KAJA
Kaja is a solo performance exploring the freedom to step into the unfamiliar, born from my decision to bring flamenco — long confined to the classroom — into performance for the first time, alongside my established practice in contemporary dance.
Performed almost entirely without music — relying on my breath, my zapateado, and a brief recorded cante — the work uses light to trace different flamenco palos, making visible the dramaturgy of arrival. The residency produced a standalone piece that feels like a first chapter, with the next step being not just learning flamenco's language, but finding what to say through it.
Type
Residency / Performance / Contemporary dance & Flamenco
Location
Humina ry / Helsinki, Finland
Year
2026 (Premiered 28th June)
Granted by
Humina ry
Mentor
Heli Keskikallio
Photos
Humina ry
DETACHMENT 🌹
Detachment is a solo dance work I created exploring the relationship between the menstrual cycle, body image, and womanhood — rooted in personal experience, it reflects on physical and emotional pain, societal taboos, transformation, and the strength that can emerge through vulnerability. It became both an exploration of my changing relationship with my body and a tribute to the resilience within the menstrual cycle. The choreography combined structured movement with improvisation, letting personal memories and bodily sensations guide the performance, with a red coat as a central symbol of both the weight I carried and the possibility of letting go, alongside a bag embodying the emotional and physical baggage we accumulate, protect, and gradually learn to release. Music by Susanna Silvenus and a poem by Aga Sadowska shaped the work's rhythm and emotional landscape, their collaboration becoming inseparable from its unfolding. The title refers to the uterine lining detaching from the body, turning a deeply intimate experience into a broader reflection on release, acceptance, and change — and through creating it, I found a greater sense of acceptance toward my own body, and an understanding that every creative process, like every cycle, eventually asks to be let go.
Type: Performance (Contemporary Dance)
Format:
Solo
Location:
Finland
Year:
2023
Host:
Humina
ry
Credit:
Music
by Susanna Silvenus, poem by Aga Sadowska
Video: Humina ry
FRAGMENTOS
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Fragmentos was an unchoreographed street performance aiming to experience raw human encounters — find the parts of ourselves that we reveal or withhold, the space left after an interaction, and the intangible feeling of being seen. Each moment emerged through improvisation, relying on mutual willingness as people could approach me, I could approach them, or we could simply witness one another; I came to understand that observation is itself a form of participation, with being watched, ignored, welcomed, or surprised continuously reshaping my movement. Before approaching anyone, I paid close attention to body language and openness, letting consent, distance, and intuition guide the work as a constant negotiation between presence and absence. Two objects anchored the piece: a bucket of water, a quiet metaphor for the care relationships require, and a collection of flowers, representing what we choose to offer, receive, or keep. What stays with me most is that, for brief moments, the people I encountered also became performers — unknowingly co-creating a shared, unrepeatable choreography out of an everyday encounter.
Type:
Street
Performance (Interactive, Dance)
Format:
Solo
Location:
Finland
Year:
2024
Host:
The
Other Side (One-Day Stand series), in collaboration with Catalysti
Transcultural Artists' Association
Photos: ©
Aman Askarizad
DANCE FOR TWO
Dance for Two was a dance presentation marking ten years of the Inkorpora Dance Project, founded by Silvia Verges, weaving together Ballet, Contemporary, Argentinian Tango, Lindy Hop and Brazilian Zouk choreographies into one continuous story across styles. Centered on the theme of connecting with another, the piece revealed its main thread as it moved between styles — the passage of time, generations, and the transmission of knowledge between dancers. Choreographies were accompanied by recorded and live music and the evening closed with a talk among the performers.
