The festival programme explores topics like immigration, aging, and eco-catastrophe – with a feminist angle.
The Red Pearl Clown Festival, organized by Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth, presents a programme aimed at grown-up audiences. Founded in 2012, the festival focuses on women and clowns from diverse genders.
“The festival aims to present a repertoire that is critical of norms, political and carnivalises boring assumptions,” says Jyrki Karttunen, theatre director of Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth.
The festival takes place on 21.3 – 29.3.2025. This year’s edition introduces many internationally renowned clowns from abroad.
The festival is opened by Clémence Caillouiel’s (FRA) The Requiem of Sophie Withman, a dark burlesque comedy. Paulina Lenoir’s (SUI/MEX) Puella Eterna explores the grand themes of birth, life and death through the eyes of a couture poet. Gözde Atalay’s (TUR) NOMAD is a biographic performance centered on the experiences of a female immigrant. Gabriela Muñoz (MEX) will be performing her show Julieta, which tells the story of an eccentric woman with a lot of life experience.
From Finland, Emma Castrén’s solo piece The Gynecologist explores the eco-catastrophe with a uterine hysteroscope. Climate change is like endometriosis: chronic inflammation in the womb, where life begins.