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ALAIAQ is a multi-artistic work consisting of movement, sound and landscape. It is a flow that multiplies, duplicates, invites and diverges. In the work, juggling, music, sound and light design, and yoik opens up new layers of each other. Ailu Valle, Aleksi Niittyvuopio and Uyarakq (Aqqalu Berthelsen) is the working group formed for this work. The work, which combines music and circus art, was commissioned by the Kittilä-based Silence Organisation. ALAIAQ launches a series of ten commissioned works that will premiere between 2022 and 2024.
    "Madeleine Månsson has written the lyrics herself and is doing her first dance solo here, a scenic journey through a multifaceted landscape, which is felt purely physically, in her strong portrayal." Ingela Brovik / DANS tidningen 17.11.2022  VINTERRESA Choreography: Carl Knif Music: Franz Schubert Visualisation: Jukka Huitila Sound design: Janne Hast All photos: Thomas Zamolo
The final chapter of this epic project in Svalbard. Helsinki Dance Company's autumn 2022 premiere is choreographer Valtteri Raekallio's dance piece. Something has happened in the outskirts of Novaya Zemlya. Going through it systematically can reveal secret connections between dwindling natural resources and civilization. As the investigation deepens, the scientific and naturalistic worlds meet and change places. Beliefs become facts, scientific facts are revealed as beliefs. https://hkt.fi/esitykset/lomonosovin-moottori/ Music by unique Pekko Käppi Pekko collaborated recently with the one and only Roni Martin - Ei koskaan ollut kokonainen 
Companíã Kaari & Roni Martin presents BERGMAN - Kuiskauksia ja huutoja
HELSINKI, VALSSAAMO, KAAPELITEHDAS 29.9.-6.10.2022 Get your tickets now! "Here there is an aesthetic and a physical expression à la expressionist silent film and pantomime, while Strindberg's words are allowed to work in all their poetic beauty with a declamatory, sometimes parodic tone." SVENSKA DAGBLADET  "Rarely does one work have as many contact surfaces and current hurtfulness as in Pirjo Yli-Maunula and the team's new place-bound and immersive creation called Varikko." Kaleva 30.8.2022 Tickets and more https://www.flowprod.fi/en/portfolio/varikko/ All photos JP MANNINEN Svalbard with Raekallio Corp. and HDC in June. Upcoming premiere in Helsinki next November. Vacation mode in Norway June - July. Berlin B12 at Dock 11 with Thar Be Dragons - Eternal run in July. "Community and connection with others are emphasized in a performance whose raw presence caught the critic's eyes in tears" -Iida Rekonen - HS "The joint performance of Compañia Kaari & Roni Martin and the Portti Theater in the Pannuhalli of La Familia Dance House is intense. The intensity of the work is so strong that it could almost be cut with a knife. (-) Common to these often harsh but also sarcastic humorous stories is the whole world that opens up from a small picture. singer Victor Carrasco, together with violinist Sanna Salmenkallio and singer-guitarist Roni Martin, give the performance a wonderfully and roughly beautiful sounding base and frames on which other movement and actor expressions are built. " –Annikki Alku, D All photos Minna Hatinen  "The dance language is down to earth and stable with impulsive outbursts and clear poses in an open whole. " - Jan-Peter Kaiku, HBL "The visuals of the work, the softness of the business world, as well as Janne Hast's sound design and Franz Schubert's string quintet in C major guarantee that in the end your own feeling will float like in a bubble bath or whipped cream." - Merja Koskiniemi, HS "The other elements of the work are equally thoughtful and gently present. Jukka Huitila's rafter-like curtains and warm-toned lighting and Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila's casual casual clothing, mainly in a light pastel color." - Annikki Alku D All photos Yoshi Omori  Two completely different designs take over the Dance House Helsinki. The Sessions will premiere in Erkko Hall and La Familia will premiere in the Pannu Hall. For Sessions I will create a big scale scenography with Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila's costume design and Janne Hast's sound design. The stage is huge and I will fill it with transparency. Carl Knif Company’s 10th year celebrations begin with a bang: besides six premieres, the Company will celebrate its past with a photo and costume exhibition, which will be seen in Dance House Helsinki in May. La Familia is a documentary multi art work with Spanish flamenco stars. The personal experiences of the Porttiteatteri performers appear on the stage as multifaceted and unapologetic. Carl Knif Company "Ideas for the work arose from a range of both physical and cognitive treatment methods, as is also implied by the title: Sessions."  