The Great Adventure of The HE-Child
Millaiseen muottiin haluamme miehen asettuvan? Mitä on nykypäivän mies? Kuka meistä huolehtii jos tipahdamme oravanpyörästä? Entä millaisia kulisseja ja mielikuvia rakennamme ympärillemme edustustilanteissa? Soolo kertoo itsekeskeisyydestä, oma-aloitekyvyttömyydestä, sokeudesta valintojen edessä, uusavuttomuudesta sekä voimattomuuden tunteesta yhteiskunnan asettamien normien edessä, mutta myös minäkuvan uudelleen rakentamisesta, välittämisestä ja selviytymisestä.
Koreografia: Kimmo Alakunnas
Esiintyjät: Kimmo Alakunnas, Katja Korpi
Äänisuunnittelu: Jouni Tauriainen
Musiikki: Marianne Faithfull, Dreaming my dreams
Solo piece The Great adventure of The HE-Child
What kind is the mould in which we want a Man to settle? What is a Man these days? Who will take care of us if we drop out of the rat race? What kind of scenery and images we build around us when we represent ourselves in public? This solo piece tells about our egocentricity, lack of initiative and blindness in the face of making choices, but also about rebuilding our self-image, taking care of each other and survival.
The performance builds a symbolically representative foundation of the society with chairs which also represent the seven deadly sins. It deals with the conflict between an easy life and the struggle out of it. The Man in the piece will be dressed to look socially acceptable and elegant, but He explodes in a fit of rage after becoming distressed in this artificial framework and he literally breaks the structure into peaces. The piece deals with the frameworks and rules that have been imposed on us about the male role in society. The work examines the modern-day cliches about men, their emotions, insensitivity and communication problems, as well as the surging rage and violence within them. The work is a representation of contemporary dance and dance theater.
Choreography: Kimmo Alakunnas
Performers: Kimmo Alakunnas, Katja Korpi
Lenght: 30 min.
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Kallion kävelyfestivaali 12.6.2012
"Kerran Kallion Kaduilla", välähdyksiä arjesta 50-luvun Kalliossa draaman ja musiikin keinoin.
Elävöitetyn kävelyn käsikirjoitus pohjaa Esko Hytösen Kallio aiheisiin runoihin. Kävelyn aikana näyttelijät esittävät osia runoista ja runojen pohjalta käsikirjoitettuja tilanteita ympäri Kalliota.
Kävely starttaa klo 17.00 Karhupuistosta. Reitti kulkee pitkin Kalliota ohjatusti ja kestää n.2h. Kävelyn päätteeksi on puistotanssit kallion kirkon takana, Kirkkopuistossa. Soittamassa upea Vallilan Tango yhtye.
Tapahtuma on osa Helsinki-päivää.
Kävely starttaa klo 17.00 Karhupuistosta. Reitti kulkee pitkin Kalliota ohjatusti ja kestää n.2h. Kävelyn päätteeksi on puistotanssit kallion kirkon takana, Kirkkopuistossa. Soittamassa upea Vallilan Tango yhtye.
Tapahtuma on osa Helsinki-päivää.
Ohjaus ja dramaturgia: Sanna Mäkelä ja Kimmo Alakunnas
Puvustus: Eetu Kekkonen ja Kimmo Alakunnas
Yhteistyössä: Kallio-liike ja Kallion Kulttuuriverkosto, HEO, Helsingin kaupunki
Kallio's walking festival 12/6/2012 "Once at the Street's of Kallio", Flashes of everyday life of Kallio in 50's. Enlived walking manuscript is based of Esko Hytönen's poems of Kallio. During the walk, actors performs part of the poems and situations of the poems.
The Walk starts from Karhupuisto at 17.00 and goes along Kallio's streets. It's a 2h long trip and it ends at at the Church Park, where plays a great band Vallila's Tango. The event is part of Helsinki Day.
Directed and dramaturgy: Sanna Mäkelä and Kimmo Alakunnas
Costumes: Eetu Kekkonen and the team
In Co-operation with the Kallio-liike and Kallio Kulttuuriverkosto, HEO, Helsinki City.
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BEHAVE (tanssiteos kaikesta siitä mikä ärsyttää)
BEHAVE
(a Dancepiece About All That Irritates)
BEHAVE -tanssiteos tarkastelee esiintyjän heittäytymistä yleisön edessä ja haastaa häntä rikkomaan omia tottumuksiaan ja työtapojaan suhteessa tanssiin ja esiintymiseen. Teos on saanut inspiraationsa toiminnoista, jotka ärsyttävät ja tuottavat raivokasta energiaa. Teoksessa sukelletaan pinttyneiden tapojen ja näkymättömien rajojen viidakkoon ja maailmaa katsotaan tanssijan silmin. Ja tämä tanssija ei ole hiljaa! Kesto 40min. Ensi-ilta Esitykset:
UrbanApa tanssifestivaalilla, Helsingin Kulttuurikeskus Stoassa 21.2.2012
Art Goes Kapakka- festivaali kahvila Piritassa, Helsingissä 18.8.2012
UrbanApa tanssifestivaalilla, Helsingin Kulttuurikeskus Stoassa 21.2.2012
Art Goes Kapakka- festivaali kahvila Piritassa, Helsingissä 18.8.2012
Koreografia: Kimmo Alakunnas
Tanssi: Kimmo Alakunnas ja Pälvi Salminen
Visuaalinen suunnittelu: Alisha Davidow
Valosuunnittelu: Nanni Vapaavuori
BEHAVE (a dancepiece about all that irritates)
Dance performance BEHAVE examines a performer’s way of losing oneself in front of an audience and challenges him to break free of his habits and approaches in relation to dance and performance. The work is inspired by activities that irritate and produce fierce energy. The performance dives into the jungle of ingrained habits and invisible borders, and takes a look at the world through the eyes of a dancer. And this dancer is not silent! Duration 40 min.
