Cancelled shows this Spring Because of the Corona virus many of Grus Grus Theatre’s shows have been cancelled. These are our confirmed canceled performances at this point: 17.3. Invisible Lands, Starke Stücke festival, Rüsselheim, Germany 18-19.3. Invisible Lands, Starke Stücke festival, Eschborn, Germany 20.3. Invisible Lands, Starke Stücke festival, Frankfurt, Germany 21.3 Invisible Lands, Freakstadt, …
Silence lingers upon the swamps. Two creatures appear out of the blue – disappointed over the oblivion on their very existence. A time for reckoning has come. The world has changed – but not for the better. A shameless reckoning can start. The Hags prepare for a party – you are also invited! A …
Livsmedlet duo, a part of the Grus Grus Teatteri company, continues its international tour this autumn with the awarded show Invisible Lands. During September-November the show performs in Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, Liechtenstein and France. During beginning of 2020 the tour continues in Germany and France, and expands also to Lithuania and Canada. Invisible lands …
INTERNATIONAL CLOWN COURSE finally coming to Turku! 12.-14.8.2019 Pedro Fabião: Clown Play For me, Clown is in its essence an altered body/mind state of full connection, curiosity, authenticity, playfulness, generous expression and transformation. It’s not a technique, a method, light entertainment or rational humour – it involves a life-long journey to accept and play with …
Clowne Moderne – an exhibition tour with a contemporary clown Clowne Moderne is a site-specific exhibition tour where Janna Haavisto’s contemporary clown character Taika Ansa Idé (T.A.Idé) experiences and interprets art. The performance is contemporary theatre where the audience and the clown meet in the midst of modern art. The clown steps down from the stage …
A chance meeting in a chaotic world of constant change. A couple unites in an attempt to measure, map out and define each other. Measuring has become an integral part of our existence. Do we still measure to improve our lives, or have the roles changed – do we now live to measure more effectively? …
Now it is official: “The Birchmouse and the Shrew” will appear at Turku Swedish Theatre in Fall 2019! The mice can be seen both on tour and at the homestage of Åbo svenska teater, in Finnish, Swedish and Russian. Keep yourself up-to-date with the tourschedule, who knows – maybe we will pay a visit to …
The performance “Invisible lands” is touring abroad and receives five stars from the Guardian! “It’s masterfully done, the combination of physical effort and contrasting scale making the wordless tale devastatingly sad.” Read the review online: The Guardian
What happens to the vacuum cleaning when we approach it as dance? This is a performance that is a cleaning ritual. Vacuuming, dancing and choral singing are mixed in a visual, musical and dynamically captivating tribute to one of our most hated household chores. The performance is part of the project The Household Dance Protocol (HDP), …
Rabbinens katt is a puppetry – music theatre adaptation of Joann Sfar’s serie album The Rabbi’s Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin). One day, the cat eats the house parrot, and inherits its ability to speak. When that happens the Rabbi finds out that his cat is very smart, but alas – also a big liar. …
A dance teacher full of crap Each time you pull the vacuum cleaner out of the closet, you have accepted an invitation to a dance class. It may seem far-fetched, but the vacuum cleaner teaches you almost as much about movement as a regular dance teacher. However, it does have a couple of shortcomings in …
Mankind is trying, struggling – mankind is climbing higher and higher. Everything is growing, everything is accelerating, everything is getting better than before. Don´t look down, don´t look back. Grus Grus Theater produces a fascinating circusperformance where the doors of the subconscious stand ajar and hands reach out for the impossible. Directors: Ville Kurki and …
MEET GRUS GRUS THEATRE AT THIS SUMMERS FESTIVALS! 8.6 FRIDAY “Koivuhiiri ja päästäinen” at Hangö Teaterträff 2018, Hanko “Yöväenteatteri” at Olohuone 306,4 km² -kaupunkitaidetapahtuma Urban art festival, Turku 9.6 SATURDAY “Koivuhiiri ja päästäinen” at Hangö Teaterträff 2018, Hanko “Yöväenteatteri” at URB 18 festival, Helsinki 10.6 SUNDAY “Yöväenteatteri” at URB 18 festival, Helsinki
The performance series Yöväenteatteri attends Olohuone 306.4 km² urban art festival on the 8th June and the URB festival in Helsinki on 9th and 10th June. Yöväenteatteri is a series of site-specific miniature shows created in urban environment based on the theme strangerhood. During the spring, Ishmael Falke and Sandrina Lindgren have developed the concept …
Livsmedlet duo, which forms part of Grus Grus Theater’s core group, won the festival’s director’s prize for Invisible Lands at the Banialuka Festival in Poland. The festival that now took place for the 28th time is organized every second year and is one of the world’s most important puppet theater festivals with a high level …
Across the desert, behind our back. Up the mountain, down our spine. Over the sea, just under our nose. On the day the war broke out, we left home. Geography and politics are physically extended and transformed into organic performance platforms – our bodies – and we learn what touch, presence, and endurance really are …
Yöväenteatteri is a series of site specific miniature performances made in urban settings. With the help of small figurines each scene transforms street elements like sidewalk cracks, trashcans or water puddles into vast set designs. This sublime micro-scale landscape is the kulisse for stories of humans and their ability or inability to adapt to their surroundings. During spring …
A dancer comes for a visit and opens an ABC book for reading. How do you dance with a D? And what’s the difference between the Finnish word Tanssi and the swedish word Dans? T som i Dans / T niinkuin Danssi, is a solo show for children in the ages 1-6, that is mixing dance, …
HDP – a dance project celebrating everyday life HDP is currently offering workshops in dance and household work for dance professionals and amateurs, more info below. The Household Dance Protocol (HDP) examines our relationship with housework through dance and somatic movement techniques in order to find the origin of dancing desire. What is the difference …
A stand up duetto for a puppeteer & a national symbol After a hundred years of faithful service, the Finnish lion – the coat of arms of the state of Finland –opens his mouth and finally speaks! The Unknown Lion (Tuntematon leijona) is an outspoken puppet stand up show that difuses the explosives called Finnishness …
Touring at theaters, kindergartens and schools The Birchmouse and the Shrew is a visually charming childerns performance. The play combines drawing and storytelling in an unique way. The actress operates as a storyteller who live draws the characters and venues – altering between acting the characters and traditional storytelling. The performance is suitable for the …
Producer Laura Taberman is starting her work at Grus Grus Teatteri. A warm welcome to this wild bunch !
Hushållets Dansprotokoll (HDP) är ett projekt som undersöker vår relation till hushållsarbete genom dans samt somatisk- och fysisk rörelse. Projektets mål är att väcka diskussion om hushållsarbetets status i vårt samhälle och att fantisera om en alternativ verklighet där hushållsuppgifter är viktiga och värderade rörelsesritualer i våra liv. Detta är särskilt viktigt i ett samhälle …
Household Dance Protocol/ Hushållets Dansprotokoll (HDP) is a project that investigates our relation to household work through dance and somatic- and physical movement methods. The projects aim is to awaken a discussion about the household work’s status in our society and to fantasize about an alternative reality where household tasks are important and valued movement …
