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Nighttown
| Choreographer |
Yli-Maunula, Pirjo |
| First Performance | 17.11.2023 |
| Place of First Performance | Culture Centre Kulttuuripankki, Oulu |
| Style | Contemporary Dance |
| Duration (min) | 30 |
| Scenography | Heidi Kesti |
| Costume designer | Sylvi Siltavirta |
| Lighting Designer | Jukka Huitila |
| Sound designer | Anssi Laiho |
| Music composed for the work | Anssi Laiho |
| Description |
NIGHTTOWN, an immersive performance inspired by Chapter 15 of James Joyce’s famed Ulysses takes over the former Bank of Finland building in Oulu. The bank’s vaults and halls are the stage where dance, circus, music, bent light, photography and other visual arts come together to create an unforgettable performance. The viewer traverses an ever-changing, intense piece in which Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness odyssey becomes flesh. The audience enters a world of nightly visions and hallucination, surrealism and decadence. NIGHTTOWN is a performance created by an international group of 15 artists and directed by Pirjo Yli-Maunula. The work is commissioned by Lumo Light Festival and is a part of the Ulysses – European Odyssey project where events, exhibitions or performances based on one of the book’s chapters take place in 18 cities across Europe. |
| Other Information | Other producer: Lumo Light Festival. Artistic workgroup: Ben Collis, Elisabeth Künkele, Jared van Earle, Katariina van Earle, Nikke Launonen, Emma Langmoen, Anssi Laiho. |
| Dancers |
Hanhineva, Henna , Virtanen, Milla |