SIGRID SAVI

Sigrid Savi is a choreographer from Estonia, based in Berlin. Her works are exploring socio-critical topics through melancholic landscapes and fiction-like stage presence. She is interested in capitalist phenomenons, antisocial bodies and spaces and collective memory with its symbolism. She is experimenting with ways of storytelling on stage and on social media - utilizing absurd humor to make sense of things.

She toured with her first solo piece "Imagine There's a Fish" in Berlin, Hammerfest and Glasgow among many other festivals. Savi presented her second solo piece "Pushing Daisies" at the International Festival of Performing Arts SAAL Biennaal 2019. She has performed her work "not this pillow fight" in New York at Panoply Performance Lab and in Berlin at Grüntaler 9. Her collaboration work "COWBODY/ Oh wow, it's you!" with Hanna Kritten Tangsoo was on Tanzfabrik Berlin 2023 program.
A very daily routine of believing in a moment where everything will be just fine. Belief that is somehow holding everything loosely together. You are a subject to forces you cannot understand that drive you apart.
You are a real person. Don't worry.

The oxygen is flowing.

COWBODY/ Oh wow, it's you!
Sigrid Savi and Hanna Kritten Tangsoo invite the audience to witness a hotpot of dance, sculpture, music and fitness trampolines where two bodies enjoy finding the struggle, or struggle to find joy.

Kanuti Gildi SAAL / Tanzfabrik Berlin
2022
KAI Art Centre
Split
Ends
Existential air, hinterlands, psychedelic transformations, open-endings - a dance piece like a road movie. Sigrid Savi’s dance performance “Split Ends” operates between shattering and reinventing the world, building a structure that is on the constant verge of breaking. A performance as a power disruption, a midlife crisis, a voice cracking, a bad connection… The endless collisions of breaking points in the transition phase create a poetic form of being, made up of short circuits. Not everything has to be fully known to create new worlds. Some worlds are just traces and contours.
In this wreck of worlds, two strangers drift. They share space, but they seem to be about different things. Their communication romanticises rather misunderstandings than completing each other’s sentences. Half-moments, indefinite endings, choppy beats, broken bodies – you can smell the scent of burning.
Suddenly all the remains start to merge into one rambling blend, creating a sense of reality that feels rather like an endless alienated wandering.

Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava
2025

Fisherman's stories
buy me a river
"buy me a river" focuses on unrealistic expectations in a capitalist experiential space. An aspect of potential for fulfilment is engaged. The virtues of displacements reminds us instinctively something from the past as well from the future. Escorted by materiality it lets itself to drift away into fantasy. It is dreamy, it is punk. It is fluid and cryptic.

Baltic Dance Platform
2022

Using primitive instincts as her guide, the performer will explore the feelings of comfort and safety that emerge through a connection with seemingly insignificant objects. There is a certain magic that happens between people and objects that can be traced back to prehistoric times. It is an emotional, even spiritual attachment that builds into a relationship, an urge to keep and not let go as if we could lose our home or even ourselves. In her performance, Savi will be using this comfort and emotion driven relationship to build her own safe space, a room that would feel like home. The performance "Are We There Yet?" will focus on the topics of domesticity, decorativeness and alienation, as well on our primal instincts.
TROPICS
let's get lost I know the way


Under the projection are the dangers of the Wild West as echoed in today's society. The mentality of the entrepreneurial cowboy is reminiscent of a steady rhythmic movement, based only on his own inner determination, without understanding the new social structures.
The lonely battles fighted against ourselves. The victories and hardships of the macho-culture experienced through two woman.
From phallic envy to pensive surrender, finishing with a touch of satire.

With Edith Karlson
Body Space(d)
Tallinn Art Hall/ Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava
2019
Peacock describing a Dog

A Cyclist dies in a crash and reincarnates as a House Cat. In this dual reality world where as if the outside world has come in and the inside has gone out is where the two in the transcendental afterlife meet. Where the presence of peace and psychosis is sensed and the space expanded with the unpredictable, comfortable, challenging motion of the accommodating fleshy
body.

contact
sigrid.savi@gmail.com
@savi_heaven
Are we there yet?
Laura Põld’s exhibition “Fibers in the cave” Kogo Gallery at Art Brussels
2023
Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Tallinn 2024
Imagine There’s A Fish
There's a room, a fish, an aquarium, and in the middle of it all, a stuck-up seeker.
Ignorance feeds the imagination, and we may see a fish where there is none, or vice versa. However, old truths continue to crawl under the skin, making the soft and receptive tissue ever more rigid until it happens - a human crystallisation. A monument takes shape from the settled thoughts.
It is an expedition that takes you on autopilot into the safe unknown.
Please hold the hammer!
"Please hold the hammer!" takes the audience directly to the construction site of the international art fair "Foto Tallinn" where one can be part of this usually hidden process.
The show is entertaining yet educational, bringing surprising and practical insights to the audience.
Relax, don't
do it
if you want to
Astounding hospitality and a somewhat sterile atmosphere create an existential space.
Through an over-the-top resort vibe, we witness an arrival at a tropical primordial soup, where basic needs, abundance and – if they still exist at all – authentic desires are reinterpreted.
Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava Tallinn 2017