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It is a colourful, cheerful and peaceful performance designed for very young children. The aesthetic milieu with its paintings, sculptures and sounds provides a setting for a performance without words and warm, shared intimacy between a child and an accompanying adult.
The creation is inspired by “Star Sky Temple”, which was performed in the Children Theatre Festival in Helsinki 2005. “The Journey of the Wise man” has developed to a more story based performance, which can be varied to fit to different circumstances, from bigger stages to small kinder gardens. The director and scriptwriter is the main actor (the Wise Man), Vesa-Petteri Asikainen, who has been working over twenty years with and for children. He is also the director of the theatre PerformanceSirkus. Sanna Karlsson-Sutisna’s paintings and sculpture and Keanne van de Kreeke’s Memory Eggs create the surrounding, the installation, in which the story takes place. This cross art performance contains elements from old Finnish traditions, which can especially be heard in the vocal sounds of the singer Riitta Leivo. At the end of the performance the children can go into the world of the wise Man. They are allowed to come and play with the items of the performance.
There is also a separate installation enclosed the performance.
Manuscript and directing: Vesa-Petteri Asikainen
www.vesapeteriasikainen.com
Music and singing: Sampsa Hallikainen
Paintings, bird and video: Sanna Karlsson-Sutisna
www.karlsson-sutisna.com
”Memory eggs”: Keanne van de Kreeke
www.keanne.be
Production: PerformanceSirkus
www.performancesirkus.com
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