Quattro Stagioni is a four-part theatrical pizza baked by dance artist Elina Pirinen, theatre artist Tom Rejström and dance artist Jenni-Elina von Bagh. It brings together vivacious and refined flavors, the troubling swings of the seasons, pastoral farce, family and nature relations, neoclassism and old modernism, ruthless composition, cheeky characterisations, overflowing speech and austere attitudes, grand beautiful dance, a character named Spring, the rhythm and dislocation of four-part form, the empty pockets of Granny and Grandpa, summer wind, and the craft of expression.

Each author signs a slice of the pizza, haphazardly mashing their creative desires into the vivaldian cycle. The agony of creation helps with the agony of the world. One season is dedicated to 14-year-old Olavi von Bagh and his vision. As these four artists collect their thoughts, knowledges, visions, experiences, practices and politics, and as deeply intertwined artistic currents and chemistries merge with a topographical quadruple perspective, a new, impossible mutation is born. In the ordinary and sublime reception hall of Brage lives a shared dream of the four seasons–something for everyone and nothing for no one.

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

Elina Pirinen’s artistic practice and language stem from her love of contemporary choreography and dance, art rock music, poetic writing, and feminist art education. Together with fellow artists invited to participate in her works, she seeks out the magical and intense powers of human, animal, and material natures — autopsies and phantasmal manifestations of subconcious, sexual, emotional-intellectual, terrifying, and vibrant registers. She speaks for a creative libidinal, primal, and maternal reality. At the center are the subject and community’s turmoil, internal and external fantasy, romantic soul, obsessions, nightmares, daydreams, taboos, grief, desire, despair, deep joy, suffering, silence, fear, satisfaction, shame, comfort, and hope. The work is guided by contemporary psychoanalytic insight and an increasingly female-centric vision of the grand stage. Pirinen leads the Libidian Wonders art community. In Finland she has been collaborating with Dance House Helsinki, Zodiak – Center for New Dance, & Espoo Theatre, Kiasma Theatre, Theatre Viirus, and Mad House Helsinki. Internationally she has collaborated with Iceland Dance Company, Carte Blanche, Spring Festival, Arsenic Lausanne, Hellerau Dresden, Buda Kortrjik, Tanz im August, New York Live Arts, Seoul Performing Art Festival, Ice Hot Nordic, and ImPulsTanz among others. Her works include performances Personal Symphonic Moment (2013), Meadow, meadow, meadow (2015), Concerto under Waterlilies (2016/18), Brume de Mer (2018), Rhythm of Poison (2020), Mortal Tropical Dances (2023), and Doves and Bloods (2025). In 2022 she was awarded with the State Prize for the Performing Arts and gave birth to her daughter. Pirinen runs Wild Horses Atelier, a new residency space dedicated to body art in Helsinki. As an artist, she is a part of Plan B, an international performing arts agency.

Tom Rejström is an actor, performance artist, artistic director, former curator, and current educator based in Helsinki. Rejström spends most of his working hours at the University of the Arts Helsinki’s Theater Academy, researching and teaching acting—doing work he loves. He has an endless interest in the performing body at the heart of contemporary acting and its dramaturgical connections, echoes, and reflections on each of one’s own personal history, world history, the impossibility of the present moment, and the uncertainty of everything to come. Rejström believes that transgressive, multifaceted, philosophical art full of collisions and antics can save, or at least bring comfort. Rejström works closely with dramaturg and director Otto Sandqvist. Together they have created works for Teater Viirus, Helsinki Biennial, Mad House Helsinki, Hangö Teaterträff, Konträr (SE), and the Vega Scene (NO), among others. Rejström also brings it on in TV and film, most recently in the television series Boy Next Door (2025) and Last to Brake (2024). He is also the director of the traveling Skärgårdsteatern theater company and a member of Saimaan Teatteri and the Corpus Dramaturgicum research group. From 2016 to 2024, he was involved in the artistic direction of the Hangö Teaterträff festival. His most important and recent stage works have been Doves and Bloods (Libidian Wonders / Teater Viirus, 2024) and Cowboy Försvunnen (Otto Sandqvist / Teater Viirus 2024).

Jenni-Elina von Bagh is a choreographer, dancer and curator. During 2023–2025 she has been the artistic director of Zodiak­–Centre for New Dance. She is inspired by philosophical themes and their resonance in the world. Her main research examines the non-human paradigm in performance art, focusing on the human body’s expressive power as a compositional question. She is interested in the eventfulness of contemporary performance, where the interfaces of humor and tragedy meet, creating their own language in the world. She has created works for Zodiak–Centre for New Dance, Side Step Festival, Caisa, Teater Viirus, Ehkä-production & Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Finnish National Theatre, New York Living Theatre, Brut Wien, and MDT Stockholm, among others. Her most recent works include Extramaterial (2024), As time goes by (2023), Void – A Psychodrama (2022), A Prologue (2020), Posthuman days (2018), and A Life – a nomadic melodrama (2017). For decades, she has worked internationally as a performer with choreographers such as Kenneth Kvarnström, Deborah Hay, Örjan Andersson, Josef Fruzeck, Linda Kapetanea, Ina Christel Johannesen, Helena Franzén, Ikuyo Kuroda, and Jyrki Karttunen–and, in recent years, Elina Pirinen. She was a member of the Helsinki City Theater dance group Helsinki Dance Company from 2006 to 2015. In 2018, she graduated from the University of the Arts Helsinki’s Theater Academy with a master’s degree in choreography. In 2000, she graduated from the Stockholm University of the Arts’ dance training program. She works through and has founded the multidisciplinary art community Open ended.

Olavi von Bagh is a 14-year-old adolescent from Helsinki. He plays the piano and the cello, dances contemporary dance and hip hop, and plays football as his hobby. Olavi has acted in theatre, film and audio productions. Nature and animals are important to him.