Go to school, work, retire, die. Rinse and repeat.

Year in and year out we do the same things, work in the same gray offices, live in the same gray apartments, lead the same gray lives. But inside of all of us lives a little flower girl. A little flower girl named Calla. And she has the power to transform us and show us the wonder of everything we lost along the way, ever since the day we decided that our childhood dreams deserved a proper burial.

The Flower Girl. The story of you. Of us. Of all of us. The story that helps us reconnect to that which we have lost. The story that makes us humans again. Before it's too late.

Written and directed by H. Sven Fernandez.

CAST
Raiyan Amin – Jimmy & Mikhail Bakunin
Jamini Kavoori – Mira & Susan Vilar
Elisa Benedetti – Calla (adult)
Miho Otaki – Elisa
Branislav Dakovic – Ivan & Tristo
Iiris Kopranen – Calla (young)
Jonathan Lagerquist – Hercules & Professor Grant
Annamari Lattunen – Calla's mother
Alexis Quintana Sainz – Student
David Rogers – Carl Robespierre
Sontra Samela – The Dream
Pia Vaquer – Mrs. Rand
Sanjay Shrestha – Alfred & Andrej Bakunin

Politicians
Branislav Dakovic, Miho Otaki, Jamini Kavoori, Alexis Quintana Sainz & Jonathan Lagerquist.

Half-deads
Raiyan Amin, Elisa Benedetti, Branislav Dakovic, Jamini Kavoori, Jonathan Lagerquist, Miho Otaki, Alexis Quintana Sainz, Sontra Samela & Sanjay Shrestha.

CREW
Producer – Zach Chamberlaine
Photography – Anni Taponen
Choreography – Maria Ga'tsal
Sound design – H. Sven Fernandez
Lighting design – Timo Karppinen
Tech operator– H. Sven Fernandez

PERFORMANCES at the NoName Theatre
Sat 24 Sept at 4 pm
Sat 24 Sept at 8 pm
Sun 25 Sept at 6:30 pm
Weds 28 Sept at 7pm
Fri 30 Sept at 7pm
Sat 1 Oct at 4 pm
Sat 1 Oct at 8 pm

 TICKETS
 20€ – standard admission
 16€ – Concessions (students, retired, military/civil service, unemployed)
 16€ – FBP, FINNBRIT, MEETUP & Internations members

 Available HERE in our Holvi store.

Vera Backman and Adrian Goldman will lead a movement workshop and improvised performance on October 15th and 16th 2022, starting at 10 am on both days.

On Saturday morning (10–1pm), we will have a physical warm-up, followed by an introduction to Laban technique, and then talking about what you learnt.

Saturday afternoon (2–6pm) will be devoted to understanding movement through authentic movement.
On Sunday morning (10–1pm), we will focus on using what we explored on Saturday, and learn the basics of Contact Improvisation as the basis for some further work.

On Sunday afternoon (2pm–5pm), we will spend sometime with musician Tony Shaw and a score (pictures, words) devising an improvised movement performance with the title “The forest moving to the light".

On Sunday evening (7–8pm), we will perform it, with a session afterwards with the audience so that they can share with us what they felt and vice versa. Its working title is “The forest moving to the light”, which can cover anything we might want it to be.

The maximum number of people we can have for the movement workshop is 10, because the space is not large and we must all be able to move. Please sign up early!

Adrian Goldman has a greater than 20-year history with various kinds of dance. He started with tap, but fell in love with modern dance and (contact) improvisation. He has been to contact various improvisation workshops including in Lithuania. The great thing about movement and dance is that it can provide tools for an actor to understand what they are capable of physically, and give them ways of expressing themselves including and beyond words.

Vera Backman has been dancing more or less actively since her childhood. She has tried many different dance styles, but African dance, contemporary, Broadway style jazz, bachata and contact improvisation are closest to her heart. Vera has done specialising studies in dance pedagogy and later in 2017 got her master’s degree in Dance movement psychotherapy from Goldsmiths University of London. It is fascinating how honest the body is, how it can express thoughts and feelings that might be unconscious or hidden. Through movement and dance we can access a very visceral dimension of emotion, which gives actors tools for giving a fuller and richer performance.

WORKSHOP SESSIONS at the NoName Theatre
Sat 15 Oct 10am–6 pm
Sun 16 Oct 10am–5pm & 7–8 pm

 TICKETS
 30€ – standard admission
 24€ – Concessions (students, retired, military/civil service, unemployed)
 24€ – FBP, FINNBRIT, MEETUP & Internations members
 Available HERE in our Holvi store.

You can read more about – and get tickets for – the improvised performance here: The forest moving to the light.