When: Aug 9, 2010 1:00 pm
DON’T TELL THIS TO MOOMIN. THIS IS A SURPRISE!
Dancing Moominvalley Shanghai EXPO Crossmedia Artwork celebrates the Birthdays of Moomintroll and artist Tove Jansson
Moominvalley is dancing. The Moomins dance, their friends dance, even nature itself dances and makes the Moominvalley inhabitants dance, also in China. Dance Theatre MD, Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley, Heikki Mäenpää & Moominvalley Orchestra, Moomin Characters Ltd and Moomin Friends association with their partners bring glimpses of Finnish culture aimed for the whole family to Shanghai EXPO. These events will be a part of Cultural Programme Finland at World EXPO 2010.
The three day events timed on artist Tove Jansson’s birthday contains concerts and contemporary dance at the Expo area, Europe square. Finnish pavilion serves as the meeting place for Moomin experts from all over the world. A Digigraphie replica exhibition which depicts among other things movement and dance in Tove Jansson’s art is opened in the Conference and VIP area of the of the Finnish pavilion. The original pieces of art can be seen in Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley.
Dancing Moominvalley Shanghai EXPO programme
EUROPE SQUARE
Shows August 9th-11th 2010
9th, 10th & 11th August, 1pm
Heikki Mäenpää & MOOMINVALLEY ORCHESTRA with Dance Theatre MD:
MUSICAL LANDSCAPES FROM DANCING MOOMINVALLEY -Concerts for the Whole Family
Composed and created by: Heikki Mäenpää
Music and movement inspired by the Art of Tove Jansson. What will happen when Snufkin plays his harmonica and his best friend Moomintroll playes the double bass? That will be seen when Moomin Family and their friends sing and dance with the musicians and the audience.
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9th, 10th & 11th August, 7 pm
Dance Theatre MD:
DANCING MOOMINVALLEY -Contemporary Dance Theatre Performance
Choreography by Samuli Roininen, music by Heikki Mäenpää
Based on Tove Jansson’s book “The Tales from the Moominvalley”, The Dancing Moominvalley is a family dance adventure that begins with Snufkin’s search for his missing spring tune. The versatile Dancing Moominvalley ensemble leads the audience into a magical place of searching, learning and life’s little and big wonders.
The performance opens Jansson’s well known themes: invisibility, otherness and difference.
Visually spectacular, fully composed contemporary dance piece for the whole family has a new approach to the moomins but the themes are familiar to all of us who have read the books.
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TOVE JANSSON DIGIGRAPHIE ARTS DANCING MOOMINVALLEY SHANGHAI EXPO-EXHIBITION
August 9th – 25th in the Conference and VIP area of the of the Finnish pavilion
