PERFORMANCES
Starchildren in the world
6.-9.3.2025
@ Mad House Helsinki, Lintulahdenkatu 3.
27.11. 2024 at 19 and 28.11. 2024 at 19
@ Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Kalastajankatu 1b, Turku, Finland.
Photo: Sara Pathirane
It is difficult for the star children to adapt to the world. They breathe and express themselves like the clouds in the sky, the sea on the land, and the stars in space.
Star children in the world is a show that contains an insane mix of five mini-performances. The mini-performances have been made during the years 2022–2024 and each of their life’s challenges and physical blockages has been trembled, distressed, shaken, illuminated. Silliness, homemade, truthfulness, rejoicing, and airing of the beliefs have been and will be present and are now painted with an even bigger brush.
There are crazy costumes, magical silk paintings, and limitless creatures that prove the mystery of living. Spaciousness versus the mundane world. Freedom is very close, you can let go. The intention is to make a show, that is at the same time a B-class comedy, a spa for souls, and a church of the new era.
Choreography, costumes, and performance: Laura the Light (Laura Pietiläinen)
Creating together and performance: Alm Gnista, Lätsä (Lauri Antti Mattila), and P.P. Puska (Piia Rinne)
Visual art (videos and paintings): Sara Pathirane
Sound design (with performers): Sirja Puurtinen
Lighting design: Anna Pöllänen
Mentor: Lin Da
Ehkä-production’s house dramaturg: Even Minn
Perfume: Sielunkuu / Tiina Pitkänen
Production: Ehkä-production, Live Art Society, and Laura Pietiläinen, in collaboration with the Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland
Residency: Ehkä-production/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo (Turku)
Supporters: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, and City of Helsinki
Premiere: 27.11.2024 XS Festival/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku
Language: Finnish
Duration: 120 mins
Photo: Sara Pathirane
Yet something is different
14.9.2024 at 19 and 15.9.2024 at 19
@ Liisa Pentti + Co -studio, Laivakatu 5 K Helsinki
Photo: Sara Pathirane
Yet something is different is the latest creation of Laura the Light and P. P. Puska.
In the performance, we don't know more about the world than newborns or teenagers, but we are at the edge of life, turning, twisting and squeezing so that everything can be different.
In this fifth and final mini-show of the Star Children in the World series, the starting point was death and rebirth, which led to mystery and silliness. Once again, home-made and overflowing are praised, and freedom from stifling conditions, clothes and beliefs is given.
Free entry!
Duration: about 50 min
Overall concept, choreography, costumes, performing, song translations and arrangements: Laura the Light a.k.a. Laura Pietiläinen
Co-creation, own music, performing, arrangements of songs, P. P. Puska a.k.a Piia Rinne
Silk paintings and photo: Sara Pathirane
The performance has been supported by the city of Helsinki and Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Sarvimaa
23.2.2023 at 19 and 24.2.2023 at 20.
@ community room in Laivalahdenkaari 7, Herttoniemenranta Helsinki.
10.12.2023
@ PAU! - Open Home Performance Festival, Laajasalo Helsinki
Sarvimaa is a world created by Laura the Light of All and Alm Gnista;
a ritual of liberation through dance and song. It is a look towards the pains of the family and a path through the scenes that lead from them, sensitizing, playing, soothing, clapping, agitating. Aided by the violet flame that flickers and flutters and the joyful unicorns knocking at the door. There is a mixture of silk paintings by Sara Pathirane as well as velvet, harnesses, cables and diving.
The performance is the 4th in the Tähtilapset maailmalla (Star children in the world)
miniature performance series celebrating sillyness, homespunness,
the flow of energies and virtuosities of incompleteness. The performance springs from a belief in deep transformations and soul baths by the means of art.
Overall design, choreography, performing, costumes, song translations to Finnish and original rap parts: Laura the Light of All, Co-creation, performing, musical compositions and arrangements, and original rap parts: Alm Gnista, Silk paintings on costumes: Sara Pathirane.
Duration about 40 min.
Vapaa pääsy!
Photos: Tanja Silvestrini
Like the Stars 27.8.2023
@ Esitysteltta, Oksasenkatu 11 gallery.
Like the stars - performance expands, gushes, flows and spills out of the video works of the Oksasenkatu 11 gallery's Like the stars -exchibition. The video works dance and play the parallel worlds of invisible beings, and the performance dance and play the parallel worlds of these parallel worlds.
Performers: Laura the Light and All, Lauri Antti Mattila, Salla Oinas, Sade Risku, Hessu Ystäväinranta.
