tallinn treff festival 24.–27.05.2012

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At first glance, the world can seem like
a boring and tedious place. Everything
around us is “normal” and “ordinary”. Too
many people tend to get on out nerves
and there are all kinds of “freaks” out
there. The nature is “tolerable” (except for
mosquitoes), as long as it keeps its distance! (Although, this brush is also “completely pointless”…)
When we look at the world a bit more closely and with greater curiosity, we start to notice colours. They are different and often contrasting; they do not seem to match at all. And yet they blend together to create an infinity of different shades, tones, variations. The
world becomes a bright and exciting place that takes more than a
lifetime to discover. An artist is someone who sees these variations
at their brightest and can pass on to others this experience of a single universe, can help others to see and hear it. Performing artists
can carry it all in a single moment with every atom of their body and
soul, giving the viewer or listener a chance to experience an infinity of different worlds within this single world. The language of the
arts combines all different cultures, glorifying their differences and
perceiving harmony in it all. The festival is compressed space-time
for artists and the arts, for actors and viewers, enabling us to vibrate
in unison with our special universe full of varieties.
I wish you all a curious eye, a sharp ear and good vibration at Tallinn
Treff Festival!
Vahur Keller
Artistic Director of Tallinn Treff Festival
TALLINN TREFF
FESTIVAL
24.–27.05.2012
Different cultures,
one language!
OPENING OF THE TALLINN TREFF FESTIVAL:
THE GREAT DANCE OF THE ROLLS
Tallinn Treff Festival 2012 will be opened on 24th May at 1 p.m. with
an unprecedented joint action of theatre folk and city folk – “The
Great Dance of the Rolls”. Everybody is welcome to join in!
“The Dance of the Rolls” is danced with two rolls of bread and two
forks. It was first performed by Charlie Chaplin in his legendary film
The Gold Rush. The witty act has also been used in NUKU’s puppet
shows Puppeteering ABC and Easy Peasy Puppets.
„Tallinn Treff Festival – a benchmark for performing arts
in Eastern Europe.” Euronews
Information and program: www.nuku.ee
“The Great Dance of the Rolls” will take place on Goat Stage next to
NUKU theatre after the opening procession of the festival. Up to a
hundred dancers are estimated to take part. Puppetry enthusiasts
of all ages are welcome to join in, either alone or in groups! All you
need is two forks and two rolls and a few rehearsals with the help of
a video you will find on Youtube. May the dance begin!
Tallinn Treff Festival 2012 | 1
Stages
13
F
G
10 C
THE GRAND OPENING
PERFORMANCE OF THE
XXXI TALLINN OLD TOWN DAYS
IN COOPERATION WITH THE
VI TALLINN TREFF FESTIVAL
On May 26th at 13.00
in Town Hall Square
E
D
B
9
1
2 5
A
3
8
6 7
4
H
11
12
INDOOR STAGES
A NUKU Theatre, Lai 1 (Main Hall, Small Hall, Oval Hall)
B Tallinn City Theatre, Lai 23 (Small Hall, Heaven Stage)
C Estonian Children’s Literature Centre, Pikk 73
D Köismäe Tower, Laboratooriumi 27
E Ukrainian Church, Laboratooriumi 22
F Tower behind Grusbeke, Laboratooriumi 33
G Horse Mill, Lai 47
H Von Krahl Theatre, Rataskaevu 10
„BALTHASAR AND THE DRAGON
OF THE NORTH“
Medieval Tallinn is big and mighty. Strong walls, high towers, sturdy
cannons! But alas, the city walls cannot defend the citizens from
all woes – just as they are not able to ward off the three plagues
mercilessly wiping out the townsfolk, they cannot keep away the
monstrous Dragon of the North who brings unimaginable horrors
to the city. The ogre is devouring aldermen, craftsmen, merchants
and artsmen. The famous chronicler Balthasar Russow is also facing
grim death in the jaws of the Dragon of the North, which would
deprave the city of the scribe as well as of his chronicle. In the last
resort Balthasar asks for the help of the written word and the tightrope dancers of his childhood memories, who defeat the monster
whilst gracefully balancing on the rope.
And thus, the Old Town Days – the festival of art, wonders and urban legends – can start!
Author, director, art director ALEXANDER PEPELYAEV
Costume artists INGA VARES, KRISTEL MAAMÄGI
Author and performer of music METSATÖLL
Music supervisor KAIRE VILGATS
Translator LOONE OTS
On the stage: actors and youth studio of NUKU theatre, actors of the Russian Theatre,
Ellerhein girls’ choir, singers from Westholm Secondary School, Tallinn Secondary
Science School and Musamari, artists of the circus show „Dr Acula“, cabaret dancers of
Free Flow studio, Trikk 3 air acrobats
OUTDOOR STAGES
1 Festival Club, Courtyard of the Museum of Gustav Adolf
Grammar School, Nunne 10
2 NUKU’s Main Hall Gate, Nunne 6
3 Goat Stage, Nunne 3
4 Corner of Pikk and Nunne Street
5 NUKU’s Staff Entrance, Lai 3
6 Börsi Passage, Lai 14
7 Courtyard of the Great Guild, Lai 16
8 Corner of Hobusepea and Lai Street
9 Courtyard of the Museum of Applied Art and Design, Lai 17
10 Courtyard of the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre,
Pikk 73
11 Town Hall Square
12 Liberty Square
13 Seaplane Harbour, Küti 17
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITION
OF PENOSIL
ART
FOAM
SCULPTURES
Penosil Art, the initiative that won the hearts of visitors of Tallinn
Treff Festival and Tallinn Old Town Days with their unprecedented
and gigantic foam sculptures last year, is also making its statement
this year. This year, the cityscape will be enriched with eight threedimensional graffiti statues witch, seen as a whole, reveal an
unexpected message and make us think about our everyday life
and all the special moments in it.
The opening of Penosil Art project exhibition will take place on 24
May at 13.00 by the NUKU Theatre. After that just keep your eyes
open and look for the art in the streets of the Old Town!
PUPPETS OF
THEATRE
TAPTOE FROM
BELGIUM
From May 24th
at NUKU Museum for
Puppet Arts
Theatre Taptpe – a
history of more than
40 years!
An exhibition of more than 50 puppets from the Flemish company
Theatre Taptoe, selected out of the complete collection that exists
of more than 300 puppets, managed by Het Firmament, the heritage centre for performing arts in Flanders.
You will see the string marionettes of the first production ‘The little Prince’, the objects from ‘Heaven’ by the Belgian surrealist René
Magritte, the masks of ‘Don Giovanni’…
Realized with the financial support of the city of Ghent.
PUPPETS OF
THE RUSSIAN
LEGENDARY
PUPPETEER
SERGEY
OBRAZTSOV
Until May 27th
at NUKU Museum for Puppet Arts
The Museum of theatre puppets was established in 1937 at the
State central puppet theatre founded by Sergey Obraztsov. The
idea belonged to Obraztsov, but it was Andrey Fedotov, actor, director and dramatist, who became the first head of the newborn
museum. The traditions of collecting and exhibiting puppets and
documentary materials on puppetry art – such as posters, performance programmes, booklets, photos, sketches, films and manuscripts from all over the world goes back to that time. Today the
museums collection consists of more than 4 thousand puppets and
masks from Russian theatres and theatres from 65 countries. Being
one of the biggest puppet museums in the world the Museum of
theatre puppets can display its splendid collection only partly –
about 800 puppets are on exhibition, the rest of the treasures are at
the museum storage-rooms.
Sergey Obraztsov began exploring the world of puppets in the
1920-s and he found his own unique way and style creating solo
concert events called ‘Romances with puppets’. He was the director, artist, puppet-technologist, singer and actor all in one. He chose
well-known and best-loved romances of the previous decades
(‘He was a titular adviser’), opera arias (‘Habanera’) and lyric songs
(‘Songs by Aleksander Vertinsky’) and transformed them into marvellous music parodies.
Museum of theatre puppets of the State Academic Central Theatre
named after Sergey Obraztsov presents some of the precious gems
of their collection here at NUKU Museum for Puppet Arts in Tallinn.
Puppets Carmen and Jose, Titular Adviser and General’s Daughter
and Pierrot are fully Obrazstov’s inventions forestalling the dawn
of his theatre. Two other puppets are from the relevantly modern
production based on Shakespeare’s ‘The Comedy of Errors’ was a
staged at the State Central Puppet Theatre in 1998. It represents the
theatre’s new life and evolution after its founder’s death in 1992.
The ironic and cotemporary understanding of Shakespeare’s masterpiece is sharpened by the extravagant images of the puppets by
Elena Lutsenko.
VISUAL AND PUPPET THEATRE PROGRAMME OF THE WORLD
DEPARTURE
DETOX THE DUMMY
26.05. / 21.30
Von Krahl Theatre
1h
26.05. / 15.00, 18.30
NUKU’s Small Hall
1 h 10 min
Sasha Pepelyaev/Kinetic Theatre
NUKU’s Art Theatre
Russia
Estonia
Concept, Direction, Acting: Sasha Pepelyaev
Texts, Subtitles: Sasha Pepelyaev, Diana Leesalu, Paavo Piik
Designer and Choreographer: Duda Paiva
Author and Composer: Allan Segall
Puppet Designer: Jim Barnard
Stage and Costume Designer: Kaspar Jancis
Dramaturg: Vahur Keller
Singing Teacher: Kaire Vilgats
Translator: Johannes Kangur
Director’s Assistants: Manuela Sarkissyan, Alice Kirsipuu
Cast: Taavi Tõnisson, Andres Roosileht, Kaisa Selde,
Sandra Lange, Jevgeni Moiseenko
The show continues a string of earlier works by Pepelyaev - Hamlets, Sigmund & Freud, Muh Tsokotuh, Margarita and Master, Old
Woman, focused on interactive media techniques in theatre. This
time the journey into the mix of real and virtual takes place in absurd comics environment, where idiotically melodramatic plot
helps to soften a struggle with time and space, observed in therms
of relativistic gravitations. Blood, tears and passions are mixed and
processed for the sake of binary Gods. Although the show is scrupulously programmed, there still is no one single recorded frame, so
incidental crashes will spice up the fluffy digital cream.
The title marks both physical change of location and mental resistance to over organised realities of life in post conceptual times.
Alexander (Sasha) Pepelyaev has graduated from Moscow State
University and Moscow State Theatre Institute. Since 1994 he is the
director and artistic leader of the contemporary dance company
Kinetic Theatre, where he has created several experimental works
focusing on defining Russian contemporary dance theatre. His
works have been presented at numerous festivals in Russia, Europe,
USA and Israel, broadcasted on domestic and international television. Sasha Pepelyaev has been awarded for his innovative dance
theatre creations at different festivals in Russia, Estonia, France and
USA. Since 1998 Sasha Pepelyaev teaches and gives workshops at
different dance and theatre centres all over the world. Since 2006
he combines dance and interactive multimedia in his stage works.
Sasha Pepelyaev
+372 58 040 288
sasha.pepelyaev@gmail.com
A fascinating mixture of puppetry, dance and drama by the world
renown puppet director and choreographer Duda Paiva.
‘Detox the Dummy’ is a free adaptation from the autobiographical
story about drug addiction written by composer Allan Segall. Taking his story as an inspiration, Duda Paiva transformed his words
into visual theatre through the use of choreography, object animation and dramatic physicality, always with the help of humour and
self irony.
Paiva’s creations are all about people, their dreams, their fears and
their search for love. By the abstraction of dance and the realism of
the object he creates a magical world where everything is possible.
NUKU Theatre (Estonian State Puppet and Youth Theatre) was
founded in 1952 and is the only national professional children’s and
youth theatre in Estonia. The theatre, which started with puppeteers
hidden behind the screen, has become a rapidly developing theatre that is open to various experiments. The repertoire consists of
plays aimed mostly for children and families, combining puppetry
and drama elements, masks, shadows etc, but the last half-decade
has witnessed a growth in musical productions and various experimental projects. Also, the theatre has set the goal of consistently
staging puppet performances for adults and youth. NUKU Theatre
has actively participated at many regional and international festivals and gained various awards. Since 2007 the theatre has been
organizing Tallinn Treff Festival and since 2010 the theatre is a part
of the NUKU Centre for Puppet Arts.
NUKU Theatre, +372 6679 555
info@nuku.ee
www.nuku.ee
DIE-CUT SCRAP
25.05. / 16.00, 20.00
NUKU’s Small Hall
50 min
Theatre Dirty Duckling
Finland
Author, Director and Performer: Merja Pöyhönen
Puppet and Stage Designer: Susanna Hemmilä
Composer: Antti-Juhani Manninen
„...and if everything was right…”
One actress and approximately six puppets comprise a small but
perfect doll-house on the stage, a little facade house with its porcelain tea set. Everything is at least as fine as with the neighbours. Or
maybe not quite so after all, but you must try to hide the cracks in
the porcelain to the very last...
Theatre Dirty Duckling is one of the most active current puppet
theatre groups in Finland. Since 2008 it has produced shows fulltime and non-stop. In the words of Eeva Kauppinen, a reporter for
the newspaper Kaleva: “Dirty Duckling is the hottest of the hot. In
its fairly brief existence it has produced ambitious shows for both
adults and children and addition to that the group members have
been active participants in co-productions with other theatres and
individual artists. The dirty ducklings also fight for the visibility of
the whole field by organizing puppet theatre soirees in bars and
events in Turku.”
Critics have described the performances and the performers of
Dirty Duckling using the following adjectives among others: sincere, absurd, open-minded, sympathetic, unreserved, superficial,
surreal, dazzling, wonderful, talented, dada, courageous, sensitive,
hysterical, untouchable, exhilarating.
+358 40 0654 367
kuumaankanpoikanen@gmail.com
www.kuumaankanpoikanen.com
DINNER WITH
VAMPIRES
23.05. / 20.00
NUKU’s Main Hall
3h
NUKU’s Variety Theatre
Estonia
Authors: Vahur Keller, Andres Roosileht
Director: Andres Roosileht
Designer: Britt Urbla Keller
Choreographers: Kristin Pukka, Alexander Pihoja, Tatjana Järvi
Cast: NUKU’s troupe
‘Dinner with Vampires’ is a three-course meal accompanied by an
entertaining puppet variety show.
The stage will be transformed into a Transylvanian castle and the
audience will witness a heart-breaking love story between a beautiful vampire and a young researcher. They can also be guests at
an authentic vampire wedding and bear witness to bloody battles
leading to the destruction and rebirth of an entire vampire community. All this plus some hilarious puppet vampire sketches, amazing illusions, acrobatics, song and dance numbers and a vampire
striptease to get the blood truly pumping! The audience will be
welcomed and the evening’s entertainment led by the producer of
the vampire variety show.
