MUSICAL PUPPET SHOW

4.10. 14.00 & 16.00 Balder Hall

Students and teachers of the Turku Polytechnic

IN SORDINA
Anneli Arho: In sordina (2006)

Even before we are born, we face obstacles in life that have to be overcome. Do these obstacles already exist, or do we create them ourselves to safeguard our existence? The performance is an adaptation of Anneli Arho’s In Sordina.

Preludio
Notturno
Ricordo
Frottola
Ora

Team: Jani Naskali, Henrika Nieminen, Paula Vilmi
Musicians: Liisa Örnmark, Jaakko Mattelmäki, Anna Pohjola & Sakari Kivinen

AMOR
S. Patric Simmerud: Roma (1998)

Amor illustrates and materialises S. Patric Simmerud’s composition Roma. The associations it conjures forth are materialised on stage as forms and movements. We hope our audience will not hesitate to let themselves be borne along on their stream of consciousness.

Team: Hemmo Kauppinen, Johanna Salo, Satu Wiinikka
Musician: Antti Suoranta

VANAVEDESSÄ
Claus Gahrn: undertow/everflow (2004)

Team: Leena Lahikainen, Paula Vilmi
Musicians: Minna Lindholm, Susanna Syrjäläinen, Saana Iljin & Omar Zouiter

The sound world of a puppet theatre

The sound world of a puppet theatre can be approached in many ways. Music can, for example, be composed as a background to create an atmosphere, or it can be built into a scene as a character in itself, or the performance can draw on ready material. What associations does the music evoke? What sort of story does it tell? Which materials support the story, and vice versa: how do the music and musicians support the performance, the puppets’ movements, the narrative? Most puppet theatre performances use pre-recorded music, but this time we are lucky to have live musicians, and their presence opens up completely new potential. By breathing in time to the action on stage, it gives the performance rhythm and vitality. Live musicians can be a dynamic element of puppet theatre, as rhythm-setters, providers of material and puppeteers’ puppets.

Roosa Halme ja Paula Vilmi