NouNous Festival at Cirko for the 5th time!
NouNous Festival is here again! The popular festival brings the best of Finnish and international physical comedy to Helsinki. This year, the themes of performances take us from the world of constant…
NouNous Festival: Receptionists
Ever-expressive, endlessly destructive Inga Bjorn and Kristina Tammisalo – like a Finnish female Laurel and Hardy – is a shot of Espresso for anyone who’s been trapped in the office for too…
NouNous Festival: The Divine Lie
Inspired by Anna Kortelainen’s book Restless Woman – The Cultural History of Hysteria and its descriptions of hypnosis shows and the phenomena around the hysteria patients in the Late 19th…
NouNous Festival: Only Bones v1.9 – Matt Pasquet
Only Bones 1.9 answers the biggest scientific question of them all “How did life begin?”…. Or maybe touches upon it. Taking you on a journey of evolution from space matter to…
NouNous Festival: Pendulum
Pendulum is two aristocrats’ cavalcade of self-reinforcing idiocracies and a peculiar fascination with everything that sways, cradles or swings. Two noblemen set out on a journey of inexplicable…
Niina Lindroos: THE UNMENTIONABLE
An ineffable toy theatre performance The Unmentionable by Niina Lindroos is a solo toy theater* performance inspired by life and art of a French photographer and painter Dora Maar (1907–1997). The…
TEHDAS Teatteri: JEANNE DE CLISSON – A Bloody Nautical Vengeance Tableau
Jeanne de Clisson tells the story of a 14th-century pirate. After the unjust execution of her husband, she sets off on a 13-year retaliation voyage against the King of France. During her rampage she…
Anna Nekrassova: Before Thumbelina
I am a desert, full of tumbleweeds. No flowers, no rain. Fear crawls towards me, digs itself out from the dry ground, takes me in its tight embrace and whispers: “What if yet this seed will change…
NouNous Festival films: Elice Abonce Muhonen: Mad in Finland
What happens when one Finnish circus artist decides to make a film with her six Finnish co-stars? They recreate Finland in a show, tour the world and make a movie in the same way they create a circus…
NouNous Festival films: Frédéric Barrette: Bonnet d’Homme
They’ve got donkeys, big beards, an accordion, a chainsaw, few words and occasional nudity. They live out in the country in a little stone house on a big lot. Their life is built around an almost-…