Here you will find a selection of my works including:
Light design for theatre and dance, set designs, acting projects, workshops and performances.
Miscellaneous Performing Arts Gallery
2015
Måsen (The Seagull)
The production by Ozonteatern and Teater Mars discusses the artists conditions, unanswered love, and the clashes between the generations. The piece depicts brutally the illusions and hopes of the characters, that cannot escape their faith, whether they are coming and tragic. Freedom – lack of it – and submission follow the thematics throughout the piece.
The ages of the actors vary from 76 years to 23 years, which gives the production another dimension of the differences between generations, who holds the truth about arts and life?
Director: Åsa Salvesen
Scenography, Costume Design: Erik Salvesen
Lighting Design: Alexander Salvesen
Music: Ville Hukkinen
Graphics: Melinda Lönnberg
Actors: Max Bremer, Jon Henriksen, Sam Huber, Niklas Häggblom, Fred Negendanck, Åsa Nybo, Kati Outinen, Tom Rejström, Martina Roos, Sara Soulié, Tove Qvickström
Skills4Life
What skills are required in our lives? The choreography is built on the question about the relationships between skill and performance. What skills are being performed, and what do the audience want? And why? What is the virtuosity of a modern dancer in the year 2015?
The piece brings forward the human who finds his/hers own life energy, knows how to rest and relax, accepts all his/her own restrictions and dances to the end with a passion, together with all the others.
Choreography: Anna Mustonen
Costume Design: Piia Rinne
Lighting Design: Alexander Salvesen
Sound Design: Ville Aalto
Choreographs assistant: Rea-Liina Brunou
Dancers: Miika Alatupa, Elisa Keisanen, Anna Kupari, Joonas Luomala, Anne Naukkarinen, Pinja Poropudas, Johannes Purovaara, Katriina Tavi
2014
Sivuun Nostettuja Tarinoita (Stories from the Margins)
TRAILER
Modern folk music and contemporary dance meet to discuss important questions. What is important in life, and what was it in the past?
What should one do about things that are best forgotten? What cannot be talked about must be sung and danced out.
Music: HOHKA
Valtteri Lehto: kantele, guitar
Meriheini Luoto: violin, nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle)
Veikko Muikku, accordion
Enne Ilo Purovaara, double bass
Dancers: KVG Dance Company
Krista-Julia Arppo
Joonas Luomala
Johannes Purovaara
Set- and Costume Design: Tinde Lappalainen
Lighting Design: Alexander Salvesen
Premiere: 1.2.2014 SibaFest, Helsinki
Other shows:
14-15.2.2014 Verstas, Seinäjoki City Theatre
4.3.2014 Sibelius-Hall, Järvenpää
More shows to be announced.
More information about the project and the music on the Hohka website here
Video from the demo performance in the opening ceremony of the University of the Arts August 2013 here
The third year music and dance production for the swedish speaking acting program in the Theatre Academy.
Based on the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte
Director and choreography: Jakob Höglund
Music: Stefan Johansson
Set Design: Suvituuli Saari
Lighting Design: Alexander Salvesen
Costume Design: Sofia Pantouvaki
Costume assistant: Liisa Pesonen
Wigs: Tuulia Lautamaja
Sound engineering: Björn Karlsson
Voguing instructor: Venla Vuorio
Vocal study: Kristian Nyman, Jesper Eklund
Musicians: Lotta Ahlbäck, Sarah Devoyon, Jesper Eklund, Jessica Lång
Actors: Per Magnus Barlaug, Emil Grundemo El Hayek, Jon Henriksen, Peter Hildén, Julia Högnabba, Mari-Helen Kaarre, Samuel Karlsson, Stella Laine, Elisa Makarevitch, Dennis Nylund, Amanda Nyman, Lilian Petterson, Tom Rejström
Premiere: 15.3.2014 Theatre Academy, Studio 4
Other shows 17-21.3.2014
MalliKehossa
A theatre performance discusses our relation to the naked body and the how our perception of it changes depending of the situation.
Our ideals of how the perfect body should look has also varied throughout history (and different places e.g. visual art vs. commercials etc) a lot, which also has been
one starting point for the discussion created by the performance.
