HOUSE OF MRS WILSON

July 27 at 4 pm, Inmet-areena

"I have thought of myself as a house, full of events, movement, words, images and scenes. Even if a house is cleaned there are things that remain. Something inside me tells me what is appropriate for the stage. Why must something happen when usually there is nothing going on? Or you might notice as you stand in the spotlight in front of an audience that what you have in mind might not be important enough."

Jenni Kivelä (b. 1974) graduated from the Finnish Theatre Academy Department of Dance Art as a choreographer in 2002. Since then she has worked as a choreographer, creating works with the Kind People group, and made commissioned works for e.g. Helsinki Dance Company and Mobita Dansco. She worked as a house choreographer in Zodiak - Center for New Dance in 2004 and 2005, and her choreography Red-letter Days won the Saitama International Choreography Competition in Japan in 2005. She is currently working under the security of a three-year state grant and is the artistic director of the Finnish Theatre Academy dance group TADaC.     

The Kind People association was officially founded in 2006. It is made up of designers, dancers and choreographers, some of whom have been working together since 2000. Its most successful work to date has been Red-letter Days which, since it was premiered in 2003, has gone on to tour in many countries in e.g. Europe, Africa and Asia. It is still part of Kind People's repertoire.

Exquisite presence”

Anni Valtonen Hs 22.2. 2007

”Choreographer Jenni Kivelä does it again: provides a dance evening that is enjoyable from beginnig to end.”

Kaisa Kurikka Turun Sanomat 22.2. 2007

”A world seen through the eyes of an adolescent child or child-like adult, that cannot dislike.”

Jan-Peter Kaiku HbL 22.2. 2007