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URB 26 festival Biret Haarla Pieski: Main Character

A Dance performance takes the audience to Sinne gallery.

Main Character is a dance performance that explores the everyday experience of being watched in public space. It invites us to look more closely at the distinctive choreography of everyday movements as they intertwine with a subtle yet powerful soundscape, gradually transforming reality into fiction. At the same time, the piece makes us aware of the power inherent in looking—or choosing not to look—even when our gaze appears free to wander. On stage, small fragments of ordinary movements encounter the vastness of one’s inner world, beginning to grow into something larger, something unnameable.

The piece follows people walking through the streets, appearing as the main characters of their own lives – supposedly the main characters of this world. Slowly, the head begins to disappear, the body falls apart, and the spirit sets free. Gazes are exchanged, met, and released. Main Character explores human responsibility in relation to this world and, perhaps, rewrites the role of our species.

Tickets 5 €

Concept and choreography: Biret Haarla Pieski
Performance and choreographic collaboration: Raul Aranha, Satu Herrala, Ching Shu Huang, Esete Sutinen, Biret Haarla Pieski
Composition and sound design: Hayden Dean
Costume design: Teo Paaer
Outside Eye: Esete Sutinen

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