Director: Anni Rainio
Lighting Design: Alexander Salvesen
Visualist: Silja Eriksson
Video: Saara Tamminen
Actors: Milla Hilke, Sami Rekola, Tanja Roiha
Performances in Oranssi RY Theatre space in Suvilahti, May 2014
Dates: 7.5, 9.5, 12.5, 13.5, 15.3 ,16.3, 18.5
2013
8×7+9 Hetkiä Elämästä
A physical theater performance combining physical theatre and dance.
Director and Sound Design: Silja Eriksson
Producer: Anni Leino
Costumes: Fanni Sillanpää
Lighting Design: Alexander Salvesen
Actors: Rosa Autio, Sanni Kallio, Elisa Keisanen, Anni Rainio
Performed in May at Metropolia, Helsinki
Raiteet Ristissä
A epic musical revue about courage, love, friendship, power, differences and finding yourself.
The story was loosely based on the finnish national epic Kalevala.
All musicians, actors and other participants were students in The University of the Arts, Helsinki
The scripts was new as was the music that composed music.
Director: Santeri Mäntylä
Dramaturgy: Lotta Ahlbäck, Kasper Korhonen, Fanni Lehto, Santeri Mäntylä, Matti Strahlendorff
Producer: Niina Alitalo
Composers: Juuso Wallin, Lotta Ahlbeck, Fanni Lehto, Santeri Mäntylä, Matti Strahlendorff
Conductor: Juuso Wallin
Lighting- and Set Design: Alexander Salvesen
Sound- and Video Design: Matti Strahlendorff
Costumes: Fanni Lehto, Santeri Mäntylä, Ensemble
Choreography: Aino Rättyä
Actors: Marika Heiskanen,Fanni Lehto, Ville Myllykoski, Jan Nyberg, Erla Pulli, Helena Puukka, Tuomas Vertanen, Meri Wallenius, Tuuli Wallenius, Aapo Wickstén
Ensemble: Eero Aakala, Jasmin Afaneh, Nea-Maria Alanko, Tytti Arola (videoactor), Sonetta Harjanne (videoactor), Anni-Kaisa Haukka, Henna Helasvuo, Lauri Grünthal, Topi Jaakkola, Anna Valpuri Kankila, Olli Erik Keskinen, Jenni Kilpi, Salla Kostamo, Maiju Lehti, Sandra Långbacka, Aura Piekkola, Susanna Rantakylä, Tuomas Seppänen, Maija Sihvola, Ella Tarvainen, Sibill Urweider, Antti Vuorenmaa, Maiju Westergård, Sanna Yliniva
Performed in November at the Chamber Music Hall, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
Blaue Frau do Paul Auster
A theatre performance about the reality of the working process making a play, all filtered through the glasses of Paul Auster and his novel City of Glass. A story where reality and fiction blend together but you don’t know when and where. This is a production by the feminist theatre group Blaue Frau.
Director: Tatu Hämäläinen
Dramaturgy: Tora von Platen
Producer: Sanna Pietilä
Actors: Sonja Ahlfors, Iida Kuningas, Joanna Wingren
Sound design: Ludvig Allén
Lighting design: Meri Ekola
Lighting design assistant, lighting technician: Alexander Salvesen
Performed in November-December at Dianascene in Helsinki, simultaneously with of Pop Up Art House.
Also performed at Mad House Theatre and Performance Festival in Helsinki, in October 2014
Blaue Frau’s webpage
2012
Paradise Ultralight
A theater play consisting of monologues from the book Paradise Ultralight by author Rosa Liksom
Directed: by the group
Lighting and Set Design: Alexander Salvesen
Lighting and Sound technician: Johan Anderssen
Actors: Kristoffer Björkström, Maria Blomqvist, Kaija Pakaslahti, Inkeri Raittila, Aldo Saari, Alexander Salvesen, Emelie Suominen, Benji Westerlund
Performed in May-June at Studentteatern i Åbo (the swedish-speaking student theatre in Turku)
Vånda i Vanda
A political and comical revue with a lot of music. The play was joking with current political situations.
Vånda i Vanda was a product of the Va’ i Helsinge?-company
Director: Frank Skog
Script: Staffan Bruun and Stefan Lundberg
Producer: Tytti Kronqvist
Musical director and piano: Håkan Wikman
Songtexts: Sixten Granroth and Frank Skog
Lighting Design: Robban Sederholm and Alexander Salvesen
Set design: Frank Skog and the group
Costume and props: Laura Karén, Rea Anner and Sari Kaipainen
Actors: Magnus Björkvall, Stig Edsvik, Mia Falkstedt, Sixten Granroth, Malle Lehikoinen, Hencca Lillhannus, Eeva Saastamoinen, Lotta Wesamaa, Håkan Wikman, Crockie Wikström
Performed in october-november at Björkhem, Vantaa and Diana, Helsinki
2011
Till Fedra
A classic greek drama by P.O. Enqvist, based on the greek legend of Phaedra.. A tragedy about about power and relations between people and their selfish desires.
