TRIPPING

Imagine

Touching freedom

Then one day, having to let it go.

Everything turns upside down And the only option is to return.

It all feels predetermined,

Like a force pulling you home

To a place where a future is hard to be found.

Tripping- a personal choreographic narrative on migration, resilience, and a fragile line between dreams and reality.

Tripping is based on a true story. A young woman arrives in Finland to pursue her education, full of hope and determination. But what starts as a dream turns into a struggle of survival. She invests everything in her future, only to find herself caught in the complexities of migration and exclusion. When she was forced to leave Finland, Marjan Raar made her a promise: I will make a choreography for you – about you.

Tripping welcomes the audience on a journey to a world where the line between dreams and reality begins to blur. A solo performance and a last-minute ticket to a hideaway place, created in a small corner of a parking garage.

Through dance, music and video projections on the wall, this everyday, transitional environment is transformed into a place of reflection and togetherness.It becomes a place where people can take a break and experience something beyond the ordinary.

Tripping in rehearsal in the Netherlands :

ARTS NIGHT in Turku 14.8

20.30-21.15 at Sibelius Museum

VYSOTSKY

Dance : Evgeny Kostyukov & Marjan Raar

Music: Mihail Ionin & Petri Rajala

Coming up in November 2025 : “R.I.F”

In a space where borders are drawn and redrawn, where every step feels like an unfinished task, we find ourselves rerouting—again and again.

A body in motion, searching for its place, sometimes feeling unfitting, sometimes held back by restrictions. Yet, in between, there is movement, breath, and a quiet push toward freedom.

R.I.F explores the balance between limitation and possibility—a concept of movement, adaptation, discovery and a dance about Restrictions, Isolation & Freedom.

Supported by Svenska Kulturfonden

March 2025

ANIMAL is a soloprojekt that i make for and with dancer Evgeny Kostyukov.
Supported by Svenska Kulturfonden.

Performances : 21-22-23.3 in Barker-theatre in a double-bill program with Amsterdam based artist
Antti Uimonen and his solowork UNFOLDING.

I received this in November 2024 and am very honoured to get this award !

During October 2024 I organised a guest performance for dancer/ choreographer Niek Wagenaar from Amsterdam. His solowork BOY was performed in Barker as a double bill together with a solowork from Evgeny Kostyukov INSIDE, for which I was mentor.

August and September 2024 we worked on Quantum Rhapsody and performed in Barker -theatre in Finland.