Projects and work:
Flesh Thing
2021 Flesh Thing is a hybrid of a performance piece and a fleshy painting. It intertwines the sensousness of dancing and painting researching the association chains created by non-linguistic meanings. See more |
Photo: Bea Tornberg
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Phhhhh
2016- Practicing softenss Phhhhh is a solo work around softness and touch. It focuses on softness as a quality of being in the surrounding environment. It is a research of the meanings that arise from this quality through cultural and sensual readings. The work questions and researches how do we relate to each others and to the world and how do we reach towards each others. The solo situates itself in between a performance and a workshop leading its audience to sensitize towards tactile sensations and to contemplate touch and the possibility towards touching. What would be a soft performance? How to practice softness in this world and environment? |
Photo: Lin Da / S-projekti
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S-projekti
2016- S-projekti (eng. S-project) is a continuous artistic collaboration where two choreographers study the form of a solo work and its audience relationship. The choreographers, Linda Martikainen and Heli Keskikallio, work side by side creating two solos which both challenge the conventions of a solo performance. The shared questions are: what does the solo performance consists of? Is a solo a performance of one person? The project started in autumn 2016 and since then there has been solo-showings approximately every half a year as a part of the process. See more |
Photo: Pedro Hurpia
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Bounce
2017 Bounce is a second part of a series of performances around same questions. These are e.g. questioning the virtuosic and dialectics of entertainment and art. In the first two parts as an inspiration has been the Accumulation -works by Trisha Brown. See more |
Photo: Anton Verho
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The Darkest Hits
2016 The Darkest Hits brings together eight artists and eight dark songs. Rea-Liina Brunou, Jouni Järvenpää, Leena Kela, Heli Keskikallio, Kirill Lorech, Laura Pietiläinen, Vihtori Rämä and Pirjo Yli-Maunula have created eight miniature performances to songs of their own choosing. See more |
Photo: Jussi Tuokkola
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Mass Thing
2016 A flow of associations: moving towards something just to change the direction again, never arriving to a set shape or place. Mass Thing is a performance that brings forth mass, weight, carnality and different kinds of energetical fields. It evolves and devolves, taking shapes only to dissolve into something else again - as a kind of a continually devolving creature. See more |
Photos: Sanna Käsmä
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BOUNCE 2015 Bounce is a mini-performance communicating through embodiment of jumping and through movement composition that is becoming all the time more and more complicated and complex. It attempts to build up an image of the surrounding culture of entertainment. It mirrors the viewers´ desire to be entertained by revealing all the time something new to be seen and experienced. The performance asks what is virtuosic performing and entertainment. See more |
Photo: Heli Keskikallio
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PLAYPLAYPLAYPLAYPLAYPLAYPLAYPLAYPLAYPLA 2014 A performance that plays with playing violence and being played upon. The work was part of my Master degree studies in Theater Academy Helsinki Working group: Miki Brunou, Heli Keskikallio, Iiro Näkki, Johannes Purovaara, Janne Renwall, Petri Tuhkanen |
Photos: Kimmo Karjunen
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PopCorps
2014 PopCorps is a solo project questioning the capitalistic power towards female bodies in the western culture using pop music video world as a source. The performer puts herself in the bodies of these videos to research how they they in the world, under the gaze of others and how do we look at them. The performance communicates with the audience in the landscape of these bodies and affects they create. Choreography, performance, light and sound design: Heli Keskikallio See more |
Photos: Riikka Sundqvist
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The Children of Children of Bodom
2014
The Children of Children of Bodom is a dance piece which studies heavy metal culture and it’s movement material. It observes with an outside eye the most popular and nerdy underground music genre in Finland. Why evil is more fun and attracting than nice and why is it so fun to whip hair?
The Children are Erno Aaltonen, Laura Jantunen, Lotta Suomi and Heli Keskikallio and the a work is made completely collectively without a leader.
2014
The Children of Children of Bodom is a dance piece which studies heavy metal culture and it’s movement material. It observes with an outside eye the most popular and nerdy underground music genre in Finland. Why evil is more fun and attracting than nice and why is it so fun to whip hair?
The Children are Erno Aaltonen, Laura Jantunen, Lotta Suomi and Heli Keskikallio and the a work is made completely collectively without a leader.
Tanssiesitys - A dance performance
Pomppulauta-festivaali 2013 JoJo Oulu
"A dance performance" is a research about different materials used in a dance performance. It mixes the used mediums and questions the presence of the performer. It plays with time and memories intertwining the present moment with different layers of past.
Pomppulauta-festivaali 2013 JoJo Oulu
"A dance performance" is a research about different materials used in a dance performance. It mixes the used mediums and questions the presence of the performer. It plays with time and memories intertwining the present moment with different layers of past.
Photos: Laura Jantunen
Images of Helsinki
URB-festival 2012 in collaboration with the city of Helsinki
The project was done in collaboration with theater director Elina Izarra and six young summer workers of the city of Helsinki. We investigated different parts of Helsinki city and the young performers were creating material out of this research. In the performance the material and the performers created poetic and political images of Helsinki from the young people's point of view.
URB-festival 2012 in collaboration with the city of Helsinki
The project was done in collaboration with theater director Elina Izarra and six young summer workers of the city of Helsinki. We investigated different parts of Helsinki city and the young performers were creating material out of this research. In the performance the material and the performers created poetic and political images of Helsinki from the young people's point of view.
Photos: Anu Pynnönen Kiasma