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Vastakohtia – an Interactive Performance Lecture about Masks for Children
What happens when you hide your face? This performance lecture illustrates the use of masks in interacting with the audience. Children will have an opportunity to learn about masks, as well as get some hands-on experience performing. For children over 4 years old. Language: Finnish
Performers Kaija Kangas (actress), Juha Ekorre (circus performer) and Minna-Liisa Tammela (a musician). The director Taina Mäki-Iso is performing as a Master.
Duration 45min.
Thu 20.9. at 9am & 10.30am
The Theatre Hall
Tickets 5€
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I Capitani: Love and roughness, rebellion and kisses.
Students from the Theatre Academy
“I Capitani” is a commedia dell’arte fantasy where soldiers are surprised by love and decide to follow the orders given by their own hearts.
This “romantic” adventure, separated into 4 acts, features the fast-paced explosive rhythm of Italian masked characters. Language: English
Director Davide Giovanzana
Actors Riku Nieminen, Calle Alm, Pelle Heikkilä and Viktor Idman
Duration 30 minutes
Thu 20.9. at 6pm
Stoa’s lobby or courtyard
Free entrance!
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Photo: Studio Liisa Karling
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Lost Persons Area
Teatteri Metamorfoosi
A tragi-comic performance deals with aging and the presence of death. Three old people find themselves in a hospice, where the only place to escape from reality is toward a sea of memories. The silent performance is executed with expressive masks made by Antero Poppius.
Director Davide Giovanzana and Soile Mäkelä
Actors Davide Giovanzana, Tanja Eloranta, Johanna MacDonald and Soile Mäkelä
Lights Johanna-Maj Vihalem
Sounds Marko Pakarinen
Costumes and staging The Company
Expressive masks Antero Poppius
Larval-masks Teatteri Metamorfoosi
Duration 1h
Thu 20.9. at 7pm
Music Hall
Tickets 8€/12€
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Photo: Max Bremer
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Me Not Me
Springmask –group
One mask tells more than a thousand words. What happens when one mixes his/her features with others? The performers will show you by using masks made of photos taken by Stefan Bremer. The performance is silent.
Director Max Bremer
Actors Barbro Björkfelt, Anna Collander, Maja Ottelin and Annina Vartio
Lights & sounds Tom Laurmaa
Duration 45min
NB! Limited number of seats!
Thu 20.9. at 8pm
The Theatre Hall
Tickets 5€
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The Plague in the City
Theatre Potudan (Russia)
Based on Aleksandr Pushkin’s tragedy. People gather for a feast to reject the anxiety caused by a plague. The performance is a combination of masks, puppets, dance, singing and speaking. Language: Russia.
Director & script (on A. Pushkins same tragedy) Ruslan Kudashov
Stage & puppet design Alevtina Torik and Andrey Zaporohjsky
Music design Vladimir Bichovsky
Choreography Irina Ljahovskaja
Actors Maxim Gudkiv, Alexander Ionova, Irina Krivchenok, Anna Mironov, Denis Pjanov and Dimitry Sizyh
Duration 1h 15min
Fri 21.9. and Sat 22.9. at 18pm
The Theatre Hall
Tickets 8€/15€
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The Night of the Kings
La Commedia de Babel
The Night of the Kings is an adaptation of the Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Aside from the traditional commedia dell’arte plot, the play praises madness for making us alive and the striving for life itself. What is the difference between a king and a fool king?
The performance uses several languages: Finnish, French, English, German, Italian, Catalan and Spanish.
Company Pierrot Corpel (France), Gonzalo Alarcon Dall’Orso (Chile), Miriam Escurriola Peña (Spain), Davide Giovanzana (Swiss-Italy), Soile Mäkelä (Finland), Pauline Paolini (France), Michael Pitthan (England) ja Enrico Vanzella (Italia)
Duration 1h 15min
Fri 21.9. and Sat 22.9. at 8pm
Music Hall
Tickets 8€/15€
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The originality arises from the cultural diversity of the company: 8 actors from 7 different countries speaking 7 different languages, searching together for a theatrical expression that goes beyond cultural borders.
