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WIND VIGIL

WIND VIGIL

Wind Vigil is a journey into the hydrosphere, embodying transformations of water. Movements may meander, as silent as snowfall or roar and flow before settling in the secretly still clarity of a snow crystal.

 

(About the title) The Swedish title for Wind Vigil, “Vindvaka”, means watching out for the power of the wind. “Vindvak” is the winding movements of water in a hole in the ice, literally “woken water”, while the Sami word “suddi” also means fontanelle. But choreography is not only true to its title; it also leaps free, out into a spiritual space beyond words.

 

Virpi Pahkinen first met composer and multi-instrumentalist Roger Ludvigsen when she was working on the Tibetan-Sami musical Ayra-Leena for the Sami National Theatre Beaivváš in Kautokeino in Norway in 2001. That same year she commissioned him to write music for a solo, Prayer for one whose trembling hands are still.

 

In Wind Vigil we hear a broad spectrum of Roger’s original sound works, from music meditations gliding over the open landscape to shamanistic driving five-beat rhythms.

REVIEW

“The dance work “Vindvaka” by Virpi Pahkinen is about water and the different forms it takes. A powerful artistic experience and an intuitive chemistry lesson combined, according to our reviewer.”

 

“The dancers act as H2O molecules that form falling raindrops, a rushing spring flood, and a fire or a sun that warms the water turning it to steam. “Vindvaka” simply embodies a magical cycle that exists within us and around us, while we are oblivious to how it works. “

 

“The music transcends genre – traditional and ritual trance, electronic ambient with organic elements. In a highly charged sequence, Virpi Pahkinen sings live in a duet with an invisible joiking voice – possibly the most soulful thing I have ever heard. “

 

“It is all beautiful and extremely therapeutic. A purifying bath for the mind easy to take on board even for someone who isn’t a hard-core dance fan.”

Eskilstunakuriren Carina Nitz

 

“Enchanted frost flowers. Virpi Pahkinen’s “Vindvaka” is a swirling study in ice.”

 

“There are several beautiful solos, and a typical physically humorous synchronised sequence in which the palms and the soles of the feet of all the dancers form perplexing sculptures. The strongest impression is made by a group on stage where the dancers are intertwines with projected art works by Kristin Tårnesvik.”

 

“Her undulating figures, line-drawn in patterns similar to guilloché, grow across their bodies like enchanted frost flowers.”

 

“And I know that this is not the first time that Virpi Pahkinen herself has sung in a work but having never heard her before, I was astonished. Wordless song, like the rare note of a flute or birdsong rising over the landscape.”

Dagens Nyheter Maina Arvas

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PHOTOGRAPHERS: Mattias Lindbäck, Jukka Rintamäki
CHOREOGRAPHY

Virpi Pahkinen

DANCERS

Virpi Pahkinen, Pontus Sundset Granat, Victor Persson, Sofia Sangregorio/Vanessa Lindblom

COMPOSITION

Roger Ludvigsen

COSTUME DESIGN

Virpi Pahkinen

ART

Kristin Tårnesvik

SOUND DESIGN

Jukka Rintamäki

ICE SOUNDS

Jonna Jinton

LIGHT DESIGN

Niklas Glahns

VIDEO DESIGN

Johannes Ferm Winkler

COSTUME TAILORING

Skrädderikompaniet LiLaRo

PRODUCER

Yvonne Granath /Scenkonst Sörmland, Sebastian Björkman /Giron Sámi Teáhter, Gita Mallik/VPDC

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Maria Weisby/ Scenkonst Sörmland & Åsa Simma/ Giron Sámi Teáhter