Sessions photo: Yoshi Omori  La Familia photo: Nauska Premiere on March 2, 2022! The joint evening of the three works will feature premiere performances for Helsinki Dance Company by Sari Palmgren and Mirva Mäkinen, as well as a duet with Saku Mäkelä and Riia Kivimäki in collaboration with the Cirko - New Circus Center. Tickets Dancers Luodos: Misa Lommi, Heidi Naakka, Jyrki Kasper Musician: Tapani Rinne Performes Soidinmenot: Inka Tiitinen, Pekka Louhio, Mikko Paloniemi, Justus Pienmunne Performers GLG: Riia Kivimäki, Saku Mäkelä Sound designs: Sami Tammela Sets and costumes: Elina Kolehmainen Masking: Henri Karjalainen Lighting designs: Jukka Huitila Photos: Kai Kuusisto 
Last chance for tickets! - > Performances untitl 6.2.2022 "Light in the dark for all the senses The multi-artistic ensemble encloses the viewer and touches the emotions." ... "I do not recall that any of the presentations I have seen before have taken it equally straightforwardly, effectively and heartily to a particular situation and a particular minority status." Lapin Kansa review 27.1.2022  All photos: Jouni Porsanger Viehâ ensemble Direction and choreography: Auri Ahola Performers: Auri Ahola, Titta Court, Unna Kitti, Eetu Känkänen, Ailu Valle Text: Auri Ahola Sound design: Tuomas Norvio Music: Tuomas Norvio and Ailu Valle Lighting design: Jukka Huitila Producers: Malla Alatalo, Virpi Moskari Production: Viehâ Working Group, Rovaniemi Art Museum The work is supported by the Kone Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Foundation I finished the lighting design project in Siida museum January 2022. I created inviting atmosphere by adjusting the levels to bring up the light dramaturgy inside the exhibition houses. I worked with Finnish companies Sun Effects and Saas Instruments and Saas delivered lights with custom specified colour temperatures and lenses for indoor lighting. Linear lights were custom lengths and in the rectangular boathouse they were f.e. four meters long. Nice unified look matching the boat lengths. All together I used three different lighting manufacture brands. All lights (EWO and Traxon) for outside were provided by Sun Effects. The weather demands are exceptional and this was studied carefully when choosing the lighting tools for this project. 27 000 visitors visited outdoor museum 2021.      I designed the lighting for 600 meters long walking path in Inari. For this project I used DIALux to calculate the output levels and to choose the perfect lenses for each purpose. For walking path I used EWO FA 170 1,5m high bollards and for spotlighting I used EWO P100 spots. For signs I used Traxon Archishape linears. All fixtures are 2700K and this brings really nice atmospheric landscape for the whole area. Next part of the project is to finish the indoor lighting for six houses on the path. The project will be ready January 2022.  The PIOT festival is celebrated all over Tornio, and on Saturday 6.11.2021 in Rantakatu Park, surrounded by domestic and international light art, at the festival’s main event. The artistic team of the PIOT festival is piloted by Julius Oförsagd, who has Tornian roots and a long history of event production in Lapland and around the world. The team also includes Matti Paloniemi, the artistic director of Dance Theater Rimpparemmi, who was planning the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest and is responsible for the dramaturgy of the PIOT festival. Lighting artist Jukka Huitila is responsible for the lighting contents of the PIOT festival in collaboration with Lauri Lundahl, and the gentlemen have designed lighting works around the world and have been doing, among other things, the Lux Helsinki event since its early years. Light and media artists in the main event are Teemu Määttänen, Duncan Mathews and Aleksander Salvensen. The conception and design of the lighting in the area has been carried out by lighting artist Jukka Huitila and technical designer Lauri Lundahl. https://www.piot.fi  Photo: Lauri Lundahl   Duncan Mathews: Dark Ideas  Teemu Määttänen: Atlas tree  Aleksander Salvensen: Relations of colour "Eternal Return is a human work flirting with horror and death, where the shiny just plays with the beautiful and the repeatability begins to strangle the throat." Kaleva review 5.11.2021 Eternal Return is a strange ride! Green lights are on! Strong