Every life bears a mysterious coincidence within, and our actions cannot fully define our future beforehand. A theme of fate strongly resonates in us all: it is not something independent of us, but rather a sum of all our choices.
Sasha Pepeljajev’s SOMEONE LIKE ME is a dance piece about choices − about finding our own way, pondering and questioning it. Everything we do affects everyone and everything else − even if it is only in the slightest way.
Could the fluttering wings of a butterfly in Brazil trigger a tornado in Texas?
This piece aims at simulating the butterfly effect. To do this, we will focus on a practically inconspicuous occurrence, then observe its tiny changes and examine the chain of effects associated with the instance.
Consequently, we can get lost in a world of illusion, a certain kind game where our avatar operates and dances unpredictably. And if we get lost, perhaps we can find the right path again through movement − away from a world we understand towards new ideas and spaces, towards friendship with a new and different entity.
After looking at the world through the eyes of different avatars, experimenting with various outcomes and visiting every emerging space, we can ultimately encounter ourselves − our inner other that we perhaps didn’t even know existed.
SOMEONE LIKE ME is the ninth work created for Aurinkobaletti by top choreographer Sasha Pepeljajev, who resides in Tallinn. Pepeljajev, a guest artist with Aurinkobaletti since 2001, has previously created several acclaimed pieces for the company, including He Who Flew Upside Down (2001), The Dancing Tower (2011), If You Snow Away (2016), and Where to Invite Liza? (2021), the latter of which was also performed to sold-out audiences in Tallinn in spring 2023.
Crew
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY Sasha Pepeljajev | DANCERS AB Dance Company dancers | LIGHT DESIGN Antton Kainulainenn | COSTUME DESIGN Marjo Haapasalo | PHOTOGRAPHY AND GRAPHIC DESIGN Jussi Virkkumaa | MARKETING PICTURE Sasha Pepeljajev | PRODUCTION AB Dance Company
Premiere: 11 September 2025 | AB Dance Company, Turku
Other performances: 25 September – 11 October 2025
Lenght: Around 90 min
Performances
Thu 11.9. klo 19 PREMIER (Festival Manifesti)
Thu 25.9.2025 at 19
Fri 26.9.2025 at 19
Sat 27.9.2025 at 17
Wed 1.10.2025 at 19
Thu 2.10.2025 at 19
Fri 3.10.2025 at 19
Sat 4.10.2025 at 17
Thu 9.10.2025 at 19
Fri 10.10.2025 at 19
Sat 11.10.2025 klo 17
Tickets
31 € single ticket
28 € pensioners
15 € students, children (under 18 years), unemployed persons, and persons in civil service or in the army
12 € members of Teme, Finnish Actors Union and Taku, persons having the Theatre Card of The Association of Finnish Theatres, dance and theatre students (vocational) and persons with press card
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