Milla Koistinen

At the Saari Residence, I will be working on my next group piece which is a continuation of Lacuna, a performance that premiered in June 2012. The piece is based on texts by the German author W. G. Sebald. His novels provide both the starting point and the theme to the piece. They are journeys in time and in space, and discuss memory and memory’s effect on construing reality. The purpose of the residency period is to deepen both my choreographic thinking as well as the themes of the piece, and to work on material for the work group’s future rehearsals.

On Sunday 7 October 2012, Koistinen hosted an open rehearsal at Kutomo in Turku where the public was be able to get a glimpse of the making of the piece. HTTP://WWW.EHKA.NET/FALSE/?LASTPAGE=KUTOMO

Milla Koistinen graduated from the Theatre Academy of Helsinki in 2004 with an MA in dance and from Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch” Berlin / HZT in 2012 with an MA in choreography. She has worked with Kristian Smeds, Hiroaki Umeda, Peter Verhelst (NTGent/Johan Simons), Heddy Maalem, Christine Gaigg and Hans van den Broeck, among others. Her works have been performed in Berlin, Leverkusen, Helsinki, Oulu and Hebron. In the summer of 2012, Koistinen was a danceWEB scholarship recipient at the ImPuls Tanz festival in Vienna

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