“Double basses and absurdity”
Bass & Pole is a cabaret-ish contemporary circus performance with progressive popular music, Persian folk music, salsa, tango and metal. The piece takes place in Bar Vakiopaine where nine performers march to the stage with large aquarium-like windows in the background. The performers instruments include double basses, bass guitars, Chinese poles, accordion, kantele*, singing, and their bodies.
Bass & Pole -performance contains sparklingly laconic black humour. This cabaret is also – or especially – suitable for viewers with absolutely no sense of humour! We witness encounters and incidents on the street, on the window sill, up the pole and under the pole. A fashion show, dance orchestra Mañana, fighting & love.
*a traditional Finnish harp
TEAM
Directing: Seija Hakkarainen
Realisation: Seija Hakkarainen & performers
Personnel trainer: Erika Forsberg
Lighting design: Arto Saarelainen
Costume design: Sari Nyman & Seija Hakkarainen
Dressmaking: Sari Nyman
PERFORMERS
Acrobatics: Janne Moilanen, Noora Pasanen, Lotta Roukala
Saxophone, djembe: Christian Drabczyk
Accordion, harmonium, bass: Pekka Huttunen
Percussion: Keijo Koskenharju
Kantele, clarinet, theremin: Soila Kyyriäinen
Vocals: Sini Pajunen
Bass, acrobatics: Eero Virtanen
MUSIC
Composition, lyrics, arrangement: Pekka Huttunen
Except following songs:
Kanttori / comp. Eero Virtanen, arr. Huttunen-Kyyriäinen
Gole Sangam / comp. Anoushiravan Rohani, lyr. Bijan Samandar, arr. B&P musicians
Ye Goli Goshe Chaman / Trad. Persia, arr. B&P musicians
Kiss from the Sun / comp. Mika Minkkinen, Sini Pajunen, Jani Muittari; orig. lyr. Sini Pajunen / B&P lyr. Sini Pajunen & Seija Hakkarainen; arr. Pajunen-Virtanen
Graphic design: Jukka Kaikkonen & Seija Hakkarainen
Photography: Jarmo Lahtinen
Production: Company Uusi Maailma
Supported by: Bureau for Cultural Affairs of Jyväskylä City, Arts Council of Central Finland
Venue: Bar Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä
Premiere: 8.11.2011
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