NUKU Theatre
+372 6679 555
info@nuku.ee
www.nuku.ee
GIZZELLE
GO!
24.05. / 17.30
Horse Mill
1 h 40 min
24.05. / 16.00, 20.00
Small Hall of Tallinn City Theatre
45 min
Tallinn City Theatre
Polina Borisova
Estonia
France
Director: Alexander Pepelyaev
Dramaturg: Diana Leesalu
Composers: Adoplhe Charles Adam, Renzo van Steenbergen
Cast: The 25th class of the Drama School of Estonian Academy of
Music and Theatre
Director, Set Designer and Performer: Polina Borisova
Co-production with: Odradek/Cie Pupella Nogues
Centre de Création et de Développement pour les Arts de la
Marionnette
Well-known Russian director Alexander Pepelyayev, whose numerous productions, created with the drama students of the Estonian
Academy of Music and Theatre, have already become a tradition
that the audience looks forward to, has now directed a dance performance with “Elmo Nüganen’s class”, i.e. the drama students who
graduate in spring 2012. The production is based on the classical
ballet ‘Giselle’, inspired by a poem by Heinrich Heine. It’s a story
about a country girl called Giselle, whose ghost protects her beloved one from the revenge of evil spirits after the girl’s untimely
death. In the hands of Pepelyayev, a strong avant-gardist, the classical story has been turned into a provocative and youthful new
version.
Tallinn City Theatre, founded in 1965, is a repertory theatre, situated
in the heart of Tallinn. The theatrical season lasts from August to
June. Currently the Tallinn City Theatre’s resident company includes
26 actors. Tallinn City Theatre is famous by a high artistic level as
well as its unique medieval building, which houses seven different
performance spaces and a large open-air stage for summer productions.
Tallinn City Theatre
+372 6650 850
linnateater@linnateater.ee
www.linnateater.ee
Inspired by the simplicity with which extraordinary people (be it a
great artist or a granny next door) can leave us, and based on numerous travel notes I have scribbled over the years, this show tells
about the loneliness of those who travel in memories.
An old woman wanders in the dark of her apartment. Between islands of light, she finds pieces of objects, memories and lives that
she assembles together with masking tape. Perhaps this old woman is a future me, and perhaps what she remembers is what I will
live. It is my life, partly lived and partly imagined. A life that was,
blended with other lives, those of my family, my teachers, people I
admired, people I loved, those who have gone before me.
Graduated from the St. Petersburg State Theatre Art Academy,
department of Puppet Theatre, on speciality „puppets making
and stage design” (Russia, 1996–2001), and author of a postgraduate thesis on „Influence of puppetry on children’s mental
development”(Russia, 2003–2005), Polina comes to CharlevilleMézières, to enter ESNAM, National Superior School of Puppet Arts
(France, 2005–2008). Two performances of her see the light: in 2006
– ‘Lego’, solo on a text of Philippe Dorin, and in 2008 – ‘I am what I
see’, a diploma work (pedagogic accompaniment: Jo Lacrosse). In
December 2010 Polina joins Odradek and Pupella-Nogues Company for a six months professionalizing companionship, during which
she creates ‘Go!’
Polina Borisova
+33 699 194 004
polinabo@yahoo.fr
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
+386 013 000 970
info@lgl.si
www.lgl.si
GOING, GOING …
GONE!
LOVE DOLLS
25.05. / 20.00
1 h 10 min
Theatre Taptoe
Belgium
Author and Performer: Luk De Bruyker
Directors: Fred Delfgaauw, Vincent van den Elshout
Designer: Wim Van De Vyver
Sound: Bart Beys
Light: Alain Ongenaet
In an auction room, an auctioneer Luk De Bruyker starts selling the
puppets of Theatre Taptoe. But how will it end? This is a sad story
about the end of a theatre, told with humour and tenderness, while
recalling passages from productions ‘The little Prince’, ‘Scrooge’,
‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Madame Butterfly’. These are flashbacks on a
career of over 40 years, full of twists and turns, joyous and improbable meetings.
Theatre Taptoe is specialized in a hybrid form of theatre that combines actors and figures (puppets, shadows, objects etc.). The spiritual founding father and inspiring force behind the company is Luk
De Bruyker. Even as a teenager, he performed puppet theatre and
set up his own company which he named Taptoe in 1968. In 1973
Freek Neirynck joined the company where he was the first writer in
residence and later artistic director for more than 25 years. Under
Neirynck’s influence Taptoe diverged from the well-trodden paths
of marionette theatre and developed a new form of theatre, unique
at that time, which combined actors and figures.
The greatest success of the company was the play ‘Heaven’ based
on the plastic work of the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. Taptoe
played it more than 400 times in more than 30 countries. Theatre
Taptoe has been discontinued at the end of May 2010 but Luk De
Bruyker continues his way with the heritage of it.
Theatre Taptoe’s performance at Tallinn Treff Festival and puppet exhibition at the NUKU Museum are supported by the Flanders Gouvernment, the town of Ghent (culture department), and
Het Firmament.
Luk De Bruyker
lukdebruyker@scarlet.be
26.05. / 20.00 NUKU’s Main Hall
1h
Slovenia
Author, Director, Puppet Designer: Duda Paiva
Dramaturg: Jaka Ivanc
Music settings: Allan Segall
Lighting Designers: Hans C. Boer, Mark Verhoef
Stage Designer: Andre Mello
Costume Designers: Javier Murugarren, Sandra Birjukov,
Marjeta Valjavec
Dance Instructor: Tomaž Ambrož
Artistic advisor: Paul Selwyn Norton
Performers: Miha Arh, Polonca Kores, Maja Kunšič, Iztok Lužar,
Asja Kahrimanović, Martina Maurič Lazar, Augusto Valença
In a secret world and supervised by a mysterious singing host, people are manipulating their fantasies about love into unreality. A projection of hidden desires, until one day the light of reality destroys
the illusion.
Director Duda Paiva: “What fascinates me about the theme of this
show, is the parallel between puppet-theater and real life. Love
Dolls is a synonym for Real Dolls, Dutch Wives, Sex Dolls, etc, human
size puppets shaped in the resemblance of women. Their purpose
is companionship for those who prefer the presence of an inanimate figure rather than the flesh’n’bone ones. As they evoke and
sometimes replace the symbols people are attached to, these Dolls
become memory boxes for the ones who cherish them, a projection
of what they believe in.
If art imitates life, in Love Dolls art imitates life imitating art. At any
given time, somewhere, adults are playing with dolls and transforming their homes in stages where a strange dance of liberation
and enslavement is performed.”
The Ljubljana Puppet Theatre (Lutkovno Gledališče Ljubljana) was
founded in 1948. It fuelled its creative inspiration on various traditions that had marked Slovene puppetry from its beginning in
1910s to the end of World War Two. The theatre soon perfected its
expressive power in the 1950s, and could be equaled to other important European puppet theatres.
Recently there was a generation switch, both in the artistic management and puppeteers, which opened new horizons for the theatre.
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre is the central puppet theatre in Slovenia.
It puts seven premieres on stage each season. All puppetry techniques are represented, however their specialty are marionettes on
long strings. The theatre provides training courses for actors and
puppeteers, organises various workshops for children and adults,
round table discussions, and a festival.
METAMORPHOSIS
26.05. / 15.30, 18.30
Köismäe Tower
1h
NUKU’s Youth Thteatre
Estonia
Author: Franz Kafka
Director: Mirko Rajas
Designer: Kalju Karl Kivi
Musical Designer: Ekke Västrik
Cast: Mart Müürisepp, Katariina Tamm, Tiina Tõnis, Riho Rosberg,
Anti Kobin
Gregor Samsa works as a travelling salesman in order to provide
money for his sister and parents. One morning, as he wakes up from
anxious dreams, he discovers that in his bed he has been changed
into a monstrous verminous bug. In the performance we see what
happens when Gregor is unable to work and exchanges roles with
his family by becoming the parasite who needs to be taken care of
by the others.
NUKU Theatre
+372 6679 555
info@nuku.ee
www.nuku.ee
PENITENCE AND
ABSOLUTION
24.05. / 16.00, 20.00
NUKU’s Small Hall
2h
St Petersburg Grand Puppet Theatre
Russia
Director: Ruslan Kudashov
Designers: Alevtina Torik, Andrey Zaporozhsky
Puppets: Alevtina Torik
Musical Designer: Vladimir Bichkovsky
Light Designer: Larisa Novikova
Assistant of the Light Designer: Stanislav Semenuk
Assistant in work with marionettes: Petr Vasilyev
Sound: Tatyana Arsenyeva, Ulia Gladisheva
Actors: Stanislav Semenyuk, Aleksei Shishigin, Anna Somkina,
Petr Vasilyev, Nina Tarnovskaya, Boris Matveev, Olga Gaponenko
In this charming and delicate story the main characters are played
with marionettes – aristocrats among all other puppets. An actor
operates the puppet by pulling on long strings, that’s why it is so
fluent and its gestures are so graceful. This puppet system can
transmit the spirit of Pushkin’s works, who is “the lightest poet” according to Abram Tertz. There is both a puppeteer operating the
puppet, and a supreme power, which defines the characters’ destiny. Each of these characters ought to make their own way, make
mistakes, sin and be mistaken, but towards the end each of them
comes to penitence and receives absolution. The play is filled with
joy and sadness at the same time, easiness goes with tragedy, and
lyrics give place to phantasmagoria.
The story of St. Petersburg Grand Puppet Theatre started in a small
house by Poklonnaya Gora, where one day five friends decided to
create their theatre. Three of those friends were actors, one was a
musician and the fifth one was an artist. They all had one feature in
common – they loved puppet shows. The stage was at first given to
them on Volodarsky pr. in Leningrad, in the House of Education of
Communist Youth and on May the 16th 1931 the play “Incubator”
opened their first season. The theatre moved to the current address
on 10, Nekrasova in 1940.
In 2006 Ruslan Kudashov became the head of Grand Puppet Theatre. He is the winner of the most prestigious Russian theatre awards:
„Golden Sophit” and „Golden Mask”.
St. Petersburg Grand Puppet Theatre
+ 7 2736 672
info@puppets.ru
www.puppets.ru
STAN
26.05. / 17.00, 21.30
Von Krahl Theatre
50 min
Scallywag Theatre
Great Britain
Author, Performer, Puppet Designer: Jim Barnard
A WILD GROWLING
HAPPINESS
25.05. / 24.00
NUKU’s Small Hall
1 h 20 min
NUKU’s Youth Theatre
Estonia
Stan is a small man with a big mouth. He’s not afraid to say what’s
on his mind, or on your mind. He is the Anti-New Man. Loud. Aggressive. Unapologetic. But his abrasive exterior also hides something more fragile – the small boy inside, lost, alone, confused and
frightened.
Stan is in some way a reaction to modern “civilised” man. The man
who has suppressed his basic urges, who censors his primal animal
instincts. The man who is emasculated by modern, powerful Independent Woman, who at the same time as demanding his dicklessness, despises him for it.
The cracks in Stan’s Psyche are sometimes revealed through moments of self reflection – “Do you ever feel like you’re being manipulated?” He asks the audience. “It’s fucking weird!” Stan chooses
to live in denial about the fact that he’s a puppet, unwilling to deal
with the horror of this reality.
After 15 years and more than 30 projects as a professional contemporary dancer, Jim Barnard was led to the rabbit hole of puppet theatre by Duda Paiva. After participating in Paiva’s shows for a couple
of years he decided it was time to take the psychological and emotional step of calling himself a “puppeteer” rather than a “dancer”.
After making his first puppet and starting to improvise with it, Jim
quickly discovered the amazing liberty that puppets can offer a performer and theatre maker. Before very long he had devised enough
material to put together a full length solo performance ‘STAN’, and
so Scallywag Theatre was born. In 2008/09 he made his second solo
performance, ‘Mr Magic’.
Scallywag Theatre
jimbarnard@gmail.com
www.jimbarnard.com
Director: Anne Türnpu
Dramaturg: Marion Jõepera
Designer: Rosita Raud
Musical Designer: Reigo Ahven
Author and Writer of Subtitles: Helena Läks
Cast: Kadri Kalda, Katariina Tamm, Katri Pekri, Laura Nõlvak
A fierce struggle over a dozen hands, a keyboard, percussion instruments, scissors and 50 metres of fabric.
‘A Wild Growling Happiness’ is a many-sided story made up of many
stories. We talk about staying awake without dreams, sometimes
living inside out and accidentally getting prettier. The one growling
in our title tries to find out how it happens that when we do something, we create so much more than we realise in the beginning:
when tears and laughter are wrapped in the same fabric, it is all it
takes for it to come to life.
NUKU Theatre
+372 6679 555
info@nuku.ee
www.nuku.ee
STREET THEATRE
STREET THEATRE
DANCING ON THE
RINGMUR
EUSTACH AND THE
INSECT
24.05. / 21.30
Goat Stage
35 min
25.05. / 13.30, 15.00
Courtyard of the Great Guild
30 min
Gotland County Theatre and
NUKU’s Youth Studio
Helena Skovierova
Sweden-Estonia
Choreographer: Katarina Kattis Wöllner
Dancers: Getter Meresmaa, Karolin Kõrre, Grete Jürgenson,
Mirjam Aimla, Aleksander Pihoja
‘Dancing on the Ringmur’ is the story about walls, borders and barriers between countries, places and people, but it’s also about possibilities, meetings and new ways to meet the future.
We meet young people who tell us about their view of these issues,
about life and about the future. The main story is about Zack and
Marwah. They are both refuges on Gotland with their background
in Iraq and Somalia. Despite resistance from the environment their
love for each other grows strong, he a muslin from Mogadishu and
she a Christian from Iraq. Zack dreams about the reunion with his
mother and young brothers and sisters, and he works hard in his
new country to learn the language and dreams of becoming a policeman. He works against the walls of today and Schengen Agreement without success.
‘Dancing on the Ringmur’ is also about the young people’s burden
from their parents and the history. About difficulties to move on
after years of oppression and antagonism. About the fear to fail and
not live up to the expectations of the elderly.
Slovakia
Author, Director, Designer, Performer: Helena Skovierova
A small boy Eustach is alone at home and bored. No one else is at
home, apart from an ugly scary insect. Or maybe not so ugly and
scary... The first glance may be wrong and the insect is in fact
friendly and talented to make a small circus show.
A young puppeteer from Slovakia, she recently finished the Academy of Dramatic Art in Bratislava (VŠMU). She completed one year
of her study in Academy of Dramatic Art in Budapest (SZFE). During
her study she performed also in various theatres in Slovakia and
she also participated as an actress in several international projects.
At the moment she works as a volunteer in Circus studio Folie in
Tallinn. Besides her work there she is also active in the field of theatre – she created the performance ‘Solitary Dialogues’ as an actress
and director with international cast and she plays her own puppet
show, too. She also trains herself in physical theatre, circus, scenography and arts (she is a graduate of Jozef Vydra School of Applied
Art) so she makes her own puppets.
