Performances
SAUNA
In Finland sauna is the place of birth and death, contemplation and cleansing. In the darkness the senses are awakened. The heat, smells, sounds and tastes evoke profound emotions and memories. Sauna brings to the audience the magical experience of the Finnish heat room.
The stones of the sauna stove seem to breathe and come alive, as the life cycle of a woman takes on substance. The spiritual and the bodily merge in her intimate story and fantasies. The inexorable changes wrought by time are embraced and celebrated.
Original music accompanies this wordless mask and object theatre performance.
Said about Sauna: “The performance situates itself provocatively in the context of contemporary art world and cracks open the way we look at women. -- Intimate and sensitive. “ -Maria Säkö / Helsingin Sanomat
“Her relationship to her body is drawn with humour and respect. Sauna is a therapeutic theatre experience in a time of perverted self-image.” –Isabella Rothberg/ Hufvudstadsbladet see the TEASER
ABOUT THE PROCESSFirst there was wood. The working group sculpted wooden masks for the performance together with the french mask maker Etienne Champion in May 2010. After that the group was working two weeks in October with Mario Gonzalez and learning new ways to approach mask acting. During the first rehearsal period the group worked to make the masks alive and created a lot of physhical, audio and written material for the show. The most joyfull part of the rehersals was the "body building" for the ladies. The group explored how to continue the mask into the body as an example for the costume designer who will do the naked body costumes for the Sauna.
Supported by: ALFRED KORDELIN FOUNDATION HELSINKI CITY ARTS COUNCIL OF FINLAND/ NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THEATRE |
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PIRANDELLO PROJECT - On the Edge of Silence
Opening night was on 23.8.2009 in Korjaamo Cultural Factory in the Stage Helsinki Theatre Festival and during the Helsinki Festival.
Teatteri Metamorfoosi succeeds to convey with its suggestive sound world and multi-layered storytelling a meaningful and visually creative show in which also the silence becomes audible. - Elisabeth Nordgren/ Hufvudstadbladet Pirandello Project - On the Edge of Silence is a silent mask and puppet theatre performance that takes place in a society that has declared creative activity to be inefficient, dangerous... and illegal. Teatteri Metamorfoosi presents a visually poetic piece, where the pure magic in the act of imagination turns into a rebellious act, capable of re-appropriating another person's life. For imagination is not an escape from reality, but the tool by which we shape it. The performance is inspired by the last, unfinished play by Luigi Pirandello I Giganti della Montagna (The Mountain Giants).
Mask acting tutor Soile Mäkelä Dramaturgs Giovanzana, Mäkelä and Katerina Fojtikova
Actors Tanja Eloranta, Roosa Hannikainen, Miska Kajanus, Johanna Kultala, Linda Lemmetty, Elina Putkinen
Composer Maija Ruuskanen Musicians Toni Lehtola, Maija Ruuskanen and performers
Choreographer Tanja Eloranta Maskmakers Davide Giovanzana, Johanna Kultala, Toni Lehtola, Laura Mäkelä, Soile Mäkelä, Elina Putkinen
Puppet builders Johanna Kultala and Elina Putkinen Costume designer Henni Siltaniemi Light designer Antti Helminen Work shops: |
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Lost Persons AreaA tragi-comic performance deals with aging and the presence of death. Three old seniors find themselves in a hospice where the only place to escape from reality is the sea of memories. The performance is executed with expressive masks made by Antero Poppius.The performance is silent.
Director Davide Giovanzana and Soile Mäkelä -- "Old people are almost as easy and immoral to tackle in art as babies: they
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