Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit

OFF-PROGRAMME: JUHLA (DEMO)

25.7. klo 14 Kaislaranta
Residential Home Kaislaranta wanted to add dance to their music activities. The performance includes well known music from Kaislaranta own band as well as dancing by ten dancers from Residential Home Kaislaranta, Kartanonmäki and Pihlajakoti.
In co-operation with Pyhäsalmen Tanssi ry and Regional Dance Center in Northern Finland

Föreställningar:

25/7.

Artists in residence perform/Cruising - Camera Obscura rides

A new three-year collaborative project will begin at Full Moon Dance with Japan's leading contemporary dance venue Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1. This Japanese-Finnish project will promote the exchange of performances and artists between the two countries through e.g. residential working: a Japanese choreographer will spend the summers working in Pyhäjärvi at Full Moon Dance and a Finnish choreographer will do likewise in Red Brick Warehouse in Yokohama. The project's Finnish organisers are the Finnish Dance Information Centre and Pyhäsalmi Dance Association, while its counterparts in Japan are The Finnish Institute in Japan and Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse. The artists participating in the first phase of the project are Maki Morishita from Japan and Vera Nevanlinna from Finland. Both Morishita and Nevanlinna will work in residence at the festival. Morishita will make a piece with Finnish dancers and Nevanlinna will work on and perform in street and outside performances with the artist Mi Duncker. The works will be presented on July 24th at 5-7pm and on July 25th at 2-4pm.
Nevanlinna will continue her work in the residential collaboration project in November and December in Yokohama, Japan, where she will prepare a new premiere with Japanese dancers.
Both artists-in-residence will also perform their own solo works in a joint evening comprised of Nevanlinna's News and Morishita's Debutante and Koshitsu.

Koreografi: Maki Morishita/Vera Nevanlinna

Föreställningar:

24, 25, 26/7.

ABSOLUT FINLAND 2007 EVENING

The Absolut Finland 2007 evening offers spectators a unique overview of Finnish dance. A number of domestic artists will take to the stage over the course of the show to present both their own classics as well as new works, and there will also be time for short one-off improvisations. Dance Theatre Minimi directors Antti Lahti and Tuomas Juntunen's Absolute Finland, a danced sales pitch about Finland and the seemingly exotic things it has to offer that has already achieved cult status, will put the audience in the right mood, and the evening’s bill will also include performances and choreography by Tommi Kitti, Puhti and Susanna Leinonen, who will present a first premiere of her own solo choreography. Also appearing will be Finland's leading contemporary dance group, Helsinki Dance Company, which will present Eeva Muilu´s choreography Teos siitä mitä on (a work about things that exist) and Full Moon Dance artistic director Harri Kuorelahti's Act of Unknown. The evening will be hosted by the dancer and stand-up comedian Johanna Keinänen.

Föreställningar:

26/7.

Festival Club

Dj A.Lahti plays great summer music; funk, soul, afrobeat and dancejazz with the mood of love.
Puhti is a unique, two women folk music and dance group that gets its inspiration from the Karelian culture. The music graduate, Anne-Mari Kivimäki, plays the accordion, the choreographer, Reetta-Kaisa Pirhonen, dances, and both of them sing. Puhti is a mixture of crazy hurly-burly, at times sensitizing, happy and bathetic cooperation of a dancer and a musician.
FESTIVAL CLUB: July 28 at 10 pm Festival closing party at Hotel Pyhäsalmi.

Föreställningar:

26, 28/7.

BUILDING, SPACE AND DANCE

Students from the Department of Dance Art at the Finnish Theatre Academy will hold open rehearsals from 12 - 4 pm every day during the Full Moon festival on the Pyhäjärvi main street? - don. They will rehearse for a performance which has been inspired by the locally familiar Salmi scenery, which people pass every day but no one ever really notices. Pedestrians will be able to watch how the rehearsals are progressing for the duration of the festival.
The performances themselves will be held on 27-28 July at 11pm, imbuing a familiar place with a new atmosphere and significance. 10 dancer-choreographers will perform both inside and outside the building. The performers and designers are choreography students, and there will also be a lighting designer and several dance students from other Nordic countries. Professor of Choreography Marjo Kuusela will direct the group.

Föreställningar:

24, 25, 27, 28/7.

Ari Tenhula ger Mindscape

En interaktiv installation

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 25, 26, 27, 28/7.

Circo Aereo ger FRITT FALL

A free fall to the ground between circus and music. A trapezist and a juggler are joined on stage by the famed electro-jazz band RinneRadio.
Fritt Fall presents a minimalist approach to circus with an intense contact to the audience and the performance situation.
RinneRadio’s unique blend of varied styles and influences has been heard worldwide on tours extending besides all over Europe to Japan, USA, Russia and Africa.
Suitable for audiences over 7 years old.

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 28/7.

