Ulla Koivisto & Kimmo Ylönen

Dancer, Visual artist

We are working on a visual score for a four-part series of dance videos. This score, which combines different techniques, works not only as a guideline but also documents the work process, which will later be incorporated as part of the work itself. Now, in December, we go back to the beginning, to the place where the first performance will, in time, take place. The first links of the chain are formed by the stone work Wa by Mineo Kuroda situated in the park of the Saari Residence, the work Vaeltava valo (Roaming light; Satu RekolaJonimatti Joutsijärvi and Ulla Koivisto) which combines movement and poetry, as well as contacts formed at the Residence (Kimmo Ylönen).

Our goal is to create a dance event in co-operation with residents of the archipelago of Länsi-Turunmaa and professional dancers that situated in this scenery. Participants will be offered a one-month course during which they will be familiarized with their self-image and personal history as residents of the archipelago through different methods of movement. The movements and performances created will remain in their place and grow, and the video material of the performances will be worked into four independent dance videos.