CUMIVERSITY (2018-2022)
Work for a reading hall, three acrobats, double bass, harmonium, and deforming worlds – familiarly known as Cumiversity – is a contemporary circus performance where live music plays an essential role. Three rearranged pieces composed by Pekka Huttunen, one of the two court composers of Company New World (CNW). They have been taken from previous
works Daytime Dance R18 (2008), The Following World (2009-2010) and Globally Wanted (2011-2017). Other elements of the show consist of wordless theater, acrobatics and parkour.
The work was originally produced for the reading hall designed by Alvar Aalto in the main building of the University of Jyväskylä, initially presented as a subscribed work for the 100th anniversary celebration of the Jyväskylä University Foundation in 2018.
The performances have been realized in cooperation with the University
of Jyväskylä.
Team
Direction and production: Seija Hakkarainen
Music Composition: Pekka Huttunen
Lights: Jere Suontausta, Arto Saarelainen
Lighting Assistant: Oona Ahokas
Costumes: Sari NymanPerformers:
Double bass: Eero Virtanen
Harmonium and vocals: Jukka Kääntä
Vocals: Sini Pajunen
Aerial acrobatics: Elsa Kalervo, Riikka Mustanoja, Vilma Suuraho
Floor acrobatics and parkour: Hattu KervinenMusic score:
X – composer: Pekka Huttunen
Kuolleitten humppa – composer & lyrics Pekka Huttunen
Muovautuvat maailmat – composer Pekka Huttunen, lyrics Veli-Pekka Kelloniemi
KYTKIN(2021)
On the Kytkin route you are a visitor in the sphere of light and outside of time. Kytkin is a holistic work of art where light, sound and mute operators of electricity create an atmosphere of high tension.
At the same time it is a tribute to a very special space: the multi-artistic work is tailor-made for the historic switch building which is one of the last places left untouched in the area.
Kytkin had its world premiere and its only performances at Valon Kaupunki 2021 festival.
The work was commissioned by Kankaan Palvelu Oy.
Team
Concept, directing, production: Seija Hakkarainen
Lighting desing: Jere Suontausta
Exterior lighting: Arto Saarelainen
Sound design: Jukka Kaikkonen
Costumes: Hakkarainen ja Sari Nyman
Performers: Oona Ahokas, Mikko Hursti, Severi Kalaja, Oula Karppinen, Sami Keinänen,
Jukka Kääntä, Anthoni Levonsaari, Joonas Palsio, Eero Virtanen, Julius Vähänen.
Suodervissit, Suolonnit (2020, 2021)
Suodervissit, Suostalaulajat and Suolonnit were Company Uusi Maailma perfomances at the Suo Soikoon! -festival in Karvia.
Kauhanevan Suolonni is the rarest animal species in the world. Suolonnis faced a blatant extinction recently and there are only four living ones left. Suolonnis are based on an ancient human acrobaty tribe, which is why in their gentle day to day life they form into peculiar arrangements. In 2021 the tribe face eternal extinction and in their place was taken by a meditative and ritualistic Suosta Suohon quartet.
Team
Suodervissit and Suostalaulajat
Directing and producing: Seija Hakkarainen
Clothing: Sari Nyman ja Seija Hakkarainen
Performers: Myrsky Rönkä, Marjut Hernesniemi, Sini Pajunen, Aleksi Keurulainen
Suolonnit
Directing: Seija Hakkarainen
Performers: Panda Ilën, Elsa Kalervo, Sauli Nokelainen, Ira Oinonen
Clothing: Seija Hakkarainen ja Sari Nyman
HAZMAT HOLE (2020, 2019)
Hazmat Hole is a short, interdisciplinary contemporary live art performance. It was performed in Galleria Hoppa, Jyväskylä, from 16 May til 29 May.
One spectator at a time. 64 show-times. 64 different experiences.
Hazmat Hole is a hybrid of Escape Room -logic, self-made labyrinth and spatial installation. It’s a adventurous. mystical and highly intimate mental and concrete route that each spectator experiences alone through the perfomance space.
The main performers are a close-up ballet dancer(Saga Elgland) and a light piece “Metempsychosis”(Jere Suontausta), combined with visual elements, video, music and sonic art. The spectator and the live performer get unusually close to one another, while remaining equally far apart, due to the plastic walls between them.
The aspects of hygience and distancing have been taken into account while planning this performance during COVID-19 pandemic. These requirements are also entwined in the visual, artistic and technical aspects of the performance.
