By bringing parkour to the stage, choreographer Antero Hein transforms its dynamics into a distinctive scenic expression. The performance not only shows spectacular stunts, which are usually about moving efficiently and elegantly from one place to another, but creates an aesthetic reflection on the qualities of parkour as a leisure activity, lifestyle and part of the internet reality.
With Uventa, Hein gives the viewer a physical experience of risk and (im)possibility. We witness how the parkour practitioners' movement patterns are shaped and challenged. Through aesthetic means, the performance examines how structures emerge and dissolve, and how we as humans affect - and are affected by - visible and invisible networks. The performance also asks what it means to break with established patterns.
