It’s an enchanting dawn. The children of the beach are sparkling in their swimsuits. Their eyes are filled with sand dust and their chests are hot with blood. The shells of four wild horses hang from a tree. Farces and fanfares lunge like a stray dog’s fart in a murky pool.
In Elina Pirinen’s multi-artistic stage work, eight adults and eight children perform intense and wonderfully strange games of transformation for themselves and for all of us. They dance, sing and play two ritualistic fables, which transform the big terracotta stage into a whirlwind of phantasms full of unrestrained alter egos, their romance and missions, leather and time, caccio e pepe, C major, tantrums and ghosts. Pirinen and her team brings free dancing corporeality back to the context of over cognitive and rational art form of a theatre.
Doves and Bloods is a hilarious and hopeful game of metamorphosis where adult and kid performers are crosspolluting and ghosting the spirit, eros and movement of freely dancing human with horses, turtles, birds, dogs and Jeanne d ‘Arcs and to draw out the adventures of hopeful life qualities. They and the materials are building bridges between generations. It freely associates between the magical and the ordinary, the contemporary corporeal, visual art and alternative symphonic music in a divine connection, where the variously wounded still have dreams and a pulse, and a tuned horn next to them.
Let la Dolce Vita be that we get to shine through our subconscious together with our companions, embraced by compassion.
Performance concept, direction, choreographic practice and poems Elina Pirinen
Composition, musical concept and sound design Ville Kabrell
Costume design and dramaturge Heidi Väätänen
Lighting design and spatial concept Mateus Manninen
On stage Maria Ahlroth, Simone Benini, Karolina Ginman, Iida Kuningas, Leena Nordberg, Oskar Pöysti, Jessica Raita, Tom Rejström
Original cast of children musicians Käpylä Music Institute’s brass band, playing Kabrell’s arrangement of Terry Riley’s “In C” (duration 12min).
Flute Lumi Nordström, Alma Herrala de Vocht, Markus Savolainen
Saxophone Kaapo Hyyppä
French horn Otso Tuomi, Elisa Palmu, Ursula Erola
Trumpet Väinö Tikkanen, Veikka Sompinmäki, Varpu Sakara
Trombone Jussi Hyyppä, Inkeri Erola
Duration 1 h 20 min
The performance is supported by Undervisnings- och kulturministeriet, Svenska kulturfonden, The City of Helsinki, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder, Konstsamfundet, Kvarteret Victoria, Taiteen edistämiskeskus, Uudet klassikot
Promotional image: Venla Helenius
Performance images: Jussi Ulkuniemi