Ollaan eläimiksi! / Animal beings
25.10-28.10
GUEST: Ollaan eläimiksi! / Animal beings
Juha Valkeapää
Animal beings invites the audience to imagine and experiment with what it means to exist in the world from the perspective of nonhuman animals. With a light and playful touch, it shifts our gaze toward other animals and explores how all living and non-living beings are interconnected and interdependent. The performer’s voice, body, and movement, along with poems, performance instructions, and soundscapes turn the entire theatre building into a stage.
Script, direction, performance Juha Valkeapää
Lighting and spatial design Jenni Pystynen
Dramaturgical assistance and English translation of poems Heidi Soidinsalo
Costume Tero Nauha and JV
Fictional texts Eeva Kilpi, Matsuo Bashõ, William Blake, Anni Kytömäki, Sirpa Kyyrönen, W. S. Merwin, Maila Pylkkönen, Henriikka Tavi, Suomen kansan vanhat runot (The Ancient Runo-songs of the Finnish People)
Other texts Eva Meijer, JV
Photo Mara Predicatori
Production Juha Valkeapää’s Voice
Voice Mara Predicatori
Support Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation
Language In Finnish and also in English if needed
Age recommendation the piece is suitable for all ages
