Terrain
Installative Performance for one visitor at a time · Berlinpremiere
by
Milla Koistinen, Paul Valikoski, Ladislav Zajac
In the frame of The Last Open Spaces?
«Terrain» is an immersive installation; a contemplative walk by choreographer Milla Koistinen, musician Paul Valikoski and artist Ladislav Zajac. Together with the world premiere of «DRANG» by Sergiu Matis, the Berlin premiere of «Terrain» shapes the opening weekend of Tanzfabrik Berlin's «Open Spaces» festival at Radialsystem.
Following a subtly initiated route, visitors* move through a landscape that combines visual-acoustic elements from nature and urban space. Balancing silence and action, they have time to linger and move on. But also to get lost and find their way again. «Terrain» is created together with the visitors. They are invited to move, to observe, to rest, to follow traces and to leave their own in the space. In this way, a new, individually shaped «Terrain» is created with every entry.
Following a subtly initiated route, visitors* move through a landscape that combines visual-acoustic elements from nature and urban space. Balancing silence and action, they have time to linger and move on. But also to get lost and find their way again. «Terrain» is created together with the visitors. They are invited to move, to observe, to rest, to follow traces and to leave their own in the space. In this way, a new, individually shaped «Terrain» is created with every entry.
Milla Koistinen
Milla Koistinen (she/her) is a Finnish choreographer based in Berlin. She has graduated from the Theatre Academy in Helsinki with MA in dance and from HZT Berlin with MA in choreography. She has worked among others with Kristian Smeds, Hiroaki Umeda, Peter Verhelst and Christine Gaigg. Since 2008 she tours her own work internationally and teaches in various contexts. In 2020 to 2024 Koistinen’s work is supported by apap – FEMINIST FUTURES – a project co-founded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
Paul Valikoski
Paul Valikoski studied at the Glenn Gould Conservatory in Toronto under Mark Fewer. In 2002 he was concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. From 2002 to 2005 he played with the Hamilton Philharmonic as well as the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra among other Canadian Orchestras. He also performed as a member of Symphony in the Barn, a music festival created in the context of living and working on a biodynamic farm. From 2004 to 2006 he was a member of the Northern Lights Music Festival chamber orchestra in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2005 he played with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in New Zealand. Since 2006 he lives and works in Berlin. Interested in collaborative and new music settings Paul plays as a member of Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, as a guest with Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg and other chamber groups. Additionally he also composes and does sound design for the projects of Kaleidoskop and other groups. He has collaborated among others with Susanne Kennedy, Martin Eder, Sasha Waltz & Guests, FC Bergman, Sabrina Hölzer, Mouse on Mars and Georg Nussbaumer.
Ladislav Zajac
Ladislav Zajac was born in 1978 in Košice in the former Czechoslovakia and studied in 2000-2007 in the Academy of Arts in Nürnberg and in Palermo. His work has been awarded several times, in 2009 by the Kunstförderpreis des Freistaates Bayern, 2011 by the debutant prize of Freistates Bavaria and the Space Art Award Düsseldorf. In 2013 he was awarded the US Research Fellowship of the Freistaatees Bayern. Since 2009 he has regularly worked for musical stage and stage productions, among others with Sabrina Hölzer, Philip Bergmann and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop.
Tickets: 10€ / 15€ promotional ticket / 20€ soli ticket
70% of the ticket proceeds go directly to the artists.
Tickets ↪ here
Fr 18.02. 16:00 - 20:00, Sa 19.02. + Su 20.2. 15:00 - 20:00
Every 30 minutes
70% of the ticket proceeds go directly to the artists.
Tickets ↪ here
Fr 18.02. 16:00 - 20:00, Sa 19.02. + Su 20.2. 15:00 - 20:00
Every 30 minutes
Concept: Milla Koistinen, Paul Valikoski, Ladislav Zajac | Artistic team: Jakob Jautz, Milla Koistinen, Jin Lee, Paul Valikoski, Ladislav Zajac | Production managent: Jana Lüthje
Research phase supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes RELOAD program | Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the frame of NEUSTART KULTUR | Co-production: SZENE Salzburg and Tanzfabrik Berlin in the frame of apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union | A co-operation with Radialsystem.
Research phase supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes RELOAD program | Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the frame of NEUSTART KULTUR | Co-production: SZENE Salzburg and Tanzfabrik Berlin in the frame of apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union | A co-operation with Radialsystem.
