Work before 2017TöötötöööTöötötöö (2014)
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Töötötöö is one of the many "indirect" names for the bear in Finland. The Bear used to be a well respected and holy animal in Finland so the actual name Ohto was not used. The finnish word for "to call" kutsua suggest that saying a name outloud also in a way summons the called to be present. A similar phenomena desribed in Harry Potter´s Voldemort-name-anxiety. The piece was done to the National Park of Petkeljärvi and was perfomed in the forrest. The organic and contextual setting of the performance made it a very nice experience to perfomance and to experience as a watcher also. The body sure knows how to move with roots and woods althought for the geometrical mind it might be hard to get a "nice overview". This piece was done with the lovely Raisa Vennamo I have gotten to know by attending her Feldenkrais classes. Raisa is a well established but peripherical dance artist whose been in the dance field for couple of decades already. It was a real pleasure to have the chance to work her - I have never made a piece as fast and efficient! Her Feldenkrais background with her life experience and lovely-but-not-a-fool characteristics made the working intense but easy in a sense that no forcing was used. The narrative or movement score came with ease and depth. In this piece I got a glance of how easy making a performance can be if the skills of a wise body, being present and involving oneself completely are used. I think this piece was at the same time physically eloquent and emotionally touching. Töötötöö is one of the many "indirect" names for the bear in Finland. The Bear used to be a well respected and holy animal in Finland so the actual name Ohto was not used. The finnish word for "to call" kutsua suggest that saying a name outloud also in a way summons the called to be present. A similar phenomena desribed in Harry Potter´s Voldemort-name-anxiety. The piece was done to the National Park of Petkeljärvi and was perfomed in the forrest. The organic and contextual setting of the performance made it a very nice experience to perfomance and to experience as a watcher also. The body sure knows how to move with roots and woods althought for the geometrical mind it might be hard to get a "nice overview". This piece was done with the lovely Raisa Vennamo I have gotten to know by attending her Feldenkrais classes. Raisa is a well established but peripherical dance artist whose been in the dance field for couple of decades already. It was a real pleasure to have the chance to work her - I have never made a piece as fast and efficient! Her Feldenkrais background with her life experience and lovely-but-not-a-fool characteristics made the working intense but easy in a sense that no forcing was used. The narrative or movement score came with ease and depth. In this piece I got a glance of how easy making a performance can be if the skills of a wise body, being present and involving oneself completely are used. I think this piece was at the same time physically eloquent and emotionally touching. |
Oli musta myös valkoista
Oli musta myös valkoista (2013) Choreography and dance Sebastian López-Lehto
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This work was a finalwork solo for my Outokumpu education. It intertwined with the prosess of a previous solo I made in Theater Academy. Here I was more free with introducing movement themes and tried to use my improvisation skill to make set choreography. In those times I was struggling with the impossibility of being completely coherent with the movement themes. I remember saying to my teacher Katariina Vähäkallio "I don´t understand change!" where she replied "Yes you do! In improvisation all the time!"
I wish I´ll have the time to continue with this piece since many people seemed to find it touching. To make it longer and more a piece. A very nice compliment from a young skateboard dude was when he told that the first time he understood a dance piece.. Here´s a link for the piece in Vimeo! |
Macbeth Laboratio
pictures: Sanna Käsmä
Macbeth Laboratorio (2014) was collaboration between the director/actor/gestalt-therapist Liisa Mustonen, choreographer Samuli Nordberg and the BA in Dance student of Theather Academy. The performance skills applied in this project included intention-emotion based actors skills, strong physicality and therapeutic dealing of group dynamics. The range of skills and learning concerning performing and perfromance making was vast. I learned a lot, got good experiences and deepened my interest for the connection between body and mind, the importance of intention as a creative force in action and the connection between power and learning. You can get the best out people not by oppresion and hierarchy but by dignity and listening. Stiff hierarchies and lack of communication of feelings are a stagnating force surpressing human potential!
