Jenni Kiivela & Kind People

Red-Letter Days

If you could throw a party for all the best scenes, the most memorable moments, the most beautiful movements. Except that parties are always so uncomfortable. You don't know where to go in, who to greet, should you take your shoes of, what to talk about or how to introduce the four people you hardly know yourself.

Work Red-Letter Days, group of people reproduce party rituals, such as arriving, making introductions and small talk and speeches and transform them into energetic and amusing dance theatre.
Choreography & text: Jenni Kivelä

Dancers: Joona Halonen, Carl Knif, Ninu Lindfors and Katri Soini
Set design: Salla Salin
Light design: Heikki Paasonen
Sound design: Johanna Storm
Costume design: Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila
Music: Madredeus
Production Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Kind People

Duration: 43'

Kind People
Is an organization based on collaboration that was established 2000 and presented with dance productions of Jenni Kivelä.

Its purpose is to maintain alive performances performed in previous years and create new ones with thought. Kind People consist of choreographer-dancers, designers and other Jenni Kivelä. creative people.

Jenni Kivelä/Kind People
(b.1974) studied choreography at the Theatre Academy of Finland. She works as a choreographer in Helsinki with her group Kind People and does commissioned works for other dance groups. Some of her works are Flowers - Arrangements (2002), Red-Letter Days (2003), Ylva-lii and Other Stories (2004), Master Detectives (2005), If Not Too happy (2006) and House of Mrs Wilson (2007).

Her works have been presented in. London, Brussels, Stockholm, Paris, Amsterdam. Work Red-Letter Days won an international competition for choreographers in Saitama, Japan 2005. Kivelä was Zodiak's guest house choreographer for 2004-05 and artistic director the of Theatre Academy Dance Company 2007-08.

This performance is part of the 12th European Dance Festival. You can buy a General Entrance card for all the performances of the festival in Rialto for €20. Admission free for students and dance professionals.