Dance performance “Care” Helena Krinal & United Dancers of Zuga
Director and choreographer: Helena Krinal
Dancers: Ajjar Ausma, Helen Reitsnik, Tiina Mölder
Composer: Liis Ring
Designer: Marta Konovalov
Lighting Designer: Reelika Palk
Graphic Design: Kadi Aare
Production and technical implementation: Eesti Tantsuagentuur (Estonian Dance Agency)
Duration: 50 minutes
Premiere: September 21, 2024 at the Estonian Dance Agency Theater Hall (Hobujaama 12, Tallinn)
Throughout our lives, we all care for someone or are cared for. Sometimes it's so hard, taking care of someone. And then it's so hard when no one needs our care anymore. Not to mention how hard it is to give yourself into someone else's care. And despite all this, there is so much love in caring, providing care, and being cared for. Love that elevates us and offers redemption for past mistakes. Care carries us through life, from birth to death.
The dance performance "Care" focuses on how difficult, easy, depressing, and uplifting it is to care for someone else.
The collaboration between Zuga and Helena Krinal, which started by chance, turned out to be so interesting and enriching for both parties that they have now been researching and creating together for six years and have reached their third performance - "Care". Previously, they created "Noise" (2019) and "Shame" (2021). "Noise" was nominated for the Estonian Theatre Award in the dance performance category in 2020.
Helena Krinal is an Estonian-Palestinian artist who is interested in the physical exploration of being human, recreating and expressing behavioral situations through physical sensation in a performative context. The goal is not to demonstrate these mechanisms (whether it's shame, guilt, or insecurity), moralize, or illustrate anything, but to physically transmit this physical feeling to the audience.
Zuga United Dancers is an association of dancers and choreographers that has been active since 1999. They have been invited to perform in many countries and have received several theater and dance awards for their work over the years.
Performances at the Estonian Dance Agency Theater Hall (Hobujaama 12, Tallinn):
21.09.2024 at 7pm (PREMIERE)
22.09.2024 at 6pm
27.09.2024 at 7pm
28.09.2024 at 7pm
29.09.2024 at 6pm
01.12.2024 at 6pm
02.12.2024 at 12pm
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Estonian Centre of Folk Culture, Pakenditööstus, SPARSE Plus, Creative Europe
Led by the Estonian Dance Agency and local cultural organizers, TantsuMENÜÜ brings dance performances all over Estonia.