Bone Chamber addresses human mortality and our disregard of it. Where does dying begin? We are at the last recycling point before the final stop. The liminal space between the real and the symbolic. The characters on this stage of finality guide their thoughts, one another, as well as their body parts through the frontier. While one wishes that death could be present in the everyday, another attempts to alter the course of time.
Bone Chamber
- Milla Jarko, Henna Kaikula, Saku Mäkelä, Kaisa Niemi, Ulla Raitio
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By Sivuhenkilöt Collective
Bone Chamber addresses human mortality and our disregard of it. Where does dying begin? We are at the last recycling point before the final stop. The liminal space between the real and the symbolic.
The characters on this stage of finality guide their thoughts, one another, as well as their body parts through the frontier. While one wishes that death could be present in the everyday, another attempts to alter the course of time. A third character seeks a way to grieve their pet, and a fourth simply wishes to ski away already.
Bone Chamber combines various expressions of performing arts with the ensemble consisting of experienced and multi-faceted professionals from circus, theatre, dance, sound, light and visual designing fields. Majority of the performers are circus artists and the collective was born from the wish to also explore the possibilities and edges of circus as an art form.
Bone Chamber considers the seemingly bleak topic of mortality in many ways. There is a constant transition in motion; not unlike sunrise and sunset. The performance finds its form in compositions, simultaneity, and interruptions: in the movements of bones, in unexpected words and emotions, in the traction and balance of life and death. It is like a free fall, confronted with the immanence of death, just when you should not, one is overcome by a fit of laughter.
Artistic team
Direction and dramaturgy: Jyrki Karttunen, Eira Virekoski
Choreography: Jyrki Karttunen
Text: Eira Virekoski
Concept: Henna Kaikula, Jyrki Karttunen, Eira Virekoski
Performers and co-creators:
Circus Artists – Milla Jarko, Henna Kaikula, Saku Mäkelä
Dancer – Kaisa Niemi
Actor – Ulla Raitio (voice role)
Lighting design: Ainu Palmu
Sound design: Joonas Outakoski
Costume design: Riina Leea Nieminen
Set design: Oscar Dempsey
Production: Henna Kaikula, Juliane Mikkonen, Sivuhenkilöt
Co-production: Cirko – Center for New Circus
Photos: Mitro Härkönen, Teemu Kyytinen, Heidi Strengell
Video: Teemu Kyytinen