The play was the main production of a one-year acting study program at Västra Nylands Folkhögskola.
This piece was also performed two times on the island of Leros, Greece and at Hangö Theatre
Festival the same year.
Director: Åsa Salvesen
Set- and Light Design: Erik Salvesen
Choreography: Annatuuli Saine
Sound Design: Ville Hukkinen
Lighting Technician and lighting design: Alexander Salvesen
Actors: Linda Alanen, Sanna Forsberg, Jon Henriksen, Fredrik Holmbom, Oliver Lehtinen, Johanna Lindholm, Jennifer Karlsson, Inkeri Raittila, Kaija Pakaslahti, Heini Rautoma, Alexander Store, Valter Sui, Anni Vainio, Viktoria Viiand
Performed in March at Tryckeriteatern in Karis, Finland
Chans
A brand new musical by Finlands Svenska Ungdomsförbund. All actors, dancers, musicians and backstage workers were picked out in an audition and all participants were young people aged from 15-20. Chans is a story about a girl, who get’s to know herself by letting go of the past and learning about herself in the new environment in the archipelago where she moves with her mother. It’s a story about finding yourself, growing up, love and insecurity. The production toured in 5 locations in swedish-speaking Finland, and one performance in Södertälje,
Stockholm Sweden.
Director: Lidia Bäck
Producer: Jonathan Fågelholm
Script: Harriet Abrahamsson
Composer: Lauri Salokoski
Singing coach: Anna Wiksten
Set Design: Ruska Schönberg
Set Design Assistant: Alexander Salvesen
Sound Design: Stanley Lönnquist
Sound Assistant: Filip Hedkrok
Lighting Design: Tobias Lönnquist
Lighting Assistant: Didrik Svahn
Costume: Carmela Wager
Costume assisant: Felicia Korpelin, Evelina Kulp
Choreography: Sebastian Wennström
Actors: Christoffer Bergman, Hanna Bondsdorff, Felicia Eriksson, Joel Forsbacka, Benjamin Gripenberg, Elisa Gustafsson, Sonia Haga, Alexander Holmlund, Vivi Laakko, Diana Lillhannus, Katarina Lindroos, , Ksenia Timoshenko, Sebastian Westergård, Benji Westerlund, Fanny Julin, Hilde Rosvik, Lukas Rusk, Alva Sandström, Emelie Sederholm, Rickhard Söderlund
Musicians: Emilia Englund, David Hellman, Rickhard Söderlund, Benji Westerlund
Dancers: Hedda Heinonen, Pia-Maria Nickström, Jenny Le, Vilma Virtanen,
Performed in summer and fall 2011
Paratiisi
Paratiisi was a play that studied and played around power structures in dictatures and other closed communities.
Director: Tuukka Jukola
Lighting Design: Alexander Salvesen
Sound Design: Marko Uuttu
Set Design: Arttu Aarnio
Costume: Aino Suvanto
Actors: Antti Ainola, Siiri Heino, Pauliina Laaksonen-Elden, Suvi Puttonen, Inkeri Raittila, Vise Sarparanta, Laura Taberman, Noora Tilas, Elina Tuominen
Performed in November at Turun Ylioppilasteatteri
2010
KALEVALA
Kalevala is the national epic of Finland.
The play was the main production of a one-year acting study program at Västra Nylands Folkhögskola.
Director: Åsa Salvesen
Set- and Lighting Design: Erik Salvesen
Sound Design: Ville Hukkinen
Choreography: Annatuuli Saine
Lighting technician: Alexander Salvesen
Actors: Rasmus Branders, Lucia Catani, Alva Ek, John Finne, Milli Hellström, Julia Högnabba, Janica Karell, Jennifer Karlsson, Tomi Korhonen, Catrine Krusberg, Johanna Lindholm, Sofia Manninen, Hanna Nordenswan, Ellen Paulig, Minerva Peijari, Elin Smedlund, Freja Stenbäck, My Ström, Irene Tuominen, Saga West, Frida Wickholm, Theres Wik