Projects
Poro
Performance with live music
Performer: Anna Orkolainen
Choreography and costume: Anna Orkolainen
Music: Marja Burchard
From the depth of the woods, all ancestors on her back, the Great Grandmother of the Great Grandmothers comes. She is not just nice and friendly, she is a wild and furious sorceress.
Regentrude
Performance with live music
Performer: Anna Orkolainen
Choreography: Shusaku Takeuchi
Costume: Anna Orkolainen
Mask: Luciana Fazan
Music: Marja Burchard
The story of an extreme drought. From far far away, from long long ago.
Spiderweb
Multidisciplinary performance
Performer: Anna Orkolainen
Choreography and costume: Anna Orkolainen
Music: Marja Burchard
Installation: Marja Burchard
A woman in a spider web. The room is interconnected by ropes, the ropes are knotted with objects. Objects are networked through sounds. We are interwoven and...
Cage
Music/dance improvisation with live video-mapping
Performer: Anna Orkolainen
Music: Marja Burchard
Visuals and video-mapping: Gerardo Vitale
Installation: Bobby Packham
Poro
Performance with live music
Performer: Anna Orkolainen
Choreography and costume: Anna Orkolainen
Music: Marja Burchard
From the depth of the woods, all ancestors on her back, the Great Grandmother of the Great Grandmothers comes. She is not just nice and friendly, she is a wild and furious sorceress.
The performance deals with role clichées, ignorance and division from your own self. The immense and immersive depth of Butoh is combined with means and matters of contemporary dance to create a wild and furious stampede.
Go to galleryRegentrude
Performance with live music
Performer: Anna Orkolainen
Choreography: Shusaku Takeuchi
Costume: Anna Orkolainen
Mask: Luciana Fazan
Music: Marja Burchard
The story of an extreme drought. From far far away, from long long ago.
Regentrude is a rain goddess from a homonymous German fairy tale. The story tells that she got forgotten by humans, so she disappeared from the surface of the Earth, hiding in the underground world. The lands got dried, plants and animals started to die, humans to suffer. So a young couple started a journey to learn a spell to wake up Regentrude and bring again the water on the Earth.
In this performance, the tale is told with force and feriocity, as a ritual of death and devastation, as a dance of connection and symbiosis. The immersive depth of japanese Butoh is implied and enriched by poetry and methods of mask theatre.This is an act of love and fury, a deeply poetic death dance and an intimate live performance of two outstanding artists.
Go to gallery Watch trailerSpiderweb
Multidisciplinary performance
Performer: Anna Orkolainen
Choreography and costume: Anna Orkolainen
Music: Marja Burchard
Installation: Marja Burchard
The room is interconnected by ropes, the ropes are knotted with objects. Objects networked through sounds, etc.
We are interwoven and vulnerable. The spider woman’s web attempts through installation, performance, music, indoors and outdoors, to get to the bottom of current political, sociological, scientific topics.
To get to the bottom.
Things, thoughts, spaces, and sound are interwoven, threads are picked up and dropped again.
Dropped again.
Like a net or a subterranean root system, this research project, in content and form, is supposed to explore interconnectedness and interweaving. This has to happen on different levels: through performance, installation, conversations, sound, and body.
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Cage
Music/dance improvisation with live video-mapping
Performer: Anna Orkolainen
Visuals and video-mapping: Gerardo Vitale
Music: Marja Burchard
Installation: Bobby Packham
Intimate improvisation between sounds and movements. The space, a cube one meter fifty wide, is a video installation that will interact with the other elements of the performance. Concept created in the pandemic Corona quarantine time. A living room to create choreographies, to connect distances with colleague artists. Separations, fear, and illnesses are the common ground where we can join together in the circle of life.