Kehä
Premiere Theatre Academy of Helsinki, 02.10.2025
Direction & choreography: Jenni Nikolajeff ja Elina Kivioja
Music: Markku Luuppala & performers
Lighting design: June Horton-White
Sound design: Oscar Fagerudd
Costume design: Havina Jäntti
Photos: Juho Uusitalo
Performers: Olavi Angervo, Abdirahman Bile, Annika Junno, Eeli Jurvelin, Clara Kinnunen, Elisa Mattila, Adela Ogunbor, Venla Pulkkinen, Mawlawi Rahem, Alberto Rama, Pyry Rautiainen, Pyry Räty, Miriam Shange ja Freddie Sukura
GLITCHER – How to live together
A show about cohabitation and the liminality of love.
Premiere at Viirus Teater, Helsinki on 15th of March 2025
Viktor and Linnea love each other. They really do. They love the moments they share and the life they live together. But the platitudes of everyday life can make this hard sometimes – hard to get underneath each other’s skin, to open up and find shared pleasure. Perhaps they need a helping hand…
How to live together is Glitchers’ eighth original piece. The show takes inspiration from 50s sci-fi, 90s rom-coms and the realism of the theatre canon.
Shortlisted for the Antonia Award in 2025 for “artistic bravery and diversity in Finnish-Swedish theatre”.
Shortlisted for Säde award for best lighting design in performance 2025-2026.
Production Glitcher
On stage Joel Forsbacka, Josefine Fri, Martin Paul
Producer Misan Nyqvist
Sound design Oscar Fagerudd
Light design June Horton-White
Scenography Lars Idman
Outside eye Emelie Zilliacus
Photo Ninni West
https://www.viirus.fi/en/shows/how-to-live-together
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The Last Rite of Spring
The last Rite of Spring is Renan Martins’ first collaboration with TADaC (Theatre Academy Dance Collective).
Together, choreographer Renan Martins and TADaC dancers reimagine Stravinsky’s iconic composition through the lens of contemporary dance, exploring the delicate balance between success and failure. The dancers, in their final graduation performance, engage in an emotional journey marked by moments of celebration, struggle, and release. Through insidious contact material, their bodies become channels of both unity and tension, as they navigate fluctuating states of expectation and surrender.
They face the challenge that is to work on such emblematic piece as they confront the idea of culmination, embracing both the triumphs and losses that come with closure.
Performers: Inka Auvinen, Altinay Kapsiz, Saila Pönkä, Joma Richter, Sointu Saraste, Marjukka Savolainen, Mathilda Muk
Choreographer: Renan Martins (guest)
Choreography and dance assistant: Anette Toiviainen
Light Designer: June Horton-White (guest)
Sound Designer: Renan Martins (guest) / Original score: Igor Stravinsky
Stylist: Claudia Cifu (guest)
Sound Operator: Mikael Rantanen (guest)
Photos and teaser: Jussi Ulkuniemi
Touring in 2025:
Tampere Dance Current Festival Tampere, Finland 20.5-25.5.2025 NOT CONFIRMED
Kulttuuritalo Villa Rana, Jyväskylä, Finland 27.5.2025
Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn, Estonia 4.6.2025
Skånes Dansteater, Malmö, Sweden 10.6.2025
Karsina
Premiere Theatre Academy of Helsinki, 03.09.2024
Direction & choreography: Jenni Nikolajeff ja Elina Kivioja
Music: Markku Luuppala & performers
Lighting design: June Horton-White
Sound design: Oscar Fagerudd
Costume design: Havina Jäntti
Performers: Sonja Arffman, Heidi Finnberg, Elina Kanerva, Mikael Karvia, Väinö Lehtinen, Miriam Mekhane, Yosef Nousiainen, Rebecca Nugent, Iina Nyländen, Pablo Ounaskari, Milla Palin, Janika Suopanki ja Mikko Nousiainen
Raados
Premiere at Theatre Academy of Helsinki, 04.10.2023
Direction & choreography: Jenni Nikolajeff & Elina Kivioja
Lighting design: June Horton-White
Sound design: Oscar Fagerudd
Costume design: Havina Jäntti
Photography: Mitro Härkönen
On stage: Youssef Asad Alkhatib, Nomi Enckell, Patrik Hvitsjö, Tellervo Jalas, Meri Luukkanen, Toni Nikka, Ronja Orasta, Jessica Penttilä, Lauri Qvick, Aapo Salonen, Aino Sihvonen, Veeti Vekola
Jos nyt olisi huominen
Premiere at Annantalo, Helsinki 23.05.2023
Concept & choreography: Pauliina Aladin & ensemble
On stage: Pauliina Aladin, Tanja Illukka, Veera Leppänen, Anni Puuperä
Lighting design: June Horton-White
Costume design: Elina Ström
Sound design: Heta-Maria Pyhäjärvi
Photography: Noomi Ljungdell
Race Horse Company – Rompecabezas
Premiere at Stoa, Helsinki 26.10.2022
Rompecabezas is an intimate spectacle of three circus artists and one dancer where success hangs by a thread. The name comes from the spanish word for a puzzle or a headbreaker, which describes the show and its creation.