Team
Konsepti, tuotanto ja ohjaus I Concept, Directed and Produced by:
Seija Hakkarainen
Suunnittelu ja toteutus I Design and Realisation:
Seija Hakkarainen & Team
Tanssi I Dance: Saga Elgland / Koreografiat I Choreographies:
Saga Elgland & Seija Hakkarainen
Vastaanottohahmo I Reception Character: Oona Ahokas
Musiikki I Music:
Ambient Grandeur, Mémoire Plastique, Haaksirikkovalssi / Jere Suontausta
Urielin Pihlaja / Kimmo Kuokkala
Valosuunnittelu ja -toteutus, kamerainstallaatio, Metempsychosis -valoteos sekä kineettiset pienoisteokset I Light Design and Realization, Camera Installation, Metempsychosis -Light Work & Kinetic Miniatures: Jere Suontausta
Ääni-, valo- ja tablettiajo, äänen tekninen toteutus I Execution of Sound, Light and Tablet, Technical Realization of Sound: Joonatan Jaakonaho
Tablettisovellus I Tablet application: Mikko Hursti
Tabletin kuvitus I Tablet illustration: Olli-Pekka Tennilä
Valokuva I Photo: Rosaliina Elgland
Video: Oona Ahokas
Puvustus I Costumes: Saga Elgland, Seija Hakkarainen, Oona Ahokas
Hazmat Hole is a short, interdisciplinary contemporary live art performance. It was performed in Galleria Hoppa, Jyväskylä, from 16 May til 29 May.
One spectator at a time. 64 show-times. 64 different experiences.
Hazmat Hole is a hybrid of Escape Room -logic, self-made labyrinth and spatial installation. It’s a adventurous. mystical and highly intimate mental and concrete route that each spectator experiences alone through the perfomance space.
The main performers are a close-up ballet dancer(Saga Elgland) and a light piece “Metempsychosis”(Jere Suontausta), combined with visual elements, video, music and sonic art. The spectator and the live performer get unusually close to one another, while remaining equally far apart, due to the plastic walls between them.
The aspects of hygience and distancing have been taken into account while planning this performance during COVID-19 pandemic. These requirements are also entwined in the visual, artistic and technical aspects of the performance.
Team
Konsepti, tuotanto ja ohjaus I Concept, Directed and Produced by:
Seija Hakkarainen
Suunnittelu ja toteutus I Design and Realisation:
Seija Hakkarainen & Team
Tanssi I Dance: Saga Elgland / Koreografiat I Choreographies:
Saga Elgland & Seija Hakkarainen
Vastaanottohahmo I Reception Character: Oona Ahokas
Musiikki I Music:
Ambient Grandeur, Mémoire Plastique, Haaksirikkovalssi / Jere Suontausta
Urielin Pihlaja / Kimmo Kuokkala
Valosuunnittelu ja -toteutus, kamerainstallaatio, Metempsychosis -valoteos sekä kineettiset pienoisteokset I Light Design and Realization, Camera Installation, Metempsychosis -Light Work & Kinetic Miniatures: Jere Suontausta
Ääni-, valo- ja tablettiajo, äänen tekninen toteutus I Execution of Sound, Light and Tablet, Technical Realization of Sound: Joonatan Jaakonaho
Tablettisovellus I Tablet application: Mikko Hursti
Tabletin kuvitus I Tablet illustration: Olli-Pekka Tennilä
Valokuva I Photo: Rosaliina Elgland
Video: Oona Ahokas
Puvustus I Costumes: Saga Elgland, Seija Hakkarainen, Oona Ahokas
DEEP SHIT
Deep Shit is a low-key and hilariously laconic movement play. It a table football playing performance teetering on the border of unconventional where the players come up with more and more absurd punishments for each others. Deep Shit has been performed in 2012 and 2013 in a parking hall and an old paper factory. It was also performed in 2021 as a part of Company New Worlds 128-festival
Team
Concept and directing: Seija Hakkarainen
Performers: Sami Keinänen, Mikko Kervinen, Jussi Myllymäki
Music: Pekka Huttunen
Clothing: Seija Hakkarainen & Sari Nyman
Technic: Arto Saarelainen, Tuomas Talvitie, Eero Virtanen
KRYPTA (2019)
KRYPTA is a multi-artistic stage work, it is the main project for
Company New World in the year 2019 and an unprecedented and a never
previously experienced world premiere. Until 2014 known as Circus New
World, Company New World was already the pioneer in the field of
contemporary circus. Today, CNW uses the various art genres as equal
elements, as a holistic raiser of expectations on the scene – the
dramaturgy of the tones.
KRYPTA is a Tamperensis existentialist visual radio play. It’s a
Saturday night pleasantry, which can also be experienced on Monday – and
Monday morning anxiety, which can also be experienced on Saturday.
KRYPTA is a landscape exhibition of mind consisting of light, music,
text and movement.
KRYPTA contains, among other things, the delicate Taiji-Vogue-Kungfu
dance, the dramatic Jarre spectacle, a red-white gymnastics living room
and a sweet blue-silver finale.
