Despite the array of topics covered and formats used, Triinu’s performance is entirely cohesive and blends together flawlessly. Her ease and grace as a ballerina are mirrored in the way she conducts her show, and her control, both in her physical and spoken performance, is nothing short of impressive.
Course leader Jüri Nael introduces the performances by explaining to the non-native speakers that läbu suggests, in Estonian, a post-party mess; these are more works in progress, but representative of where the student-artists are in the middle of that mess-making.
In turns heartfelt, bizarre, and confronting, the evening brought forward the conflicts between vulnerability and self-protection when facing internal and external pressures.
The show continuously explored the unities and disunities that come from being an intentionally assembled group of people in a mostly foreign land – having family, but not yet being family; building and maintaining relationships, near and far; and staying present in your own self, health, and art.
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The other dancers returned to the stage, six of them circling the pole in a sashaying Mayday dance. Each one has a moment of solo and a chance to bow to the raucous applause of the audience. I clapped with the rest of them. I wasn’t sure what I had just watched but there was no question that it was a brave and intriguing take on storytelling.