Welcome to the open rehearsal of JUHLA – CELEBRATION and an artist interview with choreographer Ari Numminen on Tuesday 2.6. starting at 4pm.
Free entry.
OPEN REHEALSAL
Tue 2.6. 4-5 pm
Come and have a peak how the upcoming performance will be!
ARI NUMMINEN, ARTIST INTERVIEW
Tue 2.6. 5 pm
The creator of Celebration is the legendary choreographer and dancer Ari Numminen, who has embarked on a somewhat nostalgic, perhaps surreal, yet distinctly personal journey to create Celebration.
Ari and journalist Anne Flinkkilä meet after Juhla’s open rehearsal and delve into Ari’s life, art, memories, and the present day: who exactly is this man who wanted to become a dancer because he couldn’t learn to play the guitar?
Ari was a young man in 1973 when a military dictatorship took power in Chile. That time is unforgettable, as is the music of Violeta Parra. It has inspired Ari in the work Celebration. We also hear what Ari was like in 1998, when Laila Kinnunen’s legendary “Josef Josef” played in the work Hääkeikka, or how, in the 2013 work Triumfi, Jouni Kaipainen’s atonal music propelled Ari’s approach to dance onto entirely new paths. What are Ari’s fears and hopes today—will light or darkness prevail?
Ari’s storytelling on the Hällä stage on June 2 at 5 p.m., immediately following the open rehearsal.
“The Celebration has it all: the 1970s, Violeta Parra, my own youth, idealism and its demise, and, despite all the darkness, a glimmer of hope in the present day.” – choreographer Ari Numminen.
