2 Women – 23 Years – 23 Countries – 10,000 Shows – 5 Broken bones – 2,000 Dickheads – 1 Cancelled show. An autobiographical show of two women’s wild joyride through two decades in the world of circus arts. Told with warmth, humour, and dizzying acrobatics, this show invites the audience to share the highs and lows of a life in showbusiness. From the glitz and glamour to the countless hours of practice, the blood, the sweat and the tears.
Beyond the hard times, though, this story celebrates the inspiration that live performance can offer to audiences and a friendship between two women that has stood the test of time.
Information
Venue: Punkshangaren, Albyvägen 38 (opposite Hangaren)
Date: Wednesday 18 September at 18:00
Performance length: 65 minutes
Tickets: book here
Questions? Contact Punkshangaren: punksstage@gmail.com
About the artists
Lotta Paavilainen and Stina Kopra are award- winning performers who began working together bon the Rola-Bola in 2001 while working with a youth circus in Finland. They spent three years perfecting their technique at the prestigious and demanding École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque in Brussels, graduating in 2008. They are the only female duo in the world practicing Rola-Bola acrobatics. Despite being told that they are too short, too fat, too this or too that to do what they do, they have spent twenty years proving the doubters wrong.
Team 20 Years Later, Still Here!
Performance and Creation: Lotta Paavilainen & Stina Kopra
Co-Directors and Devising: Heidi Niemi, Troels Hagen Findsen
Costume Design: Enna Paavilainen
Light Design: Vilma Vantola
Sound Design: Satu Kankkonen, Palle Nothlev