NYKY Ensemble and Liisa Pentti +Co: Ref2022
Sibelius Academy’s NYKY Ensemble continues their interdisciplinary artistic cooperation with Liisa Pentti +Co dance group.
Premiered in 2020, the inspiration for the work Ref2020 was Brian Eno’s piece Reflection (2017). In the reproduction of the work, ”Ref2022”, a live adaptation of Brian Eno’s music comes to life as a coproduction of the Sibelius Academy’s NYKY Ensemble and Liisa Pentti +Co.
The work, created together with six dancers, suggests a new kind of connection between contemporary dance and Eno’s music where the meditative music creates singing and historicity of movement.
In every moment the dancers continually modify their movement paths with microscopic precision by observing the dialogue between movement and mind and constantly making choices about space and timing. The rich and unpredictable movement language acts at times as a counterpoint to the soundscape and sometimes independently, without a primary relationship to the music.
Ref2022 is a light work in dark times. The music and dance create a landscape inside which the viewer can allow themselves to experience floating, timelessness and dreams that occasionally remind us of a past that perhaps never was.
Performers and working group
Performance concept: Liisa Pentti and Libero Mureddu
Arrangement concept, coaching of music, programming of synthesizers and spatialisation: Libero Mureddu
Arrangement and transcription of music: Esther Calderón Morales and Jaakko Kilpeläinen
Orchestration: Jaakko Kilpeläinen
Orchestration coaching: Juhani Nuorvala
Software programming: Esther Calderón Morales and Alejandro Olarte
Live-electronics: Esther Calderón Morales
Music technology coaching: Alejandro Olarte
Consultant: Josué Moreno
Sound engineer: Marko Myöhänen
NYKY Ensemble, music
- Cliodhna Scott, flute
- Ita Nagode, saxophone
- Ilta Attila, saxophone
- Tiia Toivanen, percussion
- Sesili Saneblidze, violin
- Tamar Gvazava, viola
- Tomass Ančs, cello
- Anders Hellesund, double bass
- Mariia Maselska, keyboards
- Iivari Aalto, keyboards
- Troels Lorenz, accordion
- Esther Calderón Morales, live-electronics
Choreography and dance direction: Liisa Pentti
Liisa Pentti +Co, dance
- Ronja Syvälahti
- Corinne Mustonen
- Pinja Poropudas
- Satu Rekola
- Kardo Shiwan
- Katri Soini
Lighting design: Ina Niemelä
Light technician: Jukka Kolimaa
Costume design: Tua Helve
Performances
- Thu 17 November at 7:00 p.m.
- Fri 18 November at 7:00 p.m.
Further information: Leevi Räsänen, leevi.rasanen@uniarts.fi
Premiered in 2020, the inspiration for the work Ref2020 was Brian Eno’s piece Reflection (2017). In the reproduction of the work, ”Ref2022”, a live adaptation of Brian Eno’s music comes to life as a coproduction of the Sibelius Academy’s NYKY Ensemble and Liisa Pentti +Co.
The work, created together with six dancers, suggests a new kind of connection between contemporary dance and Eno’s music where the meditative music creates singing and historicity of movement.
In every moment the dancers continually modify their movement paths with microscopic precision by observing the dialogue between movement and mind and constantly making choices about space and timing. The rich and unpredictable movement language acts at times as a counterpoint to the soundscape and sometimes independently, without a primary relationship to the music.
Ref2022 is a light work in dark times. The music and dance create a landscape inside which the viewer can allow themselves to experience floating, timelessness and dreams that occasionally remind us of a past that perhaps never was.
Performers and working group
Performance concept: Liisa Pentti and Libero Mureddu
Arrangement concept, coaching of music, programming of synthesizers and spatialisation: Libero Mureddu
Arrangement and transcription of music: Esther Calderón Morales and Jaakko Kilpeläinen
Orchestration: Jaakko Kilpeläinen
Orchestration coaching: Juhani Nuorvala
Software programming: Esther Calderón Morales and Alejandro Olarte
Live-electronics: Esther Calderón Morales
Music technology coaching: Alejandro Olarte
Consultant: Josué Moreno
Sound engineer: Marko Myöhänen
NYKY Ensemble, music
- Cliodhna Scott, flute
- Ita Nagode, saxophone
- Ilta Attila, saxophone
- Tiia Toivanen, percussion
- Sesili Saneblidze, violin
- Tamar Gvazava, viola
- Tomass Ančs, cello
- Anders Hellesund, double bass
- Mariia Maselska, keyboards
- Iivari Aalto, keyboards
- Troels Lorenz, accordion
- Esther Calderón Morales, live-electronics
Choreography and dance direction: Liisa Pentti
Liisa Pentti +Co, dance
- Ronja Syvälahti
- Corinne Mustonen
- Pinja Poropudas
- Satu Rekola
- Kardo Shiwan
- Katri Soini
Lighting design: Ina Niemelä
Light technician: Jukka Kolimaa
Costume design: Tua Helve
Performances
- Thu 17 November at 7:00 p.m.
- Fri 18 November at 7:00 p.m.
Further information: Leevi Räsänen, leevi.rasanen@uniarts.fi