LMF. Deep Time. Dance show by Virpi Pahkinen

In her childhood, Virpi Pahkinen, growing up in the middle of Finland, studied classical music, while in her teenage years she became a fan of figure skating. The Stockholm-based artist is known as one of the most prominent Nordic dancers and choreographers today - the winner of several competitions has performed in 45 countries with great success, dancing on stages of famous opera houses and in unusual places - Mongolian steppes and on rafts, participated in various cinema and theatre art projects, including collaboration with the legendary director Ingmar Bergman.

Virpi Pahkinen visits Liepaja Art Forum with her own staged dance performance "Deep Time", which premiered in Sweden two years ago. The creative team of the project plays archetypal images and balances between calm reflection and an explosive flow of energy, striving to build bridges between antiquity and bold future visions. The sound score of Jonas Sjöbloms marks the voices of bats; primitive rhythms echo with medieval melodies and grow into an intensely pulsating techno wave. In the choreography of Virpi Pahkinen, subtle humour is intertwined with alarming peace. And dancers appear as zoomorphic images – mermaids turn into jumping lizards, but paper angels – into bionic birds.

Artists:

Choreographer: Virpi Pahkinen

Dancers: Pontus Sundset Granat, Sakari Romero Tuurala, Philip Sundset Granat, Corrado Di Lorenzo, Hui-Han Hu Gustavsson, Virpi Pahkinena

Composer: Jonas Sjöbloms

Soprano: Tua Dominique

Costume artist: Zita Merényi (Provo-CUT ™)

Lighting designer: Tobias Hallgren (Lumination of Sweden)

Photography and video: José Figueroa

Duration: 58 min

Tickets: starting from EUR 10.00. Ticket prices may change as the event approaches.

If you want to purchase an unnumbered seat (centre of parterre, rows 1-12), click "Purchase entrance ticket".  

If you want to purchase a numbered seat (parterre, rows 13-14), click “Purchase seat”.

Discounts:

• School children, students, teachers, seniors - 25%
• Seniors with group I and II disabilities, and their carers - 50%
• Family tickets - 2 adults + 2 children (or more) – 25%
• Group tickets:

              10-30 persons - 20%

              30 and more persons - 25%

Festival’s joint ticket allows you to visit more forum events for a great price.  Joint ticket does not include a family film events visit. Show by Juris Bartkevičs “Lightning Thoughts: Irbīte” with the joint ticket available on 28 September at 12.00. Joint ticket price may change as the event approaches. No discounts are applicable to joint tickets. No numbered seats for joint tickets.   

Venue: Great Hall

Organised by: “Great Amber”