Manners|Ballet dancer Atte Kilpinen describes the experience as horrible.
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The disruptive behavior of eighth-grade art examiners ruined a ballet performance at the National Ballet on Wednesday.
Ballet dancer Atte Kilpinen says that the booing and booing of the young people continued almost throughout the performance.
According to Kilpinen, one dancer also got an object on him during the performance.
Eighth graders art testers crowded and disturbed during a ballet performance at the National Ballet on Wednesday.
Ballet dancer Atte Kilpinen told about it on social media.
“The idea is great,” he says of the art testers on the phone.
“Eighth graders from all over Finland are transported to art shows and cultural events. It’s great that they get to see them.”
Art testers is a program funded by the Finnish Cultural Fund and Svenska kulturfonden, which offers free cultural shows to eighth graders.
Now COW-however, the behavior of the audience was inappropriate.
“Laughter and booing,” Kilpinen describes.
According to him, the commotion continued during practically the entire performance.
“There is a nine-minute video in the show. During that time, the audience was quieter than during the rest of the show.”
Atte Kilpinen hopes that children would be taken to cultural events at an early age.
As a performer according to Kilpinen, is always on stage and to be objectified, but when you get yelled at, it becomes irrelevant. He gives an example of the four-minute silent duet that is part of the show. In it, he and another dancer appear in skin-colored pants.
“It was horrible. It reminded me of my school days.”
There are several silent passages in the work, where Kilpinen said he heard the voices of the audience.
“Laughter doesn’t hurt, reactions are ok. It’s a different matter when it turns into yelling and teasing.”
Happened makes Kilpi sad not only for himself, but also for the young viewers who would have liked to focus on the show. The hall can accommodate 1,400 spectators.
“There are so many young people who enjoy and love watching the show.”
What does he think could be done about it?
In Kilpinen’s opinion, it would be good to take children to cultural events at an early age.
“If you suddenly come to a ballet at the age of 15, you can imagine that there you can boo and throw things on stage.”
Kilpinen’s colleague was thrown with an object during the performance. He did not see and does not know more precisely what the object was.
Experience was missed. “The saddest thing was that I got the feeling that I didn’t want to do this. I was able to ignore it and move on.”
At the same time, the experience awakened Kilpinen to the importance of his own work. “Culture and art must be brought to everyone so that everyone gets used to it. There was nothing like this before. I myself went to shows when I was young and sometimes someone laughed, but there was no such harassment.”
The phenomenon is not new. Last year actress Miiko Toiviainen told that he interrupted a theater performance while performing on stage, homophobic chants could be heard from the audience. It was a regular evening show, with a few groups of high school students in the audience.
Correction 5.11. at 8:58 p.m.: The name of the actress Miiko Toiviainen was misspelled as Miika Toiviainen.
Correction 6.11. at 2:51 p.m.: The story previously erroneously stated that actress Miiko Toiviainen ended a theater performance for art testers because of homophobic yelling. There were not art testers in the audience, but high school students. The performance was momentarily interrupted and did not end.
Correction 6.11. at 3:08 p.m.: The story was mistakenly corrected earlier. The correction claimed that the theatrical performance was interrupted because of a whispered homophobic comment, but it was yelling.