Liljat / Lilies (2019)

Contemporary circus performance that was supposed to be composed for one but is now performed by four. Celebrating the inescapable act of mourning – facing the overwhelming, overtaking and paralyzing force of dreams and futures lost.

This chain of acts on stage is created and performed to honor everybody whose dreams, love, identities and imagined universes were destroyed and who --- did not make it. This is to remember all those who disappeared. Were lost. Are forgotten.

Lilies is composed of scenes on and under the tight wire, live music, words spoken and silenced, flowers blooming and dying. By way of better understanding we wish to open a window for hope.


“For me time excists as 'before and after'. I am not quite sure where one can draw the line. I only know that 'before' comes across as movement, spirals, jumps – air under my feet, freedom. 'After' is filled with memories of me, what should have been, what was coming and where I was going. 'After' is longing, loneliness and sorrow.”
(Reija Tapaninen)



Director
Reija Tapaninen


Performers
Kauri Klemelä, Netta Lepistö, Heidi Miikki, Joonas Pehrsson, Saana Peura, Reija Tapaninen


Design
Joonas Pehrsson - Sound
Kauri Klemelä - Lights
Working group - Set
Working group - Costumes


Duration
60 minutes


Suitability
7+


Premiere: 12.9.2019 Jyväskylä City Theatre, Finland.


Supported by
Alfred Kordelin foundation
Arts Promotion Centre Finland 


In co-operation
Jyväskylä City Theatre
Cirko - Center for New Circus
Central Finland Regional Dance Center
SirkusFysio
Viherlandia
Ommellinen
Jyväskylän Sirkuskoulu