A CLOUD OF MILK

Milla Koistinen

Children from Hammerfest have worked in a dream laboratory together with a team of dance artists the entire festival week. Today they meet the audience with this unique and touching experience. What do you dream about?

A Cloud of Milk is a creation for three professional dancers and 8-10 children. The material of the piece is collected from the dreams of the children in “a dream laboratory” organized by the team and reworked into movement, light, video projections and sound. The scenes are inspired by different stages of sleep and the focus is on rapid eye movement sleep, the state between sleep and wakefulness, and lucid dream. The performers shift between the states of sleep and awake sometimes directing the dream or letting the dreams guide them. A Cloud of Milk a piece about distortions of body, sound and space – a recreated, surreal dream. For every guest performance the team works with local children and the piece will be modified according to the new dreamer team. This performance is not a traditional children's performance, but the whole family is invited!

Duration 50 min (no interval)

Concept and choreography Milla Koistinen Creation and performance Gaëtan Brun-Picard, Fanny Didelot, Milla Koistinen and 8-10 local children Sound design Jochen Arbeit Video and light design Jan Isaak Voges, Gaëtan Brun-Picard Artistic collaboration Gaëtan Brun-Picard Production management Milla Koistinen, Jana Lüthje

Milla Koistinen has graduated from the Theatre Academy of 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 among other locations in HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Tanzhaus NRW, Mad House Helsinki, Ballhaus Ost and in Uferstudios Berlin.Koistinen has collaborated among others with Jochen Arbeit, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, director Janne Reinikainen at the Finnish National Theatre and with soundpoet Dirk Huelstrunk.

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

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

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