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“OLOTILA” – "STATE OF BEING" World Premier September 13th 2000 Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki, Finland 100 minutes A dance-theatre piece in two acts with handicapped and professional dancers. “OLOTILA” was awarded as “Theatre Event of the Year 2000”, a price annually given by the Theatre Centre in Finland. Watch video trailer, 02'31 (Quicktime) Performance photos Reviews in English Kritiken auf Deutsch Arvostelut Suomeksi  Tour/Tech/Promo.pdf |
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“ENDLESS” World Premiere September 1st 2000 Burning Man Festival, Heart Playground Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA 45 minutes “ENDLESS” was commissioned by the Burning Man Festival as center-piece for the Heart Installation. Watch photos |
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“SWANSONG” World Premiere April 27th 2000 Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, USA 40 minutes "SWANSONG" explores the concept of nostalgia through the lens of classical ballet, in which nostalgia becomes a haven where we hide in times of change and uncertainty. Dual video projections, created by Mr. Paasonen and David Jude Thomas, create a frame of polarity where universes natural and artificial, old and new, vast and infinitesimal collide. A complex audio tapestry includes classical ballet music that has been electronically altered and woven into a composition that is simultaneously futuristic, organic, and classical. Watch video trailer, 02'33 (Quicktime) Watch photos from piece Watch images from exhibition |
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“OBSCENES” World Premiere June 17th 2000 Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, USA 13 minutes “OBSCENES”, commissioned by the Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival, is a work in which collage-like scenes are woven into an entity suggesting different aspects of the same-sexual experience. Watch 'Bach Duet' in full lenght, 02'54 (Quicktime) Watch photos |
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“STAR-STRUCK” World Premiere November 5th 1999 Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, USA 7 minutes A childlike night flight full of longing, discovery, jealousy, naïve oblivious cruelty and loss. Watch full length video documentation, 06'28 (Quicktime) Watch photos |
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“DEEPENDS” World Premiere September 3rd 1999 Burning Man Festival, Wheel of Time Funeral Procession of the 20th Century Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA 25 minutes Commissioned by Burning Man Festival for 'The Wheel of Time', a circular row of 12 performances in 6 hours. We made it rain in the desert! Watch photos |
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“TUBE 58” World Premiere March 26th 1999 Brady Street Theater, San Francisco, USA 80 minutes A full length futuristic dance play, where once upon a time in zone 6, section 42C, department Y, level B4, unit 8664 when Poika was 13, he was put on the life-time gene manipulation program ‘Fountain of Youth’ to live an eternal pre-programmed virtual life. But something went terribly wrong. Stop! Rewind, pause… fast-forward delete! Playtime. Watch photos Read review in English |
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“DESTINATION DREAMLAND” World Premiere December 18th 1998 Brady Street Theater, San Francisco, USA 45 minutes The piece encompasses elements of opera, musical theater, ballet, children’s songs and nursery rhymes. Using live singers, musicians and dancers, the spectator follows Shirley on a torturous escape into the land of her dreams, only to get lost in the dark labyrinth of love and incest. Watch photos |
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“Mega Hz” World Premiere December 18th 1998 Brady Street Theater, San Francisco, USA 22 minutes This exploration of isolation and miscommunication in the fast-paced, channel-surfing digital age, will feature a crowded collage of telephonic sounds, radio waves and electronic music, bringing a heightened sense of disassociation, disruption and frenzy. Watch video trailer, 02'12 (Quicktime) Watch photos |
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“X” World Premiere July 11th 1998 Theater Artaud, San Francisco, USA 21 minutes A ballet about ballet, that SF Examiner dance critic Allan Ulrich cited among the top ten works of 1998 and named Paasonen as one of the "new choreographers to watch". Watch video trailer, 04'54 (Quicktime) Watch photos Read reviews in English |
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“CLOSE” World Premiere June 20th 1998 Fort Bragg Auditorium, Mendocino, USA 7 minutes In this Pas De Trois with two dancers and a black box we witness a brief yet close encounter between a curious sniffer and a closeted dweller. Watch photos |
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“TUBE 57” World Premiere June 6th 1998 Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts, San Francisco, USA 70 minutes A surrealistic dance play about so many things i can't even begin to tell ya! Time-emiT, buy time, buy information, uniform world of endless impossibilities, and keeps looping again as time flies, oh no it's happening again, so long.. |
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“WAVELENGTH” World Premiere January 23rd 1998 Brady Street Theater, San Francisco, USA 10 minutes Odd toddlers clicking through the channels of our lives. NEXT!! |
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“FAR AND CLOUD” World Premiere October 24th 1997 Athenaeum Theater, Chicago, USA 12 minutes An exhausting urban fairy tale, with an alienated fairy chasing tap dancing princes in dresses and stick horses. Investigations of the matter take on forms of dictatorial dance-attacks, local isolation and strange encounters with convenient solutions. Watch photos |
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“THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY” – DREAM SEQUENCE World Premiere March 31st 1997 Bailiwick Repertory Theater, Chicago, USA 15 minutes Commissioned for the 3-act-play after Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” at Chicago's Bailwick Repertory Theatre, this act 2 dream scene depicts Dorian Gray in his period of decadence, leading into manipulative abuse and decay. |
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“WHILE WAITING” World Premiere April 20th 1995 Cowell Theater, San Francisco, USA 25 minutes Test results. People in a hospital waiting room, waiting, greedy anxiety, facing confrontations, lost apathy, expectations of drama... ...and avoiding the choices that lead them here. Read review in English |
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“STILLE NACHT” – "SILENT NIGHT" World Premiere December 19th 1993 Kampnagel Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany 35 minutes A high stress single mother at mcdonalds kind-of-a high-trash bibel-kitsch love-hate gore-out. Watch photos Read review / Kritik lesen |
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“AUS SELMAS NOTITZBUCH” "FROM SELMA’S NOTEBOOK" World Premiere March 30th 1992 Kampnagel Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany 25 minutes A trivial love triangle set to noise of household paraphernalia and environmental sounds. Read review / Kritik lesen |
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“PROPER” World Premiere May 24th 1991 Kampnagel Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany 22 minutes A clean feminist satire set to Piazzolla tangos. Read reviews / Kritiken lesen |
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