lighting, you have been warned! Direction: Annamari Keskinen Performance: Ryan Mason, Annamari Keskinen, Meriheini Luoto Music: Meriheini Luoto Text: Ryan Mason, Annamari Keskinen Sound design: Kaj Mäki-Ullakko Light design: Jukka Huitila Set design: Aino Koski Photos: JP Manninen Production: JoJo – Oulu Dance Centre, Thar Be Dragons  Photo JP Manninen Thar Be Dragons is a platform for theatrical dance research, education, and performance, created by Annamari Keskinen and Ryan Mason in 2018. Here, both choreographers bring their professional experience and individual artistic vision into collaboration. Their work explores notions of subconscious communication, revealing dense and sometimes unseen intimacy between the layers of our inner landscapes. Their staged work shifts between rapid changes of mood, sustained states of tension, and layered imagery, often encircling themes of death, the unknowable, the paradoxical, borders, silence, light, the mystical, and the quotidian. Thar Be Dragons presented their first full-length work, Dying Animals Don’t Feel Sorry For Themselves at the Kaiku Club in Helsinki in 2018. They have been commissioned to create work for the Staatstheater Kassel, Staatstheater Braunschweig, and Hubbard Street Pro.
https://www.tharbedragons.org Lighting design for a magic show is quite different from my usual art work flow. It's all about creating illusions and entertaining. In close up magic it's critical to see everything and in bigger illusions there are different demands. I am not revealing more since it's magic. Henri blew my mind many times with such simple and beautiful magic. He can make a scarf to disappear, like really disappear in front of my eyes. Where? I have no idea but I don't even want to know. Sometimes it's lovely not to know. Premiere audience was enjoying for sure and I was enjoying seeing so many children living their dream. "How is that even possible?". Magic and illusions by Henri Kemppainen Feat. Jussi 69 on drums On stage Henri Kemppainen, Jussi 69, Jani Järvinen and Salla Kekäläinen Music by Johnny Lee Michaels Directors Sami Saikkonen and Sonja Sorvola Pyro effetcs by Jani Järvinen All photos by Niki Soukkio  Photo: Niki Soukkio "A beautiful path of human life. At the premiere, viewers didn’t want to let go of the world." Kaleva review 19.10.2021 AER is created by circus artist Hanna Moisala, dance artist Pirjo Yli-Maunula, costume designer Pirjo Valinen, sound designer Aake Otsala, light designer Jukka Huitila and set designer Heidi Kesti. AER is a co-production of Flow Productions and Lumo Company. All photos: Pekka Mäkinen   Photo: Karolina Henke Vinterresa (Winter Journey) is a new creation by choreographer Carl Knif for our dancer Madeleine Månsson. The starting point of the piece has been Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise based on Wilhelm Müller's poems. In Vinterresa Madeleine Månsson embarks on a journey through a multi-layered landscape. More Skånes Dansteater  AER alludes to air, wind and to the flows and currents of this life-sustaining element. This multisensory and intimate work creates a unique experience for its viewers, who can enter the piece in Valvesali at the Cultural Cente Valve. The work combines contemporary circus, contemporary dance, visual arts and music in an evocative performance. More Flow Productions  Thar Be Dragons:
Eternal Return is a strange ride.  Photo: Jussi Pohjavirta / Lapin Kansa 10.9.2021 The flowing flow (Vuolas vuo) can be seen all the way to Kittilä Road The city of Rovaniemi's first percentage work of art, Jukka Huitila's Vuolas vuo, was unveiled during the Rovaniemi week in Ylikylä. Seija Lappalainen Lapin Kansa 10.9.2021 When a work of art was ordered from Jukka Huitila for a multi-purpose building to be built in Ylikylä, Rovaniemi, the artist got acquainted with the empty plot, measured the environment with his eyes and rose to the rampart, which attenuates the noise of Kittiläntie traffic. Shortly thereafter, he received the first drawings from the architectural firm. - The design language of the ridge began to appeal to me, Huitila says. This is how the planning of percentage art began for the first time in Rovaniemi. Except that art did not account for a percentage of construction costs. - I don't even know the first project where this would have been fully realised, Huitila says. In keeping with the spirit of percent art, he got involved already in the design phase of the building, and was given free rein to place his work inside or outside the building. The artist wanted the work out so that it wasn’t