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Apr 30, 2012
ABSENT PRESENCE AND MAN IN A ROOM AT THE FULL MOON DANCE FESTIVAL
Tero Saarinen’s latest choreography Absent Presence is performed in a double bill together with his solo Man in a Room at the Full Moon Dance Festival in Pyhäjärvi on July 26, 2012.
Absent Presence received its premiere in November 2011. The work is a manic and humoristic, yet strangely wistful choreography for seven dancers, and it mirrors the absurdity of our hectic times. The evening opens with Saarinen's interpretation on Man in a Room, which was created for him by Carolyn Carlson. The work is inspired by the life of the American Abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.
More information on the performance here.
Apr 30, 2012
SCHEME OF THINGS | VOX BALAENAE AT THE HELSINKI FESTIVAL
Tero Saarinen Company's new evening Scheme of Things | Vox Balaenae receives its Finnish premiere at the Helsinki Festival in August 2012.
Tero Saarinen's moving solo, Vox Balaenae, Voice of the Whale, reflects the primordial power of nature, and our own alienation from it. The choreography has been inspired by the contemporary music classic of the same name by the American composer George Crumb.
The evening's double bill starts with Tero Saarinen Company's Scheme of Things, in which six dancers explore the chance nature of human relationships and recurring patterns of behaviour.
Six performances will take place at the Finnish National Opera from 31st August to 6th September, and after each performance there is an audience discussion.
More information on the performances here.
Apr 23, 2012
TERO SAARINEN'S MARIAGE AT THE FINNISH NATIONAL OPERA IN MAY
Mariage, based on the creation of Igor Stravinsky’s Les Noces, gets its Finnish premiere on May 11, 2012. The Finnish National Ballet will perform this masterpiece in Helsinki, gathering over 60 dancers and singers on the stage.
Mariage was originally premiered in France in 2007 in a joint production by CCN - Ballet de Lorraine and Opéra National de Lorraine. The work will be seen as part of three choreographer's evening on the main stage of the Opera, from 11th to 26th of May. More information on the performances here.
Oct 21, 2011
Tero Saarinen Company to premiere two creations in November
Tero Saarinen Company is to premiere two new creations in November 2011. Our first world premiere since May 2008 will take place in France on November 5, when Festival Automne en Normandie presents Scheme of Things and Vox Balaenae, a collaboration with the Parisian Ensemble intercontemporain. On November 23, we launch another new double bill, Blossom & Decay, on our home stage at the Alexander Theatre in Helsinki.
Scheme of Things is a choreography that Tero Saarinen originally created for Dutch ensemble Nederlands Danst Theater 1 in 2009. This work for six dancers is now being added to Tero Saarinen Company’s own repertoire and combined with a new creation, Vox Balaenae, a collaboration with the Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain.
The new double bill will be seen at Le RiveGauche in Rouen (Automne en Normandie, November 5–6) and Théatre de Caen (Les Boréales, November 13) in France this autumn.
Read more about the new evening from our works-section.
BLOSSOM & DECAY – A NEW CREATION COMBINED WITH A RENOWNED SOLO
Tero Saarinen Company’s second new double bill, Blossom & Decay, premieres at the Alexander Theatre in Helsinki on November 23. It combines Tero Saarinen’s latest work for seven dancers, Absent Presence, with a solo (Man in a Room or HUNT) by the choreographer.
Blossom & Decay’s opening week on our home stage (Nov. 23–26) will be followed by a tour of City Theatres around Finland.
Read more about Blossom & Decay from our works-section.
MORE INFO, PRESS TICKETS AND INTERVIEW REQUESTS, PLEASE CONTACT:
Terhi Mikkonen, Marketing and Communications Manager
+358 (0)45 121 2245 | terhi.mikkonen@terosaarinen.com
Feb 14, 2011
Tero Saarinen Company's EU funded project at the Culture in Motion conference
The EU-funded project that made the creation of Tero Saarinen Company’s Borrowed Light possible will be showcased at the Culture in Motion Conference in Brussels on February 15–16. The Conference presents projects funded by EU’s Culture programme and its predecessor Culture 2000 to the cultural field’s decision makers and other interest groups. More than 600 participants from all over Europe are expected to attend the meeting. In total, more than 2300 projects have received funding from the programme. Of these, 28 have been invited to be displayed at the conference and 17 of them will be presented in more detail.
Tero Saarinen Company’s Managing Director Iiris Autio will hold a presentation about the Borrowed Light project on February 15, being the only Nordic speaker of the event. Other speakers include Jordi Savall, director of The International Centre of Ancient Music in Barcelona, Bernard Foccrouille, director of Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Gerd Van Looy, director of the European Concert Hall Organization and others.
Tero Saarinen Company received funding from the EU’s Culture programme in 2004–2005. The project comprised of the creation of Borrowed Light, six performances in France, Sweden and Finland and a seminar connected with the work's premiere in Le Havre, France.
The seminar, arranged with the aid of the Finnish Dance Information Center brought together 37 top festival and venue directors, agents and promoters from 10 countries. A summary of the seminar can be found here.
The core of the project was the creation of Borrowed Light, a 70 minute large-scale dance work, featuring contemporary dance (Tero Saarinen Company, Finland) and a cappella singing (The Boston Camerata, USA).
The Culture 2000 Programme funded project has had a significant and long lasting impact on the development of Tero Saarinen Company's operations. The seminar was an important networking tool and Borrowed Light has continued to gain both critical acclaim and enthusiastic audience responses from around the globe. With a total of 53 performances in 11 countries on 3 continents and more than 50 000 spectators between the years of 2004 – 2011, the work is among Tero Saarinen Company's most succesful productions to date.
Borrowed Light returns to Europe in May 2011 with a tour spanning Finland, The Netherlands, France and Germany. For details, see our Event Calendar.
For info about the Culture in Motion conference, visit www.culture-in-motion-2011.eu
