FESTIVAL PROGRAM
The highlights of Finnish contemporary dance will be seen this December in Pori: Susanna Leinonen Company with their newest work Nasty, Kinetic Orchestra with Rohkeat and Theo Clinkard’s premiere work The Days, performed by Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen.
Pori Dance Company will also presents three works of their wood works on this year’s festival: Russell Adamson's premiere work Home, Emrecan Tanış's work An Incident Of Close, and Mikko Lampinen's solo Karkurit.
There will be also workshops and other festivals activities, so stay tuned and follow our news!

Ticket prices: 14 - 23,50 €
Festival passes: 68 - 36 €
(Inc. 1 ticket for each performance)
Sunday 2.12.2018 19.00 - Pori Theate, Main stage
PORI DANCE COMPANY: HOME (premier)
Choreography: Russell Adamson
Dance:: Riikka Tankka, Meri Tankka, Sofianna Salmi, Mikko Lampinen
Costume design: Russell Adamson ja työryhmä
Visual design: Sensus Pool Project / Mikko Lampinen
If home becomes so fragile, that it stops providing the familiar feeling of security anymore - how does it affect our way of encountering the world? How do our relationships with others or the perception of ourselves change when the basic pillars of life are shaken by uncertainty and confusion? How can we survive the breakdown of our own home and what kind of emotions it raises in us.
PORI DANCE COMPANY: KARKURIT
Choreography & dance: Mikko Lampinen
Lighting design: Anssi Ruotanen
Sound design: Kristian Merilahti
Music: Colin Stetson
Texts: Alan Watts
Visual design: Sensus Pool Project / Mikko Lampinen
”There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” -Aldous Huxley
What makes an idea or movement overcome another? Or even become The maxim to follow. Through dynamic audiovisual continuum the work travels between abstract and factual environments led by the Art Of Meditation by Alan Watts.
This is a third joint project of choreographer Mikko Lampinen, sound designer Kristian Merilahti and lighting designer Anssi Ruotanen.
Photo: Juha Saastamoinen

Ticket prices: 14 - 23,50 €
Festival passes: 68 - 36 €
(Inc. 1 ticket for each performance)
Monday 3.12.2018 19.00 - Pori Theate, Main stage
KINETIC ORCHESTRA: ROHKEAT
Choreography: Jarkko Mandelin & creative crew
Performers: Iiro Näkki, Anni Koskinen sekä Urho, Oiva & Jarkko Mandelin
Sound design: Ger Van Dijk
Light design: Juuso Joutsio
Costume design: Jenna Mandelin
Production: Mikko Heino, Kinetic Orchestra & Taideosuuskunta Apinatarha
The work opens up to adults and children alike, not forgetting the first and without underestimating the latter. The piece includes singing, racing with miniature cars, and an awful lot of demanding movement and touching moments.
The piece presents – alongside three of the company’s professional dancers – as performers Oiva, age eight, and Urho, age six. The children have practiced dance and hand to hand acrobatics with their father, Jarkko Mandelin – since ages.
Throughout the piece a thematic of bravery is carried out and tested concretely with acrobatic movement material and subtly from the viewpoint of social challenges, intimacy, thrill and performing.
Photo: Heikki Kervinen
Ticket prices: 14 - 23,50 €
Festival passes: 68 - 36 €
(Inc. 1 ticket for each performance)

Sunday 9.12.2018 19.00 - Pori Theate, Main stage
SUSANNA LEINONEN COMPANY: NASTY
Choreography: Susanna Leinonen
Music: Arvo Pärt
Costume design: Sari Nuttunen
Light design: Harri Peltonen
Dancers: Tiia Huuskonen, Elina Häyrynen, Natasha Lommi, Elisa Tuovila ja Erika Vilander
Nasty is a strikingly topical work that centers on the expectations, limitations and attacks targeted at our bodies. The piece presents an unvarnished vision of our world, where evil hides in the structures of the society but also in ourselves: we pass along the injustice and cruelty we have experienced.
Susanna Leinonen Company’s works are known for their extremely skillful and demanding movement. This time choreographer Susanna Leinonen and her ensemble have chosen to examine our bodily limits , as well as how constantly being looked at and under conflicting demands and expectations shape the female body and experience. In the center of the work are dancers and their bodies as tools of artistic work. In Nasty, the highly trained physique becomes a machine that stretches, bends and creaks to fulfill its full potential. But the question remains: who gets to define that potential?
Leinonen’s choreography doesn’t revel in violence and corporality, but rather spells out the everyday viciousness we direct at ourselves and at others. Harsh words take their place on the surfaces of the space and on the skin of the dancers as an unstoppable stream of information and opinions. Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s delicate and expressive music contrast and completes this stark vision the world.
Photo: Mirka Kleemola

