A soirée dansante with a woman and her inner divas

Mabel Revival is a joyous and shameless mixture of dance, performance, and DIY cabaret. Choreographer and dancer Liisa Pentti and actor-musician Robert Kock lead the spectator to the mysterious and enchanted world of divas. Admired and desired, Mabel is a woman with no shame or remorse: she dances, growls and sings, captivates as well as confuses. The work is a tribute to femininity and female performers, whose charisma and sensuality–mediating bodily affect and knowledge–bring the stage to life.

To live fully, we must also talk about death and visit the land of dreams, if only at night…

Liisa Pentti’s classic solo work Mabel or The Queen of Bones premiered at Zodiak – Center for New Dance in 2008. In 2025 the reinvigorated diva has toured extensively around Europe and in November Mabel Revival returns to Helsinki, taking over the stage of Viirus.

This performance is a part of the Focus on the Local Landscape within the frame of Moving in November.

Liisa Pentti is a trailblazer of Finnish dance. She graduated as a dance artist at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance’s Modern Dance department (SNDO) in 1986, and was one of the postmodern dance artists shaking the Finnish dance and cultural scenes in the 80’s. Liisa Pentti continuously works as a teacher, dancer and choreographer both in Finland and internationally.

Liisa Pentti +Co is a Helsinki-based dance group founded in 2000.The group’s artistic profile is situated in the field between dance, performance art and contemporary theatre. Experimentation and the search for new forms of expression are central to the company’s works.