Description
Zone Critique – A Choreography for Dance and Poem takes its name from French geochemist Jérôme Gaillardet’s book La Terre habitable, in which he explores the entanglement of humans and the Earth.
The Critical Zone, or zone critique, is the region between the sky and the bedrock where solar energy drives the water cycle and slow geological forces shape the Earth's surface.
It is within this intermediary zone that all life on Earth unfolds and processes of becoming emerge through leakages and imperfections between different ecosystems.
Zone Critique is a performance in which poetry and dance leak into one another in new and distinctive ways.
Here, the act of touch and reaching beyond one's own boundaries become ways of making a shared world possible, even through mistakes and imperfections.
The choreography draws on the untitled closing poem of 999, a poetry collection by the Finnish poet Martin Enckell.
Its themes move through the incomprehensibility of the universe, love, the unpredictability of natural forces, and the interconnectedness of all things.
Zone Critique is the principal work of Liisa Pentti's 40th anniversary year as an artist.
Konepaja Stage
28.10.-8.11.2026
Performances:
28.10./30.10./3.11./4.11./7.11. at 19.00
31.10./8.11. at 15.00
Tickets 15-32€ from Fienta, duration 1 h, age recommendation 13+
The Critical Zone, or zone critique, is the region between the sky and the bedrock where solar energy drives the water cycle and slow geological forces shape the Earth's surface.
It is within this intermediary zone that all life on Earth unfolds and processes of becoming emerge through leakages and imperfections between different ecosystems.
Zone Critique is a performance in which poetry and dance leak into one another in new and distinctive ways.
Here, the act of touch and reaching beyond one's own boundaries become ways of making a shared world possible, even through mistakes and imperfections.
The choreography draws on the untitled closing poem of 999, a poetry collection by the Finnish poet Martin Enckell.
Its themes move through the incomprehensibility of the universe, love, the unpredictability of natural forces, and the interconnectedness of all things.
Zone Critique is the principal work of Liisa Pentti's 40th anniversary year as an artist.
Konepaja Stage
28.10.-8.11.2026
Performances:
28.10./30.10./3.11./4.11./7.11. at 19.00
31.10./8.11. at 15.00
Tickets 15-32€ from Fienta, duration 1 h, age recommendation 13+
Source: City of Helsinki, Linked Events (CC BY 4.0)
Practical info
When
4. November 2026, 19:00
Where
Konepajan näyttämö
Aleksis Kiven katu 17/ Bruno Granholmin kuja, Helsinki
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Price
Medium (€20-50)
15-32€
Audience
All audiences
Organizer
Liisa Pentti +Co
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