Script, direction and choreography Samuli Roininen
Script, composing and sound design Heikki Mäenpää
Performers 2022 Joel Alalantela, Klaara Haapanen, Sara Kovamäki (guest), Liisa Laihia (guest), Oona Leinonen (guest) and Samuli Roininen
Costume design and visual realization Carmela Wager
Projection and visual realization Sanna Malkavaara
Lighting design Sari Mayer
Stage manager Matias Palo
Set realization Matias Palo, Riina Kuusisto (intern)
Costume realization Osk Työhuone Hengari
Wigs and hats Anni Hiro
Orchestra Heikki Mäenpää & Muumilaakso Orchestra (Finland), in co-operation with Ringing Bells Rondo Club (Japan)
Logo design Ville-Veikko Heinonen
Research, consultant and lecturer Elina Bonelius, Sirke Happonen
Special Advisor Panu Raninen
Photos Ari Ijäs
Production Dance Theatre MD and executive producer Heikki Mäenpää
Poster and brochure Adfab Advertising Agency
In co-operation EPSON, Moomin Characters Ltd, the Moominvalley of the Tampere Art Museum, Harjula Production Ltd and Muumien ystävät -yhdistys Myy ry.
Performance rights Agency North / Suomen Näytelmäkirjailijat ja Käsikirjoittajat, ©Moomin Characters™.
Based on Tove Jansson’s book The Tales from the Moominvalley
Photo: Ari Ijäs
On Tour 2022
Technical information
Setup time 10 h | setdown time 2 h
Required space 10 x 10 m
Tour ensemble 9 persons
Available on tour also PEEKS INTO THE DANCING MOOMINVALLEY
Peeks into the Dancing Moominvalley is an interactive little sister of the whole 50 minute long contemporary dance theatre piece.
Comments
“This is no mere dancing hippo. Rather it is the lovely national treasure of Finland!”
“The multimedia dance play adapts Tove Jansson’s The Tales from the Moominvalley. The Finnish classic is given a family friendly contemporary dance makeover and won a Shanghai EXPO 2010 Culture Award.”