Helena Skovierova
helli.sko@gmail.com
Gotland County Theatre
+498 291 050
info@ltgp.se
www.ltgp.se
STREET THEATRE
GORILLAPOLICE
HOMS FUMS
24.05. / 12.00, 15.00
27.05. / 14.00
Corner of Pikk and Nunne Streets
40 min
25.05. / 12.00
NUKU’s staff entrance
Finland
Concept: Dirty Duckling
Performers: Perrine Ferrafiat, Jouni Järvenpää, Leena
Lahikainen, Sandra Lange, Niina Lindroos, Antti-Juhani
Manninen, Nanna Mäkinen, Merja Pöyhönen, Riina Tikkanen,
Lotta Virtanen, Hilla Väyrynen, Anna-Kaisa Väänänen
The Gorillapolice are fairly soft, childish and officious. Their job description includes amongst other things fervent detective activity,
arranging croquet matches, resuscitation attempts of a deceased
sniffer dog, demonstrations, crosswords, arrests, landscape painting, sophisticated tea parties and concentrated riding on a tricycle.
Every now and then a three-metre-long puppet of a child policeman comes to supervise the action.
The street performance by Dirty Duckling has delighted, entertained and confused viewers on festivals and events. Regardless of
the nature of the event, the gorillas have focused on their bureaucracy duty, making sure the audience enjoy themselves.
the newspaper Kaleva: “Dirty Duckling is the hottest of the hot. In
events in Turku.”
+358 40 0654 367
26.05. / 17.00
Town Hall Square
27.05. / 12.00
45 min
Compagnie Ecart
France
Choreographer: Gilles Ménard
Designer of Puppets: Maya Eneva
Costume Designer: Adeline Lys
Performers: Gilles Ménard, Marc Têtedoie, Anne Clouet
Homs Fums are three curious characters of the Compangnie Ecart.
Three human puppet masks inspired by a comic strip. In raincoats
and wellington boots, they blend with the crowd and wander in
the streets. Classical, electronic and opera music accompany their
dance in front of an amused audience. Also, the spectators find
themselves being played with by these three curious characters
throughout the show.
Since 1990, Compagnie Ecart uses their clumpy shoes on the tar of
the streets, claiming a liberty of expression, an unformatted dance.
As a parallel to conventional stages, Ecart decides to perform on
public places where a true connection, an obvious relationship
grows with the street audience. There they reach to all kinds of people, every generation. The spectators are free to react and take an
active part of the show. The audience is alive, they shake the artist
up. The atmosphere of the place is also alive, it influences the climate, the magic and the exchange. The troupe is enlivened by the
quest of fluidity, a dreamlike vision of reality: speaking of profound
subjects with a remaining wish to entertain. Their aim is to give the
spectators an opportunity to slide into a new universe. They like images which set questions, which leave the audience in a state of
uncertainty. Everything is in a perpetual movement.
Compagnie Ecart
+332 40 35 70 52
cieecart@yahoo.fr
www.cieecart.fr
STREET THEATRE
LET’S PLAY
PANTOMIME
26.05. / 12.00
27.05. / 15.00
Goat Stage
26.05. / 15.00
Town Hall Square
50 min
Gábor Dvorák’s Pantomime Theatre
MUSICAL NOTES
24.05. / 12.00, 14.00
Liberty Square
45 min
La Compagnie des Quidams
France
Author: Jean-Baptiste Duperray
Director: Jean-Baptiste Duperray with the artistic collaboration
of France Chapon
Actors: Axelle Fuchez, Françoise Susanne Hueso,
Véronique Ghislaine Carmen Darde ép. Dore
Hungary
Author and Performer: Gábor Dvorák
Interactive play without text
Pantomime artist Gábor Dvorák teaches the audiences how to use
pantomime to portray different characters, invisible items and beings. The audience learns together by performing a comical pantomime where they laugh at human stupidity in fun scenes.
Gábor Dvorák has performed pantomime since 1976 and he has
taught pantomime since 1982. He has worked and taught in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, and he still gives lectures and teaches workshops in Hungary and elsewhere. In 2002 he established his
own theatre and started teaching children who suffer from deafness or a hearing impairment.
Gábor Dvorák’s Pantomime Theatre
+36 06 302 741 327
dvorakgabor@t-online.hu
www.dvorakpatkaszinhaz.hu
www.dvorakgabor.ini.hu
Three quirky black-and-white characters on stilts walk around the
streets. They approach to the members of audience and whisper
musical secrets into people’s ears. They spread different melodies
from their strange musical instruments and begin to dance. Both
funny and moving, these strange characters lead the audience into
their musical fantasies.
Established in 1994 by its artistic director, Jean-Baptiste Duperray, Compagnie des Quidams has created more than ten shows,
performed in over than forty countries, from Europe to Australia,
as well as in Asia and South America. The Company unites more
than twenty artists and technicians coming from a variety of backgrounds (theatre, dance, music, circus, etc).
Compagnie des Quidams is based in Etrez, a village north of Lyon,
France. In addition to promoting its own shows, the Company develops projects to raise awareness of street art by organising public
rehearsals, internships and artistic practice workshops.
Performances of the Compagnie des Quidams are supported by the
French Institute in Tallinn.
La Compagnie des Quidams
+33 (0)474 479 549
cie.quidams@orange.fr
www.quidams.com
STREET THEATRE
PETRUSHKA AT THE FAIR
PROF. OLAF STEVENSON
24.05. / 14.00
Hall of the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre
45 min
26.05. / 14.30, 16.30
27.05. / 13.00, 16.00
NUKU’s Main Hall gate
25.05. / 15.00
Goat Stage
1 h 30 min
27.05. / 19.00
28.05. / 19.00
Von Krahl Theatre
Theatre Vagrant Booth
29.05. / 19.00
Genialists’ Club, Tartu
1 h 10 min
Russia
Authors and Performers: Alexander Gref, Elena Slonimskaya
La Compagnie des Chemins de Terre
Petrushka is one of the oldest and most mysterious characters in
the world of puppet theatre and, perhaps, theatrical culture in general. Traditional Petrushka glove-puppet performances have long
since been a symbol of Russian puppet theatre.
Like its foreign counterparts – Pulcinella in Italy, Punch in the UK,
Polichinelle in France and Kasperle in Germany – Petrushka is
performed using a complex, ancient technique with a distinctive
squawking voice or accent. Elena Slonimskaya, who voices Petrushka in our theatre, has worked hard for many years to master this
skill. The Musician, a character at least as ancient as Petrushka,
maintains the line of communication between the audience and
this distinctive puppet character.
Begium
Vagrant Booth is a laboratory puppet theatre. It was founded by
Alexander Gref in 1989. In the beginning, the theatre was actually
a children’s studio, but when the children grew up, it became a professional theatre. The theatre has three actors: Alexander Gref, Elena
Slonimskaya and Larisa Sokolova.
The main goal of the theatre is to study and perform folk puppet
theatre. There are two Russian folk puppet shows on the repertoire
of the theatre: Christmas drama called ‘Vertep’, and ‘Petrushka’, Russian Punch. The shows are musical and interactive, the artists don’t
use any phonograms so they play and sing live using several national musical instruments.
Vagrant Booth is a mobile theatre. The performances can be performed not only on indoor stages, but also in cafés, small school
halls, sitting rooms during family holidays or in the street among
walking audience.
Theatre Vagrant Booth
+7 9161 829 014
greffoto@gmail.com
www.booth.ru
Director: Francy Begasse
Builder of the chest: Christophe Georis
Performer: Stéphane Georis
One Philosopher and 40 living objects in a chest of drawers.
Here comes Prof. Olaf Stevenson, philosophical puppeteer, with his
inseparable closet. This one has got around 40 drawers from which
emerge all kinds of everyday objects: a tool, a spoon, a fork, something banal which for a short time will come to life. The moment
he needs to tell us a story, it’s show time : Will Mr Palette break the
world record for cheese-throwing? Will the poor love-sick leek meet
the banana of its dreams? Will the snails be allowed to carry on polluting? Some answers you will get during the show. Some others,
later, in your kitchen.
La Compagnie des Chemins de Terre was found in 1988 by Stéphane
Georis and Geneviève Cabodi. They are trained in theatre (IAD, conservatory), circus and clown arts (Ecole de Cirque de Bruxelles),
music (she plays accordion, he plays saxophone) and dance (she’s
a wonderful tap dancer!). Their aim has always been to offer their
talent in the most popular theatre – streets acts!
As a company, they have spent the last twenty years travelling with
their three children (who sometimes participate in the shows). With
a crew of French, Italian and Danish co-producers, they’ve travelled
across 22 countries; Belgium to Tunisia, Cuba to Brazil, Denmark to
Canaries. In 1993, they received support from the Belgian Ministry
of Culture. Currently, they are supported by the CGRI (International
Relationship). Since 1995 La Compagnie des Chemins de Terre has
produced the only free newspaper in Belgium, Gazette des Chemins
de Terre, which is focused on street theatre.
Performances of the Compagnie des Chemins de Terre at Tallinn
Treff Festival are supported by Wallonie-Burxelles-International.
La Compagnie des Chemins de Terre
+32 (0) 87/660 671
info@cheminsdeterre.be
www.cheminsdeterre.be
VISUAL AND PUPPET THEATRE FOR CHILDREN
VISUAL AND PUPPET
THEATRE FOR CHILDREN
SHĀKE
SWĪRL
KĪCK
24.05. / 12.30, 14.00, 15.00
Goat Stage
10 min
Actors of the NUKU Theatre
ALL DIFFERENT, ALL STRANGE
27.05. / 15.00, 16.30
NUKU’s Small Hall
35 min
for age 3+
Slovenia
Estonia
Authors, Performers: Andres Roosileht, Taavi Tõnisson,
Anti Kobin, Riho Rosberg, Mirko Rajas, Mihkel Tikerpalu
अनदे खा people have learnt to suppress their self-awareness over
the years. Rituals like this are held every year at certain times and in
certain places, and their goal is to cleanse the spirit from everything
you can grab with your senses and getting close to transcendence.
Their limited mudra skills do not stop their Taoist journey. Toil deserves freedom. Love the living, wait for beauty…
NUKU Theatre
+372 6679 555
info@nuku.ee
www.nuku.ee
Auhtor and Director: Maja Kunšič
Designer: Iztok Bobić, Zoran Srdić
Composer: Tomaž Grom
Choreographer: Natalija Sultanova
Lighting Designer: Miran Udovič
The performance ‘All Different, All Strange’ is a somewhat different
theatrical, puppet and musical story – with a hint of burlesque –
about friendship for the youngest. The title is a play on the slogan
‘All different, All Equal’. We will peek into the life of a worker in a toy
factory, where everything is made in the same way. One day the
worker takes one of the toys home. On the way she meets a circus,
which turns her world upside down. She slowly starts changing and
adding colours to her life, which the toy from the factory doesn’t
take well. It ridicules her for she has changed, so she decides to sew
herself a soft toy, different from the previous one. Will the toys accept each other? Will the three of them find the common language?
The Ljubljana Puppet Theatre (Lutkovno Gledališče Ljubljana) was
founded in 1948. It fuelled its creative inspiration on various traditions that had marked Slovene puppetry from its beginning in
1910s to the end of World War Two. The theatre soon perfected its
expressive power in the 1950s, and could be equaled to other important European puppet theatres.
Recently there was a generation switch, both in the artistic management and puppeteers, which opened new horizons for the theatre.
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre is the central puppet theatre in Slovenia.
It puts seven premieres on stage each season. All puppetry techniques are represented, however their specialty are marionettes on
long strings. The theatre provides training courses for actors and
puppeteers, organises various workshops for children and adults,
round table discussions, and a festival.
+386 013 000 970
info@lgl.si
www.lgl.si
ANIMALS
COSETTE
25.05. / 12.00
NUKU’s Main Hall
45 min
for age 3–6
24.05. / 12.00
25.05. / 13.00
27.05. / 13.00
Köismäe Tower
45 min
for age 7+
El Retablo
Spain
NUKU’s Children Theatre
Author and Performer: Pablo Vergne
Directors: Carlos Piñeiro, Pablo Vergne
Estonia
‘Animals’ is a composition of gentle and funny stories from the animal world. Various objects, materials and things evolve into living
creatures, whose form, colour, sounds and movements draw exciting pictures that amaze the audience of any age. These are poetic,
playful, funny and emotional scenes that are created by a simple
and childlike image language. This is music to the eyes, paintings to
the ears, theatre to the senses and poetry to the feelings.
Theatre company El Retablo was founded in 1989. Its work is characterised by peculiar style that combines traditions and innovation,
frugal approach and maximum expressiveness, recycling objects
and finding new means of expression and devotion to its audience.
The repertory of El Retablo contains both classic children’s plays
from around the world as well as plays written by us.
Participation of El Retablo at Tallinn Treff Festival is supported by
Spanish Embassy in Estonia and Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y
de Cooperación.
El Retablo
+34 917 716 797
elretablo@elretablo.net
www.elretablo.net
Author: Victor Hugo
Director: Taavi Tõnisson
Dramaturg: Kristiina Jalasto
Designer: Anni Jõeaas
Composer: Kaire Vilgats
Lighting Designer: Märt Sell
Video Designer: Margus Raid
Actress: Liivika Hanstin
Actors in video: Tiina Tõnis, Riho Rosberg
This is a story of incredible bravery and courage, unimaginable happiness and love. But also a story of incredible envy, malice, negligence and cowardice. As in all fairy tales, there are laughter, tears
and unexpected turns. There are big dreams and their fulfilments.
And there is an eight-year-old girl who is given the greatest gift of
her life.
Based on a fragment from Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Misérables’.
NUKU Theatre
+372 6679 555
info@nuku.ee
www.nuku.ee
MOMMIES’ NEST
EGGS
27.05. / 12.00
NUKU’s Oval Hall
30 min
for age 1–3
Estonia
Author and Director: Helle Laas
Designer: Riina Vanhanen
Cast: Katri Pekri, Are Uder, Riho Tammert
In this story, every baby has their own game before bedtime. The
kitten has one, as do the puppy, lamb, calf and foal. The dummies
will help if any of the babies gets too sleepy and starts to cry. Maybe
you will recognise yourself in one of those sleepy animal babies?
NUKU Theatre
+372 6679 555
info@nuku.ee
www.nuku.ee
POTPOTPOT
25.–27.05 / 11.00
Hall of the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre
30 min
for age 1–4
Theatre Mud Pants Giraffe
Finland
Director: Suvi Auvinen
Composer: Marko Pakarinen
Script and visualisation: Suvi Auvinen, Annastiina Storm,
Maaria Tuhkunen
Performers: Annastiina Storm, Maaria Tuhkunen
‘Potpotpot’ is a performance especially for babies and toddlers. But
it is well enjoyed by any surprise-loving viewer regardless of their
age!
