Kanuti Gildi SAAL´s newest format SAAL3 is back!
Three artists sharing one house for one evening of short performances.
The artists of SAAL3 vol 2 are Helgi Saldo, Üüve-Lydia Toompere and Nele Tiidelepp.

Helgi Saldo (b. 1990) is a Tallinn-based drag performer, LGBTQAI+ activist and writer navigating the modern world as a collage of gender performance, contemporary culture and ancient queer magic. Since 2021, they co-host the radio show Homokringel.

"Happy enough"

How do you inhabit the histories we inherit? The performance is a mere symbolic pile driven by poorly organized impulses, simulating madness, clowning on identity issues, bringing out a repressed construct in culture, rehabilitating some "dirty" abject.

3D-artist: Maksim Nazarov
Composer: Jekaterina Viltšenko
Assistant: Rene Köster
Make-up: Piret Kaljuste

Üüve-Lydia Toompere (b. 1990) is a Berlin based freelance performance artist. She finds particular interest in social contexts and this is her core motivation for theater works. One of her methods involves finding better ways in which to integrate society into her performances. Recently Lydia has been interested in clubs, fetish and the pole dance scene and has started to perform and model in these worlds under her alter ego Fluxxious.

"Fluxxious on Stage"

Fluxxious will be performing on stage. Journalist Johanne Björklund Larsen describes her in an interview for the pop culture magazine FRÄULEIN like this:

“Fluxxious embodies subservience without seeming powerless, serving as a tangible proof of the empowerment found within submission. Instead, we find within Fluxxious a complex form of strength, characterised by a profound sensitivity and an inherent power.
Her presence may initially seem provocative, but it's about so much more than just shock value. Instead, the essence is rooted in the discovery and assertion of control—a control that is not predicated on the desire for dominance but rather on a profound understanding and appreciation for a nuanced dynamic.
She invites us to explore vulnerability and the strength that can, unexpectedly, be found within it, and to embrace a strong feminine body.”

Assistant: Marta Vaarik

Nele Tiidelepp (b. 1998) has a bachelor in Installation and Sculpture from EKA and is currently obtaining a Master’s degree in Choreography and Performance from Justus Liebig Universität in Germany.
She operates on the verge of imagined and real spaces, people and moments, often as part of a collective or cooperative practice. From the use of random sentence fragments of other people in her texts, to collectively created performances, where each participant is seen as an equally important author.

Some things, some times, solidify through repetition. Some things fall apart. The first word of this staged moment in time is "Hello" and the last "finally". I have found that the difficulty of saying the first is inversely proportional to the ease of the latter. The ending was there first. The whole thing is an attempt to get there. Sometimes, in life, not dancing is not an option.

Choreography: Anna Lea Ourø Jensen
Sound and technical support: Hendrik Kaljujärv ja Kaius Põder
Costume: Eva Tarn
Light: Henry Kasch
Thank you: Gregor Kulla, Liisbeth Horn, Elektron