The work of this international company focuses on commedia dell’arte in order to explore two things: the power derived from the ritualistic origin of masks, andd arcitypes, which unveil the fears of our contemporary society.
Our company also aims to recuperate the body’s expressiveness: to put the actor back at the centre of the stage, and to make ourselves both emissaries of popular culture and investigators of the untamed energies buried in all of us.
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Photo: Andrej Scherbakov-Parland
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Kuusi Sopraanoa
Improah! –group
Opera meets masks and improvisation! What’s behind the roles when the opera’s facades are falling down? Carmen never dies and Adele is cleaning! Throughout the performance, works by Rossini, Mozart, Verdi, Bize, and Strauss will be heard among improvisation in a variety languages.
Directors Mikaela Hasán and Martina Roos
Actors Mia Heikkinen, Sanna Heikkinen, Ann-Marie Heino, Anna Koivula, Julia Sitomaniemi and Sofia Wilkman (piano)
Duration 1h 30min
Sun 23.9. at 2pm
Music Hall
Tickets 8€/12€
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Photo: I Wayan Sutisna
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Topeng
I Wayan Sutisna & co.
I Wayan Sutisna presents the traditional balinese mask culture in a modern way.
Performers I Wayan Sutisna & co.
Duration 45min
Sun 23.9. at 6pm
Music Hall
Tickets 8€/12€
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Topeng is an Indonesian form of dance drama in which one or more dancers perform ancient stories by wearing masks. The word ‘topeng’ means mask in Indonesian.
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Photo: Timo Poppius
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Kalevala dell’Arte
Teatteri Metamorfoosi
A shamanistic carneval à la Commedia Dell’arte! The characters and stories from Kalevala are represented in accordance to traditional Italian commedia dell’arte style, including acrobatics, pantomime, dancing and singing. Language: Finnish, English and Italian.
Directors Davide Giovanzana and Soile Mäkelä
Actors Davide Giovanzana, Tanja Eloranta, Johanna MacDonald, Soile Mäkelä, Maija Ruuskanen, Sakari Saikkonen and Ari Suzuki
Music Maija Ruuskanen and company
Costumes Henni Siltaniemi
Lights Mirva Jantunen
Masks Under the instruction of Stefano Perocco di Meduna the work group and Toni Lehtola, Laura Mäkelä and Elina Putkinen
Dramatutgical tutor Carlo Boso (Italy)
Sun 23.9. at 7pm
Theatre Hall
Tickets 8€/12€
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The Living Mask Gallery
A living mask gallery will be held in the festival area where Finnish, Italian, and Swiss masks will be displayed. Come and see how the masks come alive by having them displayed on real people instead of languishing locked up in a showcase!
The Gallery is open on
Fri 21.9. at 7pm-8pm
Sat 22.9. at 5pm-6pm & 7pm-8pm
Sun 23.9. at 5pm-6pm
Free entrance!
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Seminar:
Multidimensional Mask
The History of Mask Pedagogy and Today’s Educational Possibilities
Introductions made by Finnish mask theatre makers, with a discussion on the position of masks in the Finnish theatre education and overall in the Finnish performing arts scene. Language: Finnish
Sat 22.9. at 12pm-15pm
Music Hall
Free entrance!
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Anthropological lecture:
Forefathers and Bad Spirits: The Masks as a Part of Rituals
Matilda Ajanko from the Museum of Helinä Rautavaara lectures on the use and meaning of masks in different cultures. Language: Finnish
Sun 23.9. at 16pm
Stoa/ The Finnish Adult Educational Centre’s lecture hall
Free entrance!
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Workshops in Mask Theatre
Participate in mask theatre workshops led by Teatteri Metamorfoosi's Soile Mäkelä!
- 14.-16.9. 2007 Masks and Physical Narration workshop, Open University, The Theatre Academy. More information: www.teak.fi/avoinyliopisto
- 13.9 -13.12 2007 Teatteri-ilmaisun tikapuut ('The Ladders of Theatrical Expression') workshop in The Finnish Adult Educational Centre. More information: www.hel.fi/tyovaenopisto
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