◯ MIKA (TAKAISIN) [to premiere 2023, Finland and Portugal] 16. 04. 2022, Helsinki. We had our 1st open rehearsal of TAKAISIN. At Friskis&Svettis´ studio 20 people came to see and celebrate the first 40 minutes of choreographic & narrative creation. It went Glorious! Thank you so much for sharing the inspiration x
December 2017 - January 2018 I started to write MIKA (now TAKAISIN) in a remote island in the Archipelago sea while in residency working on concepts such as remoteness, marginality and the isolation of the body in the Arctic landscape. Pan Sonic & Mika Vainio’s music were very much present during my time alone on the island. Their sound is a dream to work at: cinematic, noir, unless anything else. And Konstellaatio sounds particularly personal; a life path, a narrative journey of intimacy + disruptiveness per se. I started to explore that journey on the body: outdoors in full darkness, the animal body, guided by senses other than the sight, creating from memory with space and geography. The same afterwards in Helsinki, - as Konstellaatio provokes that disruptiveness in space + sound, a different dramatic arc: of an urban and metallic atmosphere; more mysterious movements of the body: tense, noir, between the human and the animal. (....) On the last day of 2020, in a last day of auditions, Krista Arppo and I met. Karoliina Loimaala joined a month after, beginning of 2021. Soon we could slowly start to materialize it across Finnish geography <3 TAKAISIN is a 3-act dispositiv for film and stage. More about it in the future.
concept-director: Catarina Neves Ricci performance: Krista-Julia Appo, Karoliina Loimaala, Catarina Neves Ricci assist to choreo: Louis Nam Le Van Ho sound design: Kain Mäkiranta light design: Ilmari Paananen projected film: Catarina Neves Ricci residencies Örö Residency program, Espaço Alkantara HIAP Helsinki International Art Program, Porvoo Art Factory AARK Archipelago Art Residency, Kemijärvi Art Residency studios Zodiak Oy, Helsinki Theatre Academy, Vantaa Dance Studios, Friskis&Svettis, Tanssila Helsinki with the support to the creation Suomen Kulttuurirahasto / Finnish Cultural Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden, Taike - Arts Promotion Center Finland, Helsinki Cultural Funds
