Dear friends of the Birgitta FestivalIn keeping with the decision made by the Government of Estonia on 8 July, the 2021 Birgitta F...
Dear friends of the Birgitta Festival
In keeping with the decision made by the Government of Estonia on 8 July, the 2021 Birgitta Festival will be cancelled. Unfortunately, the global coronavirus pandemic has yet to recede, and the situation is regrettably deteriorating in Russia, the place of residence for several of this year’s festival’s artists and performers.
The safety and security of our audience is of prime importance to the festival organisers, which is why we understand the government's decision not to grant an exemption to artists from Russia.
We hope for your understanding and to see you in 2022!
Tickets purchased from sales points can be returned at all Piletilevi sales points, except Circle-K service stations and the Viru Keskus sales point.
PDF ticket holders will have their tickets automatically repurchased and repayments will be made to the ticket buyer's current account.
PLEASE NOTE! We are repurchasing tickets until 30 September 2021.
Dance company NoGravity
Author and choreographer Emiliano Pellisari
NoGravity is one of the most unique performing arts companies in the world, combining authentic musical works with famous artwork and holding performances of contemporary dance where the primary aim is to surprise the audience. In NoGravity’s performances, dancers have to exceed the force of gravity whereas providing the utmost pleasure to the audience, accompanied by the co-influence of visual art and music. Emiliano Pellisari, choreographer and founder of NoGravity, is the author behind the ideas of the company's performances. He gets his inspiration from the Hellenistic theatre, artwork from the Renaissance era and the Baroque Italian tradition of the theatre of marvels. With NoGravity's performances, Pellisari aims at reviving the theatre tradition of the 17th century – a time when in Italian big cities such as Florence, Rome or Milan the artisans built extraordinary apparatus for theatrical actors and dancers in order to make performances more enchanting and that was highly welcomed by courts all over Europe at that time. In musical performances, actors were made to „fly“ or „walk on the Moon“ – all this to serve the purpose of offering as breathtaking spectacle as possible to the audience. Similar mechanisms are used in present performances by NoGravity to raise the dancers up in the air and the connection with the ground is nonexistent. Importance also lies in the flexibility and expressiveness of dancers’ bodies. According to Pellisari, instead of the title of choreographer there should be an architect of human body.
The whole spectacle is naturally related to music that is performed on authentic instruments at NoGravity's performances. Birgitta festival of 2021 will present the musical spectacle Leonardo that revives the famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, famous Renaissance artist and inventor.
