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Tero Saarinen Company (Finland) - Study for Life

In this world premiere, Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen (Pori, 1964) pays tribute to the delicate music of compatriot Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023). Soprano Raquel Camarinha, six Tero Saarinen Company dancers and nine musicians from Asko|Schönberg innovatively bring Saariaho’s vibrant sound world to life.

Saariaho was at the Holland Festival before: in 1996 with Lachenmann, Rijnvos, Saariaho, Webern, and in 2005 with L'amour de Loin at the Concertgebouw, and in 2012 with Out of The Box by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Gashouder. Study for Life will be Tero Saarinen’s debut at Holland Festival.

Five of Saariaho’s compositions, Study for Life (1980), Petals (1988), Lichtbogen (1986), Attente and Parfum de l’instant (2002, from Quatre Instants), will be performed live. The poetic stage design by Erika Turunen, Fabiana Piccioli and Sander Loonen, and the unique stage arrangement - with the audience around the stage and freely moving dancers and musicians - blur the line between spectator and performer.

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