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TOMI PAASONENChoreographer, director and multimedia artist, based in Berlin and born in Helsinki, Finland. He shares his time making pieces for KUNST-STOFF, a multimedia dance- and art production company he co-founded in San Francisco in 1998 and directing stage art, creating choreographic structures, making video installations, interactive works, photography and teaching dance in Europe where he operates under the name PAA (Public Artistic Affairs).Tomi Paasonen bridges avant-guard experimentalism, staged documentary, device methods, individual expression and conceptual thinking with technical awareness. He has developed interactive visual art concepts and choreographic improvisation methods that can be used universally by dancers from different kinds of backgrounds. Read detailed biography Ausführlicher Lebenslauf Photo Portraits |
CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTSNO TIME FOR REVOLUTIONPremiere: Monologue festival 14.-17.10. Theaterdiscounter Klosterstraße 44 // D – 10179 Berlin Tickets: info@theaterdiscounter.de / +49 (30) 28 09 30 62 Tomi Paasonen (direction) and Heiko Senst (performance) knit like Wilde on unknown fabrics, end up in knots over old ideas and are looking for a way out of their own tangles. "No Time for Revolution" is based on Oscar Wilde's essay "The soul of man under Socialism", written in 1891. We'll ensnarl our audience in nostalgic future visions, embed them in cosy rebellion through uncoordinated cooperation and anti-radical individualism. How much time is left for revolution? TRAUMFÄDEN - DREAM THREADS Premiere: 28.-30.10.2010 Theatre Rambazamba, Kulturbrauerei, House 7, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg Tickets: 030 4373 5744 A new piece for the Berlin-based mentally disabled/integrated theatre group RAMBAZAMBA. This dance-theatre piece with live video installation is based on the dream worlds of the performers, creating imagery, dramaturgy and situations that emerge from the performers' own tails, their subconscious wishes and nightmares. THE LID A piece by Ayman Harper (Choreography), Tomi Paasonen (Concept, Set- and Costume Design) and Matmos (Live Music) has its premiere at Mousonturm - Frankfurt 10.-12.12.2010 and further performances at HAU3 - Berlin 15.-18.12.2010. A conceptual material study deconstructs the relation of music and movement and the process of hearing and seeing. NOTHING TO DECLARE A chamber opera for one singer and the +ensemble, composed by Perttu Haapanen scheduled to premiere at the small stage of the Finnish National Opera House in Helsinki, February 2011. The protagonist and members of the +ensemble meander in an abandoned empty office space, with some left over fragmented items related to business activity, bureaucracy and a long forgotten attempted restoration. A stained wall-to-wall carpet covers the floor, under which the performers may crawl. It has marks of removed office furniture, cubicle dividers, separating emptiness, a few left-behind vacation post-cards and post-its notes lay scattered, A broken digital wall clock blinks 0:00. An old calendar, which dates are changed by the protagonist according to his needs, beside the egg-timer, various paper piles, some empty boxes and an old rotary telephone with cut cords. A fax machine spits out sporadic ghostly messages... MONOGRAM - a signature piece A new piece for 4 dancers, based on the award-winning solo piece from 2009, is scheduled to premiere at Zodiak - Centre for New Dance in Kaapelitehdas - Helsinki, May 2011. This piece takes the dancers' own name, handwriting and signature as a premise to develop a choreography that is an extension of each particular dancer's movement identity. Our signature is a minimal choreography we repeat daily to prove our identity, as it is regarded as singularly individual and authentic. Through transcribing these patterns choreographically, we play with the paradox of solidifying our identity through movement, which by definition constitutes flux, change, continuum and fluidity. Vol.at.ilit.y Planned premiere in the fall of 2011, as part of the Turku Cultural Capital 2011 Programme. Vol.at.ilit.y is a staged media dance installation that explores water as connective element and its molecular shifts: from liquid to ice and vapor. Using water in its different states, both as stage elements, source for musical composition and as a metaphor regarding the human mental bonds towards each other, this piece will melt science, technology, nature and art and freeze them into a poetic experience. |
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