Background
Dancer’s speech
As the dance group of the Helsinki City Theatre turns 50 this year, my own professional career as a dancer is twenty years old. Of those 20 years, I have danced in the ranks of a dance company for 16. With the exception of the birth of my two children and one six-month working holiday with an artist grant, days, weeks, months and years have passed here. The home of my professional identity is here, in the dance group of the Helsinki City Theatre.
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Close-up of William Iles
Special Night's scenographer William Iles has been designing lighting and setting for dance performances for 20 years. Originally, she was supposed to study philosophy, but the spark for lighting design was born through the art of dance.
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Interview with the main actors
Dear Evan Hansen (2015) is an internationally popular musical that focuses on an anxious and lonely high school boy named Evan Hansen. At the Helsinki City Theatre, the role of Evan is alternated between Petja Pulkkinen and Julius Suominen.
Read moreAbout the set design of the play
Didn't Say Regrets The set design started from the idea of creating as spacious, empty a space as possible on the big stage, which captures the feeling of the place where the work takes place, the wilderness. As a set designer, I was fascinated by the idea of the nature of the wilderness, which is merciless and raw to the traveller in its nakedness.
Read moreAbout the sound design and music of the performance
I started designing the soundscape of No Regrets by asking myself what the compositions and sound could give to this particular work. This story contains dark themes and events, so I wanted to try to make sure that when dealing with them, the sound side would bring oxygen, lightness, beauty to the work and give the women the power to move forward.
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