The Director's Day Off

Premiere 25.3.2017

The Spectator

Choreography and dance: Anni Pilhjärta

Sound and lighting design: Antti Lindholm

Costume design: Kaija Maunula

The Spectator balances between being influenced and influencing, observing, experiencing, and watching—searching for a perspective. Does the gaze turn inward, or does the view open outward?

“Those who experience do not participate in the world.” – Martin Buber

A composition for one uncertain artist

Choreography and dance: Helmi Järvensivu

Sound and lighting design: Antti Lindholm

Costume design: Kaija Maunula

Beneath it all, just one uncertain artist. A work about uncertainty, a work about existence, a work about the awareness that someone is watching.

A Small Nocturnal Bacchanal

Choreography: Atte Herd

Dancers: Helmi Järvensivu and Laura Kallas

Sound and lighting design: Antti Lindholm & Atte Herd

Costume design: Kaija Maunula

The party ends and the guests begin to leave. Two young people sneak into the banquet hall to continue their own party. After rummaging through the buffet table, however, they find something unexpected—something that changes the situation. Emotions and desire take over. Will the mood remain lighthearted, or will competitiveness take over?

Performed by the theater duo Glasumoi – The Man and the Banjo Player

Choreography: Laura Kallas

Dancers: Antti Lindholm and Atte Herd

Sound and lighting design: Antti Lindholm

Costume design: Kaija Maunula

This is a story of courage. This is a story of faith and trust. This is a story of brotherhood, but not of equality, let alone freedom. This is a story of two men whom chance and a shared dream have carried, leading them to this moment in the intimate basement theater of Järvenpää House in 1998. This is the story of how the theater duo Glasumoi got its start, and especially of what has kept them going on their own path despite adversity.

The Fiddlers

Accordion: Henri Haakana

Projection: Antti Lindholm

Composition: Einojuhani Rautavaara

Arrangement: Matti Rantala

The Fiddlers is based on old South Ostrobothnian folk tunes, from which Rautavaara created a series of free fantasies while preserving the original pieces’ wonderful, archaic titles. The work consists of six parts.

Närbölaisten braa speli – The famous folk musicians of Närbö arrive in a splendid, rustic procession.

Kopsin Joonas – In the strange light of a Nordic summer night, Kopsin Joonas plays for the hunt and for himself.

Jacob Könni – Amid his wondrous clocks and machines lives Jakob Könni, a master craftsman, artist, and sorcerer.

Klockar Samuel Dickström – Village organist Samuel “improvises” in a solitary moment of inspiration: the small church fills with excerpts from his daily Bach, mixed with memories of old wedding dances.

The Devil’s Polka – A melancholy devil sits on a rock, listening to the gloomy, mysterious forest.

Jumps – Leaping and splashing, they spin, their broad faces solemn as if in church, yet with a strange fervor in their large feet and hands.

Sillankorva’s Paganini

Keyed Fiddle & Violin: Valtteri Valo

Brudmarch (trad.) – A rare gem from the homeland of the keyed fiddle.

Trädgårdsvalssen (trad.) – Another magnificent piece from the home of the keyed fiddle.

Capriccio No. 5 (Niccolò Paganini) – It is claimed that Niccolò Paganini did not play all of his pieces himself, but that the playing came from the devil himself. I strongly agree…

Capriccio No. 24 (Niccolò Paganini) – A variation on the theme in the style of the legendary Wilbur Hall.