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Programme: TREBUCHET

We know no more than you. We’ve just landed here unprepared, unstable, and not to be trusted. We are both atoms and molecules, disorganized, irregular, and confused.

Elias Klark

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The floor beneath us trembles,
Unknown pathways and unfamiliar signs.

Propelled bodies following multiple trajectories,
Agencies entangled with unpredictable forces.
Bodies that never stop moving,
Caught in a problematic temporality: ephemeral and elusive.
Endlessly shifting, always charging, always sinking into desires.
Desires contained, disrupted, and finally sprinkled through our bodies,
Glittery explosions before our very eyes.

As I close my eyes, I see the stars and planets reorganize.

This is a spaceship, a floating and suspended vessel,
drifting through voids, on the verge of crashing.

“Trebuchet is a practice of re-covering and re-charging, a practice of losing control and coexisting with the challenge of not knowing, a practice of going under the water only to float up again.”

Working group

  • Choreography: Avgoustina Triarou (Master Degree Programme in Choreography, artistic thesis project)
  • Performers: Chen Nadler (Master Degree Programme in Choreography), Sointu Saraste (Master Degree Programme in Dance) and Maria Chrysostomou (guest)
  • Dramaturgy: Juti Saari (Master Degree Programme in Dramaturgy and Playwriting)
  • Sound design: Tuukka Haapakorpi (Master Degree Programme in Sound Design)
  • Lighting design: Elias Klark (guest)
  • Costume design: Meri Craig (Aalto ARTS)
  • Producer: Yesol Lim (Master Degree Programme in Arts Management, Society and Creative Entrepreneurship)

Support Personnel

  • Stage Manager: Heli Konka
  • Lighting support: Mikko Kaukonen
  • Sound support: Heikki Laakso
  • Costume support: Mervi Palo and Kati Autere
  • Props support: Joze Peura
  • Poster and evening programme: Jaana Forsström
  • Producer: Nina Numminen

Warm thanks to

Anna-Maria Häkkinen and Maria Saivosalmi for their support and advice throughout the process.

Performance schedule

  • Tue 4.3.2025 at 19:00
  • Wed 5.3.2025 at 19:00
  • Thu 6.3.2025 at 19:00

Performance venue

Theatre Academy, Studio 3, Haapaniemenkatu 6

Content notices

There will be strobo lights, haze and a loud exploding balloon in the performance. You can leave the space at any time, if you wish.

Duration

35 minutes