The pots come to life in an absurd story inspired by a child’s ability
to jump into fantasy from everyday life. Pots transform into odd but
friendly creatures, and new things and materials emerge endlessly.
After the show the children are invited to get acquainted with the
objects used in the performance.
‘Potpotpot’ is made even for the youngest of viewers. There are no
loud sounds or darkness in it. Being without words, ‘Potpotpot’ is
suitable for people of any language.
Theatre Mud Pants Giraffe (Teatteri Kurahousukirahvi) is a small
theatre group from Helsinki, Finland. Mud Pants Giraffe creates
touring performances outside mainstream theatre, aiming to take
their shows to any place in the reach of people. The members are
freelance theatre artists working also in the field of art pedagogy
and applied theatre.
„Kurahousukirahvi makes theatre for small people living inside people of all sizes.”
Theatre Mud Pants Giraffe
+358 503 253 587
kurahousukirahvi@gmail.com
www.kurahousukirahvi.com
RAPUNZEL
24.05. / 11.00, 13.30
NUKU’s Oval Hall
35 min
for age 4–10
Estonia
Authors: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Director: Kadri Kalda
Director’s Assistant: Katri Pekri
Design: group work
Consultants: Jevgeni Moiseyenko, Kalju Kivi
Composer: Kaire Vilgats
Lyricist: Jaan Pehk
Cast: Laura Nõlvak, Katri Pekri, Mihkel Tikerpalu
Based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, this is the story of a
beautiful girl who grows up locked in a lonely tower with no doors
or stairs, just a window high above the ground. Her extraordinarily
long hair is the only thing that keeps her in touch with the rest of
the world…
The authors of the production are young actors who just completed their studies of puppetry in the Turku Arts Academy and who tell
the story of Rapunzel and her prince in the language of puppet and
shadow theatre.
NUKU Theatre
+372 6679 555
info@nuku.ee
www.nuku.ee
A SHORT-SIGHTED
PRINCESS
26.05.
14.00, 16.00
NUKU’s Oval Hall
for age 3+
Finland
Authors, Directors and Performers: Merja Pöyhönen, Lotta
Virtanen, Anna-Kaisa Väänänen
Original paintings: Hanna Schroderus
Puppet and Set Designers: working group and Heini Maaranen
Directions: Iisa Ilona Tähtinen, Antti-Juhani Manninen,
Johanna Latvala, Tatu Jokinen, Suvi Auvinen
‘A Short-Sighted Princess’ is an absurd and hysterical art exhibition
where the characters of the paintings come to life and jump out
of their frames. The stories in ‘Short-Sighted Princess’ have been inspired by five paintings by artist Hanna Schroderus. The collaboration between three performers, one artist and five directors sprang
up a performance full of colourful and funny episodes dealing with
the difference between how children and adults experience things
and the delicious world of colours.
the newspaper Kaleva: „Dirty Duckling is the hottest of the hot. In
events in Turku.”
+358 40 0654 367
SISALE
SNOW WHITE
26.05. / 11.00, 13.00, 15.00
40 min / for age 1,5–5
27.05. / 12.00
Courtyard of the Children’s Literature Centre
50 min
for age 5+
ScarlattineTeatro
Italy
MiniTeater
Slovenia
Director: Anna Fascendini, Bruna Pellegrini
Artistic advice: Michele Cremaschi, Michele Losi
Video: Alberto Momo
Performer: Anna Fascendini
Through the eyes of Tatò, a little turtle, we Set out on a journey.
We climb, we go downhill, we have adventures, we meet surprises,
just as we do when growing up. The white magic landscape has its
transfiguration on the screen: the sea, a sun made of salt, plains,
footprints and tracks that turn out to be our path.
Silence and what has been done tell the story. The words are the
sounds, songs, lullabies.
30 kilos of salt on the stage and only a few simple objects. Children
find their own playing movements in the gestures, some domestic
sounds and voices they recognize.
Tatò the turtle finds the way to lay her eggs. The children find the
way to bring in their own way of playing by going on stage and using the salt as they like.
Little ones should be caressed with beauty and led to amazement,
never forgetting they are the only ones from whom we can still
learn.
ScarlattineTeatro is a disease. Infectious, acute, contagious. Multifaceted.
Peculiar to childhood, not only as stated age but also when we are
bright-eyed and curious. When you catch it, you’ll have a mark on
your skin forever.
ScarlattineTeatro believes that theatre has to catch, to face, to appeal, to seduce, to dazzle, to amaze, to desolate, to cheer, to distress, to consume, to change life. It believes in multiplicity of voices
and ideas, it loves taking chances lightly, playing. It creates performances which can be set everywhere, following a specific poetic
and political choice.
It always looks for a new way of staying together and producing
art, promoting fusion of different languages in order to break barriers between theatre, performance, dance, music, visual arts. The
spectator is a fellow traveller who we want to infect and involve. We
believe that’s the way, the only possible in order to fulfil our work.
Illusion of our theatre lives only through mutual look of people who
live life.
Adaptation: Marek Bečka, Zala Dobovšek
Director: Marek Bečka
Puppet Design and Artistic Concept: Robert Smolik
Music and Songs: Jose
Actors: Vesna Vončina, Aljaž Jovanović
Fairytale heroes in this performance will not be set in the magical surroundings of the enchanted forest, poisoned apples, idyllic
nature and supernatural kisses but will be in accordance to their
typical characters set in modern society structures. Modern fairytale situations, this time set in dark mining town, will with the help
of modern accessories firstly point out the ecological crisis and uncontrolled pollution of the environment. Of course evil step mother, magical mirror, roguish elves and the savior are a necessity. The
story of Snow White comes to life as live, sarcastic comment on the
actual state of the world but maintains all the vital fairytale motives
that are the red line of this performance.
Robert Waltl and Ivica Buljan founded MiniTeater in 1999 to enhance
creativity in post-drama theatre and the theatre for the young. The
company has a paradoxical dual mission: to be an elite theatre yet
also populist, eccentric and attractive to a wide audience.
MiniTeater gives approximately five hundred performances each
year in Ljubljana, across Slovenia and abroad. MiniTeater has won a
number of awards and recognitions for its theatrical achievements.
Through its paradox goal, MiniTeater breaks the traditional boundaries of theatre, affirming them merely in the way of thinking. In the
premises of the theatre in Ljubljana, MiniTeater follows the concept
of an „enlarged theatre” offering a series of novel readings (performed by the best Slovene actors), concerts, and artistic actions.
MiniTeater
+386 14 256 060
info@mini-teater.si
www.mini-teater.si
ScarlattineTeatro
+39 9276 070
info@scarlattineteatro.it
www.scarlattinetatro.it
INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS STUDENTS PROGRAMME
INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS STUDENTS
PROGRAMME
THE BUBBLES
THE CLOWNERY
25.05. / 13.00, 15.00
Seaplane Harbour
25.05. / 12.30, 14.30
40 min
27.05. / 13.30, 16.00
30 min
Yaroslavl State Theatre Institute
Russia
The Kharkov State Kotlyarevsky
University of Arts
Ukraine
Director: Aleksander Injutotškin
Cast: Viktor Lomakin, Aziza Ibragimova, Jelena Khomutetska,
Nina Krasnoshapka, Evgenia Kryvezhenko, Daria Moroz,
Mikhailo Ozerov, Anna Semenikhina, Jelena Shestak,
Alona Egorova, Katerina Sysa, Katerina Ustinova, Olga Pinaeva,
Aleksey Shulgach
If you want to give yourself a slice of childhood, to plunge into the
atmosphere of street games, you don’t need a time machine. All
you need is to see the performance ‘The Bubbles’!
If you are tired of serious newspaper articles and persuasive TV adverts, you don’t have to go to a bookshop to search easy entertaining literature. You just have to see the performance ‘The Bubbles’! If
you like to dream and create unusual things from usual objects, the
performance ‘The Bubbles’ is your performance!
Kharkiv State Kotlyarevsky University of Arts, founded in 1917 and
also known as the “Kharkiv Conservatory”, is one of the leading
colleges of art in Ukraine. The University is named after Ivan Kotlyarevsky, classic of Ukrainian literature, playwright and prominent
figure in music and performing arts. The University provides training to students leading to bachelor and master degrees in arts with
the two specialities: Music Art and Theatre Art. There are 5 departments with 23 faculties at the University. Over the years more than
10,000 musicians and theatre workers have graduated from the
University.
High priority is given to the individual approach to education and
professional training, recognizing that individual attention is best
suited to develop and encourage the formation of a unique creative
personality.
Tutors: Viatcheslav Borisov, Irina Azeeva
Cast: Veronika Bondarenko, Sergei Vnukov, Jekaterina Ivanova,
Olga Kazachukhina, Yulia Kurochkina, Liudmila Lopatina,
Dmitry Murashov, Alina Postoronka, Artem Preobrazhenskiy,
Nadezhda Sokolovskaia, Lidia Khazova, Pavel Drozdov,
Daria Bugakova
The performance is compiled of small comic scenes dealing with
various situations. Some of them are original etudes created by the
students and some etudes are from the repertoire of classic clownery.
The curriculum of the chair of puppetry in Yaroslavl Theatre Arts
Academy includes two general puppetry art subjects: the basics of
composition and visual art. The objective is to teach students how
to place a puppet in a given space not only based on the rule of logic, but also based on the body of the puppeteer. The curriculum also
includes subjects like stage oratory, stage movement, dance, singing etc. Close attention is also paid to the skill of plastic expression
of a puppeteer and individual approach is supported in all possible
ways. Every year a new course of students of puppetry is admitted
to the 4-year course of studies.
The high quality of teaching is proven not only by the success of the
graduates in the puppet theatres in Russia, but also by the many
awards won at various puppetry competitions and festivals.
Yaroslavl State Theatre Institute
+48 52 721 811
admin@theatrins-yar.ru
www.theatrins-yar.ru
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BREAKFAST
25.05. / 22.00
26.05. / 22.00
Goat Stage
25 min
Turku Arts Academy
FREIER TANZ
24.05. / 17.30, 20.00
NUKU’s Oval Hall
20 min
Białystok Puppetry Faculty of
A. Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy
in Warsaw
Poland
Finland
Author, Director: Perrine Ferrafiat
Performers: Perrine Ferrafiat, Cécile Thévenot
Tea. Tea defines the English identity. Four O’clock, all around the
country, the kettles boil.
However the English citizens were not aware that the route for tea
could also become a route for illegal immigration.
The Puppet Theatre Department was formed within the Performing Arts Department of the Turku Arts Academy in 1999. There is
no specific specialisation (puppet theatre designer, constructor,
performer, director) at the Department – every student takes part
in all classes and workshops. During their studies students realise a
number of projects in which they can concentrate on one aspect of
the profession or try themselves in several fields.
As there are always two classes of students studying at the Department at the same time, the junior students are always involved as
performers in the senior students’ projects. The core of the process
is workshops and master classes, each devoted to a certain specific
form or aspect of puppetry. In-between workshops, the skills received are developed in the projects, tutored by the staff instructors.
Puppetry Department of Turku Arts Academy
+358 505 985 257
www.taideakatemia.turkuamk.fi
Author and Performer: Natalia Sakowicz
Tutors: Agnieszka Baranowska, Krzysztof Rau
Inspiration for the performance came from a story of the great German dancer Mary Wigman, creator of an expressive dance style
called Ausdruckstanz. Wigman collaborated with the nazi government and performed at the opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympic
Games in Berlin. The new, expressive way of dancing, also called as
Freier Tanz (‘Free Dance’) was formed in the 1920ies as the manifest
of freedom and individuality. However, the movement which is an
expression of thoughts and emotions may still be used as a mean
of manipulation, in order to enslave an individual who is torn by
passion and ready to sacrifice all in the name of love.
The Białystok Faculty of Puppetry Art at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy in Warsaw was founded in 1975 as an extension of the Actors’ Studio set up a year earlier at the Białostocki
Teatr Lalek. The idea of establishing the Faculty came from Krzysztof Rau, the director of the puppet theatre, and Jan Wilkowski – one
of the most renowned Polish puppeteers of the post-war period.
In 1980 the Faculty was further extended by the Faculty of Puppet
Theatre Directing in addition to the existing Faculty of Puppetry.
Since 1990 there has been a single Faculty of Puppetry Art with two
specializations: puppetry acting and directing.
In addition to core courses, the syllabus includes theatrical workshops; students are also offered an opportunity to participate in
national and European festivals and to train at professional puppet
theatres.
Białystok Faculty of Puppetry Art
+48 857 435 353
sekretariat@atb.edu.pl
www.atb.edu.pl
GREG
MASKS
24.05. / 12.00, 14.30
NUKU’s Main Hall Gate
10 min
25.05. / 12.00, 14.00
20 min
Turku Arts Academy
in Warsaw
Finland
Author, Director: Tuomas Kotamaa
Performers: Essi Nummelin, Annikki Kotamaa,
Marja-Leena Nuormaa-Vilen, Nella Turkki, Mona Krueger
A story created from bicycle parts!
+358 505 985 257
Poland
Tutors: Bohdan Głuszczak, Michał Jarmoszuk
Cast: Anna Przygoda, Helena Wróbel, Natalia Sakowicz,
Patrycja Czyżewska, Dorota Kaczor, Małgorzata Krawczenko,
Justyna Ołownia, Piotr Osak, Remigiusz Kriese, Jakub Popławski,
Michał Przybyszewski, Bartosz Budny, Maciej Sikorski
A street performance in which the students play with masks. It’s a
compilation of couple of etudes, practically without words and with
music.
theatres.
+48 857 435 353
www.atb.edu.pl
KOMMANDOPIECE
AKA SPACE
INVADERS
25.05. / 15.00
Festival Club
1h
Theatre Academy Helsinki
Finland
Choreographer and Director: Jarkko Partanen
Sound Designer: Jussi Matikainen
Lighting Designer: Samuli Laine
Costume Designer: Henna-Riikka Taskinen
Performers: Wilhelm Grotenfelt, Anna Maria Häkkinen,
Niina Koponen, Samuli Laine, Jussi Matikainen,
Henna-Riikka Taskinen, Tuomas Tulikorpi
‘Kommandopiece aka Space Invaders’ studies forms of authority
and the use of power in our daily surroundings. The work plays with
concepts of authority both seriously and on the border of absurdity.
During the performance, scenes of security and insecurity happen
under the watchful eye of security cameras which either secure or
monitor both the audience and the performers.
