{"id":11724,"date":"2025-10-08T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kummamuseo.fi\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:35:54","slug":"animalbeings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kummamuseo.iwn.co\/en\/animalbeings\/","title":{"rendered":"Juha Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4: Animal beings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Juha Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4: Animal beings
Sat 20.9. 2025\u00a015\u201316
Sat 10.1. 2026 15\u201316
Sun 11.1. 2026 15\u201316
KUMMA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animal beings<\/em> is a non-verbal and verbal performance by artist Juha Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4. It invites the audience to reflect on, imagine, and experiment with what it means to exist in the world from the perspective of nonhuman animals. In the performance, Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4\u2019s voice, body, and movement, along with poems, performance instructions, and soundscapes turn the entire theatre building \/ museum space into a stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture: Mara Predicatori.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With a light and playful touch, Animal Beings<\/em> shifts our gaze toward other animals and explores how all living and non-living beings are interconnected and interdependent. The core of the work is formed by vocalizations \u2014 both wordless and with words \u2014 and performance instructions that are carried out together with the audience. Most of the poems featured are from Eeva Kilpi\u2019s Animalia<\/em>, alongside texts by Anni Kyt\u00f6m\u00e4ki, Sirpa Kyyr\u00f6nen, Henriikka Tavi, and excerpts from Eva Meijer\u2019s Animal Languages<\/em>. Performed in Finnish and\/or English, the piece is suitable for all ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture: Mara Predicatori.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Script, direction, performance<\/strong>: Juha Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4
Lighting and spatial design<\/strong>: Jenni Pystynen
Dramaturgical assistance and English translation of poems<\/strong>: Heidi Soidinsalo
Costume:<\/strong> Tero Nauha and JV
Fictional texts<\/strong>: Eeva Kilpi, Matsuo Bash\u00f5, William Blake, Anni Kyt\u00f6m\u00e4ki, Sirpa Kyyr\u00f6nen, W. S. Merwin, Maila Pylkk\u00f6nen, Henriikka Tavi, Suomen kansan vanhat runot (The Ancient Runo-songs of the Finnish People)
Other texts:<\/strong> Eva Meijer, JV
Production:<\/strong> Juha Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4\u2019s Voice
Support:<\/strong> Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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