PERFORMANCES
Animal Being (2021-2022)





”Let’s roll up our sleeves
and be smooth
and wicked.”
Redreaming of kinship with our fellow creatures
as uncles and cows
Animal Being is an investigation that takes a closer look at our connection with other animals, in relation to human development and growth.
Animal Being drops into the conversation and the experience between the human and animal world, and again deeper into the struggles for freedom, ethical surrealities and surges of wild vitality.
Animal Being, a performance, envelops us in these odd, often invisible dramas with humour, reminiscence and the gentle question: might there be other ways?
Performance, concept: Jonna Lehto
Light design and spatial design: Sofia Palillo
Sound design: Bráulio Bandeira
Costume design: Moa Larsdotter Persson
Sound technician: Riku-Pekka Kellokoski
artistic dialogue: Jenni Kokkomäki, Pia Lindy, Virpi Alise Koskela, Georgie Goater
Filming and sound recording: Michel Nader Sayún
Video: Jenni Kokkomäki
Photos: Visa Knuuttila
Supported by: Taiteen edistämiskeskus, Helsingin kaupunki, Pohjoismainen kulttuurikeskus
Performed in Pixelache Helsinki 2021 Festival and in April 2022 at Oranssi Cultural Center.
Katras (2021-2022)





An urban flock, a dance between four performers of diverse embodiments, encountering each other and their surroundings through movement, a score, spontaneity and listening. Following what emerges in the space of togetherness, the dance is always new. Co-composed from histories and the present moment, Kellokoski’s playful sound accompanies the casual suspense and timeless ease of the glimmering urban flock.
Performed in Espoo-päivä, Tapiola 2021 & 2022 ja Liikkumisen riemua kaikille! Vammaisten päivän aamutilaisuus, Helsingin kaupungintalo, 2021, Helsinki Päivä 2022, Joensuun Parafest 2022.
Concept: Sally Davison
Performers: Siiri Tiilikka, Jonna Lehto, Kadar Khristan, Georgie Goater
Sound: Riku-Pekka Kellokoski
Photos: Jussi Ulkuniemi, Anu Päivinen
Re: (2020)





Re: is a performance that looks into the experience of memory
is a common ground yet a celebration of individuality
creates a space for details that can be recognized
blurs the line between a truth and a lie
is an imprinted landscape on the skin
is an invitation to you by five artists
Performers: Folke Narin, Ruben Nagore, Jonna Lehto, Annimaria Koivunen
Anna Jaanisoo
Performed in August 2020 at Tervasaari Amphitheatre, Helsinki.
Photos: Ilmari Fabritius
Losing the Concept(s) of Self – but Still Talking (2020)

001 IMOUS – Teknoshamanistinen pikkujouluistunto (2017)
Losing the Concept(s) of Self – but Still Talking and 001 IMOUS – Teknoshamanistinen pikkujouluistunto are parts of The Autopsy of Democracy performance trilogy led by artists Teemu Päivinen and Jenni Kokkomäki from the theatre company Pluckhouse. The Autopsy of Democracy is investigating the death of democracy and it`s cause. During 2017-2020 the working group extended an anarcho-carnivalistic gaze upon the core elements which democracy is supposedly based on. Does such a system truly based on equality of rights and operation exist, or is democracy rather a textual wrapping paper for a less flattering order?
Photos: Jenni Kokkomäki
We rise at eight (2019)
Video by Jenni Kokkomäki. Galleria Huuto, Helsinki 2019.
Videos: Jenni Kokkomäki
Music: Miro Mantere
Performers: Akseli Aittomäki, Ida Backer, Alena Dittrichová, Suvi Hänninen, Hanna Iitti, Timo Jokitalo, Jenni Kokkomäki, Aarni Korpela, Jonna Lehto, Miro Mantere, Minja Mertanen, Teemu Päivinen and Juha Sääski
Butoh instructor: Minja Mertanen
In addition to Kokkomäki, the videos were filmed by Jonna Lehto and Teemu Päivinen.
Höyhentämö – Pluckhouse took part in the production of the video.
Oiva Avio (2019)




Performers: Annimaria Koivunen, Paula Kovanen, Jonna Lehto, Hanna Saari, Denisa Snyder
Sound design: Timo Tikka
Director: Anna Jaanisoo
Photos: Anna Jaanisoo
Lentua Kollektiivi 19






Mikään ei ole tavanomaista, ei ole takkia, jonka taskuja on kolunnut vuosikaudet.
Paloja vai kokonaisuuksia?
Puut ei muuta.”
Lentua Kollektiivi 19 is a working group of 3 dance artists who were sent to a island residency at Lentua Nature Reserve organised by Kuhmo Dance Festival Joutsentanssi 2019. Performance Something is missing from the picture was created out of that experience.
Concept and performers: Sanna Fromm, Riina Hannuksela, Jonna Lehto
Light design: Tuomas Laitinen
Technics: Elmeri Kinnunen
Photos: Jonna Lehto, Ia Samoil (stage photos)
Patella – floating bone (2018-19)





