Rūta Ronja Pakalne "SOFTPOWER"

"SOFTPOWER" rullub lahti nagu värelev film hämaras ruumis.
Kujutis võbeleb. Aeg moondub. Mitte miski ei jää paigale.

Neli keha sisenevad rõhukambrisse. Need kehad pole neutraalsed. Nad on markeeritud ja sotsiaalsed, need kehad mäletavad. Nad kannavad endas arme, harjumusi, ootuseid – ning hakkavad neid lahti harutama.

Rūta Ronja Pakalne lavastus ei ole pehmest jõust.
See on kehas tajutud pehme jõud: ebapüsiv, ohtlik, intiimne.
Püüd eksisteerida tervikuna maailmas, mis nõuab eraldatust.

Rūta Ronja Pakalne on Läti-Eesti vabakutseline tantsu- ja filmikunstnik, kes baseerub Eestis. Tema interdistsiplinaarne praktika hõlmab koreograafiat, etenduskunsti, filmitegemist ja õpetamist, uurides keha, kohalolu ja igapäevaelu kogemust. Tal on koreograafia bakalaureusekraad Läti Kultuuriakadeemiast, on koolitanud end P.A.R.T.S.-is Brüsselis ning filmikunsti magistrikraad Tallinna Ülikooli Balti filmi, meedia ja kunstide instituudist. Alates 2019. aastast õpetab Pakalne BFM-is ning hetkel ka MUBA-s ja ETA Tantsukoolis. Lisaks on ta õpetanud ja jaganud oma praktikat erinevates koolides üle Baltikumi. Tema hiljutiste projektide hulka kuuluvad “ The Space Between Us Is Not Empty” (2025), „Body of Dreams“ (2023) – koostöös Laura Kvelsteiniga, mis uurib kehaarhiive, „Freedom to Lose Control Together with the Many“ (2023) - koostöös Laura Gorodkoga, mis uuris ligipääsetava reivilavastuse kogemust ning tantsufilm „H61“ (2024). Ta loob ka eksperimentaalseid tantsufilme, mis uurivad liikumist ja kehastunud jutuvestmist.

Lavastaja, koreograaf: Rūta Ronja Pakalne
Etendajad: Anumai Raska, Pääsu-Liis Kens, Juulius Vaiksoo, Rūta Ronja Pakalne
Dramaturg: Kerli Ever / Israel Bañuelos
Helikujundus: Ando Naulainen
Valguskujundus: Kristiina Tinnu Tang
Kunstnik: Pire Sova
Kaasproduktsioon: Rūta Ronja Pakalne, Kanuti Gildi SAAL

Esietendus: 10.04.2026, Kanuti Gildi SAAL

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"SOFTPOWER" unfolds like a slow, unstable film inside a darkened room.
Time stretches. The image flickers. Nothing settles.

Four bodies enter a pressure chamber. These are not neutral bodies. They are marked, social, remembering. They arrive with scars, habits, expectations — and begin to undo them in real time.

Rūta Ronja Pakalne’s performance is not about soft power.
It is soft power lived in the body: unstable, risky, intimate.
A trembling attempt to exist whole in a world that demands division.

Rūta Ronja Pakalne is a Latvian-Estonian freelance dance and film artist based in Estonia. Her interdisciplinary practice spans choreography, performance, filmmaking, and teaching, investigating body, presence, and everyday experience. She holds a BA in Choreography from the Latvian Academy of Culture, further training at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, and an MA in Film Arts from TLU, BFM. Since 2019 she has been a lecturer at Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University. Currently also teaching at MUBA (Tallinn Ballet School) and ETA Tantsukool. She has been sharing her practice and teaching throughout schools in the Baltics. Her recent projects include The Space Between Us Is Not Empty (2025), Body of Dreams (2023)—a co-creation with Laura Kvelstein exploring body archives, Freedom to Lose Control Together with the Many (2023)-a co-creation with Laura Gorodko exploring inclusive meditative rave performance setting, and dance film H61 (2024). She also creates experimental dance films that explore movement and embodied storytelling.

Director, choreographer: Rūta Ronja Pakalne
Performers: Anumai Raska, Pääsu-Liis Kens, Juulius Vaiksoo, Rūta Ronja Pakalne
Dramaturges: Kerli Ever / Israel Bañuelos
Sound designer: Ando Naulainen
Light designer: Kristiina Tinnu Tang
Set designer: Pire Sova
Co-production: Rūta Ronja Pakalne, Kanuti Gildi SAAL

Premiere: 10.04.2026, Kanuti Gildi SAAL

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