MEDIATHEK

“Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my paintings.” Agnes Martin

Die installative Performance „On a Clear Day“ beschließt eine Serie, die von Werken der Malerin Agnes Martin inspiriert ist. In ihrer Choreographie bewegt sich Milla Koistinen durch minimalistische, sich wiederholende Muster, die die hypnotische Empfindung von Unendlichkeit der in den Raum projizierten Gemälde vervielfältigen. Martins Werke sind geprägt von bezwingenden hypnotischen und gleichsam musikalisch-seriellen Wiederholungen und zelebrieren den abstrakten Glanz des Lebens: Freude, Schönheit, Unschuld und Glück.

“On a Clear Day” is the last piece of a performance series inspired by the translucent paintings of Agnes Martin. In her meditative choreography Milla Koistinen performs minimalistic repetitive patterns, which replicate the mesmeric sense of infinity in Martins paintings, projected into the space. They mingle and pursue a remarkable, hypnotic, compulsive, musical repetition, yet celebrate abstract glories of being: joy, beauty, innocence and happiness.

// Produktion //

On a Clear Day ist eine Produktion von Milla Koistinen in Koproduktion mit dem Barker-Theater.
Gefördert durch die Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa des Landes Berlin.
Unterstützt vom Arts Promotion Center, Finnland und Bora Bora, Aarhus.

// Autorin //

Milla Koistinen has graduated from the Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland with MA in dance and from HfS Ernst Busch/HZT Berlin with MA in choreography.

She has worked among others with Kristian Smeds, Hiroaki Umeda, Peter Verhelst (NTGent/Johan Simons), Cie Heddy Maalem, Christine Gaigg, Hans van den Broeck and Les Ballets du Grand Maghreb. Since 2008 she has been creating her own work and her creations have been played in Tanzhaus NRW, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Mad House Helsinki, Fabriktheater Zürich, Dampfzentrale Bern, Ballhaus Ost and in Uferstudios Berlin.

Koistinen has collaborated with Jochen Arbeit, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, director Janne Reinikainen at the Finnish National Theatre and with soundpoet Dirk Huelstrunk.

In the summer 2010 she was one of the danceWEB scholarship recipients in Impulstanz Vienna.

In 2017 Koistinen was working with the support of Arts Promotion Centre Finland six months artist grant.

She has worked as a guest teacher at SEAD Salzburg, the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Tanzhaus NRW, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Toula Limnaios Company, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Munich DancePAT, Tanzhaus Zürich, Theatre Academy of Helsinki, the University of Tampere, HZT Berlin, Marameo and DOCK 11 in Berlin,  Espace Catastrophe in Brussels and PAC Ramallah.

In 2019 Milla Koistinen has been invited as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

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