The show has three parts where circus artists Kalle Lehto, Guillermo Leon and Poppy Plowman and dancer Minna Liimatainen perform versatile circus skills. The artistic team is literally hanging from their hair and from each other to pull through.
Kalle Lehto is an award-winning circus artist, known also for his work as a director for shows Chevalier and Club Carousel. Minna Liimatainen is an outstanding dancer from the Finnish National Opera & Ballet and specialized in hairhanging-acrobatics. Poppy Plowman flies dancing on a tight wire and Guillermo Leon is charismatic master of comedy and juggling.The atmospheric lighting design is by June Horton-White. Josu Mämmi and Sami Tammela combine jazz and electronic music in their sound design and musical compositions. Tammela is a RHC favorite known for music for the international hit show Super Sunday and Mämmi is a composer and musician boldly combining pop-esthetics with jazz and minimalism and also leads the Josu Mämmi Trio.
Director: Kalle Lehto
Artists: Kalle Lehto, Minna Liimatainen, Poppy Plowman, Guillermo Leon
Lighting design: June Horton-White
Sound design & compositions: Josu Mämmi, Sami Tammela
Photography: Antti Suniala
https://www.racehorsecompany.fi/shows/rompecabezas
MOSCA
Premiere in Theatre Academy, Helsinki 05.10.2022.
A collaborative piece that explores impression through abstract movement and sound. Light, music and dance form beautiful and terrible pictures that will resonate and excite long after you leave the theatre.
Choreographers: Jenni Nikolajeff & Elina Kivioja
Musical director: Risto Kupiainen
Lighting designer: June Horton-White
Sound designer: Oscar Fagerudd
On stage: Jesse Gyllenbögel, Akseli Ilvesniemi, Ronja Keiramo, Betadi Mandunga, Mitra Matouf, Samuel Onatsu, Emma Pälsynaho, Lina Schiffer, Alvari Stenbäck, Saku Taittonen
Photography: Milja Laakso
Höyhentämö – Katastrofiesitys / Catastrophe Performance
Premiere in Tiivistämö, Helsinki 08.03.2022.
Not going back to normal – or the Catastrophe Performance is a punk performance about the end of the world. It is experimental physical theatre about the alienation, reactions, and adaptation caused by a societal crisis or catastrophe.
The group consists of artists that have worked in Höyhentämö-Pluckhouse for a long time. In the group and on stage are: Akseli Aittomäki, Jenni Kokkomäki, Kati Korosuo, Aarni Korpela, James Lórien MacDonald, Minja Mertanen, Teemu Päivinen ja Juha Sääski.
Lighting designer: June Horton-White
Sound designer: James Lórien MacDonald
Photography: Tani Simberg and Tristan Petsola
Rutimo Collective – Lemons
Premiere: 14.09.2021 at Koko Theatre, Helsinki
An unapologetic dance piece by Rutimo Collective stirs up conversation about femininity, hip hop culture, privilege and the significance of physical connection.
Choreographer: Kaisa Nieminen
Dancers: Huong Hoang, Lilli Huttula, Hanna Kortelainen ja Sini Tuominen
Sound designer: Sebastian Kurtén
Lighting designer: June Horton-White
Grande Finale 2021
Premiere: 22.5.2021 at Köysiteatteri, Turku Arts Academy
One evening, five talented young circus artists, nine acts.
Performers: Saila Jantunen, Nella Toivanen & Ritva Bergström, Jenni Asunen, Rosa Laukkanen, Enni Kastari
Lighting design: June Horton-White, except in the piece Irregular Orbits by Horton-White & Ville Saarikoski
Photos: Ville Saarikoski
Aktivistinäytelmä III
Premiere in Koko Theatre, Helsinki 25.09.2020
Third part of the Activist trilogy. Helena Kallio’s text mirrors our time through activism, from 1960’s to present day.