– performers
Patella – floating bone is a performative artwork created in collaboration with the KAAOS company by dance artist Georgie Goater (NZ) and theatre artist Elina Sarno (FI), originally as their dissertation work at Theatre Academy Helsinki. A curious array of objects and materials immerse the shared space between performers and audience, suspending hyper-textures of unique qualities in sound, body, light, voice, object and movement. The materiality of each difference is a feast for the senses, equally dissolving the notion of difference itself. Hypnotic and playful, Patella – floating bone welcomes you as you are, and invites you to enter the calls of your sense responses.
Scenographic design by Ia Ensterä, lighting design by Sofia Palillo and sound design by Georgie Goater. Performed in Move Fest Košice 2019, Slovakia and Theatre Academy, Helsinki 2018.
Photos: Diana Dobrescu, Aapo Juusti
TRAILER
LUDE ja puremia kolmessa ajassa (2018)





Screenplay and direction: Anna Jaanisoo
Composition: Annimaria Koivunen
Choreography: Jonna Lehto
Costume design: Aino Simola
Set design: Helena Okkonen
Photos and projections: Ilmari Fabritius
Lighting design: Jorma Tapola
Sound technician: Tanu Kallio
Production: Pauliina Alanko, Katariina Saarela
Performers: Aki Haikonen, Emmi Hatjasalo, Toni Jyvälä, Annimaria Koivunen and Jonna Lehto
Choir: Ilari Ahtiainen, Heli Hakala, Topi Hurtig, Kristiina Laire, Lumi Lehtonen, Erkki Leinonen, Timo Nousiainen, Katariina Saarela, Jaana Salomäki, Merja Suutala
Pond (2017-18)




We float, we give in to the water, we get heavy, in the water, waterlike.
Kaaos Company’s performance Pond is a collaboration between choreographer Maija Mustonen and designer Erno Aaltonen. Pond premiered in the programme of Mad House Helsinki in January 2017. Since then it has been performed at ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, 2017 and List án Landamæra Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2018.
Working group
Performance and choreography: Sally Davison, Georgie Goater, Jonna Lehto, Gunilla Sjövall, Sanna Valkeapää, Noora Västinen
Performance concept and direction: Maija Mustonen
Lightning and sound design: Erno Aaltonen
Lightning design in Kuopio: Sofia Palillo
Costume design: Venla Korvenmaa
Costume consultation: Laura Haapakangas
Producer: Riikka Thitz
Production: Kaaos Company
In collaboration with Mad House Helsinki, Hotelli Korpilampi & Ruohonjuuri
Supported by Kone foundation, City of Espoo
Photos: Saara Autere, Pekka Mäkinen
TRAILER
Uneksivat puut (2017)





Dramaturgy and directing: Mira Laine
Choreography: Mirva Keski-Vähälä
Costume design: Reija Stenius
Puppets made by Anna Sucksdorff
Sound design: Riku-Pekka Kellokoski
Light design: Jari Piitulainen
Performers: Jonna Lehto, Satu Wiinikka, Outi Ivaska, Tommi Rikkinen, Petra Haapio, Riku-Pekka Kellokoski
Original translation: Soile Kaukoranta
Graphic design: Mark Ståhle
Photos: Reija Stenius, Mikko Keski-Vähälä
Vaelluksia Lähiöissä-Tracing Suburbia (2017)








Artists:
choreographer Pia Lindy,
photographer-Community artist
Annuska Dal Maso,
musician Olli Kari,
dance artists
Jonna Lehto and Heini Nukari
Photos by Annuska Dal Maso from site-specific performance Pitkin Poikin with Musician Olli Kari, Jakomäki, Helsinki.
www.tracingsuburbia.com
La Famiglia – I know I put it somewhere (2016)




How we are linked and tied to each other, how we communicate and express ourselves inside this small but big unit, what is the sense of separation that occurs in oneself as an outsider in the family, how do we see the world through the values absorbed in the family. Or do we break those habits and values?
The performance is a collaboration with artist Ragnheiður Maísól Sturludóttir and costume designer Moa Larsdotter Persson.
Direction, performance: Jonna Lehto
Stage design: Ragnheiður Maísól Sturludóttir (IS)
Costume design: Moa Larsdotter Persson (DK)
Sound design: Juhani Saari
Lighting design: Juha Sääski
Artistic support: Pia Lindy, Jenni Kokkomäki
Photos: Visa Knuuttila, Jan Ahlstedt
The performance has been supported by Nordic Culture Point and City of Helsinki Cultural Office.
Raksa – Tanssia työmaalla (2016)





