2010
1) Residency at The Garage Art Space
July-September 2010
2) Waltzing to nothingness
Garage Art Space
September 22nd and 23rd at 8pm
Photo by Rob Kunkle
With the courtesy of Dan Perjovschi and SFAI
Waltzing to nothingness will have an apocalyptic feeling.
GARAGE Art Space has a slightly claustrophobic atmosphere in it and I am using that as a starting point to the choreography.
I want to make the movement to flow or rather to explode over the space like water when dropped to boiling oil.
I want to create images of the exploding; disturbing energy that I feel is going on in the world.
I move these images into the black box performance space and stretch the movement ideas until the dance work reaches
what I imagine will be a catharsis of nothingness.
The feeling I wish to create is of the people who are trapped in to this black space for the reason they have nothing to do with.
Music to this choreography will be composed by Sylvi Alli.
"...Sylvi has a haunting, heavenly voice that quickly finds the resonant frequency of your heart and shakes it to pieces..."
Choreography by Raisa Punkki
Dance by Paul Laurey, Mihyun Lee, Jennifer Meek, Danny Nguyen and Emma Stewart
Music by Sylvi Alli
Costume Design by Claire Pasquier
This performance is partly made possible by the generous support from
Zellerbach Family Foundation
3) ODC Pilot 57
Raisa Punkki was selected to be one of the six Pilot 57 artists.
Performances December 4th and 5th, 2010
ODC, San Francisco
Photo by Rob Kunkle
Location with the courtesy of SFAI
2011
4) a pixel of an idea
June 6th-8th, 2011
Dance Mission Theater
This perfromance reseived
Lighting Artists in Dance Award
To support the collaborative work of Light Designer Christian Mejia and Raisa Punkki/ punkkiCo
5) PERFORMANCE!
Full Moon Dance Festival
Pyhäjärvi, Finland
July 2011
Photo by Claire Bloomberg
Costume/Set Design by Claire Pasquier
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