Programme: fortuna! <who’s melting here?>
Description of the work
Let’s play two truths and a lie:
One, we love to just try things, but
Two, I feel stuck all the time.
Three, I would like to get out of
the functional gear I am wearing.
Where are we? Can I stop at any point?
Three digital avatars find themselves idling in a space out of bounds. They reconfigure the flow of information between them and their constraints – seeking connections and discovering kinesthetic possibilities along the way.
This choreographic exploration drifts through an ambiguous technoscape and proposes gestures that develop their humor from the mundane. An inquiry of movement and possibility between alienation and the familiar.
Working group
- Choreographer: Pontus Linder (Master’s Programme in Choreography)
- Performers and co-creators: Laura Linna, Paavali Velinpoika Kärkkäinen (Master’s programme in Dance Performance) and Olli Sukuvaara (Degree programme in Dance)
- Lighting design: Jesse Kinnunen (Master’s Programme in Lighting Design)
- Set design: Max Lindén (Master’s Programme in Scenography)
- Costume design: Salla Oinas (Master’s Programme in Costume Design / Aalto ARTs)
- Sound design: Tatu Vanhatalo (Master’s Programme in Sound Design)
- Dramaturge: Samuel Kareem Kuhnle (Master’s programme in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research)
Support services for artistic activities at the Theatre Academy
- Stage manager: Heli Konka
- Lighting: Ville Halkonen, Titus Torniainen and Anna Rouhu
- Sound: Heikki Laakso
- Costume: Havina Jäntti and the Costume Department of Theatre Academy
- Props: Maria-Johanna Peura
- AV: Jyrki Oksaharju
- Production coordinator: Rosa Sedita
- Producer: Riikka Lakea
- Promo picture: Samuel Kareem Kuhnle
- Poster: Salla Oinas (Photography), Paavali Velinpoika Kärkkäinen (Image editing), Samuel Kareem Kuhnle (Image editing and poster design)
- Photography: Roosa Oksaharju
- Programme: Jaana Forsström
In collaboration with
Master’s Degree Programme in Costume Design: Performing Arts and Film at Aalto ARTS, the School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Supervising teachers
- Kirsi Monni (choreography)
- Jana Unmüssig (choreography)
- Maria Saivosalmi (dance & dance performance)
- Mikko Niemistö (dance & dance performance)
- Luca Sirviö (lighting design)
- Tom Lönnqvist (sound design)
- Elina Lifländer (scenography)
- Siru Kosonen (costume design)
- Emil Santtu Uuttu (dramaturgy)
Thank you!
- Alexander Komlosi
- Giorgia Lolli
- Julian Owusu
Performance times
- Sat 23.5.2026 at 15:45
- Mon 25.5.2026 at 18:30
- Tue 26.5.2026 at 19:15
- Wed 27.5.2026 at 14:45
- Thu 28.5.2026 at 17:45
Venue
Theatre Academy, Studio 2, Haapaniemenkatu 6, Helsinki
Duration
35 min
Content notices
- Flashing lights
- Loud sounds
- Theatre smoke
Course description
The Artistic Collaboration Projects (ACO) brings together students from seven Uniarts and Aalto University degree programs. Over a period of five weeks, the students have explored and practiced artistic collaboration in performances based on movement and choreography. The process culminates in performances of all five works during the last week of May.
During the artistic collaboration project (ACO) students work primarily within the current framework of contemporary dance and performance, in multidisciplinary artistic working groups.
ACO is a collaborative project involving the Theatre Academy’s master’s programs in choreography, dance, lighting design, sound design, scenography, comparative dramaturgy and performance research, costume design at Aalto University, and second-year bachelor’s students in dance at the Theatre Academy.
The aim of the course is to deepen students’ understanding of the collegial, movement-based artistic process and their ability to work creatively, purposefully, and responsibly in an artistic working group. The course develops an understanding of the specific characteristics and requirements of different areas of the multidisciplinary process, enabling students to develop their artistic work through constructive negotiation and collaboration.