Jo Strømgren Kompani ger The Orchestra

The remains of a popular music orchestra are suffering from a serious hangover somewhere deep in the Finnish woods. The lead singer has left for a solo career in the big city and all they can do is wait and hope for her return. But never-ending trains keep passing, each time sounding hollower. Money has run out, bottles are empty, and no ropes are to be found. Music has died and life in silence is no life at all. But then one train suddenly stops…

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE:
Hitting rock bottom is a major turning point for most people who experience it, and essential values are often rediscovered in the miserable dirt. This performance aims to illustrate such a moment. The world of popular music is associated with superficial motives, and a regular band split-up is usually a pathetic happening. But what happens if the rupture of a superficial construction leads to a revelation of something truly existential? That music actually is vitally important to the performers? That the necessity to express something proves more important than the need to eat, sleep and have sex? The frame of popular music is not the obvious match for treating an existential topic, but it may very well be a way to pin-point some general human mechanisms. On one level, the performance seeks to give a picture of people who discover the necessity to do what they do, which is not always the case in contemporary lifestyles.
The language is a linguistic alias of Finnish, made to function as an abstract language with a clear local alibi. A pseudo-authentic game of using the storytelling tools of theatre and still keeping the associative value of other performance genres intact. This method is an established trademark of Jo Strømgren Kompani and this production follow the long line of performances with nonsensical speech based on many different languages.
The music concentrates on popular music from 1950-1970, an era where Finnish music was rich in both pathos and quality. Melodies, arrangements and lyrics understated the definition of music as something that elevated life to pompous heights. Finnish music is also a rather unknown genre internationally, probably due to the language and geographical reasons. Finland is far North, quite small, and was dangerously close to the Soviet Union in this period. A time when screaming for international attention would not be the smartest thing to do.
Some music is presented in original version, but mostly sounds and music is performed live. A capella arrangements for four voices are accompanied by a full two octave bottle orchestra, along with a similar full scale of resonant wine glasses. A set of hidden microphones secures a rich amplified sound to these rather delicate “instruments”.
The performance involves a mix of acting, dancing, and live music. It follows the epic storytelling tradition, but stands out with its language abstraction and use of association, both in situations and visual composition. The company repertoire has proven to work across any geographical and cultural borders.

Koreografi: Jo Strømgren

Föreställningar:

Tallinn: 25, 26/4. BIT Teatergarasjen: 03, 04/6. Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 24/7.

Jyrki Haapala ger ¡VA POR USTEDES!

¡VA POR USTEDES! (Director's cut) melts together dance and electro acoustic music in a road movie atmosphere. The performance is a dark coloured journey into encounters and separations of five characters. Their mysterious lives are momentarily woven together in a fast food restaurant.
¡VA POR USTEDES! (Director's cut) is created by a new international dance assembly called pora-projekti, founded in Outokumpu. The group collects together different dance makers in order to clash together working methods and cultures in constructing spirit.

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 25/7.

Liisa Pentti ger Travel

Choreography and direction: Liisa Pentti Dance: Riina Huhtanen, Liisa Pentti, Mickaël Stoeckel
Space: Mia Kivinen
Sound mixing: Patrick Kosk
Costumes: Suvi Hänninen
Production: Liisa Pentti + Co, in co-operation with Zodiak, TeaK

A dance work in unconventional surroundings, giving space for movement to exist in its own right. Travel consists of two parts: a solo for the choreographer Liisa Pentti herself, and a duet for dancers Riina Huhtanen and Mickaël Stoeckel.

Koreografi: Liisa Pentti

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 26/7.

Nada Gambier ger CONFESSIONS- THE AUTOPSY OF A PERFORMANCE

What is the presence of a performer?
Does construction feed falsification?
How does the manipulation of presence instruct the perception of a performance?
In Confessions-The autopsy of a performance presence takes the leading role, guides the piece and brings the awareness on the absurdity of theatre, on the construction of a lie that is built to be believed in.
(Physical) Images and text lead the spectators into a world where lies are sometimes true and facts unimportant. An excess of manipulation and speculation giving birth to a sincere and curious approach to what live performance is today and questioning its value as such. Confessions is essentially a meeting between the performer, the audience and the stage that keeps them apart.
Looking at acting as a form of non-acting in order to arrive at a distance from the artificiality of performance only to return to it again from a different perspective. Looking for harmony between dead energy and live presence, stretching the tension between formalism and naturalism, environment and action.
Questioning the appearance of ‘reality’ on stage and finding ways of unravelling stagnated forms of representation in order to initiate a need and curiosity for changes in theatrical presentation.

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 25/7.

