COSMODOLPHINS

Are humans really as bad as we’re being told? Is a human a wolf to another human? And is our part only to doomscroll until the actual doom? Meh! COSMODOLPHINS is a performance that paints us a totally different picture! It tells us another story of humans and the world than we have been used to hearing and telling so far. Human – you are not as bad as you think! It may even be that humans are good…

Sveta Grigorjeva’s new performance combines folklore, utopia and science fiction to invent new ways to move forward as humanity. What kind of communities do we need? What kind of dances could we dance to create a more sustainable world? How can we be together in a world that keeps dividing us?

There are 12 performers on stage, both from the Südalinna Theatre and from outside – Grigorjeva has never collaborated with such a large collective before.

PS. The events might not occur in space, and dolphins on stage are not guaranteed.

Sveta Grigorjeva is an Estonian choreographer, dancer, poet and critic. She has published three collections of poetry, “kes kardab sveta grigorjevat?“ (2013), „American beauty“ (2018) and „Frankenstein“ (2023) for which she was awarded the Jaan Kross Literary Award in 2025. Her performances include “FAKERZ” (2021), “Firestarters” (2024), “Gargantua” (2025) and “Dances to Dream, Res(is)t and Sleep to” (2022), which was awarded the best dance performance at the 2023 Theatre Awards. As an artist, she is interested in the Spinoza-like “we still do not know what the body is capable of” reset and the possible subversive nature and potential of the expressive body and text. Grigorjeva has danced in her own and others’ works in Estonia and abroad. In 2022, Grigorjeva received her second master’s degree in “Choreography and Performance” from the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, and in the fall of 2023, she began doctoral studies as a junior researcher at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.