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| NEWS 1) 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 2) Lighting Artists in Dance Award for a pixel of an idea -choreography To support the collaborative work of Light Designer Christian Mejia and Raisa Punkki/ punkkiCo CALENDAR 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 2011 4) a pixel of an idea June 6th-8th, 2011 Dance Mission Theater This performance reseived Lighting Artists in Dance Award To support the collaborative work of Light Designer Christian Mejia and Raisa Punkki/ punkkiCo 4) PERFORMANCE! Full Moon Dance Festival Pyhäjärvi, Finland July 2011 Photo by Rob Kunkle Location with the courtesy of SFAI COMPANY MEMBERS Raisa Punkki Founder, Choreographer, Dancer Raisa Punkki graduated with a MfA at the Department of Dance, Theatre Academy in Helsinki, Finland, in 1992. After several years as a freelancer she signed up with the Helsinki City Theatre Dance Company (96-98), where she danced in choreographies e.g. by Kenneth Kvarnström, Anzu Furukawa and Tero Saarinen. The following four years toured intensively with Kenneth Kvarnström & Co, in and outside Europe. Raisa has taught contemporary dance at the dance departments of various Finnish art schools and at Skolen of Moderne Dance in Copenhagen. Raisa Punkki has made choreographies to both theater and dance. In 1996 Raisa Punkki was nominated as the best dancer of the year. She received the state (Finland) grant for artists for a period of six months in 2001, and for a period of three years in 2003. She has reseived grant from Zellerbach Family Foundation twice and a Lighting Designer Award together with Christian Mejia in 2010. Raisa Punkki’s choreographies has been presented at the Bay Area in Collaboration! Music and Dance, at the Women on the Way –festival and at the CounterPulse among others. In 2006 she was commissioned to make a piece “all blue” for the Dance Theater Company Mecanique. In 2009 Raisa Punkki produced punkkiCo's own weekend at the Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco. Raisa also teaches Pilates at the Peak Performance Pilates and the Pilates Collective. | 
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 Photo by Rob Kunkle Location with the courtesy of SFAI | Paul Laurey Dancer Paul Laurey was raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Paul began his study of dance through sheer serendipity when he was in the middle of a doctoral program in cognitive neuroscience. Improvisational dance led Paul into devotional study of many dance forms and somatic practices. He has studied and performed in Oregon, San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Paul actively integrates the study of dance and somatics with current understandings of human psychology as revealed by the study of the nervous system. He has worked collaboratively with Kelly Kemp, Lindsay Gilmour, Phillipae Kaye and Company, and Christine Cali. |  Photo by Rob Kunkle Location with the courtesy of SFAI | Mihyun Lee Dancer Mihyun Lee is an experienced and enthusiastic dancer and choreographer who recently moved to San Francisco from Seoul, South Korea. She received her B.A. in Performing Arts - Choreography from Kook-min University in 2005. Since then she has traveled and worked in several continents as an individual choreographer and dancer. Mihyun Lee was dancing in Kim Yoon-Jin Dance Company 2005-2009. She had an amazing opportunity to work with Dean Moss and Yoon-Jin Kim in Korea, Hong Kong and New York in the production Kisaeng becomes You in 2008 and 2009. Mihyun was very encouraged and proud of the performance that received outstanding reviews at The New York Times. |  Photo by Rob Kunkle Location with the courtesy of SFAI | Jennifer Meek Dancer Jennifer graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in contemporary dance performance from Point Park University. She went on to perform in Chicago with Thodos Dance Chicago, Lucky Plush Productions, Concert Dance, and Hedwig Dances. Upon moving to the bay area Jennifer has performed with Kunst-stoff, Capacitor, and Moving Arts. In addition to performing, she enjoys teaching dance and yoga and sharing the importance of well being and artistic expression. She has presented choreography at The Garage, Dance Mission Theater, and RoCo Dance and Fitness. |  Photo by Rob Kunkle Location with the courtesy of SFAI | Danny Nguyen Dancer Danny Nguyen was introduced to dance through his involvement with
colorguard since 2006. He is currently completing a Dance and Performance
Studies Major at UC Berkeley, where he has worked with Joe Goode, Jess
Curtis, Katie Faulkner, Bliss Kohlmyer, Sue Li-Jue and Kathleen
Hermesdorf. |  Photo by Rob Kunkle Location with the courtesy of SFAI | Emma Stewart Dancer Emma’s dance background includes 16 years of ballet, contemporary, contact improvisation, hip hop, and various forms of West African and Caribbean dance. She has been a member of The Newbury Contemporary Dance Company (UK), Jemmbarrio (UK), Bent Spoon (US), Dance Ceres (US), Paco Gomes & Dancers (US) and Loose Change Dance Company (Eric Fenn) and has had the pleasure of working with choreographers Robert Moses (Kin), David Dorfman (Dorfman), Carl Flink (Jose Limon), and Michael Foley (Foley Dance). From 1997-1999 she taught Advanced Contemporary at Oxford University as well as Dance/Theater in low-income schools. In the Bay Area, she has performed at ODC/Theater, Project Artaud, Cowell Theater, Dance Mission, Stanford Cantor Center, Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts, and 848. In 2008, she was invited to become a member of the Board of Directors of ODC/Dance. Emma currently manages the sustainable business program at Autodesk and holds a BA in Evolutionary Biology from Oxford University and a doctorate in environmental management from Stanford University. |
CHOREOGRAPHIES nunataks (2005) Choreography by Raisa Punkki Performance by Julia Hollas, Kakuti Davis Lin, Julie Sheetz, Jessica Stephenson Original music by Keith Moore Costume design by Claire Pasquier | 
Photo by Rob Kunkle | Waiting (2009) Choreography and performance by Raisa Punkki Music by Joan Jeanrenaud Costume Design by Claire Pasquier | 
Photo by Rob Kunkle | all blue (2006) Comissioned for the Company Mecanique Dance Theater Choreography by Raisa Punkki Performance by Christine Bonansea, Patric Cashman, Phil Halbert, Kakuti Davis Lin and Julie Sheetz Original music by Albert Mathias Set design by Nicole Bauguss Costume design by Claire Pasquier | 
Photo by Rob Kunkle | last (2009) Choreography by Kakuti Davis Lin Performance by Julia Hollas, Julie Sheetz, Jessica Stephenson Music excerpts from Alexander Borodin's string quartets Musicians: David Hamano (viola), Stefanie Lawton (cello) | 
Photo by Rob Kunkle | To be...or You (2009) Choreography by Raisa Punkki Perfromance by Kakuti Davis, Raisa Punkki, Patric Cashman and Bob Webb Music by Heikki Sarmanto Costume design by Claire Pasquier | 
Photo by Rob Kunkle | rais-a-roni (2009) Choreography by Raisa Punkki Performance by Christine Bonansea, Julia Hollas, Kakuti Davis Lin, Julie Sheetz and Jessica Sephenson Original music by Albert Mathias Costume design by Claire Pasquier | 
Photo by Rob Kunkle |
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