Hanna Kritten Tangsoo, Sigrid Savi, Sunayana Shetty "Three women walk into a bar..."
Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn
A woman is walking down the street. It’s still too early to say what’s going to happen later in the story. Neither the background nor foreground is in focus – it’s undoubtedly a foggy day.
The wind blows hair into your face, it gets stuck in your wet mouth. You stretch out your hand and wipe it away with your sleeve. Although I might have a tissue. Is this a ketchup stain?
I notice my socks have rolled completely down. I see you are in a hurry. You have two seemingly heavy bags on your shoulders and your jacket is wide open. I assume you are sweating but I cannot know for sure. There’s plenty of water for everyone. Suddenly I feel the shoulder pads of my jacket absorb all the rain and increasingly double in size over time. My bad. I never said Sorry. I am an object of ambition. But first I need to lie down for a minute. How is construction work always so synced with my cramps?
Or, hang on now, we need to be thinking about the progression. I have three options but none of them is really a choice. Let's start with a quiet sneeze. I'm aware of the risks associated. Everything has suddenly gotten very slow and many possibilities have drifted in the void. Sometimes, though, turbulence can occur out of the blue. Its comfortable shape gives you the best of both worlds.
A rat seems to be wandering around an alleyway, zoning out in the middle of the crosswalk, but I don’t want to pay too much attention to that. On the other side of the slightly open window, a choir is practicing a song, stumbling over a verse again and again while redefining harmony. Someone nearby is yelling at the broken streetlight and you can’t get a hold of your fear and curiosity. In a few hours it will be dark. There's a guy at the meeting who's been preparing for it, as if it were a stand-up set. The alleged audience is timid, someone is flushing the toilet. They missed the moment he appeared, but got a good look at him leaving.
Meanwhile, several buses will have arrived and left. The bakeries have stopped baking, there is a line at every grocery shop and the window across the street will probably be closed. You will be wearing a warmer jacket. I will be on my way home. The bartender will be silently watching the news under the counter and three women will walk into a bar…
Sunayana Shetty (IND/DE), is a dancer, choreographer and educator based in Berlin. Her choreographic practice looks into the temporal nature of emotions: how they are constructed and inform behavior. She roots her work in building performative states, merging different narratives and creating intimate spaces between the audience and the performer. Sunayana has completed her Bachelor in Dance, Context, Choreography from the HZT Berlin in 2018.
In 2020, Sunayana and Aabshaar Wakhloo co-curated the AMONG US Platform, an initiative to tap into the joy and importance of sharing dance, movement with dancers and non-dancers alike. Since 2018, she has shown her works in venues at Berlin, Lithuania, New York, Mumbai among others. She continues to work as a choreographer/performer with artists across Europe and India.
Sigrid Savi is a choreographer from Estonia, based in Berlin. She graduated in choreography in Viljandi Culture Academy in 2015. In her works she has been experimenting with ways of symbolistic storytelling, utilizing absurd humor to try and make some sense out of things.
She toured with her first solo piece "Imagine There's a Fish" in Berlin, Hammerfest and Glasgow among many other festivals. Savi presented her second solo piece "Pushing Daisies" at the International Festival of Performing Arts SAAL Biennaal 2019. She has performed her work "not this pillow fight" in New York at Panoply Performance Lab and in Berlin at Grüntaler 9. Her collaboration work "COWBODY/ Oh wow, it's you!" with Hanna Kritten Tangsoo was on Tanzfabrik Berlin 2023 program.
Hanna Kritten Tangsoo is an Estonian choreographer and lighting designer based in Berlin, Germany. She graduated from HZT Berlin in 2017 with a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography. Since 2017, she has been working as a freelance artist at the intersection of lighting design and dance. Hanna Kritten began her master's studies in Stage Design and Scenic Space at TU Berlin in 2025.
Choreography, performance: Hanna Kritten Tangsoo, Sigrid Savi, Sunayana Shetty
Music, Sound design: Markus Daßau
Set design: Riin Maide
Lighting design: Hanna Kritten Tangsoo
Dramaturgy: Jen Rosenblit
Text support: Heneliis Notton
Production management: Eneli Järs
Co-produced by: Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Hanna Kritten Tangsoo, Sigrid Savi, Sunayana Shetty
Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Duration: 60’
In English
Kanuti Gildi SAAL • Pikk 20, 10133 Tallinn, Harju, Estonia