Directed and choreographed by Liisa Mustonen and Samuli Nordberg
Performers: Miika Alatupa, Krista Arppo, Ima Iduozee, Karoliina Kauhanen, Anni Koskinen, Anna Kupari, Sebastian López-Lehto, Joonas Luomala, Iiro Näkki, Justus Pienmunne, Pinja Poropudas, Johannes Purovaara, Katriina Tavi
Directed and choreographed by Liisa Mustonen and Samuli Nordberg
Performers: Miika Alatupa, Krista Arppo, Ima Iduozee, Karoliina Kauhanen, Anni Koskinen, Anna Kupari, Sebastian López-Lehto, Joonas Luomala, Iiro Näkki, Justus Pienmunne, Pinja Poropudas, Johannes Purovaara, Katriina Tavi
Converations with An Ant Colony
Conversation with An Ant Colony (2013) was an improvisation based piece choreographed by Liisa Risu. The work was according to Risu her most open one, so we really got to start a new each performance. Liisa Risu has a vast and well articulated know-how on improvisation and choreography so working with her was a great exprerience. It was a challenge to trust my self, the group and our process as force making the piece every night. We learned different tools to practise improvisation concerning awareness of space, relation to others and the body, many of them created by Thomas Heuert.These body and space exercises created the basic language structure or horizon of possibilities and achor points which we then worked and improvised with.
Choreography: Liisa Risu & co.
Dancers: Krista Arppo, Fuji Hoffmann, Anna Kupari, Sebastian López-Lehto, Outi Markkula, Hanna Mönkäre, Iiro Näkki ja Katriina Tavi
Sound: Iiro Ollila
Light: Mia Kivinen
Choreography: Liisa Risu & co.
Dancers: Krista Arppo, Fuji Hoffmann, Anna Kupari, Sebastian López-Lehto, Outi Markkula, Hanna Mönkäre, Iiro Näkki ja Katriina Tavi
Sound: Iiro Ollila
Light: Mia Kivinen
Dog´s Thought And Other Things
Dog´s Thoughts And Other Things (2013) was a release technique based movement composition were movement was considered as a subject in itself. It was choreographed by the beautiful and sensitive Sanna Myllylahti. Movement material was composed with a deconstruction - reconstructio method were an original phrase took different form when alternating it. Composition in general was then a clustered varition of these varitions and counter-themes. Participating in this prosess was fruitful in a sense that in enable the close-zooming of movement functionality and the structure of composition. How to make movement as abstraction meaningful and completely functional for you body and sense? What makes an abstract set of movements and scenes a coherent and subjectively meaningful whole?
Choreography: Sanna Myllylahti
Light design: Janne Björklöf
Sound design: Fornier Ortiz
Performers: Miika Alatupa, Krista Arppo, Ima Iduozee, Karoliina Kauhanen, Elisa Keisanen, Anni Koskinen, Anna Kupari, Sebastian López-Lehto, Joonas Luomala, Outi Markkula, Anne Naukkarinen, Iiro Näkki, Justus Pienmunne, Pinja Poropudas, Johannes Purovaara, Sami Similä, Katriina Tavi
Choreography: Sanna Myllylahti
Light design: Janne Björklöf
Sound design: Fornier Ortiz
Performers: Miika Alatupa, Krista Arppo, Ima Iduozee, Karoliina Kauhanen, Elisa Keisanen, Anni Koskinen, Anna Kupari, Sebastian López-Lehto, Joonas Luomala, Outi Markkula, Anne Naukkarinen, Iiro Näkki, Justus Pienmunne, Pinja Poropudas, Johannes Purovaara, Sami Similä, Katriina Tavi
Painovoima ja armo
Sepi from Sebastian López on Vimeo.
Painovoima ja armo (2013) First year solo piece from Theater Academy. An exploration of gravity and anti-gravity influenced by texts of French philosopher Simone Weil. This piece later developed to more refined version, but I don´t have a recording. Maybe someday.
Music: Ligeti - Ramifications
Choreography and dance: Sebastian López-Lehto
Music: Ligeti - Ramifications
Choreography and dance: Sebastian López-Lehto
Vako sametissaVako sametissa (2011)
Choreography and dance: Elisa Keisanen, Johanna Niipala and Sebastian López-Lehto Pictures: Matti Häyrynen |
This piece was a collaboration between three dance students from Outokumpu college, from dance theater Kramppi and the same city. It was a playful site specific work that dealt the and rose from the ruins of a factory. It was performed in an old industrial hall and was part of dance festival Uuden Polven Museon tanssitapahtuma. We also performed in another industrial hall in North Karelia.
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2/3 Unite! was the first dance I was making myself - with the dancer Emma Tolander from Stockholm. We know each other from capoeira classes but were very different kind of movers. Those times had no formal dance training and she came from Stockholms Balett Academí. The starting point was to combine contemporary dance with capoeira in a revolutionary/political context. It was the time of the London Riots and change was in the air. We learned a lot from each others ways of moving and performed the piece quite a lot touring schools in Central Finland.
The piece was commissioned by the Jyväskylän Kesä festival. |