Contemporary puppet theater combined with applied physics
Nano Steps is a performance that portrays an uncanny relationship across scales and boundaries. 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 and take their spectators into a basement laboratory of unpredictable research.
Nano Steps started with a question of what the world’s smallest puppet could be. Trial & Theatre group indulged into a meandering and unpredictable research process, during which they called world-famous professors, travelled to Cornell University, to Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, to laboratories of Aalto University and started a collaboration of an unprecedented kind.
The non-verbal performance to be seen in TIP-fest interweaves science with object theatre and brings for the first time a manipulation technique learned directly from physicists to stage: animating objects with acoustic energy and electric fields. The performance is not science fiction, but rather a fiction of science.
Trial & Theatre is a theatre collective working by devising; building shows through practical research and experimentation in and out of the rehearsal room. All members of the team hold equal authorship over the works, as ideas and work flow in a horizontal hierarchy throughout the creation process.
Director: Aati Hanikka
Dramaturg: Iiris Syrjä
Sound designer-musician: Valtteri Alanen
Performer (devising): En Ping Yu
Light designer (devising): Jere Suontausta
Nano Steps is made in collaboration with Helsinki City Theatre, Aalto University (Espoo), Itai Cohen Lab (Cornell University, Ithaca), Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague), Studio Alta (Prague) and Aura of Puppets (Turku).
The performance is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Helsinki City Theatre, Nordisk Kulturfond, Aura of Puppets and The Samuel Huber’s Art Foundation.
Performances
Saturday 9.11.2024 at 16:00 and 18:30
Pieni näyttämö, Turku City Theatre, Itäinen Rantakatu 14
Age recommendation: 9+
Duration: 50min
Language: non-verbal
Please notice: The performance features some flickering flights and ultrasounds, dogs not allowed
