Karsikko is a piece for up to ten audience members at a time. An actual tour within the set, the audience is taken physically and emotionally deep into the world of the conscious and the subconscious, of instinct and control, of spirituality and carnality. The viewer gets to step inside an imaginative realm where visions from the subconscious have surfaced, and muffled secrets are given a voice. Both solemn and playful, Karsikko tugs at your curiosity like a sentence you didn’t quite catch in someone else\u2019s conversation.<\/p>\n
Karsikko is conceived by dancers Pirjo Yli-Maunula and Titta Court, who have composed a team consisting of first-rate Nordic professionals. In addition to dance, the world of Karsikko is constructed with innovative set design, music that draws most of its color palette from earth tones, organic video and almost sculpture-like costume design.<\/p>\n
Duration: 60 min.<\/p>\n
Choreography and dance: Pirjo Yli-Maunula, Titta Court. Composition: Terje Isungset. Sound design: Aake Otsala. Video: Jukka Huitila. Lighting: Ainu Palmu. Set design: Pirjo Valinen. Costume design: Heidi Kesti, Julia Adzuki. Set build: Heidi Kesti, Petri Haapakoski. Make up: Yanski Sova. Graphic design: Tomi Hurskainen. Promotional texts: JP Manninen. Photography: Jussi Tuokkola<\/p>\n
Supported by: Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point, Oulu City, National Council for Dance<\/p>\n
Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n Titta Court (choreographer, dancer)<\/strong><\/p>\n Titta Court works as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She has worked as a professional dance artist since year 1991 since graduation from Theatre Academy Dance Department, Helsinki. She has MA in Dance from year 1993. She has been choreographing own works since 1996. From year 1997 she has been living in north of Finland actively making dance visible as an art form in her area.<\/p>\n She has choreographed several solo works and from year 2006 visiting choreographers like Favela Vera Ortiz ( Helsinki ) and Lily Kiara (Amsterdam) have choreographed her solos. She works in collaboration with other artists. She has worked for instance with musicians Ulla Pirttij\u00e4rvi (Utsjoki) and Pekka Ruth (Haparanda), with fine artists John Court (Tornio) and Kaija Kiuru (Rovaniemi) and with dance artists Reijo Kela (Espoo), Kirsi Heimonen ( Helsinki ), Leena Gustavson (Helsinki) and Gaby Agis (London).<\/p>\n Many of her own works are instantly composed in the moment of performing and they are very much inspired by the space and situation they are performed in. She has done many performances outside traditional performance spaces like on streets, parks, different public spaces, homes and old people\u2019s houses.<\/p>\n Julia Adzuki (dress designer)<\/strong><\/p>\n Julia Adzuki is and Australian born artist, living and working in Gnesta, Sweden.\u00a0Working in the areas of costume design, installation and performance, her inspiration stems from a fascination with nature\u2019s growth, transformation and decomposition processes.<\/p>\n Previous works include a range of commissions in ice and snow for Icehotel in Sweden, Greenland igloo village and Hovden snow festival, Norway.\u00a0 Among costume works her Red Root Shoes have featured in performances in Budapest, a video work on the melting arctic ice and have been danced in the Finnish mountains by Titta Court.<\/p>\n Current projects include SymbioLab – a mobile greenhouse that engages the public in ecological questions, scientific poetry and installation art. This project is currently touring schools and festivals in Sweden.\u00a0Julia is also a project leader for Art Lab Gnesta – a new platform for realisation and exhibition of experimental, contemporary art in the Gnesta\u2019s old brewery.<\/p>\n Terje Isungset (composer)<\/strong><\/p>\n Terje Isungset is one of Europe\u2019s most accomplished and innovative percussionists. With over two decades experience in jazz and Scandinavian music he is taking these types of music far beyond their traditional boundaries, becoming more like a cross between a sound artist and a shaman. Crafting his own instruments from Norwegian natural elements such as arctic birch, granite, slate, sheep bells and even ice, he is highly recommended to those sensible to the poetry and simplicity of sounds. “Timbres” and “colours” are central in Terje Isungsets music and compositions. In the press, his work has often been described as innovative, visual, energetic, and different from any previously known concepts. Isungset has also been commissioned to compose music for Jazz Festivals, Dance Performances, Theatre, Film, etc. (29 commissed concerts) His composition efforts have also brought eight <\/strong>critically acclaimed solo CDs: \u00abREISE\u00bb (1997), \u00abFLOATING RHYTHMS\u00bb (2000) “Iceman Is” (2002)\u00a0 “Middle of Mist” (2003)<\/span><\/a> <\/span>\u201cIgloo\u201d (2006), \u201cTwo Moons\u201d (2007), Ice Concerts (2008) and \u201cHibernation\u201d 2009.<\/p>\n Isungset is a performing musician with about 100 concerts per year. For the coming years, he is booked for collaboration projects with different international performers, as well as solo concerts and special projects.<\/p>\n