Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on November 17, 2011
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UPDATING the website!
The website is going through some big changes. I’m gonna put all under this site, from Pen Pals and Pimpelipom and solo stuff. So be patient if you’re surfing here and there’s some blank pages or stuff like that. I’m back in Finland where my intense spring is continuing, so should be lot of news coming up soon!
Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on May 28, 2012
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Last day in London!
Here’s a photo(taken by Sonja Elonen) of the sign of the last night’s gig in London. More material about this London time coming soon after I’ve relaxed a while. Going to film in a moment with a finnish dancer here in Greenwich, which is quite photogenic and urban area. She’s a street dancer and we’re gonna do an experiment that she’ll be dancing on some music, and after i’m gonna do another music on her dancing. Kind of mixing street dance to piano impro and stuff, we’ll see. Anyway, it’s been a nice and intense trip, met so many interesting, lovely people and artists, but I am also quite happy to go back to Paris tommorrow, and then back to Finland for the summer. Ah i’m so much waiting for the summer in Helsinki. But today is the last day in London and i’m just gonna relaaaax. Next gig on monday at Pop In in Paris! I continue with my breakfast now, bye, -Mikael
Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on May 11, 2012
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First London performance approaching!
I came to London on monday with my travel piano and bag, joined my finnish dancer friend at her school. Then got to her place before heading to grab some Vappu -drinks in the centre. Got kicked out from her place by her flatmate who never even met me. I was saved by other finnish dancers and slept floors two floors upper on their couch. The next day moved to Blackheath to sleep at another finnish dancer and her poet flatmate’s place. I’ve always known you can count on finnish dancers, i’m really thankful for them.
Tommorrow i will meet some local dancers I’ve never met before. We will meet at the church we’ve never seen before either. Then we talk a bit, change some ideas, then I put myself on the piano and we start to improvise. They will experiment with the space, with each other, with me, with the space, with the moment, with time, with their bodies, with the audience that is waiting to be seated the next day, when we’ll do the same in public. Come and be part of it this Saturday at 6pm @ Heath Street Church – 84 heath street, metro Hampstead. Welcome!
- Mikael
Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on May 3, 2012
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Club Pimpelipom @ Paper Dress Vintage – London!
This event will be in a vintage store that in the evenings changes its clothes and becomes a bar and venue for different kind of happenings. This specific night is build around short-shows including improvisations between dancers and musician, dancing with a film, singing cabaret and eating, two singer-songwriter concerts and other stuff, and of couse drinking. What more can you ask for a thursday night?
MIKAEL JOONATAN (feat. Lilli Elina) (FIN)
MARI REAL LEAF (FIN)
OBERON WHITE (UK)
Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on April 22, 2012
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First Club Pimpelipom! in London!
The series of Club Pimpelipom starts in a very special venue, an english church.
This event is built around a singer-songwriter concert, acoustic guitar music, and experiments between contemporary dance, music and physical theatre . It will be a delicious start for a saturday evening!
ON STAGE:
MIKAEL JOONATAN
& HIS DANCER PEN PALS (impro)
TOM GAMBLE
Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on April 19, 2012
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Pimpelipom flyer is here!
Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on April 18, 2012
http://mikaeljoonatan.com/2012/04/18/club-pimpelipom-in-london-and-paris/
Spring 2012 – Paris
Small talk about the weather!
I came to Paris from the snowy Finland at the end of February. Had few days off, and got a taste of the first sunny days. Then it got a bit colder, but it’s okay ’cause we started an 8 day working period with Compagnie Battement d’Ailes for “Elles – femmes en resistence” project. It’s a play that we started creating last year. We had a great opportunity to rehears in the Centre Dramatique de La courneuve. I’m gonna post something about those 8 creative days.This week has been beautiful and warm, today something around 20 degrees, imagine! so I wanted to grab some photos with my webcam to capture the spring sun. For finns the sun is something we don’t see a lot in the winter, and the first warming touch of the sunlight on the skin is always like a miracle. Like meeting a friend you haven’t seen in a long time. Next Club Pimpelipom! will be in the beginning of May in Paris and in London with some new Pen Pals and other guests. More about those events soon. Bye!
Sincerely,
Mikael
Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on March 15, 2012
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A surprise collaboration!
Here’s a video made by my friend Sarkku, where she used my piano playing that she recorded secretly when she visited me in Paris last summer.
Have a delicious January!
yours,
Mikael
Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on January 20, 2012
http://mikaeljoonatan.com/2012/01/20/a-surprise-collaboration/
Hejssan! Working on stuff!
I am staying in Helsinki still few months. Let’s see if we have time to record with some singers, but at least we have some songs ready. With Meri we’ve made for example a tango and a song that is mix of soul and jazz and pop and hiphop. With Sirkku we are planning to record a structured improvisation in Finnish. And one evening when hanging around at Jopi’s place, we came up with this song called Purple Jeans, which is kind of a party pop song.
-mikael
Posted by Mikael Joonatan Kuosmanen on November 17, 2011
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