welcome

Sigrid Savi is a choreographer in her thirties, from Estonia, based in Berlin since 2015.
She is an artist who is often drawn to situations where encounters with "a stranger on the street" transform into long, absurd, and memorable experiences. She’s a rooftop sleeper, a ticket inspector dodger, a park cleaner, a wrestler with everything and everyone, and a retired captain of an amateur bowling team.
Her works are addressing socio-critical issues and exploring in-depth psychological scenarios.
Her interests often evolving around capitalist-phenomenons, tragicomic existential circumstances and collective memory with its symbolism. She is experimenting with ways of storytelling, utilizing absurd humor in order to make some sense out 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. The latest work "Three women walk into a bar..." in collaboration with Hanna Kritten Tangsoo and Sunayana Shetty is a co-production of Kanuti Gildi SAAL and Tanzfabrik Berlin.

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

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

"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.

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

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.

sigrid.savi@gmail.com
@sigrid.savi

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.

KAI Art Centre
2024

Relax, don't
do it
if you want to

Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava
2024

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

Three women walk into a bar...

A woman is walking down the street. It’s still too early to say what’s going to happen later in the story. Neither the background nor foreground is in focus – it’s undoubtedly a foggy day.
The wind blows hair into your face, it gets stuck in your wet mouth. You stretch out your hand and wipe it away with your sleeve. Although I might have a tissue. Is this a ketchup stain?

I notice my socks have rolled completely down. I see you are in a hurry. You have two seemingly heavy bags on your shoulders and your jacket is wide open. I assume you are sweating but I cannot know for sure. There’s plenty of water for everyone. Suddenly I feel the shoulder pads of my jacket absorb all the rain and increasingly double in size over time. My bad. I never said Sorry. I am an object of ambition. But first I need to lie down for a minute.

Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tanzfabrik Berlin
2025