Internationally touring performances of Aura of Puppets' members
Non-verbal or in English
Latest premieres
Erika Malkki: Pohjatar
Strong and empathic solo performance about finding one’s own strength. Siellä on lohtu ja rauha, irtipäästäminen, hiljaisuus lauha – ja paperinauha. POHJATAR is a performance
Trial & Theatre: Nano Steps – Into the Lab
12.–13.4.2024. Praha, 19.–24.4.2024, Turku I Trial & Theatre stretches the scale of performing arts and does the smallest puppetry in the world. Nano Steps –
The Bike theater: A Ball of String
8. & 12.5.2024, Helsinki, 29.8.2024 Fiskars I Come with us and follow the red, the yellow, the blue string…. Kerällä ( A Ball of String)
Diabolos: Satan’s Callback
15.10.–5.11.2024 Helsinki, 8.–9.11.2024 Turku I A grim apartment. Purgatory. An empty picture frame hangs on the wall, and a deserted birdcage rests on the table.
Ivanonva, Rutanen & Co.: Babygonia
28.–29.8.2024 Helsinki, 7.–10.11.2024 Turku I This performance invites babies from eight months up to two and a half years old to arrive at a theatre.
Tehdas Teatteri: Kindred Machines
25.10.–24.11.2024, Turku “How similar are we in the end.” Tehdas Teatteri dives once again into the uncharted waters of theater art! The performance Toiset kaltaiset
Tehdas Theatre & Alma Rajala: Pandora – Opening
6.10.–14.12.2024, Turku |Welcome to the feast of the gods, where the gods are gone. And none of us should be here either… A feast forsaken by
Touring performances in 2025
Livsmedlet: Invisible Lands
10.2.2024, Villa Rana, Jyväskylä I Across the desert, behind our back. Up the mountain, down our spine. Over the sea, just under our nose. On
Teater Håndholdt & Nordic Puppet Ambassadors: The Hermit
The Hermit is a puppet theatrical walking performance and installation about the desire to disappear from society, search for peace and live in solitude. This
Halme & Lumiluoto / KO-KOO-MO Block Theatre: Variation III – Twelve o’clock Setting
PREMIERE, 11.11.2023 The Scenic Restaurant offers peacefulness of nature and glamour. The interior decoration of the restaurant has remained in its original appearance. On the
TheatreQo: Peephole
FOR CHILDREN An ode to playfulness, neighbours and staying home! An Aeroplane flies inside a rain cloud. Below the rain cloud flies a seagull,
Maiju Tainio & Co.: Gilgamesh – Mortal
PREMIERE 8. & 11.11. Find the copper box, Grasp the brass lock, open the lid of secrets, lift up the lapis tablet and read, how
Valtteri Alanen & co.: Silence and Other Impossible Objects
8. & 9.11.2023 Silence and Other Impossible Objects is an attempt at staging an impossibility. Three performers, Eglė Šimėnaitė (LIT), Lara Hereu (ESP) and Valtteri
Teatteri Qo: Tea For Two
21.4. &, 27.5.2023 Helsinki I Two women, two ways. A storm is brewing in the teacup. “Tea for Two” is a short object theatre performance
Trial & Theatre: Nano Steps – a Particle Performance
Nano Steps – a particle performance is a non-verbal performance that portrays an uncanny relationship between two entities across scales and boundaries. The performance inquires
Dirty Duckling: Ariadne – A Mess
22.–23.8.2024 Stockholm, 28.9.–5.10.2024 Turku, 12.10.2024 Berger, Norway I A puppetry solo by Dirty Duckling, specifically Merja Pöyhönen is a skillfully woven one-woman-mess with ugly puppets in
Antti-Juhani Manninen: Ridiculousness
18.11.2023 Tampere A very unusual comedy sketch show from the distant past and the future. A small gem of Turku’s contemporary puppet theatre scene now
Käppi – Rajala – Räikkä: FEAR OF THE FOREST
A mystical puppetry horror tale about Finns and their relationship to the forest. Fear of the forest combines sound art and puppetry with horror and
Nordic Puppet Ambassadors – R
An object theatrical study about balance. Is it possible to make a circus trick with tableware inherited from one’s grandmother? If yes, what does that
Alma Rajala & Co. & Tehdas Teatteri – Extinction Paradise
7 to 27 April 2024, Turku I Contemporary puppetry about fruitful childlessness Extinction Paradise is a breathless deep-dive and shamanistic trip into the myth and
Nurinpäin Collective: Hula Hula
Poetic images of impossibilities A visual concert for children inspired by experimental electronic music, theatre of objects and performance art. In this work the composer
Malkki & Lehtovaara: Poor Butterfly
3. November at 6 and 8 pm at Turku City Theatre Poor Butterfly is a tragicomic story about a woman waiting for her lover to
Grus Grus Theatre & Tehdas Theatre: Full Measures
9.–11.5.2024, Turku I A trio for puppet artist, dancer and measure sticks. The show begins in a simple yet enigmatic setting: a random meeting
