Petit Mal
Race Horse Company
in collaboration with Circo Aereo
Petit Mal rocks. Dark humour reigns. Wild physicality comes at you with nonchalant daring, on a stage littered with garage debris. Break-dancing and hip-hop fuse with a Chinese pole, trampoline work and acrobatics. Petit Mal emerges from the Finnish underground, ready for a riot.
electric, wild and uncontrollable. Lyn Gardner, The Guardian ****
The show keeps surprising us with its random dream logic and twists of weird, low-key but anarchic comedy... This is circus completely outside the box." Donald Hutera, The Times ****
Suitable from 7yrs to adult
Duration: 75 mins
Theater Op De Markt – Belgium
August 7 & 8
http://www.theateropdemarkt.be/
Copenhagen International Teater (KIT) - Denmark August 20 - 22
http://www.kit.dk/2010/RACE_HORSE_COMPANY.htm
*French Premiere*
Festival les Boréales in Caen – France
November 24 - 26
http://www.crlbn.fr/les-boreales/
Le Maillon Theatre de Strasbourg – France
December 3 - 8
www.le-maillon.com
L’Hippodrome, Scene Nationale de Douai – France
December 17
www.hippodromedouai.com
Théâtre de Cornouaille – Quimper – France
January 14 & 15
www.theatre-cornouaille.fr
Les Subsistances - Lyon – France
March 31 - April 3
www.les-subs.com
La Villette - Paris – France
April 7 - 10
www.theatre-paris-villette.com
Race Horse Company
Race Horse Company is Petri Tuominen, Rauli Kosonen and Kalle Lehto. Petit Mal is created in collaboration with Circo Aereo, composer and sound designer Tuomas Norvio and lighting designer Juho Rahijärvi.
Creative team:
Circus Artists: Rauli Kosonen, Kalle Lehto, Petri Tuominen
Director: Maksim Komaro
Music & sound design: Tuomas Norvio
Light design: Juho Rahijärvi
Petri Tuominen studied contemporary circus in Stockholm's Dance Academy and is a martial arts enthusiast. His primary interest lies in expanding the possibilities of the Chinese pole.
Rauli Kosonen specialises in trampoline acrobatics. Kosonen has also worked with the director Ezec Le Floc'h.
Kalle Lehto is a former Finnish champion in break-dance. He studies the deconstruction of break-dance movement and its fusion with the Chinese pole.
Composer and sound designer Tuomas Norvio is also known as a musician from the group RinneRadio. His compositions and acoustic designs have been heard in a number of circus and theatre performances, radio and TV shows and installations.
Lighting designer Juho Rahijärvi graduated from Theatre Academy of Finland. He has been involved with dance, theatre, circus, museum and environment lighting, light installations and various music events since 1998.
Maksim Komaro is one of Finland's most established contemporary circus artists. He has over ten years experience of creating circus theatre and is co-founder of company Circo Aereo with Jani Nuutinen. Recently Komaro has worked with Compagnie Jérôme Thomas and has directed several works such as FUR! and Louisiana Circus at Parc de la Villette and Espresso one of his most famous works, with Les Objets Volants. He is renowned as a juggling innovator and worked with Gandini Juggling in the fountains at Somerset House, a site-specific commission for Freetime weekend.
Presented in the UK by Crying Out Loud. Produced in co-operation with: Circo Aereo, Cirko - Center for New Circus, Scènes de Cirque, Les Migrateurs, Festival Les Boréales, Comédie de Caen. Supported by Arts Council of Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Juggling the Arts, Finnish Circus Information Centre and Embassy of Finland. |