Paula Tuovinen ger REvenge

Paula Tuovinen's solo REvenge evaluates revenge starting from a personal humiliation and ponders upon the right to revenge. From a personal level she opens the question to a broader one and asks whether revenge has a scale where it could be justified and how forgiveness and understanding could be possible. In this work, which is partly documentary, come together a mobbing letter, middle aged women, speech, movement and improvisation.
Besides her dance career, Paula Tuovinen has made academic studies and has MA in cultural anthropology, which has influenced her work as an artist. She has been also chair of the Board of Zodiak - Center for New Dance. She has worked as full time lecturer of contemporary dance at the Theatre Academy of Finland, Dance Department. At the moment she is the rector of the Theatre Academy of Finland.
Tuovinen's choreographic style is versatile, and is flavored with irony and humor. She has choreographed both for dance films and Bollywood. The work that she has toured most is Blonde, which she has performed in Belgium, France, Lithuania, Czech Republic and in the
former Serbia-Montenegro. She has collaborated with environment artists, different visualists and with a number of Finnish composers, like Jukka Koskinen, Lotta Wennäkoski, Harri Kerkko and Kaija Saariaho.

Koreografi: Paula Tuovinen

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 25/7.

Routa Company ger GETTING REAL

One of the unspoken agreements of theatre is that the observer goes to the theatre in order to experience something real yet knowing that he will be lied to. The performer on the other hand is paid to lie to the public as convincingly as possible.
While thinking about the function of theatre in todays world dominated by television where the reality shows are a flourishing business and we are sitting comfortably on our sofas staring at car accidents,bypass operations, births, marital crises, sleeping rooms or candid cameras - anything what is REAL -
I find myself confronted with questions about the purpose of performing art and theatre.
Do we need theatre? What kind of theatre do we need? Can a performer be honest?
Or does he lie honestly? Where is the border between truth and lie? Does it matter?
Can dance lie? Is performing art a question of belief? Do you believe me?Do you take me seriously?Do you want me to lie to you?
Or tell the truth? Does it matter?
And where the hell is Francesco???
Sanna Myllylahti

Sanna Myllylahti is an independent dancer/ choreographer. Born in Finland 1972, she studied at Danshögskolan in Stockholm and at the Theaterschool in Amsterdam. She graduated in 1996 with BA in dance. She has been creating her own work since 1994. Her latest work, AFTER ALL, produced by Routa Company. It was premiered in February 2006 in Finland and is currently on tour. Her work has been seen in Holland, Germany, Sweden, Russia and Finland. She has been a guest choreographer for companies such as Ballet Vorpommern (1998) and Folkwang tanzstudio (2002).
As a performer she has collaborated with (among others) Itzik Galili, Martin Butler, Roberto Galvan, Keren Levi and Peter Greenaway.
Myllylahti has been teaching professionals and in academies around the world: Amsterdam Theaterschool(SNDO+MTD), Helsinki Teatterikorkeakoulu, Balletakademien Gothenburg, Australian Dance Theatre, Kannondance St.Petersburg, SEAD Salzburg, PACT –Zollverein, Düsseldorf Tanzhaus,Folkwang Tanzstudio, HJS Amsterdam, Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts, Bangalore. She teaches contemporary technique, mainly floor work and composition.

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 27/7.

Simo Kellokumpu ger gorgeous Gavin

Here he is: Gavin is adorable lover. Every detail from gorgeous face to life like feet is surprising realistic!
In his new work Simo Kellokumpu deals with the expectations, hunger and hopes for urban love. What happens to a person who is full of unselfish love ? Is it possible to survive without being accepted ? Why do we beg for love ? The piece brings out the idea of nowadays´ tendency to make a brand and object out of everything, including human love.
In his works Kellokumpu approaches themes through rough movement language combined to emotional credibility.

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 25/7.

Tero Saarinen Company ger Wavelenghts/ Westward Ho!/HUNT

Koreografi: Tero Saarinen

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 28/7.

Zodiak/Kabelfabriken ger House of Mrs Wilson

"I have thought of myself as a house, full of events, movement, words, images and scenes. Even if a house is cleaned there are things that remain. Something inside me tells me what is appropriate for the stage. Why must something happen when usually there is nothing going on? Or you might notice as you stand in the spotlight in front of an audience that what you have in mind might not be important enough."
Jenni Kivelä (b. 1974) graduated from the Finnish Theatre Academy Department of Dance Art as a choreographer in 2002. Since then she has worked as a choreographer, creating works with the Kind People group, and made commissioned works for e.g. Helsinki Dance Company and Mobita Dansco. She worked as a house choreographer in Zodiak - Center for New Dance in 2004 and 2005, and her choreography Red-letter Days won the Saitama International Choreography Competition in Japan in 2005. She is currently working under the security of a three-year state grant and is the artistic director of the Finnish Theatre Academy dance group TADaC.
The Kind People association was officially founded in 2006. It is made up of designers, dancers and choreographers, some of whom have been working together since 2000. Its most successful work to date has been Red-letter Days which, since it was premiered in 2003, has gone on to tour in many countries in e.g. Europe, Africa and Asia. It is still part of Kind People's repertoire.

Koreografi: Jenni Kivelä

Föreställningar:

Pyhäjärvi Dansfestival/Dans under fullmånen/Täydenkuun Tanssit: 27/7.