This performance invites babies from eight months up to two and a half years old to arrive at a theatre. They always come like royalty in carriages, accompanied by an adult retinue. And they enter the show as a river can be entered – they can bravely go with its flow or against it; they can watch how it flows; they can lie down and look into it, or just listen to the sound of water.
The theatre is not divided into an auditorium and a stage. The actors create a variety of images and compositions in space, where, if desired and ready, large and small spectators can enter. The audience chooses the degree of their participation and activity in the action organized by the actors.
The performance is based on associative forms, shapes and tactile-sensory perception of space, in which micro- and macro-universes are formed, assembled from objects of different colors, sizes, textures and sounds (the visual story is accompanied by live music).
Baby spectator is like a little Buddha: s/he does not know what adults do know. But s/he still remembers what grown-ups have forgotten. S/he has an amazing curiosity about everything around. S/he questions and explores every tiny thing s/he notices. S/he enjoys this devising process.
We borrow from little buddhas their method of communication with reality and we are using it as a professional approach in creating baby theatre.
WORKING GROUP
Concept, directing – Anna Ivanova
Visual realization, space and objects – Jenni Rutanen
Sound designer and musician on stage – Roosa Halme
Light designer – Antton Kainulainen
Movement designer Mantas Stabačinskas
Performers – Anna Nekrassova and Jenni Rutanen
Language: Non-verbal
Age recommendation: 8 months – 2,5 years old (with adults)
Duration: 30 minutes
Performances
Thu 7.11.2024 at 10:00 and 11:30
Sun 10.11.2024 at 15:00
Turun Seikkailupuisto Seikkis, Timantti-theatre
Kupittaankatu 2, Turku
‘Baby boom’ Lecture by Anna Ivanova-Brashinskaya
Baby Theater is a direction of modern theater that is extremely in demand today and therefore requires professional research. Artists, dancers, circus and theater directors – not just puppeteers – are fond of it. Theater managers and parents, who introduce their children to the arts from infancy, are equally interested in it. What tasks inevitably confront the production team and how are they solved so that the theater remains a theater, and the actor remains an actor, without imposing on the child the known laws and conventions of theatrical performance.
A performance for kids is like a river: you can enter it and swim with the current or against it, you can watch it flow, you can lie down, look into it and just listen to the sound of the water.
Lecture by Anna Ivanova-Brashinskaya with video fragments from performances for toddlers.
Saturday 9 November 2024 at 12:00
Tehdas Theatre, Manilla, Turku
