Object Festival: Solos

During an evening of five short solo performances, the audience will see Cyr wheel acrobatics manipulating sound, animations <p>During an evening of five short solo performances, the audience will see Cyr wheel acrobatics manipulating sound, animations that wink at the prehistory of cinema, visual magic, the climbing of a human spider and artistic magic tricks.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>WHS Teatteri Union</p><p>24.11.2023</p><p>19.00-20.00</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Program:</p><p>Vejde Grind: Soulo</p><p>Mixing precise choreography and pure improvisation, Vejde invites the audience to a unique experience, where the visual and the auditory meet in a dynamic and playful dance. The soundscape and music is created live on stage in an interplay with movement, with the help of a high-tech sound design picking up the vibrations of the Cyr Wheel. Vejde’s Cyr Wheel is made of steel, weighs 18 kg, and has a 210 cm diameter.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Arturo Fuenzalida &amp; Benjamín Perez: Al Parecer<br>”As if you were a curious cat, please enter this room where the characters and the imagination of the illusionist Arturo Fuenzalida await you. Hey! what’s that? a fish? You’d better come in and see for yourself.”<br>Arturo Fuenzalida is a magic director, consult, developer and performer from Santiago, Chile.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Juhani Kirjavainen: Void Drifter<br>Juhani Kirjavainen is a young artist specializing in visual magic, whose style that looks like "real magic" has made a big impression in the magic industry. Void Drifter contains a large number of new magic effects developed by Kirjavainen himself, whose effect on the viewer is immediate.</p><p><br>Ilona Jäntti/Ilmatila: Gangewifre<br>Gangewifre is a performance project that changes its shape depending on the performance location. It's like a living tissue where thin ropes cross like a net, creating the illusion of weightlessness. The name of the piece is Old English and means spider.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Juan Colás: Ritual illusionism<br>Juan Colás is a Spanish magician whose background in visual arts is strongly present in his magic.</p><p><br>Tickets 25/15€, age recommendation 12+</p>

Location

WHS Teatteri Union

Siltavuorenranta 18

Helsinki

00170

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60.175716, 24.951138