Parachorale is a new work by Teo Ala-Ruona and the working group, which continues Ala-Ruona’s series of works dealing with the paranormal potential and psychosomatic extremes of transcorporeality.

Being tattooed is enjoyable and painful. Perhaps, through a hole made in the skin, a sick body can be relieved for a while. We know something that reason cannot explain, it feels like the touch of a spider’s web on the skin. 

Parachorale is about an inner experience of incompatibility. At its core is the desire to share the world under the skin and create a new kind of agreement about reality together with the audience at the moment of the performance. The performance challenges the othering gaze, through which transcorporeality is seen as exceptional in society. It asks how private experience is ultimately about, how many people truly feel at home in their own skins? 

The performers weave a web with the audience, where the frames of the familiar reality are stripped and shaken off. Parachorale believes in our ability to reimagine ourselves and our communities and transcend the boundaries set by language. It invites you to feel and listen more closely and surrender to the absurd spectrum of physicality. 

Task force

Concept and direction: Teo Ala-Ruona

Text: Teo Ala-Ruona, Even Minn, Tuukka Haapakorpi

Performers: Teo Ala-Ruona, Caroline Suinner, Anni Puolakka, Pauliina Sjöberg, Tuukka Haapakorpi 

Choreography: Teo Ala-Ruona, Raoni Muzho Saleh

Dramaturgy: Even Minn

Sound design and composition: Tuukka Haapakorpi 

Costume and stage design: Teo Paaer

Lighting design: Sofia Palillo 

Dramaturgist of the performance: Ami Karvonen

Tattoo artist: Spider Nykänen

Costume design assistants: Nour Ainasoja, Pauliina Sjöberg

Sound Design Assistant: Linda Lazarov

Production: Baltic Circle, Teo Ala-Ruona, Even Minn

Sponsors: Kone Foundation, Art Promotion Center, Benelux Institute of Finland

Residencies: Maybe-production, Kunstcentrum BUDA, SODAS2123, Tuo Tuo

Parachorale  is part of the Baltic Circle perennial Future scene project, which is financed by the Kone Foundation.

Keywords: tattoo, paranormal, hallucinations, transcorporeality

Location:

Energy hall, Museum of Technology
Viikintie 1 D

Price: pay-what-you-want / €16 / €28 / €45

Duration: 1 h 15 min, no intermission.

Language: English

For the participant:

Note . The show contains theater smoke, nudity and talk about self-harm.

After Friday’s performance, a discussion of the work will be held in the space.
Because of the catering, Saturday’s performance is K18.

The premises of the Museum of Technology are not completely physically accessible. More information about the facility’s accessibility will be updated to this page soon.