Finnish festival at KONTRÄR runs 21–23 November 2025. The festival highlights some of Finland’s most interesting artists right now – and makes Östgötagatan vibrate with karaoke, disco tanssi and contemporary performing arts.
In NEON BEIGE, the performer-choreographer Alen Nsambu braids memories, dreams, and desires into a solo that reimagines visibility, identity, and representation.
The stage becomes a portal: a space where the inner landscapes leak out. By deconstructing dominant structures, objects and gestures transform into thresholds, opening pathways to alternative ways of being. At its core, NEON BEIGE carves out space for multiplicity and agency, where a singular gaze dissolves into infinite possibilities of becoming.
Saturated with diverse performative registers, NEON BEIGE flows through states of transformation—unfolding into something that disrupts, reimagines, and creates space for the yet unknown.
The performance premiered at Zodiak, Helsinki in 2024
Alen Nsambu is a Finnish-Angolan choreographer and performer, who has graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts (Dance and Choreography). The rest of the working group consist of locale Helsinki artists, including Angel Emmanuel, Aino Kontinen, Nori Kin, Susi Siriya Orenius, Ritni Ráste Pieski and Titus Torniainen. NEON BEIGE is Nsambu’s first full-length choreographic stagework.
Performance language: English
The festival is created in collaboration with UusiTeatteri with the support of Teater Info Finland – TINFO and the Culture Fund for Sweden and Finland.
- Performer, choreographer
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Alen Nsambu
- Dramaturge
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Susi Siriya Orenius
- Costume design
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Angel Emmanuel
- Sound design
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Nori Kin
- Lighting design
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Titus Torniainen
- Spatial design
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Aino Kontinen & Titus Torniainen
- Participating in the process
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Ritni Ráste Pieski
- Production
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Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Alen Nsambu, Ehkä-tuotanto
- Residency
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Ehkä-tuotanto