PORTTITEATTERI: TRACES - A Documentary Performance About the Memory of Our Bodies

Porttiteatteri is a community theatre for released prisoners, people with criminal backgrounds, and professional artists.

PORTTITEATERI:

TRACES - A Documentary Performance About the Memory of Our Bodies

TRACES is Porttiteatteri's documentary work about the bodies of released prisoners and people with criminal backgrounds who have endured hardship and carry the marks of life on the road. It is a performance about beating hearts, scars and wounds, but also about strength, pleasure and care. How does one dare to lean on another? How does one fall and rise again? The performance is a journey. It is a slap in the face to mythical heroes, to those who return home.

Porttiteatteri is a community theatre for released prisoners, people with criminal backgrounds, and professional artists. Its documentary performances can be seen as social statements in which the world is viewed through the eyes of released prisoners.

Direction: Rosa-Maria Perä and the creative team

Music dramaturgy: Sanna Salmenkallio

Choreography: Ninu Lindfors

Videos and photographs: Ville Tanttu

Light design: Riikka Karjalainen

Costumes: Anna Sinkkonen

Porttiteatteri community worker: Noora Siljander

Production: Porttiteatteri and STOA

Language: Finnish
Genre: documentary theatre
Venue: Theatre hall