Sivuhenkilöt: Bone Chamber
Sivuhenkilöt: Bone Chamber
The new performance season of Bone Chamber by Sivuhenkilöt at the Cultural Centre Stoa 24.–27. April 2024. You are now on the archive page of the previous show season. Performance times, additional information and tickets for the 2024 performance season here.
Sivuhenkilöt is an artist group formed in 2016. It comprises seventeen professionals from the fields of theatre, circus and dance. The group is driven by an urge to make meaningful and multidisciplinary performing art.
The performances by Sivuhenkilöt aim to dismantle the rigid borders of different artistic disciplines, caressing both words and movement, the peripheral and the central, the mundane and the wondrous. Sivuhenkilöt examines the human standing next to the limelight: fragile, contradictory, touchingly incomplete. The group’s acclaimed live shows Sidekicks (2016) and There’s no room for my wings (2019), directed by Alma Lehmuskallio, have been presented at Cirko, the main programmes of Helsinki Festival and the Tampere Theatre Festival, as well as other festivals all around Finland.
Bone Chamber addresses human mortality and our disregard of it. Where does dying begin? We are at the last recycling point before the final stop. The liminal space between the real and the symbolic. The characters on this stage of finality guide their thoughts, one another, as well as their body parts through the frontier. While one wishes that death could be present in the everyday, another attempts to alter the course of time. A third character seeks a way to grieve their pet, and a fourth simply wishes to ski away already.
Bone Chamber combines various expressions of performing arts and considers the seemingly bleak topic of mortality in many ways. There is a constant transition in motion; not unlike sunrise and sunset. The performance finds its form in compositions, simultaneity, and interruptions: in the movements of bones, in unexpected words and emotions, in the traction and balance of life and death. It is like a free fall, confronted with the immanence of death, just when you should not, one is overcome by a fit of laughter.
The language of the performance is Finnish.
| Running time | 80 min |
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| Location & accessibility | Cirko, Suvilahti |
| Age recommendation | 13 + |
| Tickets | 25€ / 16,50€ |
Credits:
Direction and Dramaturgy:
Jyrki Karttunen, Eira Virekoski
Choreography:
Jyrki Karttunen
Text:
Eira Virekoski
Performers and co-creators:
Milla Jarko, Henna Kaikula, Saku Mäkelä, Kaisa Niemi, Ulla Raitio (voice role), Jyrki Karttunen (voice role)
Lighting design:
Ainu Palmu
Sound design:
Joonas Outakoski
Costume design:
Riina Leea Nieminen
Set design and props:
Oscar Dempsey
Circustechnical coordination:
Pasi Warsell
Aerial prop design:
Milla Jarko
Aerial prop fabrication:
Jouni Kivimäki
Sewing aid:
Aija Nurminen
Concept:
Henna Kaikula, Jyrki Karttunen, Eira Virekoski
Supporters:
Samuel Huberin Taidesäätiö, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Oscar Öflunds Stiftelse
Photos:
Mitro Härkönen
Teaser and trailer:
Teemu Kyytinen
Production:
Henna Kaikula, Juliane Mikkonen, Sivuhenkilöt-collective
Co-production:
Cirko – Center for New Circus
Warm thanks:
Emilia Rantalaiho, Kaba Assefa, Jonni Korhonen, Miira Sippola and Lukaz Trizcinski / Tapaus Gaala, Salla Hakanpää, WHS / Anne Jämsä, Heidi Strengell, Lasse Arola, TikkiTeam, Olli Vuorinen, Jouni Ihalainen, Mirva Mäkinen, Inka Lahti, Cirko staff and past and future members of Sivuhenkilöt, families and loved ones