The Kommandos take over and seize spaces for themselves and the
audience. Examining the actions and the behaviour of authority in
our society has brought the performance out of the theatre space
in to the streets and social spaces. The audience is welcomed to witness the Kommandos at work, but each scene will define the role of
the viewer as bystander or victim.
The threat is real, but there is no reason to worry: you are safe with
us!
The Theatre Academy of Finland is the biggest educational institution in its field of theatre and dance in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The Department of Dance was founded in 1983. The overall
aim of the department is to provide dance artists with strong, versatile skills in contemporary dance. Teaching at the department emphasizes an experiential approach to learning and creating dance,
encouraging awareness and unity of body and mind.
Theatre Academy of Finland
+358 400 792 175
www.teak.fi/dance
LIKE A FISH OUT OF
WATER
25.05. / 16.00
Heaven Stage of Tallinn City Theatre
45 min
Turku Arts Academy
Finland
Director: Perrine Ferrafiat
Assistant Director: Nella Turkki
Voice: Pessi Nirhamo
Puppet building and Stage Design: Perrine Ferrafiat,
Sarune Peciukonyte
Performers: Satu Kivistö, Mona Krueger, Mila Nirhamo
9 months old, the child has to leave his very first flat. He has grown
too big and the landlady cannot keep him in. It’s time to move out.
The child goes through a door, nearly too small for him. His mouth
opens. Air comes in. He wriggles, like a fish out of water.
10 years later... the story repeats itself. But the doors – this time – are
shut.
A story about immigration, seen through the eyes of a young boy
thrown into an immigration office.
A story to remember that before stepping in our countries, immigrants have left and let behind a part of themselves.
+358 505 985 257
PUPI PIPA PUPI
25.05. / 13.00, 15.00
Courtyard of the Museum of Applied Art and Design
60 min
Company Degam / Lithuanian Academy
of Music and Theatre
SLOW MOTION
NINJA FIGHT
26.05. / 14.00, 16.00
10 min
Lithuania
Turku Arts Academy
Director: Egle Mikulionyte
Set Design: group work
Composer: Vytautas Valiunas
Choreography: Degam & Egle Mikulionyte
Cast: Irma Bogdanovičiūtė, Indrė Mickevičiūtė, Leonas Milius,
Laurynas Onuškevičius, Virginija Kuklytė, Šarūnas Gedvilas,
Rokas Petrauskas, Evelina Brėdikytė, Goda Nefaitė,
Alikas Kazlovas, Aistė Motiejūnaitė, Rimvydas Ambrazevičius
Finland
There was the calm and cozy world of Little’s traditional toys that
was suddenly interrupted by the Big with his aggressive electronic
dolls…
The independent company Degam presents a fabulous pantomime
performance full of imagination and humour – the toy action thriller Pupi Pipa Pupi. It is a story about two boys who play with their
dolls that can laugh, cry, sing and dance. Suddenly the game turns
into a fight, some dolls get broken, some get hurt.
This quick-fire performance shows how useless and cruel a game
can sometimes be. And how strong is the power of love that unites
everyone in the end.
Troupe Degam (“we burn” in translation) is the independent company of young professional actors that is already awarded in the international theatre festivals in Russia and Belarus. The troupe is led
by director Juozas Javaitis. Degam unites the graduates of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre’s first professional pantomime
and physical theatre course trained by well known Lithuanian pantomime professors such as Elena Savukynaite, Vesta Grabstaite and
Egle Mikulionyte. The aim of the troupe is to find an individual path
in theatre combining traditional drama with body language: dance,
pantomime, stage movement as well as to create the open and sincere performances as the means to contact the audience. The performances of the troupe are mostly based on their own experience
and the thoughtful observation of the surroundings that lead to the
documentation of completely original and individual scripts retold
to the observer using the language of the body and the passion of
the soul. Not forgetting imagination and sense of humour at the
time, of course. Degam is a source of warm creative flames in the
little black theatre box.
Dierctor Essi Nummelin
Performers: Maria-Elina Koivula, Annikki Levomaa,
Marja-Leena Nuormaa-Vilen, Essi Nummelin
Puppets and puppeteers having a huge ninja battle. Who will win?
+358 505 985 257
Company Degam
degam.info@gmail.com
STRINDBERG
TIGER ON LOOSE!
24.05. / 17.30, 20.30
NUKU’s Oval Hall
25 min
25.05. / 12.00, 13.30
15 min
in Warsaw
Turku Arts Academy
Poland
Tutors: Agnieszka Baranowska, Krzysztof Rau
Cast: Bartosz Budny, Anna Przygoda, Remigiusz Kriese,
Patrycja Czyżewska
Finland
Author, Director: Ninni Finnberg
Performers: Jenni Helenius, Liisi Lukkarinen, Anna Nekrassova,
Tuomas Kotamaa, Malla Koivula, Antti Tahkola, Ninni Finnberg,
Emma Golnick
An adult Bengal tiger, escaped into Old Town and encounters
Tallinn’s citizens. Grrrowl! Watch your step. Hold that Tigerrr!
„You come from beyond the grave, and so you’re not dead…?”
A small theatrical piece which has its source in the heritage of the
great August Strindberg. Caricatured characters draw the spectators into the world of absurdity and black humour, telling a story
about a family intrigue, studying human’s transformation from a
victim to an executioner.
theatres.
+358 505 985 257
+48 857 435 353
www.atb.edu.pl
TRACES
25.05. / 18.00, 19.00
NUKU’s Oval Hall
20 min
School of Visual Theatre
Israel
Author and Director: Moran Duvshani
Advisors: Roni Mosenson, Amit Drori
Performers: Noam Sandel, Moran Duvshani
A WOMAN IN HER
ROOM
24.05. / 12.30, 14.30
40 min
School of Visual Theatre
Israel
Author, Director, Performer: Noam Sandel
This is a story dealing with separations and longings that are curved
upon the isaeli kibbutz history and in the communal children housing experience. Yet it is a personal story of a voyage of no return.
Two women play with pieces of paper on the floor, assembling and
re-assembling a two-dimensional world of landscape and character. Without words, they tell an adult bedtime story about a brave,
tired little girl who comes apart and collects herself, yearning for
home, not knowing where to rest her feet.
Stepping on a fine line between animation and performance-art, an
artist meets material and creates a rich world of imagination, touching the heart of anyone who has ever set out on a quest at the call
of longing.
The School of Visual Theatre was founded in 1986, training artists
and professionals in fields ranging in the performing and visual arts.
It is the only institution of its kind in Israel and among the few in the
world offering interdisciplinary studies of performance art, movement theatre, multimedia performance, video, puppetry, stage
design, visual art and others. Visual theatre is unique in combining
performing and visual arts, thus creating a new theatrical language
in which every component – space, movement, voice or sound –
may be as important as the actor and the human image.
A woman in a room. A room within a woman.
Caged in time she endlessly seeks the moment she lost.
A performance in which the puppeteer is blind as a puppet.
The School of Visual Theatre was founded in 1986, training artists
and professionals in fields ranging in the performing and visual arts.
It is the only institution of its kind in Israel and among the few in the
world offering interdisciplinary studies of performance art, movement theatre, multimedia performance, video, puppetry, stage
design, visual art and others. Visual theatre is unique in combining
performing and visual arts, thus creating a new theatrical language
in which every component – space, movement, voice or sound –
may be as important as the actor and the human image.
The School of Visual Theatre
+97 226 733 435
prod@visualtheater.co.il
www.visualtheater.co.il
The School of Visual Theatre
+97 226 733 435
prod@visualtheater.co.il
www.visualtheater.co.il
PROGRAMME OF ESTONIAN THEATRE SCHOOLS AND STUDIOS
PROGRAMME OF ESTONIAN THEATRE SCHOOLS
AND STUDIOS
… AND THE SUN
GOES OUT
24.05. / 12.00
25.05. / 15.00
26.05. / 18.00
Courtyard of the Museum of Theatre
and Music (Müürivahe 12)
1h
1st class of the Theatre Department and 2nd class of the Visual
Technology Department of Viljandi Culture Academy of Tartu
University in cooperation with the students of Drakadeemia
BIO I
27.05. / 14.30
Courtyard of the Museum of Applied
Art and Design
30 min
Secondary school age class of the
TeatriPolygon Theatre School
Tutor: Mihkel Kabel
Cast: Maria Liive, Jete-Ri Jõesaar, Janne Kodumäe, Anu Lehis,
Hanna-Eliisa Luts, Katre-Maarja Hainsalu
Director: Lennart Peep
Dramaturg: Piret Jaaks (Drakademia)
Designer: Kristina Kammori
Cast: Märt Koik, Lauri Mäesepp
The play focuses on a time when those young people that are now
17 and 18 years old, first started to perceive the world. Together, we
look back on that. By recreating and re-enacting situations we can
sense and perceive them from a distance. All the parts in these lives
and situations are played by the young people themselves. BIO I is
a ramble through these lives.
After Judgement Day, the wheat will be separated from the chaff.
Those who are free of sin can sit in the glory of God and Jesus and
enjoy eternal bliss. Things will be looking up for the sinners as well.
Satan has become more benevolent, as it is no longer possible to
get new souls – the fight for the higher percentage of souls gained
is over. In hell’s hallway, two sinful theatre connoisseurs put on a
show. Is there a way out of this sulphur-dioxide-filled existence?
First-year students of theatre arts from the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy together with a new playwright from Drakadeemia take a look at a world where the sinners have a voice.
CHILDREN
CIRCUS I
AU REVOIR,
CHEVALERIE
23.–24.05. / 12.00, 18.00
Kiek in de Kök (Komandandi tee 2)
With the museum ticket
45 min
Director: Algis Astmäe
Dramaturg: Mehis Pihla
Production Manager: Imbi Türk
Designer, Decorator, Props Maker: Elise Nigul
Light Designer: Raiko Saadjärv
Multimedia Specialist: Kerttu Kruusla
Cast: Kaarel Targo, Kristo Veinberg
27.05. / 12.00
Courtyard of the Museumi for Applied
Art and Design
25 min
Cildren of Circus Studio Folie
Performers: Eliis Nigola, Laura Veling, Reena Naelapää, Madis
Kaljurand, Peeter Aleksander Randla, Rasmus Kristofer Randla,
Osvald Rein Proses, Mikk Bernadt, Emmeliine Kalvik, Elisa Raichmann,
Diana Tammisto, Madli Krõõt Maaste, Juuli Teder, Hannariin Lamp,
Johanna Adele Järvsoo, Kersti Peetris, Karoliina Kalmo, Madis Epner,
Anette Karing, Elys-Anette Soidla, Greteliis Kuuder, Hanna Oruaas,
Andra Mägi, Liisa Alavere, Merily Sigur, Mona Daniela Kaarelson,
Mia-Mae Tragon, Helena-Riin Plado, Emili Maiste, Liisalotta Kroon,
Liisbet Urba, Maria Laurimäe, Monika Annijerv, Mariann Vilbre
Children from all age groups of Circus Studio Folie perform various
circus acts. They show different kinds of acrobatics, juggling and
unicycling.
Au revoir, chevalerie.
Audrey Hepburn is no more.
She never was.
There is
Only a dream of her,
But a true knight does not dream.
A true knight is honest.
CHILDREN
CIRCUS II
DANCING
MARKET
27.05. / 13.00
Courtyard of the Museumi for Applied
Art and Design
20 min
24.05. / 12.00, 15.00
Courtyard of the Museum for Applied
Art and Design
1h
Acrobats of the Viu Group of Circus Studio Folie
Estonian Academy of Arts
Performers: Mia Rummo, Mari Poom, Sandra Värnik, Mai Mõttus,
Maria Kaljula, Laura Kivistik, Romiina Kalle, Eliise Orav, Anastasija
Minitš, Stella Karema, Diana Tärn
Tutor: Mai Sööt
Participants: Soho Fond (Estonia), Skye Williams (Australia), Paula
Jimenez Bueno (Spain), Julia Hinterberger (Austria)
The Viu group acrobats perform solo numbers from their new circus
production ‘Journey’. The girls are particularly masterful in building
the pyramids.
Dancing Market is a ‘market performance’ in which four young artists take their inside performer and lay it out for sale. It is noteworthy that out of four characters, three appear in the shape of an egg:
Soho Fond dances as his recurring character – the Bluebird who
pecks at his eggs. The self-mythological Bluebird is a creature who
is close to the author in his essence, but the myth has no rational
explanation. Paula Jimenez Bueno places her character in an unhatched egg. She has decided to end all interaction with the audience, crawl in her shell and establish a rhythm of private resistance
that has no connection with the outside. Skye Williams is the only
one who takes no interest in the egg. She is interested in clothes
and identity through clothes. It is as simple as that. Julia Hinterberger presents her element of luck – a figure she got from lead pouring
on New Year’s Eve – a snake guarding its eggs.
Circus Studio Folie was created in 2000 and its aim is to provide
good-quality circus training and circus performances. The training courses take place in the Salme and Nõmme Cultural Centres
in Tallinn. There are 7 groups for children and young people of 7–22
years of age. The total of almost 100 students are trained by 5 teachers. The performing troupe of Folie – FF – is a group of young people, who have in the course of a decade trained themselves in a
multiple of ways in order to become circus artists.
The activities of Folie also include the organisation of training
camps and master classes and taking part in international festivals. Especially important in fulfilling its vision as a circus studio is
to develop the art of circus in the widest possible perspective. The
project Circus Tree (Tsirkusepuu) was launched in 2010 for that purpose with the Tallinn 2010 Foundation.
folie@tsirkus.ee
www.tsirkus.ee
THE COMPLETE
WORKS OF
SHAKESPEARE
25.05. / 13.30
Courtyard of the Children’s Literature
Centre
1h
EGOMANIA
26.05. / 15.00, 15.30
NUKU’s windows
15 min
Children and Friends of the
TeatriPolygon Theatre School
Authors, Directors: everyone’s egos
Cast: Irma Põder, Inger Põder, Loore-Loo Sibul, Pirke Kaljula, Eliann
Tulve, Liisbeth Säde Kala, Ädu Arvisto, Tuuli Karbe, Elina Aru, Maria
Paiste, Vivian Melder, Marie Ojamaa jt.
We open the windows and throw our EGOs out to the street. We spit
it out, we scream in whisper, we shout in silence, we talk in muteness. Comprehension is one’s own issue.
Rakvere Youth Acting Troupe
Authors: Jess Borgeson, Adam Long, Daniel Singer
Director: Tiina Rumm
Cast: Eleri Kang, Eliis Uudeküll, Jane Napp, Laura Randver, MadliGetter Proode, Karle Nutonen, Sander Sakkos, Aleksander Pihlak
The whole of William Shakespeare’s work is acted out on stage in a
short time.
The play that was originally written for three male actors has been
adapted for eight actors. In addition to Shakespeare’s work, the play
includes references to the history and previous productions of the
youth acting troupe.
