Lehtovaara & Companions

29/10/2015

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Micro-network of two artists and a producer. We create and produce artistic processes and pieces in terms that are relevant for us in the moment.

30/06/2015

We have been quiet for a while, but it doesn't mean we haven't been working on things...this page wil be closed soon and move on to Spacetimelove - like the new page to keep up to date about the work of Veli Lehtovaara and Mikko Hyvönen!

12/10/2014

Barthes P.: A Lover's D. - Fragments in residency at Chateau de Monthelon, France. "Dance is movement from the hart and choreography is organizing love in time and space."

11/10/2014

Tonight and tomorrow: The theatre version of Mikko Hyvönen's Organic synthetic at Run Wild Stay Cool festival in Mousonturm, Frankfurt!

More information: http://www.mousonturm.de/web/en/veranstaltung/organic-synthetic

"I love watching trees and birds, at least the ones that are in the air. Sometimes I wish I were an animal instead of a human being, but at the same time I'm...

06/10/2014

Tonight and tomorrow: Elina Pirinen's Personal Symphonic Moment at Run Wild Stay Cool festival in Mousonturm, Frankfurt!

See more: http://www.mousonturm.de/web/en/veranstaltung/personal-symphonic-moment

Choreographer Elina Pirinen and team perform on-stage autopsies to Dimitri Šostakovitš' 7th symphony, known as the Leningrad-symphony. The performance is bor...

02/10/2014

"How does the notion of time, body, gender and sexuality comes to prominence when the media is not a book, read privately, silently and in different times, but a live performance, a group of people gathering in a theater? How need and desire is being constructed and conducted in this particular situation of being together? What are the choreographic figures of a lover's dance?"

Veli Lehtovaara’s research project on Roland Barthes’ texts continues with a residency in Chateau de Monthelon in Montréal, France. He will stay in the residency together with Masi Tiitta and Ville Ahonen from 6 to 19 October.

Read more about the project: http://lehtovaara.co/projects

Since the beginning of 2013, I’ve been reading Roland Barthes' book A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (Fragments d’un discours amoureux, 1977). Back and forth, jumping and chronologically, in different languages. Then I read The Pleasure of the text and it confirmed my desire to negotiate with Barthes'…

22/09/2014

The Run Wild Stay Cool festival in Mousonturm is just around the corner! The venue dedicates ten days to the most recent and spectacular of what Finland's dance and performance scene has to offer.

The festival presents both of our Companions: Elina Pirinen with her performance Personal Symphonic Moment on 6 and 7 October and Organic synthetic by Mikko Hyvönen on 11 and 12 October.

Other performances include Juha Valkeapää’s Executed Stories, Eeva Muilu and Milja Sarkola’s In Human Disguise and Katariina Numminen & Co’s ZOO.

See more: http://lehtovaara.co/news

Image: Timo Wright - Media Artist

28/08/2014

Lehtovaara & Companions will be present at the internationale tanzmesse nrw in Düsseldorf on 28-30 August. You can find us in the Nordic Hall together at the booth of our supporter and collaborator Zodiak – Uuden tanssin keskus / Center for New Dance (R18).

This year Zodiak is representing six choreographers / artistic collectives: Joona Halonen, Maija Hirvanen, Anna Maria Häkkinen & Jarkko Partanen, Lehtovaara & Companions, Eeva Muilu and Elina Pirinen.

You can also meet us during the meetings at Dance Info Finland's booth (daily at 13:00, R20). Bis bald!

The internationale tanzmesse, a bi-annual dance-fair in Dusseldorf, Germany, organized by GZT, Cologne

06/08/2014

Our Companion Mikko Hyvönen will perform a version of his piece Organic synthetic at indigo-Dance at PAF 2014 during the weekend of 22-24 August. More information on the dates and times soon.

indigo-Dance (i-D) Dance Festival, August 18th-24th, is a part of the extensive 4 week long Summer University at PAF this summer.

More info: http://lehtovaara.co/news

Image: Jani-Matti Salo

01/07/2014

Lehtovaara & Companions in July: Veli Lehtovaara continues his research: B. Project: A Lover’s D. – Fragments in collaboration with Chrysa Parkinson, Ville Ahonen, Masi Tiitta, Salka Ardal Rosengren, Mikko Hynninen and Timo Wright. Short stays coming up in Finland and Belgium.

"How does the notion of time, body, gender and sexuality comes to prominence when the media is not a book, read privately, silently and in different times, but a live performance, a group of people gathering in a theater? How need and desire is being constructed and conducted in this particular situation of being together? What are the choreographic figures of a lover's dance?"

More on http://lehtovaara.co/works

23/06/2014

In co-operation with Mousonturm, Zodiak – Uuden tanssin keskus / Center for New Dance and Tanssin Tiedotuskeskus-Dance Info Finland organise a Finnish Festival in Frankfurt on 4-12 October 2014.

The festival programme includes our Companions: Elina Pirinen’s Personal Symphonic Moment and Mikko Hyvönen's Organic synthetic.

The full programme of the event will be released later this summer / early autumn.

See more on http://lehtovaara.co/news

Image: Timo Wright - Media Artist