyvärinen, Oskari Kymäläinen, Mikko Lampinen, Natasha Lommi, David Scarantino, Emmi Pennanen (understudy)

Musicians | Helsinki Baroque Orchestra

Aapo Häkkinen

harpsichord

Hanna Haapamäki

recorder

Aira Maria Lehtipuu

violin

Eero Palviainen

theorbo

Heidi Peltoniemi

viola da gamba

Tuomo Suni

violin

Premiere

29 May, 2019, Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli, Rassegna di Danza & Festival Monteverdi, Cremona, Italy

Production

Tero Saarinen Company in collaboration with Fondazione Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli (Italy) Rassegna di Danza & Festival Monteverdi (Fondazione Teatro A. Ponchielli, Cremona, Italy), ATER – Associazione Teatrale Emilia Romagna (Italy), Kuopio Dance Festival (Finland), Stoa (Finland), the Finnish National Theatre and TTT-Theatre (Finland)

Simultaneously in the 17th century, the present and the future — tenor Topi Lehtipuu’s multifaceted expression was gripping

— RONDO, 2019

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