THE ENCHANTED
LIFE OF ELLA
26.05. / 12.00
Courtyard of the Children’s Literature
Centre
40 min
HARLEQUINADE
27.05. / 12.00, 14.00
Festival Club
15 min
3rd class of the Dance Department
of Viljandi Culture Academy of Tartu
University
Uru Youth Theatre
Tutors: Liivi Varul, Ilmar Laanes, Aapo Reitsak
Cast: Grete Mark, Mari Anton, Hedvig Liblikas, Kaisa Lepik, Sandra
Pärgma, Kalle Valge, Karl Madis Pennar, Katrin Helena Kuslap,
Sander Stroom, Caisa Sell
For some mystical reason, all the socks in the village have been tied
in a knot. Who could be behind all this?
‘The Enchanted Life of Ella’ is a humorous musical about a goodhearted little witch Ella who is harried by the silly and clumsy village
folk. What Ella does not know, however, is that her teacher, a cat
called Nosferatu, has in fact very evil intentions…
Choreographer: Anna-Kristiina Siitan
Musician: Mattias Siitan
Light Designer: Märt Sell
Dancers: Jane Ojasalu, Katrin Kreutzberg, Kaie Küünal, Joonas Tagel,
Raho Aadla
The dance performance ‘Harlequinade’ is a modern interpretation
of the English harlequinade that evolved from commedia dell’ arte.
The central character Harlequin is surrounded by a web of relationships filled with friendship and love, but also malice.
HOPE
ERROR
25.05. / 17.00
Von Krahl Theatre
25 min
26.05. / 14.00
Art and Design
25 min
Choreography Department of
Tallinn University
Dance School of the Estonian Dance
Agency
Choreographer: Teet Kask
Performers: Railis Korjuhin, Monika Timberg, Miia Natka, Maris
Kichno, Egle-Riin Rüütel
Words unsaid… feelings unexpressed... underdose of love... a need
to fight, even if it is with yourself... to understand your essence, its
place in time and space and in relation to others... a journey from
yourself to yourself, in yourself...
What most teenage girls fear more than darkness, more than mice,
snakes and scary movies, is obesity. The fear of getting fat and a distorted image of themselves motivate otherwise level-headed girls
to try out unhealthy methods to lose weight, making them withdrawn and depressed. The question is: should we look at ourselves
through our granny’s eyes or in distorting mirrors?
THE GLASSES
27.05. / 14.30
Goat Stage
20 min
Experimental troupe V a.m.
Director, Choreographer: Maria Vam
Musicians: Artjom Repjuk, Jekaterina Kordas
Dancers: Igor Savotškin, Inna Netšajeva, Birgit Naska, Egor Zadoja,
Jaroslav Galitski, Madli Paves, Sofia Ketova
‘Glasses’ is a play about the indifference of society, about our vices,
weaknesses and troubles. People are different, but they all end up
in the same place. Everyone for their weaknesses.
Author, Director: Mihkel Ernits
Stage Designer: Eve Ormisson
Costume Designer: Marit Illison
Sound Designer: Indrek Soe
Performer: Laura Kvelstein
The play portrays hope. The feeling that remains when all is gone
but a will. In secular terms, hope is our belief in ourselves. The ability
to have positive interaction with the world. Moïsi sees hope as the
opposite of surrender and a form of trust that brings people closer
to one another.
LIFE IS A TRIP
26.05. / 16.00
Art and Design
30 min
Drama Class of Kunda Upper
Secondary School
Tutors: Anne-Liisi Laaneste, Pia Maria Uuetoa
Performers: Sten Nurmla, Airi Kalmus, Kert Sarap, Robin Aleksander
Jäppinen, Kristjan Laubholts, Katja Skvortsova, Indrek Laar, Marielle
Korostik, Kristiina Kruus, Kairi Press, Jana Kütt, Evelin Osipova,
Karina Frolova
Some hold their life in their arms, others drag it along, yet others
carry someone else’s burden or float around like soap bubbles –
these are the lives of different people, packed in suitcases, boxes,
bags, bowls... Sometimes you travel alone, sometimes with companions, you let go, you hold on, you are born, you die, you live,
you don’t live. And still there comes a time you reach a point where
everything is in the past, with yet a new beginning ahead of you.
LIFE IS GOOD
WHERE THERE IS
NO US
23.–26.05. / 22.00
St John the Baptist’s Hospital (near the
Radisson Hotel)
Ticket 0.64 € with the Treff Card
1h
PUNG
25.05. / 20.30
27.05. / 19.00
NUKU’s Oval Hall
30 min
Dreek Studio
Concept and Direction: Renate Valme
In what sense? In the punk sense.
Director: Jaanika Tammaru
Dramaturg: Mari-Liis Mägi (Drakademia)
Production Manager: Pille-Riin Lillepalu
Designer: An-Liis Amur
Light Designer: Andres Tölp
Video: Maritta Anton, Triin Reilson
Cast: Laura Niils, Kristjan Lüüs, Sander Rebane
Saskia. Paul. One closed social area in a glass box where they are
always under pressure with deadlines breathing down their necks.
Outside of the box, there is a boy who has not committed himself to
anything. Sometimes he would like to get inside. Sometimes Saskia
would like to get out. Are we ever happy with the present moment?
Three people search for their far-away dream of self-realisation and
happiness. What can they do to get closer? And how close do they
keep their present?
POTUDAN
27.05. / 18.00
Heaven Stage of Tallinn City Theatre
1,5 h
Russian Theatre School
Director: Irina Tomingas
Choreographer: Irina Krotova
Designer: Ksenia Harkmaa
Cast: Jekaterina Burdjugova, Sergei Pilipenko, Ilja Gussarov, Anna
Solodova, Aleksandra Velichko, Igor Slepak, Anna Bogdanova, Mark
Sepp, Julia Grishina, Olga Grishina, Arina Bonus, Andrei Kokurin,
Aleksandra Azovtseva, Voldemar Harkmaa, Viktoria Germanova,
Artjom Smoljakov
Do any of us know what love is? Is a modern person even capable of
feeling love, the ideal, the greatest of all feelings? We find it harder
and harder to reach something of the kind. Focusing on appearances and fake emotions keep us away from true human values. For
adolescents, present values are more important than family...
In our modern clamorous world where desires overcome reason,
Platonov’s speaks in a quiet voice. But the author has no reason to
shout louder than others. Platonov speaks of love, allowing everyone to feel its light.
Love is a river. Its water – inexhaustible wealth. Any one of us may
find either mud in it or pan for gold instead. Following the path
to love is as hard as swimming in the river of life. You never know
where a vortex awaits you or how deep the water is. The hero of
Paltonov’s story, who has experienced all the horrors of war, learns
to live again.
Potudan is an unvarnished story of love. Quiet, simple and wise. The
play introduces the viewer to the world of Andrei Platonov, full of
surprises, masculinity and humanism.
SAVE MAGDALEN
23.05., 25.05. / 17.00
26.05. / 13.00
In the Assauw Tower of the Museum of
Theatre and Music (Müürivahe 12)
With museum ticket
1h
Director: Kaija Maarit Kalvet
Dramaturg: Birk Rohelend (Drakadeemia)
Designer: An-Liis Amur
Multimedia Specialist: Terina Tikka
Light Designer: Reelika Palk
Cast: Liina Leinberg, Mihkel Kallaste, Rauno Polman
Save Magdalen is a story of three young people who, in May 2012,
end up in the Assauwe tower, either on purpose or by accident. A
story of what and whom they find there. A play about loneliness,
love, and illusions. About how the ideals they have set for themselves shatter when standing face to face with them. About the possibility of saving someone from themselves. About the fact that we
need others to see ourselves.
THE SHADOW
25.05. / 20.00
Von Krahl Theatre
60 min
Russian Theatre School and the
Choreography Department of
Tallinn University
Author: Jevgeni Švarts / Director, Choreographer: Irina Krotova
Costume Designer: Ksenia Harkmaa / Composer: Rahel Hutter
Cast: Sergei Pilipenko, Jekaterina Burdjugova, Roman Maksimuk
‘Shadow, are you always with me?’
‘No, only when there is light...’
The story is about a person, about dreams and love.
The story is about a person who thinks a lot about the future.
The story is about a person who thinks a lot.
The story is about a person who thinks.
The story is about a person.
The story is about.
The story is.
Just a story.
STORIES FROM
INSIDE THE
PICTURE
26.05. / 15.00
27.05. / 15.00
Courtyard of the Estonian Children’s
Literature Centre
40 min / for age 4–10
1st class of the Theatre Department of Viljandi Culture Academy
of Tartu University
Directors: Kaija Maarit Kalvet, Birgit Landberg, Jaanika Tammaru,
Lennart Peep
Tutor: Kalju Komissarov
Cast: Fatme Helge Leevald, Liina Leinberg, Laura Niils, Silver Kaljula,
Mihkel Kallaste, Märt Koik, Kristjan Lüüs, Lauri Mäesepp, Rauno
Polman, Sander Rebane, Karl Edgar Tammi, Kaarel Targo ja Kristo
Veinberg, Kaija Maarit Kalvet, Birgit Landberg, Jaanika Tammaru,
Lennart Peep
A play of five children’s stories written by the Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms (1905–1942). The stories are about the adventures of
children and animals in Kharms’s slightly bizarre world, which is
characterised by repetition, funny incidents and solutions that are
unexpected when compared to other fairy tales. The stories are
simple, but witty and enjoyable for preschoolers and elementary
students.
THE TOMBOY
26.05. / 14.30
Art and Design
25 min
Dance School of the Estonian Dance
Agency
Concept, Direction, Choreography: Mihkel Ernits, Laura Kvelstein
Light: Madis Kirkman
Performers, Choreographers: Angela Tüvi, Diana Seljuškin, MariaNetti Nüganen, Vivian Põldoja, Mari-Liis Kriisa, Maria Kriisa
Urchins have broken out! Anything can happen! Stay tuned!
TREBLE CLEF THEATRE
UGLY DUCKLING
IS NOT DEAD
25.05. / 13.00
Corner of Hobusepea and Lai Streets
25.05. / 13.30
Börsi Passage
25.05. / 14.00
10 min
Joint troupe of the sorority Indla and fraternity Fraternitas Estica
of the University of Tartu
Direction: group work
Cast: Liina Tera, Regina Alber, Helena Kesonen, Ragnar Kurg, Rene
Saarsoo, Andre Kaareste
In ‘Ugly Duckling is not Dead’, performed by Indla and Fraternitas
Estica, a classic fairy tale is told in a new way – innovative, bloody
and all characteristic to fraternities and sororities. The duck is not
a duck, the swan is not a swan and fairy tales have never been so
ketchup-bloody.
VAMPIRE MOM
26.05. / 16.00
Sports Hall of the Gustav Adolf
Grammar School
35 min
Estonian Academy of Arts
Concept and performance: Mai Sööt
Sound design: Mihkel Kleis
Choreography Assistant: Veronika Vallimäe
Drama Assistant: Tiina Sööt
There exists a certain type of people called ‘Vampires’, who ‘suck’
energy and vitality from others. The victim feels weak, sorrow and
lack of energy after contact with a ‘vampire’.
Is it possible that a mother becomes a vampire to her children?
When her children grow up and she doesn’t want to let them go,
she starts to suck them dry by telling boring stories, controlling,
worrying and telling what’s right!
Vampire Mom puts her children into complex situation as even
when they love and honour their mother, they need to push her
away in order to live their own lives. The thing is that society and
Bible truth say that mother is always right!
27.05. / 15.30
Festival Club
1h
Tartu Student Theatre
Performers: Peeter Piiri, Deivi Tuppits,
Christopher Rajaveer, Karl Laumets,
Kristina Mändul, Anu Sildnik, Sven Paulus, Mikael Meema, Triinu
Lukas, Hedvig Tõnisson, Jari Matsi, Lauli Otsar, Karl-Joosep Ilves,
Kristin Uusna, Kalev Kudu
The musical theatrical show ‘Treble Clef Theatre’ is an hour-long
collage that includes songs from performances given by the Tartu
Student Theatre, its members’ favourite songs, sketches, poetry
compositions and other creative pieces.
MUSIC PROGRAMME
WAITING FOR
OTTO
26.05. / 21.30
NUKU’s Small Hall
30 min
Dreek Studio
MUSIC PROGRAMME
CAMERATA VOCALE
& GAMBARE
25.05. / 16.00
Ukrainian Church
1h
Concept and Direction: Renate Valme
comes doesn’t come comes doesn’t come comes doesn’t come
damn it does it come or not who the hell knows
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23.–25.05. / 19.00
26.05. / 20.00
Passages under the Bastions of Kiek in
de Kök
Ticket 3.20 €
45 min
Director. Birgit Landberg
Dramaturg: Liis Väljaots (Drakademia)
Light Designers: Emil Kallas, Märt Sell
Production Manager: Gerda Sülla
Designer, Props Maker: Elise Nigul
Multimedia Specialist: Triin Reilson
Cast: Fatme Helge Leevald, Karl Edgar Tammi, Silver Kaljula
I want to sleep. I desperately want to sleep. I feel heavy, as if my
muscles were made of cement, liquid and heavy. And this dampness... it’s in my bones, it doesn’t let my cement-muscles harden. I
keep feeling heavy and liquid.
Singers: Katrin Leete, Kaili Inno, Grete
Keller, Ilvi Rauna, Rita Pajumaa, Katrin Tanvel, Annika Land-Reisser
Musicians: Joel Välja, Maret Nurklik, Elo Toodo-Jakobs, Aet Mikli,
Katrin Tanvel
The early music ensemble Camerata Vocale (former Early Music Ensemble of the Tallinn Teachers’ House) was re-founded in late autumn 1999. Out of common interest in medieval and Baroque music, they devoted themselves to early music. Camerata Vocale has
performed in almost all the churches in Tallinn: St. John’s Church,
Church of Holy Spirit, Methodist Church, Peeteli Church, Swedish
St. Michael’s Church, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, St. Nicholas’
Church, etc. Many performances have been given in the Tallinn
Town Hall and in the Teachers’ House, as well as in the hall of Estonian History Museum, Dominican Monastery, Orlov’s Palace, House
of the Brotherhood of Blackheads, Kuressaare Castle, and Olustvere Manor. So-called lecture-concerts have taken place in many
schools and libraries in Tallinn. The ensemble has often enlivened
festive events and banquets. Every summer, Camerata Vocale has
made at least one concert tour in the beautiful places in Estonia
(Karja Church, Kassari Chapel, Märjamaa Church, Koeru Church,
Tarvastu Church, and many others).
Gambare ensemble first came together in 2009 with a goal to perform medieval and Renaissance music and to introduce the music
of different nations – including Estonians – on early musical instruments (viola da gamba, hurdy gurdy, recorder, etc.). The ensemble
members have performed as solo artists or musicians in various
music groups both in Estonia and abroad. They are joined together
by love for early music and folk music.