KRYPTA was born from the mutual warmth of Company New World Artistic
Director-director Seija Hakkarinen, lighting designer Jere Suontausta,
composer Jukka Kaikkonen and multiartist Henri Hiltunen, as well as from
a thirst to renew the New World expression and also a questing for the
otherworldly. The backbone of the perfomance is constituted by the 3D
spiral program of the KRYPTA Channel and the texts of Harry Salmenniemi,
which appear in the form of sermons, slogans, adages and announcements.
Movement artist Jilka Repo joins in as a new performer for CNW.
The KRYPTA engine is the multi-artistic diversity of the creators that
does not avoid the fusion of different genres or exploiting them. It can
be accepted as a cherishing experience of the senses for the demanding
artist as well as for a curious cultural consumer: “When you understand
to put your mind aside, the experience is strong, warm and indelible.”
KRYPTA was performed in Juomatehdas, Jyväskylä in may of 2019
Team
Directing: Seija Hakkarainen
Lighting: Jere Suontausta
Music and animations: Jukka Kaikkonen
Performers: Henri Hiltunen, Jilka Repo, Jere Suontausta
Texts: Henry Salmenniemi
CUM BOYS vol 4. – CHILDREN OF COSMOS (2018)
CUM BOYS vol. 4 – CHILDREN OF COSMOS on multi-cadencic powerfully visual stage work.
As a gliding waltz plays the dancing stars of CUM BOYS unwrap the Finno-underpantian mindscape. A meter wide disco ball continues its eternal path and the “boys” end up in multicosmotic dead ends and sensual joint realities.
The rhythm is composed by fusing together physical theatre, dance, acrobatics, music and light. The endless slide of life is greased with humor black as coal.
CUM BOYS 4 was performed in the student house Ilokivi, Jyväskylä as a part of Jyväskylän Kesä festival in july of 2018.
Team
Directing, design, production: Seija Hakkarainen
Choreography: Seija Hakkarainen, Julia Milao, Henri Hiltunen ja Oona Ahokas
Lighting & Assistant directing: Jere Suontausta
Clothing: Seija Hakkarainen ja Sari Nyman
Performers: Henri Hiltunen, Mikko Hursti, Petri Kaikosuo, Eero Virtanen, Julia Milao, Oona Ahokas, Milla Lähtevänoja
Sankar-musicians:Kalle Keränen, Ville Huovinen, Tero Savolainen, Sami Keinänen
Music: Pekka Huttunen, Jukka Kaikkonen
Reviews
Review of CUM BOYS vol 4. – CHILDREN OF COSMOS in KESKISUOMALAINEN July 5. 2018 (in Finnish)
Review of CUM BOYS vol 4. – CHILDREN OF COSMOS in Helsingin Sanomat July 5. 2018 (in Finnish)
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CUM BOYS vol 3. – CUM IN (2017)
C-BOYS in WORLD CLASS!
As the petals are opening you can be stupefied in fervor, feeling a nascent ripples in the eternity: CUM BOYS – dance troupe is now flying high in world class! Shooting stars reflecting from the window. New world music permeates all the continents in a free fusion of ethnic rhythms, sometimes veering in the minimalistic embrace of the arctic Mother Earth.
CUM BOYS was performed in Huone Teatteri, Jyväskylä as a part of Jyväskylän Kesä festival in july of 2017
Team
Direction: Seija Hakkarainen
Choreography: Seija Hakkarainen ja Saga Elgland
Music: Jukka Kaikkonen
Costumes: Seija Hakkarainen ja Sari Nyman
Light design: Jere Suontausta
THE BOYS: Henri “The Lion” Hiltunen, Markus Jokinen, Oula Karppinen, Petteri Olkinuora
BONUS: Saga Elgland, Mikko “Hattu” Kervinen
PRODUCTION: Seija Hakkarainen / Company Uusi Maailma / Sirkusyhdistys Circus Uusi Maailma ry
IN COOPERATION WITH: Jyväskylän Huoneteatteri, Baari Vakiopaine
Code for Darker Zones 2016
Company New World has earlier performed in theatre spaces, in the lobby of a swimming hall, in an old paper factory, at streets – now the Temple will be conquered!
Koodi Tummille Vyöhykkeille (Code for Darker Zones) was performed only six times between October 4-10th, 2016. All performances inside one week’s time. At Pekka Ervast temple, Jyväskylä, Finland, a christosophic Temple built in 1927.
This performance is an existential moment with live music, animation, philosophical texts (in Finnish) and a Meaning of Life!
