Erik Satie: Gnossiennes, Piano & Ballet

A piano–ballet performance featuring Erik Satie’s Gnossiennes and Matteo Ramon Arevalos’ La Folia Erik Satie: Gnossiennes, Piano & Ballet is a multidisciplinary performance where music, movement, and narration converge into a single psychological journey. The performance is brought to life by pianist Matteo Ramon Arevalos and ballerina Triinu Upkin , who embodies a solo role inspired by the figure of Ariadne—guiding the audience through an inner labyrinth of perception, doubt, desire, fragmentation, and clarity. At its core lies Satie’s mysterious and meditative Gnossiennes , performed live on piano, interwoven with selected works from Matteo Ramon Arevalos’ La Folia . Together, they create a shifting emotional landscape that moves between stillness and intensity, introspection and eruption. The work unfolds as a staged ritual rather than a traditional narrative, combining music, dance, and spoken text into a continuous arc of transformation. The narration that frames the concert is written by Arashk Azizi , shaping the conceptual and poetic structure of the journey. Rather than telling a fixed story, the performance creates a space where meaning emerges through sound, silence, and movement—inviting the audience into a state of reflection and immersion. This is Satie not as repertoire, but as experience: a journey inward, where the labyrinth becomes the mind itself. #tallinnfringe2026