Ready-to-go Productions from Finland
This resource provides information on export ready Finnish productions that are tourable and suited for the international market right now. It offers a brief introduction to each of the featured shows, along with promotional photographs and video clips, technical information and contact details for further enquiries.
Nano Steps - A Particle Performance
| Theatre: |
Trial & Theatre |
| Premiere: |
8.8.2023 Helsinki City Theatre Studio Pasila |
| Produced / co-produced by: |
Trial & Theatre, Helsinki City Theatre Stage for Contemporary Performance, Aura of Puppets |
Nano Steps started with a question of what the world’s smallest puppet could be.
The non-verbal performance interweaves science with object theatre and brings for the first time a manipulation technique learned directly from physicists to stage: the technique of handling micro-sized particles with sound and electricity. The music in the show is both inviting the audience to engage with the microscopic performers, as well as directly manipulating the tinier than tiny co-stars under the microscope. The performance is not science fiction, but rather a fiction of science.
The performance inquires what happens when a physicist encounters invisible particles in the spotlight of a microscope. A group of puppeteers harness the methods of applied physics on the stage. The performance takes the spectators into a basement laboratory where research is unpredictable.
Nano Steps has been realised in a group and material-oriented way (devising): thinking, experimenting and deciding together. The objective of the group is to reach out for free and unruly research processes where science and puppetry collaborate while blurring each other’s boundaries.
Touring information
| Running time at full length |
60 min |
| Interval |
No |
| Stage required (height/width/depth) |
4m x 12m x 8m |
| No. of people on tour |
3 (2 performers + 1 technician) |
| No. of performers |
2 |
| Used language |
Without spoken words |
| Requires a clear understanding of Finnish or another language |
No |
| Subtitles |
No |
| English synopsis |
No |
| Simultaneous translation |
No |
| Touring season |
Continuously available |
| Availability for workshop and educational work |
Yes |
Key personnel
| Directed by |
Aati Hanikka |
| Written by |
Iiris Syrjä & Working Group |
| Performers |
Valtteri Alanen & En Ping Yu |
| Lighting design |
Jere Suontausta |
| Sound design |
Valtteri Alanen |
| Stage design |
Working group |
| Other credits |
Scientific advisor Matěj Hývl |
Contact information
| Contact |
Iiris Syrjä |
| Position |
dramaturge, producer |
| Email |
trial.and.theatre@gmail.com |
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