Monday 10.12.2018 19.00 - Pori Theate, Main stage
PORI DANCE COMPANY:
AN INCIDENT OF CLOSENESS
Choreography: Emrecan Tanış
Dancers: Riku Lehtopolku, Meri Tankka, Riikka Tankka
Light design :Anssi Ruotanen, Emrecan Tanis
Sound design: Mehmet Tanis
Costume design: Erika Turunen
Costume implementation: Seija Raunio, Erika Turunen
In the most crowded and concentrated cities there already lives over 10 people per square meter and this number is growing every moment. Often we are not able to choose with whom we share the space but we do have an opportunity to influence how to adjust ourselves to these conditions. Is it possible to feel free in these restricted conditions? Does our approach towards others transform as the space gets less and less? Shall we fight for the space or welcome others to our square meter?

THEO CLINKARD:
THE DAYS (Premier)
Choreography: Theo Clinkard
Performers: Ville Oinonen ja Maria Nurmela
Composer & sound designer: James Keane
Light design: Kalle Ropponen
Dramaturgyi: Leah Marojević
Producer: Inari Pesonen
Viimeisen kuuden vuoden aikana Iso-Britanniassa työskentelevä koreografi ja suunnittelija Theo Clinkard on luonut uraa koskettavilla ja visuaalisesti vangitsevilla teoksillaan. Clinkardin omalle ryhmälleen luomien töidensä lisäksi hänen viimeiset tilausteoksensa Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bauschille ja Danza Contemporanea de Cuballe ovat vakiinnuttaneet hänen asemansa raikkaana koreografisena tekijänä samalla tuoden niin kriitikoiden suosiota kuin myös seuraajia.
Clinkardin on esityksissään ja työskentelyssään jo pitkään keskittynyt runollisen ilmaisun ja arkikielen tasapainoon. Koreografiset rakenteet antavat tilaa niin esiintyjien kuin katsojien aistimuksille. ”The Days” on sekoitus näitä ilmaisukeinoja kahden erityislaatuisen esiintyjän, Ville Oinosen ja Maria Nurmelan tulkitsemana.
Tässä duetossa yksi ainoa tehtävä kantaa koko teoksen läpi luoden jatkuvasti muuntuvan fyysisen, henkisen ja metaforisen maiseman, joka johdattelee kokijan tunnistamaan monisyisiä yhdessäolon muotoja.
Photo: Olivia Hansson
Photo: Mikko Lampinen
Ticket prices: 14 - 23,50 €
Festival passes: 68 - 36 €
(Inc. 1 ticket for each performance)
TICKETS
Basic: 23,50 €
Pensioner: 21,50 €
Students: 18,50 €
DISCOUNTS:
For members of Body in Motion ry
-3€ / ticket
Only from Pori Dance Company office or by booking
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FESTIVAL PASSES:
Basic: 68 €
Pensioner: 60 €
Students: 48 €
Includes ticket to each performance. Can only be bought from ticket sales offices
at Visit Pori, Ticketmaster and Tanssikoulu Nojonen.
TICKET SALES LOCATIONS IN PORI
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Address: Itäpuisto 7, 28100 Pori
Phone: (02) 621 7900
Open Monday-Friday 9:00 - 16:30
Address: Pohjoisranta 11, 28100 PORI
3rd floor (Clock tower building)
Phone:
Riikka Tankka - 040 5693582
Meri Tankka - 040 5693583
Mikko Lampinen - 0405581721
Open Monday-Friday 15-20
(5.11.-17.11.2018)

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