LIQUI FUZZ
25.05. / 21.00
Festival Club
Vocals: Mari Ronimois
Guitars: Raul Ojamaa
Base Guitar: Siim Avango
Percussion Instruments: Caspar Salo
Liqui Fuzz is a band that has been playing only for a year. Most of
that time has been dedicated to writing songs and creating our
sound. Liqui Fuzz is not limited to specific genres. We are influenced
by alternative rock (Mute Math, Red Hot Chili Peppers), prog rock
(Porcupine Tree, Gentle Giant), jazz (Avishai, Cohen, Esbjörn Svensson), blues, pop (Katie Melua) and everything else that is on our
music players’ lists.
Liqui Fuzz is characterised by experimenting with effects and
rhythm, looking for new sounds, haunting melodies, loads of enthusiasm for what we believe in, and the belief and hope that the
huge amount of energy we have put into our music carries over to
the audience at concerts and recordings.
The force that unites all the band members, besides the band itself,
is the Georg Ots Tallinn School of Music, the students of which we
have been for a while now and which can also be mentioned as a
source of inspiration.
MUSIC PROGRAMME
NUKU CHOIR
26.05. / 18.00
Festival Club
The 15-year choir tradition of the
NUKU Theatre is currently kept going by a group of theatre employees,
their children; youth studio graduates;
friends, relatives and lovers of the theatre staff and their friends. The
choir sings songs from the productions of the Puppet Theatre, music written by Estonian authors and the members of the choir.
The choir’s conductor Reeda Toots is the former musical director
of the NUKU Theatre, who is currently a master’s student, who is
moving the choir in the direction of theatrical performance of choir
music. Maybe one day, we will even use
puppets?
REBECCA KONTUS
25.05. / 18.00
Festival Club
Première of an album FLÂNEUR by
Rebecca Kontus
Vocals: Rebecca Kontus
Drums: Ahto Abner
Keyboards: Matis Metsala
Doublebass: Heikko-Joseph Remmel
Guitar: Merje Kägu
Trumpet: Tanel Kuusk
Special Guests: Anneliis Kits, Jana Abzalon, Laura Põldvere,
Uku Suviste ja Credo-Allika segakoor
Rebecca Kontus is a professional singer, composer and producer
from Estonia, who became known to the public as a member of
ensemble Suntribe, representing Estonia in Eurovision. Rebecca released her first jazz album ‘Inglite Pisarad’ (‘Tears of Angels’) in the
spring of 2008. After successfully completing this album, she immediately started the compilation of her next album and also created her own recording company. The following albums have been
released under the Rebecca Music recording company label.
Rebecca’s 4th CD-album ‘Flâneur’ (Spring 2012) is a compilation of
her new compositions, which have been inspired by the stories of
fascinating people...
acteristic melancholy sound of its singing guitarist Helena Randlahe’s composition. In summer 2011, Sybil Vane was chosen to represent Estonian music in the international programme „Show Belarus.
Show Europe” which should take the band to perform in Belarus in
2012. Sybil Vane not only won the youth band contest Noortebänd
2011, but also received many important special awards. From then
on, their music has conquered several Estonian radio stations and
received much positive feedback in musical circles. .
STATE OF ZOE
26.05. / 21.30
Festival Club
Vocals, electronics: Anneliis Kits
Samples, keyboard, synth:
Sander Mölder
Samples, synths: Talis Paide
Drums: Borka
State of Zoe, formerly known as Under Construction, is an electronic/jazz/chillwave/synthpop band founded in August 2010. The
band, which had three members at the time, played their biggest
show as the warm-up act of the US band Tortured Soul, who performed at Autumn Jazz in 2010.
After their successful performance in Rock Café, the band was invited to many stages nationwide, where they performed under different names. It soon became clear that project-based names had
to be left behind and the band needed an official name. As singer
Anneliis Kits had found some success in the Estonian jazz and pop
music circles under the name Zoe, the band decided to call themselves State of Zoe. State of Zoe has released two demo recordings
– ‘Imaginary’ and ‘Part Time’, and they are currently recording material for their debut album, which will hopefully be released at the
end of this year.
THE TOMAHAWCK
BROTHERS
26.05. / 18.00
Festival Club
Guitar, vocals: Helena Randlaht
Base Guitar: Heiko Leesment
Drums: Mark Kostrov
The Tomahawck Brothers, originating
from 1996, is an orchestra that can be
called a spontaneous cultural phenomenon. The main components
of its musical self-expression being primeval instincts, inspiration,
willpower, brilliant treatment of notes and immense external beauty. The orchestra’s main creed is – TO PLAY ALL THE NOTES! Even if
it takes a little longer for some of the guys to get the notes right, he
then adds pace later on to catch up or even finish before the others.
In 2006 a documentary The Tomahawck Brothers was made about
the group’s activities, directed by Erki Meister. The orchestra has released three CDs: ‘Puhas Kuld’ (2003), ‘Wizaut Aluminium’ (2005) and
‘Raudpolt’ (2009). It has played in the production of the Estonian
Puppet and Youth Theatre – ‘The Gamblers’ – which took them to
the international Subotica puppet theatre festival in Serbia and to
the Golden Mask festival in Moscow.
Sibyl Vane is a fresh breath of air on the Estonian music scene. The
group that borders on alternative rock, blues and pop, started
performing at the beginning of 2011, when the single ‘What’s My
Name’ was recorded. The band stands out form others by the char-
The orchestra is not intimidated by anything. Bringing down the
house, they have performed both on this side and that of the
boundaries of good taste – and they have always managed to save
face.
SIBYL VANE
24.05. / 21.00
Festival Club
MUSIC PROGRAMME
TURKI PIIPL
UKERDAJAD
24.05. / 22.00
Festival Club
25.05. / 19.30
Festival Club
Vocals, dance: Sten-Kristjan Põldre
Vocals, guitar: Martin Kivi
Vocals, guitar: Toomas Kalm
Vocals, base Taavi Laadung
Drums: Harri Lillevars
Replacement Guitar: Sander Nõmmistu
Main vocals, guitar, flute:
Lauri Mäesepp
Djembe and other percussion
instruments, back vocals:
Ringo Ramul
Guitar, back vocals: Tanel Siimann
Guitar, back vocals: Madis Lundre
Turiki Piipl is a pop, punk and ska group, originally founded for the
Youth Band 2011 contest. After the contest they found will and
strength to continue their unique and colourful music. Turki Piipl
consists of five creative musicians who have been seen paying also
among other musical groups.
UEBANDA
BALIMBA
24.05. / 15.30
25.05. / 14.30
Goat Stage
25.05. / 22.00
Festival Club
26.05. / 12.00
27.05. / 15.00
Corner of Hobusepea and Lai Streets
We are four young men
Playing folk music.
Fun music that makes you laugh.
Beautiful music.
Music that sometimes makes you sigh longingly.
First and foremost music that you enjoy.
Music.
Come listen to us!
We cannot wait to see you.
VOICE
IMPROVISERS
25.05. / 17.30, 19.30
NUKU’ foyer
15 min
ImproChoir
26.05. / 15.00
Börsi Passage
27.05. / 13.00
Drums: Migel
Vocals: Zeka
Saxophone: Alex Petrov
Trombone: Henri
Base Guitar: Domenico
Keyboard: Manu
Percussion: Mari
Guitar: Rolf
Voice Improvisers: Anne-Liis Poll, Jaan Krivel, Ivi Rausi, Inta Roost,
Kristel Marand, Kaido Rannik, Aita Vaher
Our performances change all the time. We are ready to make music in any room, be inspired by any audience and improvise on any
subjects.
The instructor, Anne-Liis Poll, is a docent in the Estonian Academy
of Music and Theatre and its Drama School, where she has been
teaching solo singing and vocal improvisation for ten years. The
cooperation between Anne-Liis Poll and Häikjad started in 2007
and developed into a circle of about 5 to 7 improvisers, who have
performed at several concerts of the Estonian Academy of Music
and Theatre and the street programme of the Tallinn Treff Festival.
When asked about the future, Anne-Liis Poll says she hopes to see
an improv-opera. “I hope that we will soon find a dramatist, who
could write the text and a director who would help us stage it, so
that people could see something like this in a theatre,” says AnneLiis Poll.
ANIMATED FILMS PROGRAMME
‘MIDNIGHT CINEMA IN OLD TOWN TOWERS’
CONTEMPORARY PEARLS OF
POLISH ANIMATION
SCREENING I
ONCE THERE WAS A KING
Polish School of Animation
GALLERY
24.05. / 24.00
27.05. / 24.00
Tower behind Grusbeke
1 h 10 min
‘Galeria’ (2010, 4’44’’), dir. Robert Proch, music: Tupica, prod. Akademia
Sztuk Pięknych wPoznaniu
A grotesque comedy on how a leisure day becomes the working
one.
INSIDE OUT
THE GOOD, THE BEAUTY
AND THE TRUTH
‘Wywijas’ (2008, 5’30) dir., script and phot. Andrzej Jobczyk, music: Sebastian Rogowski, prod. PWSFTviT Łódź
It is animation inspired by a hyperbolic and multidimensional geometry. The definition of the „inside out” is a starting point for the
film. A man wakes up in the morning and eats breakfast during
which he starts bending, unbending, twisting all things around, including a house, a mug, a clock...
CHICK
‘Laska’ (2008, 5’) dir. and script Michał
Socha, music: Meritum, prod. Platige
Image
It is a story full of nonsensical sense
of humour about a fatal charm of the
femme fatale told to rhythms of jazz
band Meritum music. A woman is
preparing herself for going out – she
has a shower, makes her face up, and dresses. Finally, she meets a
man in the nightclub. They drink, dance and have sex. But when the
man, charmed by her, goes out the room, the unpleasant surprise
will wait for him. The film was awarded in Annecy for an interesting
usage of music.
MILLHAVEN
(2009, 7’), dir./prod.: Bartek Kulas, music: Katarzyna Groniec
Teenage Loretta is aware of the fact that everything leads to death.
Will she be able to do a “dance” of life? For the first time, untold story
about the heroine of a dark ballad written by Nick Cave and boldly
interpreted by Katarzyna Groniec – “polish Edith Piaf”.
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?
‘Kto by pomyślał?’ (2009, 10’41’’) dir. and script Ewa Borysewicz, music:
Igor Kłaczyński, prod. Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie
A man disappeared in unexplained circumstances. What happened
to him? Was he worried about something? How did his life look like?
People from the same housing estate, who met him from time to
time, try to answer these questions. This is a simple animation made
in a documentary style.
‘Był Sobie Król’ (2010, 5‘) dir.: Tytus Majerski, music: Maria Peszek, prod.:
Agata Golańska
An interpretation of the Polish lullaby by Janina Porazińska with the
same title. The tragedy turns out to be only a bad dream and the
dream intertwines with reality.
‘Dobro, piękno, prawda’ (2011, 6‘15‘‘),
dir. Balbina Bruszewska, prod.: Zbigniew Żmudzki, Se-ma-for Produkcja
Filmowa
It‘s a story about the contemporary
world, where the preoccupation with
the good, beauty and truth is decreasing and being replaced with cheap sensation, dramas, explosions,
shooting and other more “interesting” issues. It is a story of a man
holding a vision of an idealized world, who defends his ideals and
attempts to transfer them to others. The title ‘Good Man’ suffers a
defeat in his naive struggle for the good in the world but finally
there appears a ray of hope.
SLEEPINCORD
‘Snępowina’ (2011, 14‘) dir.: Marta Pajek, music: Wojciech Lemański, prod.:
Zbigniew Żmudzki, Se-ma-for Produkcja Filmowa
A history of a girl trapped between
two worlds, connected with a umbilical cord of pictures and emotions. By
making a neologism using in the title
the author suggested to the viewer an existence the intangible
point of contact of what is carnal and spiritual.
WE WILL LEAVE THIS PLACE TOGETHER
‘Razem stąd odejdziemy’ (2011,10’) dir. Paulina Bobrycz-Rogala, prod.
Index Studio
An accidental meeting of mother and daughter with an interesting,
stranger man. An effort to convert a hidden desires in a poetic image of overtly erotic nature.
CONTEMPORARY PEARLS OF
POLISH ANIMATION
SCREENING II
Polish School of Animation
26.05. / 24.00
Tower behind Grusbeke
27.05. /24.00
Köismäe Tower
1 h 15 min
ICHTHYS
(2005, 15’) dir. Marek Skrobecki, script Antoni Bańkowski, phot. Mikołaj
Jaroszewicz, music: Wojciech Lemański, prod. Se-Ma-For Film Production In Łódź, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
It is puppet animation linked with additional the 3D computer technique. Ichthys is a metaphorical parable about human’s dreams, expectations and grit. A young man comes to the restaurant in the
sacred-like building. A waiter with a cherub-like face takes an order
and goes away. The client is waiting patiently. Time is passing. When
the waiter shows up again, the man cannot enjoy a meal ever more.
THE BREAKFAST
‘Śniadanie’ (2006, 2’20’’) dir. Izabela Plucińska, music: Tomasz Duda,
prod. TVP Kultura
The two-minute plasticine animation presents a story about finding each other once again. It enchants the viewer with its simplicity
and bright, sunny colours. The reality appears from the characters’
movements and gestures like pouring out the cup of tea. The couple is sitting at the breakfast table in silence. Everything will change
when an unexpected wind enters the kitchen.
THE AGE OF STONE
‘Wiek kamienia’ (2007, 8’) dir. and phot. Marta Skrocka, prod.
Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie
The falling drop marks out the course of events. A constant transformation in nature is happening and expresses the triumphal life
force; a life that is always reborn, and it creates new forms from the
same material. The film was awarded the Golden Jabberwocky for
the best student animation in the Etiuda&Anima festival in 2008.
DANNY BOY
(2010, 10’) dir.: Marek Skrobecki, phot.:
Andrzej Jaroszewicz, music: Florian Pittet, prod. Se-Ma-For Film Production in
Łódź and Archangel (Switzerland)
Inspired by a famous Irish song a metaphorical puppet animation about a
hero who was lost in the world of people who lost their heads. Universal in
its message picture of modern society in which an ordinary human
being trying to make the dreams come true must simulate to the
others.
TWO STEPS BEHIND…
‘Dwa kroki za…’ (2010, 8’), dir. Paulina Majda, prod. Studio Munka and
Se-Ma-For Film Production in Łódź
It is a story of a boy who one day makes a decision to leave his cottage. He sets out on a journey to a strange town he is fascinated
with. There he has unusual experiences. He gets involved in strange
relations, not always friendly. In the end, he returns to the place that
he came from.
