Fine5 Dance Theatre “For Brother”

Fine5 Dance Theatre, in collaboration with Claresis Collectiv, presents E.-L. Karhu’s play “Vennale” (“For Brother”). It is a poetic and disturbingly honest story that opens up one woman’s inner world through her relationship with her beautiful and desired brother. The sister lives in her brother’s shadow, cares for him, follows his love life, and measures her own worth through her brother’s gaze and social norms. The story unfolds through everyday details, dreams, sexual fantasies, and painful self-examinations, revealing the body both as a restricting prison and as a possible space of liberation. The sister’s perspective on things and life is seemingly simple and direct, but through it a sharp social question emerges: who is allowed to be desirable and loved, and who is destined to remain invisible.

Director and lighting designer: Tamur Tohver
Artist: Jaanus Laagriküll
Music and performance: MAITRE
Movement creators and performers: Amanda Hermiine Künnapas, Kreete Tarmo and Raho Aadla
Consultant: Renee Nõmmik
Assistant director: Helen Moppel
Copyright representatives: Nordic Drama Corner and Estonian Theatre Agency
Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, City of Tallinn, Finnish Institute in Estonia
Cooperation partner: Estonian Dance Agency

Ages 16+

Tamur Tohver is a director, dramaturg, translator and lecturer in performing arts. His work focuses on exploring the inner impulses of the mind and body and affective experience. As part of his doctoral work, he has developed Zero Point practice and forms of embodied self-expression that combine psychological theatre (Stanislavski), physical expression (Zarrilli), and both affect theory (Massumi) and field theory (Kõiv and Rosenberg). Tohver’s directorial style seeks states in which word, voice, movement and music form a unified psychophysical experience, and in which the audience does not remain passive observers but is drawn into the immediate presence of the performance.

Premiered on 6 April at the theatre hall of the Estonian Dance Agency (Hobujaama 12, Tallinn).