Director: Helena Kallio
On stage: Anni Elif Egecioglu, Tuuli Heinonen, Anna Veijalainen
Music: Anni Elif Egecioglu
Lighting designer: June Horton-White
Costume designer: Virve Karoliina Balk
Choreography: Anna Veijalainen
Photography: Heidi Bergström, Sini Salo
Graphic designer: Heidi Bergström
Merisairas
Premiere in Kapsäkki, Helsinki 08.12.2020.
Cross-artistic collaboration about climate change and an attempt to handle the anxiety it provokes.
SO III (Suvi Oskala, Oskari Lehtonen & Teemu Korpipää)
Dancer: Sini Siipola
Sea receachers: Olli Mustonen ja Pauliina Saarman
Dramaturgy: Ulla Pulkka
Lighting design: June Horton-White
Editor: Jenni Saaristo
Director: Elina Lajunen
Producer: Paula Susitaival
Photo: Mari Solja
Höyhentämö – Losing concept(s) of self but still talking
Premiere at Cable Factory, Helsinki 28.2.2020
Losing the Concept(s) of Self – but Still Talking traces the moments when we lose ourselves and the world as we thought we knew it.
But then, as the speech continues, the movement continues – and the world is again as we remembered it. To some extent.
Concept & choreography:
Teemu Päivinen, Jenni Kokkomäki, Jonna Lehto, Gabriele Goria
Lighting Design: June Horton-White
Sound design: Miro Mantere
https://www.hoyhentamo.fi/home/
Agit-Cirk – 2+2+2
Premiere in Stoa, Helsinki 15.11.2019
2+2+2 is a contemporary circus performance where four artists use dance and circus shamelessly as their playground. This show is about skill, absurd humor and exploring different roles of men and women in the absence of a narrative frame.
Performers: Jenni Lehtinen, Sasu Peistola, Riia Kivimäki, Saku Mäkelä
Lighting design. June Horton-White
Sound design: Joonas Outakoski
Photo: Miikkael Kukkula
!www.akrobaattikaksikko.com/shows-acts#!
Kompani Giraff – Tråkmånsafton
Premiere at Fria Teatern, Stockholm 15.09.2018
A circus show of the world’s most boring day. Based on Adam Dahlin’s children’s book and dramatized for stage by Stina Oscarson.
On stage: Julietta Birkeland, Jenny Soddu, Jean-Hicham Ramoun
Director: Viktoria Dalborg
Music: Magnus Larsson
Scenography and costume: Sus Soddu
Lighting design: June Horton-White
Photos: Isak Stockås
www.kompanigiraff.se/trakmansafton/
Weimar; Jakten på Zodiaken
Premiär: fre 6 april 2018 kl. 19
En tidsresa till Weimar-republiken i jakten på problemet med jakten av lösningen.
En närvaro av en gäst vars frånvaro håller samman hela skiten.
En rörelse eller ett tillstånd?
Hur börjar något, hur uppstår gestalterna och hur faller de ur sin mening och betydelse? Hur länge står vi ut med att inte veta vilka vi är och vart vi är på väg?
En total paranoia som med ett djupt andetag i stormens öga erbjuder ett undersökande av scenens existentiella dimensioner, både för aktörer och åskådare.
På scen: Wilhelm Enckell, Minni Gråhn, Kristofer Gummerus, Petra Heinänen, Tuuli Heinonen, Alexander Holmlund, Salla Loper, Sannah Nedergård, Alexander Wendelin, Klara Wenner Tångring, Ole Øwre
Regi: Anders Carlsson
Koreografi, scenografi och kostym: Andriana Seecker
Dramaturgi: Ilja Lehtinen (D), Per Ehrström (ED)
Ljusdesign: June Horton-White (V)
Ljudkonst: Derek Holzer, Elina Pirinen
Produktions assistenter: Iina Pätsi, Saana Sivonen (Metropolia)
Circus OZ – Rock Bang!
The Coopers Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre, Melbourne
15.-25. November 2018
Circus Oz present a collaboration with Otto & Astrid
Rock Bang – A circus rock opera.
Director: Rob Tannin
Lighting designer: Richard Fabre
Production assistant: June Horton-White
Photos: Mark Turner
Distracted and inspired by the extraordinary bendy feats of the Circus Oz acrobats, Otto & Astrid quickly descend into squabbling, throwing rehearsed circus routines and songs into spectacular chaos.
Rock Bang is a riotous hard-rocking Circus Oz explosion detonated by Otto & Astrid.
Full cast: https://malthousetheatre.com.au/site/assets/uploaded/b3716ce5-circusoz_rockbang_program.pdf
https://www.circusoz.com/shows-and-tickets/book-tickets/list/10013-rock-bang/114/rock-bang.html
Miscellaneous
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