Artists
Contemporary
Dance: Nina
Pastel and Maria Gatsal
Ballet:
Marco
Di Salvo, Lyylia Koivuniemi, Silvia Verges, and Inkorpora Dance
Project's students
Argentinian
Tango: Maria
& Jeve
Brazilian
Zouk: Freddy
& Andressa
Lindy
Hop:
Kay Werndli and Tanja Wingerter
Piano:
Hanna-Mari Zinovjev
Cellists:
Mika
Seppänen and Runo Järvinen
Sound
Design:
Sebastian Kurten
Costume
Design:
Tutu Studio Borealis
Type:
Performance (Dance)
Format:
Duet / Ensemble
Location:
Helsinki, Finland (Aleksanterin Teatteri)
Year:
2023
Host:
Inkorpora Dance Project
Photos:
©
Alirezar
Border_shift
TRACKING STATUS : ACTIVE / SPATIAL MAP : LOADED / HUMAN + DIGITAL SYSTEM : CONNECTED
Border_shift was a dance performance around real-time 3D computer modeling and mapping of space — a research project on the interaction between human bodies and digital stage design. The name came from the tracking system itself, mapping dancers in space, which suggested the theme of borders: of trespassing, of sharing space, of where one body's edge meets another's, broadening outward into what it means for individuals and collectives to cross borders of their own. Instead of a fixed backdrop, the stage became a living, responsive digital environment, translating each dancer's position into shapes, lines, and shading projected in real time — raising questions like what happens when the sixth dancer isn't human, and pushing us beyond incorporating technology into the stage toward questioning its meaning and purpose. The mapping itself ended up shaping the choreography, showing us routes and movement across the stage, and forming unexpected, almost drawing-like shapes from our own motion. Rehearsals were physical, academic, and technical, full of trial and error — and beneath the rigor, plenty of play too, with improvised moments that never made the final piece but were some of the most enjoyable parts of the process.
Real-time 3D computer modeling means a computer builds and constantly updates a three-dimensional map of a space as it happens live. In Border_shift, that meant tracking each dancer's body moment to moment and translating their position into shapes, lines, and shading projected around them. Instead of a fixed backdrop, the stage itself became a living, responsive digital environment, reacting to the performers in real time.
Team
Dancers:
Hermann Bär, Olga Blank, Beomseok Jeong, Bernd Pierre Louis, Maria
Gatsal
Choreographer
/ Production / Research:
Yvonne
Eibig
Stage /
Digital Art / Research:
Dr. Simon Virgo
Type:
Performance (Dance & Digital/Interactive Media)
Format:
Ensemble
Location:
Aachen, Germany
Year:
2019–2020
Photos: © Julian
Koncos
UNCANNY VALLEY
Uncanny Valley was a piece that explored what it means to live inside algorithmic worlds — the digital spaces we increasingly inhabit, which quietly entangle with our own longings, dreams, hopes, and fears. Choreographed by Lin Verleger for the Schrittmacher Just Dance! Festival and for Berliner Festspiele's Tanztreffen der Jugend. Performed also at the Theater Heerlen & Kerkrade, The Netherlands, and other venues in Cologne, Germany.
The piece dissolved the line between performer and audience, drawing everyone into the same unfolding story as an experimental attempt to restore balance in a digital age. The choreography also included body percussion patterns by Jimi Renfro, group choreographies, duets, and solo work; I developed a short solo with an apple guided by Lin, which also gave me the opportunity to explore, at a more personal level, the weight it means to hold the revelation of new times in my body.
Team
Choreography:
Lin Verleger
Physical
Rhythm: Jimi
Renfro
Composition:
Marie-Christin
Sommer and Ophelia Sullivan
Lighting:
Maud Wedick
and Emma Zaalberg
Costume:
Lin
Verleger
Production/Dramaturgy:
Yvonne
Eibig
Dancers:
Ronja Luka Bellhoff, Femke Brons, Sharon Habets, Maria Gatsal,
Mohamed Ben Salah, Jerome Schickschneit
Type:
Performance (Contemporary Dance-Theatre)
Format:
Ensemble
Duration: 45min
Location:
Netherlands and Germany
Year:
2018–2019
Co-production:
Schrittmacher Festival GENERATION2 — Kulturbetrieb der Stadt
Aachen, Parkstad Limburg Theaters, Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg.
SINERGIA ☼