IN THE WANING LIGHT
In the Waning Light is a multi-phase project that consists of an outdoor performance in late summer 2023 and a stage performance in 2024. The project is based on the essays on birds by author Helen Macdonald and scientific knowledge…
Magenta Haze
In the new creation of Milla Koistinen audiences are invited to be in the space and observe the intrinsic choreography arising from the performers’ play with large brightly coloured objects. Created by visual artist Sandra E. Blatterer, the air-filled objects take…
Breathe
Breathe evokes the sensation and memory of collective events, celebratory joy, ecstasy and the individual within a crowd. A solo performer on a vast football pitch replicates images from collective events and plays with the distance and absence of surrounding…
Terrain (Koistinen/Valikoski/Zajac)
We think less when we’re walking far, we slip into a walking rhythm and thoughts cease, become a concentrated attention that is turned on all we see and hear, all we smell; this flower, this breeze, these trees, as if…
Pas de deux #1 – Constructing Love (Koistinen/Valikoski/Zajac)
“What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?” –Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love, 2009 In Pas de deux #1 – Constructing Love, two people are led…
One Next To Me
“People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.” – Eudora Welty One Next To Me explores the relationship between tenderness and violence and how these…
On a Clear Day
On a Clear Day is the last piece of a performance series inspired by the artworks of Canadian born painter Agnes Martin. Martin pursued a remarkable, hypnotic, compulsive, musical repetition in her works, yet the paintings celebrate what she referred…
A Cloud of Milk
A Cloud of Milk is a creation for three professional dancers and children from each performance location. The material of the piece is collected from the dreams of the children in “a dream laboratory” organized by the team and reworked into…
No. 3 (abstract joys of being)
Concept and direction: Milla Koistinen Creation and performance: Riikka Puumalainen, Sannamaria Kuula Music: Jochen Arbeit, Donald Beteille Light design: Sam Siltavuori Video design: Lennart Laberenz Premiere on the 19th of May 2016 at Sotku, Kuopio, Finland. Further performances on the 20.-21.5.2016 and…
Cut and Run
Concept and performance: Milla Koistinen Light design and choreographer’s assistant: Gaëtan Brun-Picard Sound design: Paul Valikoski Music: Paul Valikoski, Jochen Arbeit, Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor BWV 543, transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt Dramaturgy and text:…