Company

I am Kauri Honkakoski (they / them), a physical theatre practitioner and the artistic director of Kauri Honkakoski Company.

Through my shows I aim to capture something deep, essential and shared about the human experience. For me creating a show is a physical journey into metaphors, imagination, memories and the subconscious.

My artistic roots are in Corporeal Mime, which I trained for seven years with Theatre de L’Ange Fou in London. At the heart of Corporeal Mime is the idea of expressing the whole spectrum of humanity through the body, from concrete physical work to the abstract realm of thoughts. For me Corporeal Mime is a language of deep expression, with which I make my inner world visible.

Kauri Honkakoski Company explores human themes through rich physicality and visual metaphors. The members of the Company are physical theatre actors Karina Degaspari (Br/Es), Oona Jama (Fin), Sonja Järvisalo (Fin), Josefin Karlsson (Se), Ines Kakkonen (Fin), Ruben Nagore Santandreu (Es/Fin), Liv Meijer Nordgren (Se), Freia Stenbäck (Fin), Valter Sui (Fin); sound designer Tuuli Kyttälä and lighting & set designer Sisu Nojonen. Based in Helsinki, we work and tour internationally.

Pronouns: Kauri Honkakoski uses genderneutral pronouns. English: they / them. Swedish: hen. Spanish: elle. French: iel. Portuguese: elu.