NOUNOUS
FESTIVAL
5.-10.12.2017
First edition of physical comedy festival opens up in Helsinki at Cirko with international guests.
Cirko Center for New Circus will be filled with laughter in December bringing together all the friends of intelligent, physical and humane humour. Possibility to see and enjoy all the touring shows of Kallo Collective in 2 days, as well internationally renowned guest artists’ solo works by Gabriela Munoz from Mexico and Trygve Wakenshaw from New Zealand.
Dec 5th
19h00 Perhaps perhaps
20h30 Only Bones v1.1
DEC 7th
19h00 Perhaps perhaps
20h30 Only Bones v1.1
DEC 8th
19h00 Helga - life of a diva extraordinaire
20h30 Only Bones v1.0
dec 9th
12h00 Caterpillars
14h00 Perhaps perhaps
15h30 Only Bones v1.0
17h00 Nautilus
19h30 Only Bones v1.1
21h30 Chameleon
dec 10th
12h00 Caterpillars
14h00 Helga - life of a diva
15h30 Only Bones v1.0
17h00 Nautilus
TICKETS
Presale Tiketti
22,50/16,50 €
On the door
25,00/20,00 €
If at first you don't succeed, try again...and again...and again.
"Perhaps perhaps...quizas" is a clown piece of playing with the idea of loneliness, wait and hope for a right man.
In an era where nothing seems to impress one another anymore and longing for “real love” seems to be the burden of our time. Greta, our protagonist, is a lonely woman who rehearses once a week the arrival of the so called "one". Will she get lucky tonight? Perhaps, perhaps, quizas...
This is an incredibly heartbreaking work of art. Jennifer Stokes, NY Clown Theatre Festival 2012
Creation, direction and performing: Gaby Munoz
Costume design: Valentina Munoz
Art & set design: Gabriela and Valentina Munoz
Video: Marion Sosa
Music: Ernesto Paredano
Photograph: Gemma Tweedie/Marion Sosa
Premiere: 2010 New York
Duration 60 minutes
Age recommendation +12 yrs.
Sampo Kurppa
Dec 5th and 7th 20h30
Dec 9th 19h30
Only Bones v1.1 is an eccentric, abstract non-verbal physical theatre show with a hint of mask theatre, clowning and circus. Body parts take new forms and roles playing games with on viewers conception. This stripped down 45 minutes long performance takes place on a 1 square meter stage with one source of light.
Performer: Sampo Kurppa
Outside eye: Thom Monckton
Music: Maximilian Latva
Costume: Sol Kellan
Technician: Gabriela Munoz
Photo: Pili Pala
Premiere: 28th of October 2017, Meksiko
Duration: 45 minutes
Age recommendation: +7 yrs.
HELGA - life of a diva extraordinaire
Henni Kervinen
Dec 6th 15h00
Dec 8th 19h00 & Dec 10th 14h00
Poignant, melancholic physical comedy of a cabaret diva extraordinaire: Miss Helga! In this wordless performance Helga takes the audience through the journey of her emotional, quirky and hilarious life.
Helga’s story unfolds by using mime, clown and circus skills to describe Helga’s life which is simultaneously tragic and comic. Redirected by Jenni Kallo for a young circus artist Henni Kervinen.
Performer: Henni Kervinen
Director: Jenni Kallo
Lighting design: Alice Leclerc
Original music: Hannu Oskala
Costumes and set: Kirsi Manninen
Sound design: Sami Tammela
Support: Arts Promotion Centre, Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation, Cirko - center for new circus
Duration: 50 minutes
Age recommendation: + 7 yrs.
Premiere: 5.1.2017, Rovaniemi Wiljami
"It's like Jacques Tati with a Finnish twist. Gentle, intelligent humour at its best"
"Only the Finns can make humour out of melancholy as fabulously as this"
'Absurd comedy and sparkling wit…'
ONLY BONES V1.0-
THOM MONCKTON
Dec 8th 20h30
Dec 9th & 10th 15h30
Only Bones v1.0 by Thom Monckton is a minimalist solo performance of physical buffoonery. Using body manipulation, clowning and circus Only Bones strips down to one light and one performer and opens up a world where anything is possible.