just the Ilona of the building’s users. He wanted the work to be visible to Kittiläntie, the residents of the area and outdoor enthusiasts. An ambiguous work of light In September 2019, the City of Rovaniemi opened a portfolio search for a work of light art for the Ylikylä multipurpose building. Based on the portfolio, a sketch of the work was ordered from Jukka Huitila, and an order decision was made based on it. Huitila describes his work as a dissertation that has emerged from the observation of natural events. The artist who moved to Rovaniemi in 2018 has a close relationship with nature and especially river nature. Vuolas vuo is an ambiguous work that can be reminiscent of a river bed, northern lights, the top of a mountain and a river valley - and like nature, Vuolas vuo is different in daylight, evening twilight and night darkness. - The work is divided into a day theme and an evening and night theme. Changes tied to sunrise and sunset times closely follow the cycle of the year. In winter, in the camouflage, the evening and night theme is in the main part and the focus changes to the day theme as we go towards summer, the artist describes. The work can be admired from the courtyard of the kindergarten in the Ylikylä multipurpose building; the living work of light art is located on the roof edge of the facade of the building, adapting its shapes.ct in Rovaniemi. Under the name Vuolas vuo, I want to tie it to nature, which I respect and protect.  Photo: Jussi Pohjavirta / Lapinkansa 10.9.2021 Carl Knif creates an innovative and physical interpretation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play. Deity Agnes undertakes a dreamlike journey through the world, encountering the different sides of humanity. She sees people and their lives as they are, full of contrasts and suffering, but also great beauty. Will Agnes be disappointed with humans, or will she be filled with love? How will she interpret the meaning of life and humans’ role on earth? Knif poses questions through strong physical expression and visuality. Music also plays a key role in the performance. The performance is produced in collaboration between the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki, Riksteatern in Sweden, and Carl Knif Company. "The performance, co-produced by Svenska Teatern, the Swedish Riksteatern and the Carl Knif Company, is reminiscent of the style of German silent films or Russian formalists from a hundred years ago for its visualization." HS review **** 9.9.2021 "Lives up to expectations Carl Knif impressed a few years ago on the same stage with his dance theater production of Kafka's short novel The Transformation, and it quickly becomes clear that A Dream Play will not be a disappointment. In fact, the show is excellent, both entertaining and intellectual, visually rich and innovative." HBL review 9.9.2021 Direction and choreography: Carl Knif Performers: Mårten Andersson, Per Burell, Patrick Henriksen, Oksana Lommi, Pekka Louhio, Dennis Nylund Costume designer: Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila Sound designer/Composer: Janne Hast Light designer: Jukka Huitila Scenographer: Erik Salvesen Make-up and hair: Tiitta Stoor Photographer: Cata Portin Production: Carl Knif Company, Svenska Teatern, Riksteatern INEHMOT A performance for the whole family that combines dance and object theater The work INEHMOT, created jointly by dance artist Titta Court and puppet theater artist Jose Salo, has been inspired by the Finno-Ugric holder doll tradition and Guatemalan care dolls. The worries and worries entrusted to the puppets, and at the same time the simple and modest implementation of the puppets, create an interesting contrast. Belief in the dolls ’ability to help and eliminate problems is strong. The difficulties that appear on the stage in the form of different characters are solved by listening and sympathizing. Anssi Laiho's sound design and Jukka Huitila's lights support the delicate structure of the performance and create new worlds in front of the viewer. Jaana Isokangas is responsible for the costume. The performance is speechless.  Photo: Krista Kuu "With the help of a couple of rags, the driftwood is shaped into both a majestic deer and a flying lizard. The menacing bullfighter and the way-looking threads are reminiscent of the Minotauros stories."
LK review 30.8.2021 Concept, performers and scenography: Titta Court and Jose Salo Sound design: Anssi Laiho Lighting design: Jukka Huitila Costume: Jaana Isokangas Photos: Katri Kuu Production: Rasa Collective, Teatteri Liikutus and Piste Collective |
