News
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
Jan 28, 2011
BORROWED LIGHT EUROPEAN TOUR IN MAY 2011
Tero Saarinen Company's largest work, Borrowed Light, will return to Europe in spring 2011. The much anticipated European tour of one of Tero Saarinen Company's biggest international successes features dates in Turku & Helsinki (Finland), Groningen (The Netherlands), Roubaix (France), Ludwigshafen (Germany).
The tour kicks off in Turku on May 6-7. The performances at Logomo will be part of the city’s European Capital of Culture -programme. See www.turku2011.fi for details.
The following week (May 10-14), Borrowed Light will be seen at The National Theater in Helsinki. Tickets for all performances in Finland are on sale at Lippu.fi.
The tour continues on to Stadsschouwburg Groningen (May 19, The Netherlands), CCN Roubaix, Le Colisée (May 21, France), Theater im Pfalzbau (May 24-25, Ludwigshafen, Germany).
For more info about the work, performed together with The Boston Camerata, see our website's works-section. All of our confirmed tour dates can be found from our Event Calendar.
Oct 22, 2010
Pre-premiere in Espoo
The pre-premiere performances of Tero Saarinen Company’s new full evening work, Blossom & Decay (working title), will take place at the Espoo Cultural Centre’s Louhi Hall on November 24 - 25.
Performances:
Wed, Nov. 24 at 19.00
Thu, Nov. 25 at 13.00
Thu, Nov. 25 at 19.00
Duration approx. 1 hour. Audience discussions will be held after the performances.
Tickets: €35/30/25 from Lippupiste, www.lippu.fi
Oct 13, 2010
A "Brilliant" visit to New York
Tero Saarinen was once again warmly welcomed in New York last week, this time as a dancer. The New York City Center’s Fall for Dance festival featured two performances of Tero Saarinen's solo, Man in a Room, choreographed for him by Carolyn Carlson. The sold out performances gathered over 5500 spectators and, according to The New York Times, were "brilliant".
The New York Times critic Roslyn Sulcas was overwhelmed by Saarinen's stage presence describing it as “extraordinarily compelling” and his interpretation, ranging from manic craziness to dark gloom, as “brilliant”. Read more
Tero Saarinen Company's visit was a part of an evening of four separate works. The other European guest was The Dresden Ballet with a choreography by William Forsythe. The U.S. was represented by the world famous American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and Ronald K. Brown / Evidence, one of the leading companies integrating traditional African and contemporary dance.
The New York City Center, which has operated in Manhattan for over 60 years, is one of the most important performing arts centers in the United States and it is the home stage of the Paul Taylor and Alvin Ailey dance companies among others. Organized since 2004, the Fall for Dance Festival's mission is to expand audiences by providing a wide variety of high class performances featuring different dance genres to a broad public.
This was Tero Saarinen Company's fourth visit to the Big Apple. In previous years, the company has received high praise for performances at e.g. The Joyce (2006) and Brooklyn Academy of Music (Howard Gilman Opera House, 2007).