Creation and performing: Thom Monckton
Music: Tuomas Norvio
Visual: Gemma Tweedie
Production: Kallo Collective
Support: Arts Promotion Centre, Samuel Huber Foundation
Premiere 27.12.2015
Duration 45 minutes
Age recommendation +7 yrs.
Awards:
Best in Physical Theatre NZ Fringe 2015
Nominations:
Stand Out Performer NZ Fringe 2015
Innovation NZ Fringe 2015
Shortlisted for Edinbugh Fringe Total Theatre Awards 2016
★★★★ ”The creativity that has been poured into this piece is beyond measure, it is enchanting,
engaging and enthralling.” - Edinburgh Guide
★★★★★ “a glorious salute to one man’s remarkable physicality” -The Herald Scotland
Dec 9th & 10th 12h00
Caterpillars is a physical comedy based loosely on the life cycle of two personified caterpillars/butterflies, and told by two less-than-capable clown puppeteers. The magical world of giant caterpillars, floating eggs, and waving flowers is grounded heavily in reality by the puppeteers.
This is a layered physical comedy where the audience is taken into a quirky dream world only to be suddenly brought back to an unpretentious reality by the appealing hopelessness of the
clown puppeteers.
This is the first Kallo Collective show for children although
the style stays true to the company's universal style and crosses all age and language barriers.
Creation: Thom Monckton
Direction: Thom Monckton and Jenni Kallo
Performers: Emma Castrén, Victor Barrere
Music: Eilyas X
Light design: Elina Nopanen
Costumes: TAUKO
Duration 45 minutes
Age recommendation +4 yrs.
Premiere 31.7.2014
Support: Kone Foundation, Silence Festival, Hämeenlinna Theatre
Dec 9th and 10th 17h00
Critically acclaimed, award-winning Gaulier-trained clown, Trygve Wakenshaw presents his beautifully strange stream-of-consciousness idiocy in NAUTILUS. NAUTILUS is the third and final instalment in the Underwater Trilogy of solo-shows with aquatic titles (KRAKEN, SQUIDBOY).
Our hero twists and contorts himself into different characters. Smart animals meet stupid humans.Jesus walks on water. Rapunzel looks for love. His hilarious and fun physical comedies are consistently a sell out at festivals around the world. This energetic and hilarious show contains scenes of mime with undertones of veganism, jokes, comedy, cowboys, stagehands, and crabs.
Performer: Trygve Wakenshaw
Music: Aretha Franklin: Natural woman and Habenara (classilac guitar mix)
Duration 75 minutes
Age recommendation +12 yrs.
Premiere 2017
‘So magical, so delightfully playful. Wakenshaw leaves his audience slack-jawed with admiration.
’★★★★ Scotsman
‘The kind of funny you get when not just the rug, but the whole floor and foundations are pulled
right out from under you.’
★★★★ Guardian
‘Trygve is a Loony Toons creation made flesh…you can’t help but be carried away by the pure joy
of his madcap landscapes.’
★★★★ Fest
by Kallo Collective
Dec 9th 21h30
Chameleon is an ensemble visual and circus theatre show using the concept and visual elements of camouflage and set in the context of a luxurious and peculiar hotel. The various stunning areas of the hotel are the home to vibrant catastrophes punctuated by physical and visual humour. Developed from an award-winning 20 minutes demo piece by Gemma Tweedie and Thom Monckton in 2015. This bigger and better version is the largest show for Kallo Collective so far.
Contains physical theatre, circus and absurd humour.
Director: Thom Monckton/co-director Gemma Tweedie
Performers: Inga Björn, Kristiina Janhunen, Jenni Kallo, Sakari Saikkonen, Gemma Tweedie, Olli Vuorinen
Sound design: Maximilian Latva
Light design: Elina Nopanen
Costumes and set design: Gemma Tweedie & Thom Monckton
Production: Kallo Collective
Support: Arts Printing House, Cirko - center for new circus, City of Helsinki Cultural Office, Finnish Swedish Cultural Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation - Uusimaa region, Nordic Cultural Point, Nygren's Stiftelse, Subtopia
Premiere: 12.5.2017
Duration 70 minutes
Age recommendation +7 yrs
