UNEKSIVAT PUUT

Site-sensitive performance combining puppetry and contemporary dance based in comic album La Maison où rêvent les arbres (Casterman 1995) by belgian artist Didier Comès.

2017-2018

Dramaturgy and directing Mira Laine

Choreography Mirva Keski-Vähälä

Costume design Reija Stenius

Puppets made by Anna Sucksdorff

Sound design Riku-Pekka Kellokoski

Lighting design Jari Piitulainen

Performers Jonna Lehto (2017), Satu Wiinikka (2017), Outi Ivaska, Heidi Suur-Hamari (2018), Sini Peltola (2018), Tommi Rikkinen, Petra Haapio, Riku-Pekka Kellokoski

Original translation Soile Kaukoranta

Graphic design Mark Ståhle

Performance combining puppetry and contemporary dance is based in comic album La Maison où rêvent les arbres (Casterman 1995) by belgian artist Didier Comès. Three dancers and two puppeteers along-side musician are forming site-sensitive stage work about our relationship with forest, change and nightmares.

In the original album by Comès dreams dreamt by trees which before could arise as birds and butterflies began to turn into nightmares after cruel activities of men. Nightmares manifest themselves from collective, ancient memory of trees to attack humans as merciless beasts. Pre-historic creatures are realised through masks and puppets in the performance taking place in public city parks.

Supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, TelepART

Uneksivat Puut has been performed at Helsinki Central Park in 2017 &  in Herttoniemi and Berlin in 2018.