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The 21st international theater festival Baltic Circle

The 21st international theater festival Baltic Circle

Nov

22

Fri

11:00 – 20:00

4–6°C

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The 21st international theater festival Baltic Circle will take place in Helsinki from 22 to 30 November 2024. This year’s program will include domestic premieres, workshops, discussions, an audio work and a seminar on future power.

The 2024 festival program focuses on listening and watching the realities that are happening side by side. Mia Takula and Ellen Virman’s audio work Hevonen silmik takes listeners on a journey into the horse’s world of experience and evaluates what its life is like in the reality defined for it by humans. The world is also viewed through a new kind of lens in Sebastian López-Lehdo, Maarit Utriainen and Riikka Vuorenmaa’s walking show Väylä 45, where the focus is on everyday urban space and its transformation. The work about urban planning invites the public to look more closely at the details of the familiar environment and the various layers of time and activity that open up from them.

The m2f2m workgroup’s installation work Hibernation, which transforms Taidekoti Kirpilä into an archive of trance dreams, takes you to dreams, naps and everyday utopias. Drawing from personal and trans community archives, Hibernation asks: what do trans people dream about? How do trans people archive themselves? How does transgenderism relate to dreaming and dreaming?

Teo Ala-Ruona’s new work Parachorale, which tells about the inner experience of incompatibility, also awakens the subconscious. 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 performance continues Ala-Ruona’s series of works dealing with the paranormal potential and psychosomatic extremes of transcorporeality (previous works include Lacuna and Enter Exude).

In addition, Anna Paavilainen’s Play Rape, which shook the stage and the industry at the National Theater in 2014, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. In honor of that, the Baltic Circle festival will screen the play-drama Play Rape 2.0, updated to today, followed by a discussion that will delve into the themes of the play and how the world has or has not changed with #metoo. The musical theater show Homo Line based on Edith Hammar’s cartoon of the same name, which premiered in 2023 at Teatterikorkeakoulu, crowns the program of the last weekend. The music for the show was composed and arranged by Nicolas Rehn and the show was directed by Aune Kallinen.

This year, Baltic Circle’s performance program highlights artists who question prevailing norms with their work and clear space for a more multi-voiced future. In addition to the performances, the festival deals with issues of power and the future in a seminar, the more detailed program of which will be published in October. In addition to the seminar, the current discussion, workshop and club software will also be announced later.

Fri 22 Nov 2024 – 30 Nov 2024 11:00 – 20:00

4–6°C

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Address:
Baltic Circle office
Tunturikatu 16
00100 Helsinki