Monday, February 23, 2009

Tiitiäisen Pippurimylly

Tiitiäisen Pippurimylly (the Peppermill of Tiitiäinen) is the new dance performance for children of Dance theater Raatikko. It opened on 6th of February in Vantaa and is based on "nonsense"-poems of Kirsi Kunnas.

In the story we meet little girl called Lilli, whose father is too busy to read stories to his daughter. Lilli falls asleep while waiting for her daddy and is taken by tiitiäiset ( sort of hobgoblins or trolls) to their magical forest. In the forest Lilli encounters many of the strange characters of Kunnas's poems.

At home, waiting.


Mysterious forest in the night time.


Tiitiäiset are coming.


Day is dawning.


Iki-tik, tiki-tak. A story about counting time.


Jaakko-Vaakko Vesirotta.

Lilli meets a sneezing muskrat, who has serious problems with his health, caused by the lousy working circumstances by the water. In this scene I used the very old-fashioned mechanical wave-grills to create rippling-effect on the whole stage. I was very happy with the outcome.


Ville and Valle.

Two brothers who have opposite intrests in life and always end up quarrelling about everyday functions.


Mister PiiPoo.

PiiPoo is a magician who faces a problem with Vespa, because his magical skills don't stretch all the way to motors and mechanics.


In the end a storm takes little Lilli back home, where his father finally has time for her.

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