Sveta Grigorjeva "FIRESTARTERS"

Under the steady hand of Sveta Grigorjeva a timeless spectacle of FIRESTARTERS will come to life on the stage of Kanuti Gildi SAAL.
FIRESTARTERS are tricksters, erotic body hackers, mindbenders, supermanifesters of a better world but also the catalysts of decline. FIRESTARTERS take lead from radical cheerleading, from militant search for joy, from the motivational discourse of the neoliberal world and turn all of it upside down. Are they good guys or bad guys? Is this an attempt to shake up the status quo or just a carnival of capitalism? You decide!

FIRESTARTERS are dreamers. FIRESTARTERS spark desires. FIRESTARTERS is a protest in the form of dance. FIRESTARTERS is an invitation to be sensitively radical and radically expressive. FIRESTARTERS will set themselves on fire. FIRESTARTERS will set you on fire. FIRESTARTERS will get you higher.

Sveta Grigorjeva is an Estonian choreographer, dancer, poet and critic. She has published three poetry collections “who is afraid of sveta grigorjeva” (2013), “American beauty” (2018) and "Frankenstein" (2023). Her stage productions include “TEKHNE“ (2017), “FAKERZ“ (2021) and "Dances to Dream, Res(is)t and Sleep to" (2023) which won the best dance award in Estonia in 2024. As an artist, she is interested in the Spinoza-influenced belief that we do not know yet what the body can do and the subversive nature and potential of the expressive body and text. In autumn 2022 she finished her second MA at the Justus Liebig-Universität in Giessen, Germany and started her doctorate at Estonian Music- and Theatre Academy in 2023.

Creation and dramaturgy: Sveta Grigorjeva
On stage: Siim Tõniste, Üüve-Lydia Toompere, Katrin Kreutzberg, Alissija-Elisabet Jevtjukova, Johhan Rosenberg, Sveta Grigorjeva, Dracaena
Scenography: Mara Kirchberg with Marko Odar
Dramaturgical support: Kerli Ever and the whole team
Sound design: Martin Kirsiste
Lighting design: Sebastian Talmar
Technical solutions: Marko Odar
Grillz: Liisbeth Kirss
Rigging: Margus Terasmees


Co-production: Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Sveta Grigorjeva
Supported by: Estonian Cultural Endowment, city of Tallinn, Hertwill, Nevi Reklaamtrükk, criticaldance.org, Uuskasutuskeskus


Premiere: 8.10.2024, Kanuti Gildi SAAL


In Estonian, with sign language translation
Duration: 70´

Performances on 8.10 and 14.10 have live translation.
Performances on 10.10, 11.10 and 15.10 have translation on video.

The perfomance on 14.10 is followed by an artist talk led by Maarin Mürk.