Programme: Pry, come down from the nosebleeds
A performance that is longing for an abandoned place, a long-forgotten playground where no one and everyone is watching. An invitation to come near, go higgledy-piggledy and disappear into theatre fog for a little while.
An aspiration towards speculative world-making.
Working group
- Choreography: Tuure Kaukua (Master’s programme in Choreography)
- Performers: Eeva Haaslahti, Olivia Ikonen (Degree programme in Dance), Mathilda Kauppila, Venla Niitemaa (Master’s programme in Dance Performance)
- Dramaturge: Minne Mäki (Master’s programme in Dramaturgy and Playwriting)
- Sound design: Tommi Uniluoto (Master’s programme in Sound Design)
- Set design: Aino Kuoksa (Master’s programme in Scenography)
- Lighting design: Lyydia Johansson (Guest)
- Costume design: Joel Karppinen (Aalto ARTS)
Support services for artistic activities at the Theatre Academy
- Stage manager: Marja Zilcher
- Lighting: Titus Torniainen
- Sound: Mika Savolainen
- Costume: Arja Nuppola & the Costume department of Theatre Academy
- Props: Saima Lahtinen
- AV: Jyrki Oksaharju
- Production coordinator: Rosa Sedita
- Producer: Riikka Lakea
- Promo picture: Tuure Kaukua
- Poster: Tuure Kaukua
- 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!
Mari Kätkä for the vocal coaching, Sonja Jokiniemi, Aleksi Kolmonen, fellow students <3
Cited material, e.g. songs, music, video, text
- Text excerpt from Finding Nemo, movie by Andrew Stanton
- Pink Elephants on Parade by The Sportsmen (from the movie Dumbo)
Performance times
- Sat 23.5.2026 at 18:00
- Mon 25.5.2026 at 17:00
- Tue 26.5.2026 at 20:00
- Wed 27.5.2026 at 14:00
- Thu 28.5.2026 at 20:00
Venue
Theatre Academy, Theatre Hall, Haapaniemenkatu 6, Helsinki
Duration
35 min.
Content notices
Loud sounds, flashing lights, 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.