Performance Portfolio
Performance Portfolio showcases both completed and upcoming commissioned works as well as future co-productions that Silence Organisation will continue to prioritize.
Silence Organisation has collaborated with over 600 artists, creating numerous premieres in both performing arts and music. The organisation has developed significant expertise and skills, particularly in the creation of site-specific works, which we aim to further cultivate in the context of commissioned pieces and co-productions.
The activities of the organisation are guided by its defined core missions.
Please if you’re keen to hear more about the performances contact info(at)hiljaisuusfestivaali.fi
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Inertia
A new circus performance by Jani Nuutinen. Inertia explores the relationship between humanity and nature. The piece highlights the importance of symbiosis and reflects on humanity's role in balancing the energies of its environment.
Artist: Jani Nuutinen
Composition and live music:
Isabelle Deproit
David Hermon
Guilhem Lacroux
Premier: June 2026 - Silence festival.
Ready on tour 2026
Duration: 60min
Audience: +10 age
Commissioned by the Silence Organisation
Photo: Philippe Laurençon
Whispering story
The poetic vertical dance performance Whispering story is a show about the beauty, fragility, wavering, and gradual breaking of life. A person as part of nature, in a fleeting moment. The performance is based on poems by Maiju-Sofia Pitkänen
The performer, initiator of the movement material and concept, and producer of the piece is circus artist and dancer Heidi Miikki. The director and co-developer of the concept is dance artist and choreographer Kira Riikonen. Visual artist Kukka Pitkänen is responsible for the stage design, with her artworks, serving as set pieces, bringing a sense of nature, roots, and plants into the space. The sound design is created by Jani Orbinski.
Artist: Heidi Miikki, circus and vertical dance
Working group: Heidi Miikki, Kira Riikonen, Jani Orbinski
Premier: 2026
Circus discipline: Vertical dance
Duration: 60min
Audience: +12 age
Facilities: One aerial rigging point on middle state, stage high minimum 4m, floor 8m*8m
Co-production with Silence organisation
COMMISSIONED BY THE SILENCE ORGANISATION
TAIVO
Two selves, small and big, together weave a thread of life that twists and grows, tightens and sprouts. Who am I today, already different or still the same? Taivo is an acrobatic concert of something very intimate, the self.
Taivo explores the interfaces between sound and movement, the origins of human expression, the tension and relief of contrasts. The vibration of play and the hum of life resound in Bach sequences and aerial acrobatics knots.
Artists:
Heini Koskinen, circus, Hanna Pakkala, viola
Premier: 2023
Discipline: Aerial acrobatics and classical music
Duration: 30min
Audience: +5 age
Facilities: One aerial rigging point
PACEMAKER
Circus artist Marcelo Nunes has created a fateful work in which his alter ego struggles with conflicting forces that tear him apart. The dancer, who straddles the line between holiness and irreverence, transforms into a grotesque clown who whispers his desires in the ear of the spectator.
In his solo work, Brazilian-born Marcelo Nunes creates a contradictory and twisted reality in which the ancient symbols of high and low play games around the theme of love. Fakirism, rarely used in contemporary circus shows, takes centre stage in this new work.
Artist: Marcelo Nuner
Premier: 2023
Duration: 40min
Discipline: Fakirism
Audience: +10 age
KUULUUKO, HUOJUNKO
Kuuluuko, huojunko is Jenny Mansikkasalo's solo performance with aerial silk. The performance tells a story of being seen and taking up space.
Mansikkasalo approaches the subject with the idea that there are layers to being seen, to being human, that can be peeled away or conversely worn as protection. Beneath these layers, perhaps, lies a vulnerability that has had to be hidden along the way.
Artist: Jenny Mansikkasalo
Premier: 2024
Duration: 40min
Discipline: Aerial
Audience: +10 age
Facilities: One aerial rigging point
PISAROITA IHOLLA
Drops on the Skin is a playful contemporarycircus piece in which water and touch are thematically juxtaposed as natural forces that are essential to life, but also dangerous. Both water and touch are omnipresent in different forms. Small drops, tears, splashes and even the lightest stroke are vital to us.
Nelli Kujansivu approaches the themes of the performance through foot juggling and circus.
The Stockholm-based Finnish circus artist combines different styles and several genres in her art. The music is composed by accordionist Harri Kuusijärvi.
Artist: Nelli Kujansivu
Premier: 2023
Duration: 30min
Discipline: Foot juggling
Audience: +10 age
TROPISMO
Tropismo is a solo work by Carla Carnerero, which examines the human emotions hidden inside us and the sensations generated by our environment. Emotions and experiences are absorbed into and expressed through our bodies. They form a narrative that we can tell with body movements and gestures only recognised by another person.
Carnerero has done extensive research on diabolo techniques for this work.
Artist: Carla Carnerero
Premier: 2024
Duration: 40min
Audience: +10 age
Discipline: Diabolo