PERFORMER / DIRECTOR
Kulovalkea is a traditional Finnish word that means a rapidly expanding wildfire. The stage is shared by 10 circus artists who grew up together before going to study in different circus schools around the world. Together they create abstract imaginary by finding unusual uses for both everyday objects and traditional circus skills.
Kulovalkea happens between the group collaboration and confrontation, referring to today's world and the search for balance between people. Diverse circus techniques are mixed with theatricality and the contrasts created by meetings between different individuals of the group. Everyday situations where circus skills turn something ordinary into something unexpected and new. The work has been strongly inspired by a dadaist style research that seeks non-sensical meanings in things.
Director: Olli Vuorinen
Performers: Rosa-Maria Autio, Merri Heikkilä, Valpuri Kaarninen, Nelli
Kujansivu, Liisa Näykki, Maria Peltola, Onni Toivonen, Petteri Savikorpi,
Pinja Seppälä, Juho Yrjölä, Jaimee Allen
Music: Katri Salmenoja
Light design: Teo Lanerva
Production: Sirkum Polaris & Cie Nuua
Hede is a lyrical contemporary circus performance dusting given ideas on human connection. The performance transforms the stage into a visional living room, where object manipulation, juggling and poetry meets in an absurd way.
With symbolic floral objets, minimalistic aestethiques the show gives the focus for the transitions from a motion into imaginary and the other way around. Hede balances between simple elements and open minded thinking.
Concept and performing
Katri Salmenoja & Olli Vuorinen
Juggling & object manipulation: Olli Vuorinen
Poems: Katri Salmenoja
Translation of Poems (from Finnish to French): Aude Brisset
Sound: Katri Salmenoja, Sound Illustrators
Light design: Teo Lanerva
Co-production: Kunelma, Nuua
Chameleon is an ensemble visual and circus theatre show using the concept and visual elements of camouflague. The performance is a development of the 2015 award-winning demo-show of the same name. This is the largest show for Kallo Collective so far, involving 6 circus artists.
Performers: Inga Björn, Kristiina Janhunen, Jenni Kallo, Gemma Tweedie, Sakari Saikkonen, Olli Vuorinen
Directors: Thomas Monckton and Gemma Tweedie
Light design: Elina Nopanen
Performance of debasement. On stage three performers, a
juggler, an acrobat and a performance artist creates a con-
tinuity of absurd scenes that follow one another as artists
question and experiments their limits, ones they impose to
themselves and equally the ones imposed by others. Until
where we can go without hurting ourselves?
Creating a raw performance with a mixture of black humour
and oddness. Taival intorregates this fragile separation that
live inside of us all. Between an absolute freedom that inspi-
res us and independency that gives essence of being human.
Linked with manipulative games and domination these
three artists try to let go of it in order to find a refuge to their
frustrations.
Original idea: Jouni Ihalainen, Olli Vuorinen
Performing : Jouni Ihalainen Nahuel Desanto Coline Froidevaux
Direction: Pau Portabella
Assistant Director: Olli Vuorinen
Light design: Teo Lanerva
Sound design and music: Petteri Rajanti
Costumes: Anne Jämsä
“Our juggling material emerges from the manipulation of a large number of objects, as a physical matter is made up of a large number of atoms, we do not see anymore a few balls or rings, but a set of behaviors that are passing through solid states, liquid or gaseous, until becoming an animated matter.
Our language unfolds playing with objects, bodies, air and floor, like four states of contemporary alchemy. Our perfection is as well in the eternal suspension and in the adaptation of playing with the moment. "
In 2013, after a four-year educational experience at the Académie Fratellini, Denis Paumier continued the adventure with his former students. This project brings together five jugglers around tradition and new tracks of juggled language.
The show was premiered in January 2013 at the Manège de Reims and the last one was held at Théâtre de la Madeleine in Troyes on March 27, 2018, after more than 125 performances.
Inside a forest of helium balloons, a small balloon follows one of the artists, as if it was a little bird on a leash, learning how to fly. In the background, attached from the wrist to a bouquet of balloons, someone seems to be lifted up to the air.
In a peculiar and oneiric universe, populated with helium balloons, two artists dialogue with each other and with their objects. Far from being ordinary objects, the balloons have their own life. The artists seem to talk, and actually interact with the physical will of their own tools.
Combining object manipulation, juggling, acrobatics and physical theatre, with hints of puppeteering and magic, LENTO is a research on risk, control, obsession and nostalgia.
With strong images and poetic situations, NUUA invites the spectator to celebrate the miracle of flight.