Direction, concept and scenography: Reija Stenius
Choreography: Mirva Keski-Vähälä
Producing: Johanna Raaste and Yusuf Albekoglu
Dance: Sally Davison, Mirva Keski-Vähälä, Jonna Lehto, Terhi Lilja and Reija Stenius
Sound design and music: Riku-Pekka Kellokoski
Poster and photography: Mikko Keski-Vähälä
Webpage, program and video: Bastian Salmela
www.tanssiaraksalla.wordpress.com/teos/
TRAILER
Chinese Whispers (2016-17)




Dancers: Jonna Lehto, Gunilla Sjövall
Choreography/Costume design: Sally Davison
Sound design: Juhani Saari
Production: Kaaos Company, DanceAbility Finland ry
Photos: Ismo Helén
Ha Blah Wah (2015)




Dancers: Sally Davison, Jonna Lehto, Veikko Mattsson, Juha Nikkinen, Juhani Saari, Mirja Sormunen
Costumes: Reija Stenius
Sound design: Juhani Saari
Video: Sally Davison
Photos: Reija Stenius, Ismo Helén
Producer: Emma Susi
Tuotanto/Produced by: DanceAbility Finland ry ja Suomen CP Liitto ry, Päivätoiminta Supported by: Helsingin kaupunki/Kulke
TRAILER
REHEARSAL
Philosophical Garden (2015)



Philosophical Garden- Audiovisual Installation with Live Art was a collaboration between Finnish and Icelandic artists in Akureyri in Northern Iceland. Working group created an audiovisual installation and organised a live art happening in Gallery Deiglan. In the opening event Kaaos Company presented an excerpt from their piece InfloreSense and also performed in the Botanical Garden of Akureyri.
Curator: Mari Krappala
Visual art: Laura Miettinen
E-mail Conversation piece: Mari Krappala, Karl Guðmundsson
Fabric installation: Rosa Juliusdottir and Karl Guðmunðsson
Costume design: Jonna Jónborg Sigurðardóttir and Brynhildur Kristìnsdóttir
Kaaos Company performers: Mirva Keski-Vähälä, Jonna Lehto, Gunilla Sjövall, Silke Schönfleisch, Lau Lukkarila
Kaaos Company artistic director: Sally Davison
Photos: Sally Davison
INfloreSense (2014)




Concept & choreography: Sally Davison
Production: DanceAbility Finland ry
Producer: Emma Susi
Dancers: Jonna Lehto, Laura Lukkarila, Silke Schönfleisch, Gunilla Sjövall, Mirva Keski-Vähälä
Guardian: Jussi Ratia
Costume design & photo: Reija Stenius & Sally Davison
Video: Sini Haapalinna
Sound & music: Antonio Alemanno
Supported by: Taiteen Edistämiskeskus, Kulttuuriyhdistys Suomen Eucrea ry
TRAILER
DOCUMENTATION
Duettoja Välittämisestä (2014)








4 Duets were: Jonna Lehto & Johanna Tujula, Jonna Lehto & Tuula Sarivaara, Heini Nukari & Jaana Herttua sekä Heini Nukari & Petri Rovio
The project was led by dancer, choreographer Pia Lindy.
Photography: Annuska Dal Maso
Production: Johanna Fredriksson
Pulla Kuuppanen (2014)


Link for the Silent short film for the performance
Performed and filmed by Jonna Lehto
Edited by Visa Knuuttila
Photos: Jan Ahlstedt
FACILITATION&DIRECTION
DanceAbility Finland
Since the year 2015 Jonna Lehto has been working as a DanceAbility teacher in DanceAbility Sunday workshops for adults, DanceAbility children’s classes and DanceAbility Finland’s outreach programmes Informance and UnseenSeen.
Informance – Dance out of Line 2019


DOOL is a project where a mixed-abled artist team visits the schools and collaborates with the EU partners from Austria, Italy, Slovenia, and Hungary. DanceAbility Finland’s original INFORMANCE – You Can Look! is now expanded to a day-long encounter with school children. The day consists of a performance and a co-creative workshop where the children create their own short performances for each other. Noora Västinen and Jonna Lehto worked as an artist team for the autumn 2019.
Link to European Commission site
Rehearsal clip
Varjosta Valoon – UnseenSeen 2018-19






TRAILER
Dance department of Vocational special education college Ammattiopisto Live 2019




In addition to the work with the facilitation of weekly movement&perception classes and student guidance, Lehto worked as an artistic facilitator for Olemisen äänet – a performance where the dance students dived into the world of improvisation and composition through sound and movement and as a producer of the performance event Invisibilities, Far Away in My Body
Pr( )ying, Ritual at Vapaan Taiteen Tila.
The four dance performances of the performance event reflected special needs through the personal experiences of the performers, by means of art.
Photos: Jonna Lehto
Creative movement classes for children




Photos: Annuska Dal Maso, Ari Saarto