SHIVERING TRUNKS
‘Drżące Trąby’ (2010, 3‘) dir.: Natalia Brożyńska, music: Paweł Sołtysiak,
prod. PWSFTviT Łódź
Pafnucy, a furry lubber with a latex trunk, is unhappy with his looks.
He views Kalasanty’s pictures with envy considering him a healthy
and joyful personality. Meanwhile, lonely Kalasanty is bitten by the
same bug.
UNDERLIFE
(2010, 8’), dir. Jarosław Konopka, prod.
Se-Ma-For Film Production in Łódź
This film is inspired by ‘Kołysanka’
(‘Lullaby’) directed by Krzysztof Komeda, which employs metaphor to show
the destructive influence that ancestors have on man and poses a question if we are able to liberate from it.
It raises the universal issue of subconscious determinants which
condition and define our lives. A baby carriage, which is the symbol of the time and place of birth, constitutes the leading motif of
the film. It is both the place where we appear after coming to the
world and an object which reminds us of our roots after years. It
determines the cyclical nature of existence and combines the past
and the future.
AMERICAN DREAM
‘Amerykański sen’ (2007. 7’50’’), dir.
Jakub Wroński, music: Miłosz Waśko,
prod. PWSFTviT Łódź
What was between Harry and Scarlet
the moment when a misterious cadillac appeared in the rear-view mirror?
A story like from an American dream.
SICILIAN FLEA
‘Sycylijska Pchła’ (2008, 8’), dir. Marcin Giżycki, music: Jarosław
Siwiński, prod. Serafiński Studio
A love story told with the use of postcards from the turn of the 19th
century.
LADDER
‘Oczko’ (2011, 4’), dir. Eliza Płócieniak-Alvarez, music: Mikromusic,
prod. J.S. Flores, Oczko Producciones
‘Oczko’ (‘Ladder’) is a musical and visual variation on the theme of
femininity. SHE, the heroine of the film, wakes up in a strange world
and sees her contorted reflection in a mirror. SHE also finds a mysterious map that accompanies her during a metaphorical journey
in which she has to overcome many adversities and face terrifying
enemies to finally reach the end of her road and discover that to be
born again, you must first die.
SHOWCASE: FILMS OF
SCOTTISH ANIMATION
STUDENTS
Edinburgh College of Art
ETUDE
Great Britain
Ania Hazel Leszczynska, 2011
When something nasty lurks in the dark sometimes it’s not just
dogs who are a person’s best friend. A quirky and humorous film
about the dangers and surprises of practising the piano.
24.05. / 24.00
26.05. / 24.00
Köismäe Tower
55 min
A selection of animated films from
the 2011–2012 Edinburgh College Of
Art Animation Department graduates,
including the Warsaw Film Festival
2011 Short Grand Prix, the Leipzig Film
Festival 2011 Golden Dove and the
Glasgow Film Festival 2011 Scottish
Short Film Award winner ‘The Making
of Longbird’, and the award-winning
film for the Bombay Bicycle Club’s new
music single, ‘How Can You Swallow So
Much Sleep’?
Over the past 25 years the graduates of
Edinburgh College of Art’s Animation
Department have enjoyed considerable success, producing innovative
and commercially successful work. Not
only has the work of graduates consistently won awards and distinctions at major festivals and competitions throughout the world but their work is regularly seen in a
wide variety of ways on television in the UK and Europe.
THE GOLDEN BIRD
Cat Bruce, 2011
In this beautiful and richly textured adaptation of the Brothers
Grimm story a poor woodcutter is helped by a talking fox to find his
heart’s desire. But when the fox asks for something terrible in return
will the woodcutter be able to agree, and help to re-unite a long
separated brother and sister?
LET ME COME IN
Paul Rice, 2011
A dramatic and bloody re-imagining of one part of the well known
fairy tale. Being a pig has never been more dangerous – and tragic...
OUT ON THE TILES
Anna Pearson, 2010
At the end of a long boozy night with the girls, trying to have a
cigarette in peace and quiet can be really hard, especially in a public
place!
THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD
Will Anderson, 2011
Through this documentary about a director’s struggle to recreate
the long-lost animation of pioneering Russian film maker Vladislav
Feltov for a contemporary audience, we discover how hard it is to
control Feltov’s greatest and most anarchic character, Longbird.
Over the past twelve months Will Anderson has won many awards
at leading festivals throughout Europe for this film.
IT’S ABOUT SPENDING TIME TOGETHER
Ainslie Henderson, 2011
In the voice-over to this poignant film, the adult film-maker says
sorry to his younger brother Oliver, for making him cry when they
were small children. After the divorce of their parents the boy’s father takes the boys out for one of their regular day trips and Oliver
makes the mistake of asking for a toy as a present.
HOW CAN YOU SWALLOW SO MUCH SLEEP
Anna Ginsberg, 2011
An animated film commissioned by leading Scottish rock band
Bombay Bicycle Club for their latest single which was released at
the beginning of this year. Created by Anna Ginsberg during her
final year at the Edinburgh College of Art, this film has already won
a lot of awards at important European film festivals.
WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOPS
PETRUSHKA TECHNIQUE
PERFORMANCE SKILLS
Alexander Gref, Russia
Jim Barnard, Great Britain
24.05. / 15.00
Hall of the Children’s Literature Centre
50 min
24.05. / 14.00
NUKU’s Rehearsal Hall
4h
Workshop ‘Petrushka technique’ is aimed for those with an interest
in traditional puppet theatre.
Petrushka is one of the oldest and most mysterious characters in
the world of puppet theatre and, perhaps, theatrical culture in general. Traditional Petrushka glove-puppet performances have long
since been a symbol of Russian puppet theatre.
Like its foreign counterparts – Pulcinella in Italy, Punch in the UK,
Polichinelle in France and Kasperle in Germany – Petrushka is
performed using a complex, ancient technique with a distinctive
squawking voice or accent. Elena Slonimskaya, who voices Petrushka in Theatre Vagrant Booth, has worked hard for many years to
master this skill. The Musician, a character at least as ancient as
Petrushka, maintains the line of communication between the audience and this distinctive puppet character.
Throughout my career as performer I have been preoccupied with
developing the skills involved with standing on stage. During my
3 years at London Contemporary Dance School this was barely
touched on, the emphasis of the training being physical dance
technique - alignment, co-ordination, strength, flexibility - certainly
useful skills, but only if accompanied by an understanding of how
to present that physicality in a theater space.
In the workshop the participants can learn about the Russian
Petrushka tradition, the mystery of Petrushka’s voice which is made
using a special sound modificator called swazzle, the political backgrounds of the Petrushka shows and also learn a few puppet manipulation techniques.
THEATRE FOR VERY YOUNG AUDIENCES
Anna Fascendini, Italy
25.05. / 13.00
NUKU’s Rehearsal Hall
4h
Target: actors, trainer-actors, students, educators
Aim: examination of theatre for very young audiences
Topics and discussions:
• Anna Fascendini’s methodology and research path from the beginning to final performance;
• Sisale’s analysis
• Performances for very young audiences:
- unconventional spaces (crèches and nursery schools)
- artistic and educational meaning
- how to set up a training course for educators/teachers before,
during and after the performance: from performance to educational workshops
• Play: an holistic approach
- Working and playing with differnt kinds of materials
Should educators/teachers participate, Anna Fascendini would involve them in preparing and observing children before, during and
after Sisale.
Over the years I have come to believe that there are three fundamental performance elements to be aware of and to develop. Even
a basic awareness of these will improve the quality of any performers work, and if these skills are properly developed a profound improvement will be manifested.
The three fundamental performance elements are:
Timing
Focus
Intention
Timing. At the most basic level, timing can be seen as the interval
between events. Timing is the most fundamental element of any
time-based art form. People were certainly banging bits of wood
together before they were singing in harmony. It has been said of
Jazz music that it is just the wrong notes played at the right time.
If there is a regularity in the interval between events, we call this
pulse, or rhythm. An understanding of the use of timing on stage is
essential to create tension, surprise, drama, comedy and to engage
an audience for longer than a few moments.
Focus. In my experience as performer I repeatedly find that the
most basic question I can ask myself or my colleagues that will improve the quality of work is “where are you looking - at every moment?” Eyes glazed-over and fixed in the middle distance, or even
glued to the floor can have a place on stage - but only if done as a
choice, with an awareness of the effect that that use of focus has
on the way the audience perceives the performer and the performance space. If used properly, the tension a performer can create
from moving between “internal” and “external” focus is immense.
Intention. This can also be seen as what motivates or drives an action on stage. One of the biggest dangers in presenting dance is the
potential for the audience to end up with the question “Why were
they doing that?” From Dance Theater to purely abstract movement, when a performer has a clear notion of what is driving their
actions they take the audience with them, rather than leaving them
behind. The drive might be a thought, an emotion or even just a
physical impulse.
Intention is also the way a performer can reveal something personal, intimate, human and allows an audience to empathize and share
their journey.
I feel it is not only possible, but important to encourage students
to be aware of and develop these skills. Through specific improvisation and choreographic exercises students can be stimulated to
identify, play with and sharpen these fundamental performance
elements.
WORKSHOPS
FEST-SHOP: A WINDOW TO
THE WORLD
25.05. / 14.00
NUKU’s Oval Hall
Meeting point with the
organisers of world’s festivals!
Anna Ivanova-Brashinskaya
Uroš Korenčan
Festival ‘TIP-Fest’
Turku, Finland
Festival ‘Lutke’
Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Turku International Puppetry Festival (TIP-Fest) is an annual event organized by The TIP-Connection Association,
held in Turku, Finland, in November. The
roster includes a variety of international shows and happenings; seminars,
projects’ presentations, and workshops;
a Turku Arts Academy students’ club
program; and, primarily, a showcase of
performances by the local professional
companies.
In 1992 Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia,
hosted UNIMA’s Congress and World
Puppet Festival and since then Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana (Ljubljana Puppet Theatre) organizes biennially International Puppet Theatre Festival ‘Lutke’
(Puppets).
Lutke is the main international festival
of puppetry in Slovenia, held biennially – combined every second year
with Slovene national showcase of theatre for children and youth
– festival Zlata paličica (Golden Stick). With this scheme Lutkovno
gledališče Ljubljana (with 10 new productions every year) took
main role in promoting foreign puppetry in Slovenia and in
promoting Slovene production abroad.
This year’s edition of programme is orientated into different new
approaches in puppetry, it will take place in September 2012 (11th
to 17th) and has 21 different performances in official selection. Until this year festival has had competition (different awards), we decided to cancel this practice – we are convinced that art shouldn’t
compete and that being selected to international festival means
something – kind of award.
Simon Hart
Festival ‘Manipulate’
Edinburgh, Great Britain
Through our portfolio of festivals – the
Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival & the
Puppet Animation Festival – and support schemes for professional artists,
Puppet Animation Scotland develops,
promotes and celebrates the art forms
of visual theatre, animation and puppetry in Scotland. Since 2000 Scottish
puppetry companies have presented
their work to over 1,500,000 people
through the UK.
Frank Bernhardt
Festival ‘Blickwechsel’
Magdeburg, Germany
The Puppet Theatre of Magdeburg was
founded in the year 1958 on the initiative of the puppet artist Jutta Balk and
the teacher Gustl Möller. It developed
into one of the biggest figure theatres
in Germany. Actually there are about
25 plays in the repertoire for people of
all ages – from classical fairy-tales over
adaptations of well-known literature for
children to plays written by well-known
contemporary authors. Guest performances brought the ensemble
to tours and festivals in Germany and abroad, for example the USA,
Mexico, Japan and the Baltic states. Since 1991 the theatre is the
organiser of the biennial international figure theatre festival ‘Blickwechsel’, meanwhile one of the biggest and most famous festivals
of this genre in Germany.
FESTIVAL JURY
FESTIVAL STAFF
Tallinn Treff Festival 2012 is proud to host a jury who views and evaluates the festival programme (both outdoor and indoor performances). The jury will give out up to 10 prizes for the best moments
of the Festival. The categories, in which they will give credit to, are
left for them to decide.
MEELIS PAI
Chief Organiser
+372 50 11 499
meelis.pai@nuku.ee
Anu Lamp
Actress
Estonia
VAHUR KELLER
Artistic Director
+372 52 87 761
vahur.keller@nuku.ee
ANNIKA LAND-REISSER
Coordinator
+372 55 48 099
annika@nuku.ee
GEORG-SANDER MÄNNIK
Technical Manager
+372 55 543 653
nemosparrow@gmail.com
Madli Pesti
Critic
Estonia
ANTI KOBIN
Students Programme Manager
+372 52 09 057
anti.kobin@nuku.ee
KADRI KALDA
International Schools Coordinator
+372 53 915 902
kadri.kalda@nuku.ee
Anna Ivanova-Brashinskaya
Director, TIP-Fest Artistic Director
Finland
TUULI RAADIK
Students Programme Manager
+372 56 352 696
tuuli.raadik@nuku.ee
TAAVI TÕNISSON
Club Manager
+372 55 594 315
taavi.tonisson@nuku.ee
Simon Hart
Artistic Director of Puppet Animation
Scotland
Great Britain
BRITT URBLA KELLER
Festival’s Designer
+372 53 444 434
britt@nuku.ee
MAARJA MÄND
Marketing Manager
+372 50 93 236
maarja@nuku.ee
Frank Bernhardt
Artistic Director of Magdeburg Puppet
Theatre and Festival
Germany
RAUNO ANDERSON
Project Manager
+372 51 09 359
rauno.anderson@nuku.ee
SIRLI BERGSTRÖM
Production Manager
+372 51 54 633
sirli@nuku.ee
JANNE RAAVIK
Headquarters Manager
+372 53 345 441
janne.raavik@nuku.ee
KATI KUUSEMETS
Website and Publications Editor
+372 55 585 181
kati.kuusemets@nuku.ee
Meet them at the AWARD CEREMONY:
27.05. / 20.30
NUKU’s Small Hall
MAITE KOTTA
Festival’s Graphic Designer
+372 53 427 843
maite.kotta@nuku.ee
TICKETS
· All outdoor performances are free of charge.
· Midnight animation film programme screenings are free of charge.
· Tickets for indoor performances are sold at NUKU’s box office,
Piletilevi box offices and online on www.piletilevi.ee.
Performances of the Visual and Puppet Theatre Programme: 15 €
Performances of the Visual and Puppet Theatre Programme for Children: 6 €,
parent ticket 1.60 €
Performances of the International Performing Arts Students Programme: 10 €
· Festival Pass: 45 €
Tallinn Treff Festival 2012
Organised by NUKU Theatre
Lai 1, 10133 Tallinn
+372 6679 555 (Box Office)
+372 6679 510
festival@nuku.ee
The Festival has a right to make changes in the programme.
Information and programme: www.nuku.ee

tallinn treff festival 24.–27.05.2012

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