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Thumbelina
| Choreographer |
Risu, Liisa |
| First Performance | 7.3.2015 |
| Style | Contemporary Dance |
| Other Style | Performance art |
| Duration (min) | 50 |
| Costume designer | Pauliina Sutinen |
| Lighting Designer | Riku Virtanen |
| Sound designer | Viljami Lehtonen |
| Performers of the premiere | Janne Aspvik, Tanja Illukka, Justus Pienmunne, Pietari Kärki |
| Description |
This choreographic version of Thumbelina explores Andersen’s tale from a contemporary point of view, stepping aside traditional theatrical logics of over-dramatization and spectacular tempo but instead engaging with the idea of nature from alternative dynamics, processing of time and openness of senses-experience. This Thumbelina, who escapes from 19th century anthropocentric authoritarian and edifying story-patterns, is intended to be activated through a non-moralist horizontal discovery and experience of the «otherness», which is the non-hierarchical richness of what we call biodiversity. Our Thumbelina invites therefore all age kids to enter a theatre-greenhouse where Thumbelina (which is also everyone of them) is displayed as an open-space for open interpretation which tells joyfully about « nature » with some contemporary kinetics, real plants, recorded wind, home-made bunraku, electro-techno bodies and manga forces. |
| Other Information |
Dramaturgy: Vincent Gainza |
| Companies |
Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth |
| Dancers |
Aspvik, Janne (2015) Pienmunne, Justus (2015) Kärki, Pietari (2015) |