I’ll Swim with My Eyes Closed
Choreography, costumes: Viktoria Kohalmi
Performance: Rebecca Häusler, Viktoria Kohalmi
Sprouting Roots
Community dance project
I’m in the sea — a plastic ocean.
It’s just me and you.
And the other You, watching from afar.
Are we human,
struggling to solve the problem of pollution?
Or animals, trapped in it,
just trying to survive?
Either way, our fragile illusion—
that we’re getting closer to a solution—
drifts with the waves of our inertia,
until we choose to swim with our eyes closed.
Are you suffocating too?
Or is it only me…
This project places folk dances into contemporary improvisation structure. My vision is to develop an accessible movement practice that can be organically implemented in communities with varied folk cultures and different backgrounds. I believe that innovation in traditional practices is crucial for their survival in modern society. Making folklore a part of people’s daily experience also significantly enhances cultural appreciation and understanding.
This project was funded by the European Union and the Goethe Institut.
Stress, isolation and aggression arise as a social problem from a very young age, and most of the time, the high and constant requirement of compliance plays the main role in it.
We all have the need to belong, and we all need to feel safe somewhere. This topic is emerging and shifting in our society, and is strongly connected to the topic of acceptance and inclusion. And so we will find out what are the thoughts, feelings and needs of young people on this topic. We will work with the means of making the constant connection between people tangible, so we can realize that all our movements and actions have an impact on others.
Choreography, dance pedagogy: Viktoria Kohalmi
Video, photography and music: Ralph Eckardt
Costume and stage design: Anne Wende
Pedagogy, management: Monika Schönburg
Financed by ChanceTanz, Aktion Tanz
Koniclab has introduced SiNaPS (Multi-Sensory Narrative System), their new virtual reality performance installation in collaboration with Viktoria Kohalmi.
Direction: Rosa Sánchez
Technology, audiovisuals: Alain Baumann
Dance performance: Viktoria Kohalmi
K L O F. cyberographies of folk
Concept, artistic direction, co-choreography: Irina Demina
Choreo(cybero)graphy: KLOF model
Co-choreography, dance: Viktória Kőhalmi
Sound: Michelangelo Contini
Machine learning programming: Dávid Samu
Computer animation: Yaron Maïm
Set design: Yue Ying
Costume design: Justyna Gmitrzuk
Light design: Asier Solana
Visuals, projection: Sven Gareis
Dramaturgical support: Ana Letunić
Production: Tammo Walter
Artistic assistance: Pauline Payen
Humans and artificial intelligence enter into a (folk) dance dialogue.
Two dancing bodies on stage. One is a living machine – a human body. The other is a programmed machine – an artificial intelligence.
Both were trained in folk dances.
“The things live far away, on a distant planet, nobody really knows where that is, …”
Die Dings is a dance piece for young audience about tolerance, friendship and integration.
Dance and choreography: Giuliana Corsi, Viktoria Kohalmi, Anna-Lu Masch
Narrator: Otto Koch
Director: Anna-Lu Masch
Collaboration on the idea: Claudia Reiff
Music: Phillip Achtzehnter
Set design and costumes: Stefanie Manhillen
Humanity seems to be losing the race against the defending nature. While more and more natural resources and beauty are being lost around us and much of it may only be experienced in a virtual memory in the future, we are left with our bodies and the possibility of meeting others. The memory of our origins of the shared dance rituals around a fire slumbers within us and waits to be awakened.
Choreographers: Stefan Hahn and Viktoria Kohalmi
Dancers, co-creators: Perform[d]ance Jugendkompanie
Music: Sebastian Serpell – Light design/Production: Felix Grimm – Video: Karolina Serafin – Stage/Costume: Xenia Hufschmidt & Annett Hunger
What is the relation between imagination and escapism? How can we bring our fantasy utopias into everyday lives?
Choreography: Beatrix Simkó and Irina Demina
Dance and performance: Irina Demina and Viktoria Kohalmi
An intergalactic poetic dance odyssey by “RUBY BUYERS”
RePlay
Sustainability. Resilience.
Our question was how can we maintain mental and emotional stability in everyday life in the face of difficulties.
Choreographer: Viktoria Kohalmi
Dancer, co-creator: Rebecca Häusler
Music: Davidson Jaconello
Choreographer: Raphael Sahyoun
Assistant choreographer: Ines Galrao
Performers: Giuliana Corsi Kolling, Victoria Kohalmi, Kailin America, Manoela Rangel, Marta Ruszkowska, Beatriz Silva
Music: Rodrigo Guima
Production: Viviane Tabach
by Casa Aberta and the Localize Potsdam Festival
BRUMA is a performative concert of plants and post-humans, that develops from acoustic and visual signals, registered live from a plant set, monitored and connected to an interactive device made by Kòniclab for this action.
Choreographer, performer: Rosa Sánchez
Audiovisuals: Alain Baumann
Dancer: Viktoria Kohalmi
A Trip without Traveling
We all have been dealing with the pandemic one way or another. This video dance piece, made with the purpose of describing specific situations during the lockdown, is my personal interpretation of this historical moment based on a variety of sources, from the direct experience of my surroundings and myself, down to inner thoughts and emotions.
Concept and performance: Viktoria Kohalmi
Music: Sebastian Serpell
Assistant Director/Camera: György Jellinek
Lighting: Piotr Lemieszczuk
5 Postures of the Himalayan Blue Bird
We cannot help but ask ourselves: are we so rooted in the logical world that we cannot release deep attachments to our own material universe? Or, is our link to the primal so strong that our aversion to evolution is forced to take centre stage.
This piece allows the primordial voice to emerge from the body to talk, to transmit and to be present.
Choreography, performance: Viktoria Kohalmi
Co-director, costume designer: Benjamin Nivison
Music: Sebastian Serpell
“A concert of dance and visual poetry in a world of hybrid languages.“
“#14::SKYLINE_EXTENDED:: is a show consisting of dance, music and live visuals where two female dancers, a female performer and a male musician interact with the spaces and stage scenery and props in a highly visual show.”
“In this piece Kònic Thtr offers a critical look at the new techniques of power, that rely on the access and manipulation of the sphere of psyche to submit people.”
Choreographer, performer: Rosa Sánchez
Audiovisuals: Alain Baumann
Dancers: Violeta Iriberri and Viktoria Kohalmi
Video dance / Music video
Director & Concept – Iris Jacobs
Dancers – Viktória Kőhalmi & Jorge Carreño Reyes
Director of Photography – Maximiliano Fritz Aerial Cinematography – Andrew Codd Make Up – Artist Rita Skomrova Editor – Iris Jacobs & Yaroslav Color Correction – Konstantin Konovalov Styling & Art Direction – Iris Jacobs Production assistant – Ian Mihura
Film by Mai Lasan, Claus Vega & Salih Sali
Director & Post pro: Mai Lasan
DoPs: Salih Sali
Starring: Fabian Castro
Dancers: Viktoria Kohalmi, Lara Muslera, Arina Lannoo, Leila Patzies
Make up Artists: Francesca Febo & Jesus DeBina,
2nd assistants: Davide Lauricella, Franco Baron & Alessandro Costa
Set photographer: Alicia Aicrag
Director: Tamás Topolánszky
Assistant choreographer: Lotti Pintér
Guest choreographers, creators:
Zoltán Grecsó, Máté Mészáros, Jenna Jalonen and Attila Gergely.
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