Suzuki Method was created and developed by Japanese theatre director Tadashi Suzuki and his company Suzuki Company of Toga. Its primary concern is to restore the wholeness and expressiveness of the actor’s body through rigorous physical discipline. The training is meant to heighten the actor’s emotional and physical power onstage. Great attention is on strengthening …
Kolga is a stage interpretation of a poem by Tommi Parkko. The performance combines theatre and circus skills together with music, to create a meaningful and atmospheric production with striking imagery and memorable sound and lighting design. Kolga is a place on the shoreline of Estonia, directly across the Baltic Sea from Finland. It …
It takes place at The Central Railway Station Square in the center of Helsinki, and provides a new meeting point for both audience and performing art groups. It manifests that theatre and arts belong to a society, with all their substance and traditions. The first Theatretent with 9-days long Tragedy Competition was held in May …
Kuvittele maailma, jossa ei olisi korkeatasoista pianomusiikkia, vain joskus silloin tällöin tankkaavasti soiva Für Elise. Ei käsittämättömiä veistoksia kadunkulmissa, ei käsittämättömiä tauluja suuret talot täynnä. Ei teatteria, muuta kuin amerikkalaisten 50-luvulla kehittämien ja 2000-luvulla tuottajien formaatiksi paketoimien musikaalien muodossa. Ei taide-polemiikkia, vain isäntien kirveellä tai auton pakokaasulla tappamia kissoja, joista ei polemiikkia synny, koska nämä …
Myllyteatteri claims to do contemporary theatre that’s based on the awareness of the theatre tradition. Tradition is said to mean ”handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice.”What does tradition mean in the context of a free Finnish theatre group?When I think …
Divina Commedia is a theatre specular which translated Dante’s masterpiece into contempopary, multilayered theatre language. Created by Myllyteatteri, inviting together a multidisciplinary international group of theatre artists from Finland, Portugal, Greece and Japan, the spectacular was premiered successfully in a unique site specific, an abandoned marble quarry in Portugal in July 2012. The performance …
Myllyteatteris latest performance, a poetic play KOLGA, has been awarded as the winner of Teresa Pomodoro in Teatro Nudo Prize, in Milan, Italy. The Prize named after the founder of Spazio Teatro Nohma, Teresa Pomodoro, is given annually to a performance that “reveals naked meanings of the human mind and explores man-made materials with exceptional …
Kolga has won The International Teresa Pomodoro Prize Read More »
PRESS RELEASE 6.4.2017 Akira Hino Comes to Helsinki in April 2017 The world-famous director Akira Hino and Japanese-Finnish working group perform a unique interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, that combines taiko-drums, theater and contemporary dance. The performances will be in Kanneltalo, in Apri 20-22, at 7 pm. Before each performance, Ikki Hino and his group will …
Reflections after the premier – and the critic 2.12.09 ”Empty space is full of possibilities”, says Naohm in our play Saari (The Island). Right now I’m feeling empty. And full of possibilities? Well, maybe, and sure;) Mut on the top of the feelings I feel empty. Of coarse. What else can a human being as …
Today I am going to write my blog, which has been late because I’ve been so concentrated on the rehearsals of Saari – production and meeting my actors every morning, that I have not had a second to think about any other people but my company now. But now it’s the time, my heart is …