Team
Performers: Tapio Envall (tuba), Oula Karppinen (saxophones), Keijo Koskenharju (percussions, calculator), Sami Keinänen (percussions, calculator), Tapio Laitinen (type writers)
Animations: Heikki Takala, Toni Esse
Texts: Harry Salmenniemi
Music composed by: Pekka Huttunen, Keijo Koskenharju
Costumes: Sari Nyman ja Seija Hakkarainen
Graphics: Tapio Laitinen
Author, design, producer: Seija Hakkarainen
Rajatila – Borderline (2013)
– A Mixture Of Dystopia And Utopia –
Human breeding has reached fearful, yet sweet results. There are only six bunkeracrobats left in the universe – plus otherworlders… RAJATILA (BORDERLINE) is hot mixture of circus, dance and theatre spiced with the black humour and strong aesthetics of Company Uusi Maailma – this is rough and futuristic progressive circus!
RAJATILA (BORDERLINE) was performed in an old paper factory at June-September 2013 with 15 performances, premiered at Jyväskylä Arts Festival.
Team
Performers: Keijo Koskenharju, Ari Lampinen, Marianne Leppä, Niko Miettinen, Tuomas Rönkä, Eero Virtanen
Design, direction, scenery, producer: Seija Hakkarainen
Assinstant for the director: Tomi Huusko
Acrobatics choreography: Erika Forsberg
Lightdesign and lighttechnician: Arto Saarelainen
Sound design: Ari Lampinen
Sound technician: Karri Kuivanen
Composer: Tuomas Paukku
Costume design: Maiju Hietala
Costumes: Mira Niemelä, Sari Nyman
Make up: Heidi Naumanen
Photography: Jarmo Lahtinen
Graphics: Jukka Kaikkonen
Builders: Julius Mykkänen, Tuomas Talvitie
Production assistants: Erika Forsberg, Tomi Huusko, Ville Lahdinen, Marianne Leppä, Eero Virtanen
Production: Sirkusyhdistys Circus Uusi Maailma ry
Support: Taiteen edistämiskeskus/Keski-Suomen toimipiste, Jyväskylän kaupungin kulttuuripalvelukeskus
Sponsors: Kirjapaino Ässä Oy, Tilausajot Mennään bussilla Oy
Kerrostalo – Block of Flats (2012)
Block of Flats is an open-minded fusion of acrobatics, parkour, music, light and dance. People running on walls, getting magnetized to eachother, whirling on tissues and celebrating life. Block of Flats breaths down your neck and you can feel its past on on your shoulders. What happened here before I was here? How will I react when the traces and sounds of a neighbouring life invade my territory? When and how understanding and acceptance come into existence?
The people in Block of Flats are drawn in-between waking and dreams. Sleep paralysis stalks the sleeper, a state where the mind is awake an a momentarily paralyzed body. Beautiful and delicate tones are haunted by anxious and nightmarish moods.
The music for Block of Flats is specially composed for the performance. The orchestra includes e.g. double bass, electric bass, percussion, violin, oboe and vocals. Musical influences come from different parts of the world and styles of music. Led by lopsided music reality gets distorted.
Team
Design and choreography Erika Forsberg, Seija Hakkarainen, Perttu Pihlaja, Lotta Roukala, Eero Virtanen
Direction: Seija Hakkarainen
Performers: Erika Forsberg, Mikko Kervinen, Keijo Koskenharju, Marianne Leppä, Niko Miettinen, Sini Pajunen, Petra Piiroinen, Lotta Roukala, Annika Venäläinen, Eero Virtanen
Lighting design: Perttu Lähdesmäki
Light technician: Perttu Lähdesmäki, Mesimaaria Lammmi
Sound Design: Ari Lampinen
Sound technician: Joni Pääkkö
Scenery: Jussi Niemelä, Tuomas Talvitie
Costume design: Suvi Virtanen
Graphics: Jukka Kaikkonen
Photography: Jarmo Lahtinen, Jiri Halttunen
Production co-ordination: Ville Lahtinen
Production: Sirkusyhdistys Circus Uusi Maailma ry
In co-operation: The Concept of Dash
Support: Koneen Säätiö, Suomen Kulttuurirahaston keskusrahasto ja Samuel Huberin Säätiö, Taiteen keskustoimikunta, Jyväskylän kaupungin kulttuuripalvelukeskus.
Sponsor: Keljon järjestöyhdistys ry, Jyväskylän Huoneteatteri,
Starkki, Kuusakoski Oy, Kirjapaino Kari, Jyväskylän Uusiotuote ry,
Design Alonen, Tilausajot Mennään Bussilla Oy.
Give Way!
Give way! is street performance with mental acrobatics and carnevalism. It is a skiing competition with mini skies and three characters – an athlete, a diva and a cast away: Success, high heels and shortcuts. The competition consists of a warm-up, three sprints and an award ceremony, overall duration approx. 20 minutes. Full weather-proof performance with sharp and slavonic humour!
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