Dance and media performance on stage
Opal-D is an abstract work of contemporary dance and media art. This work is based on the elements of time, space, movement and strong visual aspect.
It is a stage work by Choreographer Arja Raatikainen, Media Artists Kimmo Koskela
produced by Koskela Art & Media House and Nomadi Productions
Length 50min, Production year 2000
Performed in: Premier 18.2.2000: Stoa the Cultural Centre of Eastern Helsinki, Finland
25.4.2001: Posthof, Linz, Austria
2.-3.2.2002 Louhi Hall, Espoo, Finland
15.-16.6.2002: Victoria Theatre, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore
19.-20.11.2002: Trafo House of the Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary
5.12.2002: Nordic Scene, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bryssel, Belgium
26.3.2003: Erholungshaus, Leverkusen, Germany
31.7.2003: Full Moon Dance Festival, Pyhajarvi, Finland
RED 3.0
Dance and media performance
Choreographer Rea Pihlasviita
Director Kimmo Koskela, Rea Pihlasviita
Length 50min, Production year 1995
Premiere at the Helsinki Festival, Helsinki City Theatre 1995
4 bis PATHOLOGICAL INVENTIONS
Dance and media performance
Choreographer Rea Pihlasviita
Director Kimmo Koskela, Rea Pihlasviita
Length 55min, Production year 1991
Performed in: Premier in Helsinki / Dancin´ Visuals Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1991 / “Finnice“, mois de la photographie, Nice, France, 1991 / International Video Festival, Århus, Denmark, 1991 / Porvoo, Finland, 1991 / Theatre des Amandiers, Place á la dance contemporaine á Paris festival, France,1992
“150 years of Photography”, Finland 1992
MEIN KAMPF
Dance and media performance
Choreographer Rea Pihlasviita
Director Kimmo Koskela, Rea Pihlasviita
Length 45min, Production year 1991
Performances in Porvoo and Helsinki in Finland and
Paris, “Institute Finlandais“, France 1993
RED
Dance and media performance
Choreographer Rea Pihlasviita
Director Kimmo Koskela, Rea Pihlasviita
Length 50min, Production year 1993
Premier in February 1993 in Theatre des Amandiers,Paris
Performances in: Kuopio Dance and Music Festival, Finland 1993 / The opening of the Theater Academy, light and sound department, Tampere Finland 1993
Euro Szene Leipzig Festival, Germany 1993
CIRCU
Dance and media performance
Choreographer Rea Pihlasviita
Director Kimmo Koskela, Rea Pihlasviita
Length 50min, Production year 1990
Performed in Lahti, Kuopio and Helsinki, Finland 1990
CYBER CUBE
Live media performance in a cube
Choreographer Rea Pihlasviita
Director Kimmo Koskela, Rea Pihlasviita
Length 30min, Production year 1996
Live interactive videophone connection to the Medienkunsttage in Mainz, Germany
Premier at the Kuopio Art Museum 1996
OPAL-D PRESS QUOTATIONS
Dancing immaculately on a magical water-filled floor, Raatikainen and Soini occupy a spectacularly pretty landscape of shimmering colours and illusory, multi-media visual effects that pull the perceptual rug out from under your feet while taking your breath away. Energising rather than lulling, Opal-D is a dazzling, evanescent and cosmic brainstorm.
Donald Hutera, Dance Europe October 2003
Opal-D: Important collabotarion between artists and choreographer.
Bettina Trouwborst, Ballet-Tanz critics’ survey 2003
It [Opal-D] was a successful interpretation of Raatikainen’s governing principle of gesamtkunstwerk, the coming together of all elements from movement to set and sound. The production ethos felt compact, mathematically Spartan, the multimedia mostly intrinsic to the show.
Parvathi Nayar, The Business Times 19.6.2002
Opal-D is a cleverly compact and highly accessible blend of dance with digital media.
Ong Sor Fern, The Straits Times 17.6.2002
This [Opal-D] is really beautiful, I haven't seen anything like this before. The performance was incredible, I haven't seen video used this way before. Worse choreographers use videos to support their choreography and I was relieved that everything in this performance, music, choreography, stage set up, and video is in balance.
John Ashford, the director of The Place in London, FST Kanal 1 18.2.2000