Behave was presented at:
Premier at 21th Feb 2012 in City of Helsinki Cultural Center Stoa.
Art Goes Kapakka- festival in Café Pirita at Helsinki 18th Aug 2012
Behave was presented at:
Premier at 21th Feb 2012 in City of Helsinki Cultural Center Stoa.
Art Goes Kapakka- festival in Café Pirita at Helsinki 18th Aug 2012
Choreography: Kimmo Alakunnas
Dance: Kimmo Alakunnas and Pälvi Salminen
Visual design: Alisha Davidow
Lighting design: Nanni Vapaavuori
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Once Upon a Time There Was a Fairytale...
Olipa kerran satu… kertoo sadun saduista! Tämä satu on koottu Grimmin veljesten satukokoelmista, uudeksi ennen näkemättömäksi kokonaisuudeksi. Esityksessä tavataan tuttuja satuhahmoja, mutta tällä kertaa nähtäväksi jää ’elivätkö kaikki onnellisena elämänsä loppuun saakka’ ja olikos satu sittenkään ’sen pituinen se’. Koko perheelle suunnatussa lastennäytelmässä ongitaan salaperäinen otus, tavataan omituiset pelimannit sekä Lumikki, jolle siivoaminen ei ole helppo tehtävä. Esityksessä nähdään teatteria, mimiikkaa, klovneriaa, tanssia ja tietenkin hullunkurisia olentoja hauskoissa tilanteissa! Kaikenikäisille.
Teoksen käsikirjoittajina, ohjaajina ja esiintyjinä toimivat Kimmo Alakunnas sekä sirkustaiteilija Janna Haavisto ( www.jannahaavisto.com )
Esityksen ensi-ilta oli 9.6.2011 Turun Seikkailupuiston Helmiteltassa. Kesto 30 min.
Once Upon a Time There Was a Fairytale... is a tale about fairytales! The play is based on the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, but in a way that has never been seen before. You'll get to meet all the familiar fairytale characters, but this time you won’t know whether they will ”live happily ever after". This children’s play is intended for the whole family, and it has strange creatures, odd fiddlers and even Snow White who isn’t particularly good at cleaning. The show features theater, mime, clownery, dancing and, of course, funny creatures in funny situations! For all ages.
Director and dramaturge: Kimmo Alakunnas and Janna Haavisto
Premier at 9th June 2011 in The Adventure Park, in Turku, Finland
Duration 30min.
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dance solo
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Choreography, Light designer, Clothes designer: Kimmo Alakunnas
Performers. Kimmo Alakunnas, Satu Halonen, Reetta Mandelin
Premier: 2007 in Theatre Academy Helsinki
That Which Remained, Scorched, Did Not Chill
Se mikä jäi, poltti, ei jäätynyt
Premiere, place and date: The AB Dance Company, in Turku 22.1.2009
Duration: 30min.
Choreographer: Kimmo Alakunnas
Scenographer: Milla Martikainen
Light designer: Jere Mönkkönen
Clothes designer: Harri Niskanen
Composer and musician: Aino Juutilainen
Dance: Jouni Majaniemi, Satu Lankinen, Eeva Bang
Short description of the work:
The piece is using dance theatre in a new innovation way by concentrating more to what
happens to a performer her or him self during a dance. There are two solos and one duet in
the piece. Solos are made for female dancer and to cello-musician. Dancer is wearing a dolly
outwear and she is dancing in a middle of hundreds of dolls. The dancer and musician are
discussing between dance and music, working together or against each others. Topics of these
solos are frustration what comes when contradictions of feelings are locked inside and
dilemma of just being with oneself is impossible. Dancer has built herself a character who has
reality of her own witch starts to have Childs play features.
In a duet there are a young couple arguing in a street and don’t care if someone is watching
them. Problems in a relationship come in a surface and arguing starts to have physical
element and finally becomes acrobatic. Finally arguments start to have childish features and
in the end tired couple finds themselves again with equal understanding. Topic of the duet is
lack of communication and wrong way of approaching each other. That something that they
have had doesn’t work anymore, it feels boring.
them. Problems in a relationship come in a surface and arguing starts to have physical
element and finally becomes acrobatic. Finally arguments start to have childish features and
in the end tired couple finds themselves again with equal understanding. Topic of the duet is
lack of communication and wrong way of approaching each other. That something that they
have had doesn’t work anymore, it feels boring.
Themes of the piece are contradictions between people or contradiction with one itself.
Choreographer wanted to capture a moment when one starts to notice problems of being and
frustration takes over and one have to define its situation all over again.
Choreographer wanted to capture a moment when one starts to notice problems of being and
frustration takes over and one have to define its situation all over again.
The music of the piece has been built-up in teamwork between choreographer and musician.
Musician’s instrument is an electric cello; witch makes cellos harmonically sound become
more angular, and experimental. Composition has pieced together using improvisation and it
discusses with dance during the piece.
Musician’s instrument is an electric cello; witch makes cellos harmonically sound become
more angular, and experimental. Composition has pieced together using improvisation and it
discusses with dance during the piece.
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| Lumivalko photo: Kimmo Paukku |
Lumivalko
Dance solo
Choreographer, dancer: Kimmo Alakunnas
Premier: 12.5.2007 in Esplanadi park, Helsinki
Dance solo
Choreographer, dancer: Kimmo Alakunnas
Premier: 12.5.2007 in Esplanadi park, Helsinki
