Ella Skoikka: Poet in my - my life as Fabou
in collaboration with Moving in November festival
Fabou lives in my dreams. It appears behind the door while I sleep, while I kiss. Fabou is a bird, possibly moss, a dance, a vision, a nightmare, a wish, a working method, a troll, a storyteller and a parallel universe.
Ella Skoikan and Poet in my - my life as Fabou is a performance that blurs the boundaries between live performance and dance work. In this performance, the emotions of an intimate life, ecological grief and wild dreams meet in a play of imagination. The performance is a simultaneous outburst, a dream, a cry and a reach for different contexts.
Poet in my - My Life as Fabou premiered in Kutomo (Turku) in 2022 at the Ehkä-production´s XS - Festival for New Dance and Performance.
The work is part of Moving in November festival 2.-12.11.2023. As part of the festival, there will be an open discussion with the invited artists and local host called Soup Talk 4.11. at noon in Caisa.
Working group:
Choreography, performance and composition: Ella Skoikka
Staging: Kaisa Rajahalme
Sound design: Karin Mäkiranta
Original lighting design: Irene Lehtonen
Dramaturgical assistance: Tuuli Vahtola
Lighting design for the November edition of On the Move / Mad House Helsinki: Julia Jäntti
Production: Maybe-Production and Ella Skoikka
Residencies: Ehkä-production/Kutomo (Turku), Liisa Pentti +Co/Summer residency 2022 (Helsinki) and the Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland (Turku)
Support: the Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Songs used in the performance: Guano Apes - Living in a Lie (Guano Apes), Madonna - Deeper and Deeper (Madonna, Shep Pettibone & Anthony Shimkin) - Skoika and Mäkiranna cover, Shania Twain -You're Still the One (Shania Twain and Robert John Lange)
Thanks to Family and Friends, Riikka Lakea, Nikolai Tiitinen, Kutomo, Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland, Arts Promotion Centre, Liisa Pentti +Co Summer Residency. Thank you to the set department of Kansallisteatteri and Masalan nuorisoteatteri for the fabrics. Thank you Timo Kaukolampi and Tuomo Puranen for lending synths.
Visit in collaboration with Mad House Helsinki
Photo: Katri Naukkarinen
DATES
5.11. at 18
6.11. at 18
LOCATION
Mad House Helsinki, Lintulahdenkatu 3, Helsinki
DURATION
1h
LANGUAGE
English
TICKETS
5-30€ from Mad House ticket shop
or Moving in November Festival Pass
IMPORTANT
Parents who wish to attend the performance with younger children: the performance uses loud sound and visual effects that may appear scary to them.
