Tama (2022)
'Tama', referring to the votive offerings of Eastern Orthodox traditions, is a film from a collective of screendance works titled The Somnambulists, made by 11 international dance artists selected by International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy. Made in tribute to Maya Deren’s 1951 unfinished work Ensemble for Somnambulists.
Choreography - Aliina Lindroos
Cinematography and post-production - Eoin O'Dowd
Technical assistance - Steve Maher, Adán Mendoza
Performance in order of appearance - Birgit Lindroos, Aliina Lindroos
Supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland & Fingal County Council
Boreal Screendance Festival Deiglan Gilfélagið, Akureyri, IS (2022)
International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy, FRA (2022)
Choreography - Aliina Lindroos
Cinematography and post-production - Eoin O'Dowd
Technical assistance - Steve Maher, Adán Mendoza
Performance in order of appearance - Birgit Lindroos, Aliina Lindroos
Supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland & Fingal County Council
Boreal Screendance Festival Deiglan Gilfélagið, Akureyri, IS (2022)
International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy, FRA (2022)
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The Last Visit (2018)
The Last Visit depicts a melancholic woman's mysterious existence. Her catatonic presence is transformed when she is visited by a haunting but beautiful being. Desperately sought relief comes to her as she falls under a spell of the dark angel.
Direction: Aliina Lindroos
Performance: Aliina Lindroos and Caoimhe Lavelle
Choreography: Aliina Lindroos
Music: Anna Clock
Cinematography and video work: Gavin Ovoca
Editing: Aliina Lindroos
Tipperary Dance Platform, IRE (2019)
Wicklow Screendance Festival, IRE (2019)
Direction: Aliina Lindroos
Performance: Aliina Lindroos and Caoimhe Lavelle
Choreography: Aliina Lindroos
Music: Anna Clock
Cinematography and video work: Gavin Ovoca
Editing: Aliina Lindroos
Tipperary Dance Platform, IRE (2019)
Wicklow Screendance Festival, IRE (2019)
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Landing (2016-present)
Together Landing Collective (Aliina Lindroos and Moran Been-noon) have presented both performance and video work in Ireland and abroad. Landing launched with three live performances and a week long installation in Eight Gallery, Dublin Dec 2016. The exhibition installation consisted of various screens, monitors, projectors with a collection of video pieces, which one had audio as well. It also included an independent audio piece at the entrance of the room. All these pieces were set in a living-room like space which showed signs of a finished tea party. The dance performance was mapped in the space through spectators. As a whole the piece creates a lingering sense of belonging. As composition it places the body in an in-between space, not home but in a place where she has had tried made home.
A video piece from Eight gallery Landing Channel 1 was also included in Platform Arts Members Show, Belfast, Dec 2016. This one explores the emigrated dancing body against the backdrop Berlin.
Can You Hear The Birds From The Water? media piece was part of larger art exhibition Joint Effort II, in Lubbock, TX, USA Oct 2017. Dolev Laxer created a foreboding soundscape for this video. Another work The Land Wants Me Here was included of Transmediale Festival, showed as part of Emerge/ncy exhibition in Galerie Mausefalle, Berlin, Germany Jan 2018. The open call seeked responses to the theme of complex technological and cultural transformations creating an urgent feeling of personal emergency. Our video piece symbolises adaptation in times of cultural transition. This projected lichen refers to a relationship between land that feels home and body that's away from home. It draws connection between human ability to adapt even in hostile environment and the biological tendency of lichen to adjust to its surroundings in order to survive.
Landing Collective were artists in residence in Draiocht Arts Centre Mar - Apr 2018, as part of INCUBATE programme curated by Sharon Murphy. During this residency Lindroos and Been-noon researched and developed a full length performance piece. Additionally they exhibited two channel work Alkaline Osmosis at PLATFORM’18 Feb 2018 and performed multidisciplinary piece Folded in Tradition Apr 2018, both events hosted by Draiocht. Folded in Tradition which combines dance, audio and live projections and looks at embodied memories, was also performed as a work-in-progress at Livestock in MART gallery March 2018. In most recent news, their media piece Foreign Tides (2017) will be presented at Eye’s Walk Festival in Ermoupolis, island of Syros in Greece, July 2018. This festival combines digital technology, video installation & performing art, experimental design with the unique cultural and architectural background of the city.
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A video piece from Eight gallery Landing Channel 1 was also included in Platform Arts Members Show, Belfast, Dec 2016. This one explores the emigrated dancing body against the backdrop Berlin.
Can You Hear The Birds From The Water? media piece was part of larger art exhibition Joint Effort II, in Lubbock, TX, USA Oct 2017. Dolev Laxer created a foreboding soundscape for this video. Another work The Land Wants Me Here was included of Transmediale Festival, showed as part of Emerge/ncy exhibition in Galerie Mausefalle, Berlin, Germany Jan 2018. The open call seeked responses to the theme of complex technological and cultural transformations creating an urgent feeling of personal emergency. Our video piece symbolises adaptation in times of cultural transition. This projected lichen refers to a relationship between land that feels home and body that's away from home. It draws connection between human ability to adapt even in hostile environment and the biological tendency of lichen to adjust to its surroundings in order to survive.
Landing Collective were artists in residence in Draiocht Arts Centre Mar - Apr 2018, as part of INCUBATE programme curated by Sharon Murphy. During this residency Lindroos and Been-noon researched and developed a full length performance piece. Additionally they exhibited two channel work Alkaline Osmosis at PLATFORM’18 Feb 2018 and performed multidisciplinary piece Folded in Tradition Apr 2018, both events hosted by Draiocht. Folded in Tradition which combines dance, audio and live projections and looks at embodied memories, was also performed as a work-in-progress at Livestock in MART gallery March 2018. In most recent news, their media piece Foreign Tides (2017) will be presented at Eye’s Walk Festival in Ermoupolis, island of Syros in Greece, July 2018. This festival combines digital technology, video installation & performing art, experimental design with the unique cultural and architectural background of the city.
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Photo © Amber Baruch
Sugar (2013)
A short dance film produced with CoisCéim Dance Theatre. Premiered in Irish Film Institute Sat Nov 2nd as part of CoisCéim Connections celebration week.
Using nostalgic childhood memories of friendly neighbour relations as a basis, the film conveys the train of fast paced uncontrollable thoughts from dark moments of self-doubt to minutes of secret joy when under a spell of romantic crush.
Concept and choreography: Aliina Lindroos
Dancer: Aliina Lindroos
Music: Luke Farrell
Costume: Naoise Farrell
Using nostalgic childhood memories of friendly neighbour relations as a basis, the film conveys the train of fast paced uncontrollable thoughts from dark moments of self-doubt to minutes of secret joy when under a spell of romantic crush.
Concept and choreography: Aliina Lindroos
Dancer: Aliina Lindroos
Music: Luke Farrell
Costume: Naoise Farrell
Photo © Peter Kelly