Light and Sound Designer
Set Designer
Video Designer
Composer
Poet
The sun's red breath; wet
apples
are like a wind. The bridge wood
smells of tar
its spine full of bullet holes, smells of
The streets'
dry fine sand runs
down to the stream
where the beach
sleeps through winter
and from the rock
down
into the space of water, it runs
The arching elms along the park road
like wise men on a bus
travelling
from Bethlehem to Jerusalem
Autumn is born
Parnasso 3/1992
Janne Teivainen has worked in the fields of dance, theatre and performing arts as a video, lighting and sound designer, set designer, producer, composer, musician, writer and performer for nearly forty years.
Teivainen has collaborated with major theatres and dance companies in Finland. Examples of dance companies include Tommi Kitti Company, Tanssiteatteri Rimpparemmi, Aurinkobaletti, Katja Lundén Company, and Tanssiteatteri Tsuumi. Theatres he has worked with include Tampereen Työväen Teatteri, Kajaani City Theatre, Vaasa City Theatre, Finnish National Opera, Finnish Comedy Theatre, and Turku City Theatre.
As the visual roadie (lighting and video designer) for the rock band Eppu Normaali, Teivainen has toured across Finland for 18 years.
From 2006 to 2024, Janne Teivainen served as the Technical Director of the Aleksanteri Theatre.
He is also a member of the multidisciplinary art groups Taite ry and Omakuva.
His poems have been published in Parnasso magazine.
Teivainen studied lighting and sound design at the Theatre Academy of Finland.
In 2025, Teivainen will work as the lighting designer for the 50th anniversary production of the opera The Last Temptations, which will be performed in the spring at Tampere Hall and in the summer at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.