Music: Lätsä, Mikko Joensuu, Okko Nuotio, Sirja Puurtinen, Kaino Kim Vieno
Costumes: Burlesque Tsunami / Riina Salmi, Salla Oinas, Sade Risku, Laura the Light of All.
Photos: Screenshots from the recording filmed by Rogério Nuno Costa
Space antennas 9.7.2023 at 14 and 19
@ Liisa Pentti & co. studio, Laivakatu 5 K Helsinki.
Performance together with Lätsä and Sara Pathirane. A description and photo of the show will be here soon!
A B-class musical dance performance that passes or wonders between the stars, which includes magic, skills, lack of skill, consciousness and unconsciousness.
The scenes of the show spin, twist, freeze and flow in an intuitively chaotic way in the themes of letting go, being caught, being blocked and opening up.
Space antennas connect to frequencies and reveal disconnections. The performance is a third mini-performance as part of the Star Children in the World series.
Choreography, performing, costumes, text, own rapparts: Laura The Light of All
Performing, co-creation, Lätsä-songs and own rapparts: Lätsä
Paintings on the costumes: Sara PathiraneProduction: Laura Pietiläinen & Lauri Mattila
Mentor and space aid: Lin Da
Photos of performance: Sara Pathirane
Star triangles 19. 3. 2023 at 16
@ Esitystaiteen keskus, Suvilahti Helsinki
"Star Triangles" - mini-show is the second part of the series of "Star Children in the World" mini-shows.
This miniature performance is related to stars, triangles, triangles in its sense of energy, the symbol of separation and connection, from light and shadows to other kinds of magical weaves of existence. The performance includes rap, dance, paintings, curtains and wings, the mystical realities of the heart and the triangle.
Working group and support:
Overall design, choreography, texts, costumes & performance: Laura - The Light of All
Composition and implementation of the rap song: Riikka Pietiläinen - Caffrey
Paintings: Sara Pathirane Childhood
Memory of a gymnastics friend: Maria Ovaskainen
Mentoring: Lin Da
Help: Lauri Mattila
Photos: Sara Pathirane & Meri Takkinen
Seahorses 29. 10. 2022 at 12:45
@ Abdication of the Geniuses artfestival, Oksasenkau 11 -gallery, Helsinki
Seahorses video and performance.
"Seahorses (2022) depicts a dance of seahorses being born in ancient times, in mythological land. Later far-away in the future the seahorses wake up from their fossil bodies and through metamorphosis achieve Rambo-like powers."
Performance credits:
Choreography & dance: Laura – The Light of All
Dance & co-creationr: Salla Oinas & Heidi Wennerstrand
Costumes: Salla Oinas
Jewelry & perfume: Sielunkuu Tiina Pitkänen
Laura - The Light of All: The return of star children 20.8.2022 at 14
@ Kivinokka beach Helsinki
The return of star children - a miniature performance by the sea combines visual, dance and sound art.
"Star children have a hard time adjusting to the world, they breathe and express themselves like the clouds in the sky, the sea on the ground and the stars in the space."
Choreography, dance and costume: Laura - The Light of All
Painting: Sara Pathirane
Music: Sirja Puurtinen
Mask: Kallio second hand
The performance has been supported by the city of Helsinki
Laura - The Light of All: Hemera -Awakening of Spring dance performance 8.6., 12.6. and 21.8. and 16.9.
@HAA-gallery, Suomenlinna, Helsinki and Creation-gallery, Lahti.
Nature inspired dance performance Hemera-Awakening of Spring as part of Sara Pathirane's videorelief and a dancevideo.
Choreography & dance: Laura - The Light of All
Costume: Burlesque Tsunami / Riina Salmi
Music: Okko Nuotio
Photos: Miia Autio, Johanna Bordevik & Mátyás Stoller
Burlesque Tsunami accessories presents: Angel musicvideo lauch party 25.9.2020
@Free art space, Helsinki
Laura - The Light of all & Burlesque Tsunami: Fashion dance performance 5.9.2020
@Dose 468
Costume: Burlesque Tsunami/ Riina Salmi
Footwear: Anna Laitila & Niko Tuononen
Choreography & dance: Laura Pietiläinen/ Laura - The Light of All
Videoshooting: Johanna Bordevik
Angelcathelp: Henriikka Pöllänen
Photos: Maria Vetrova
Deserta 13.8.2020
@Kimmo Halme-Atelier Showroom Grand Opening, Helsinki
Dance: Laura - The Light of All
Electric guitar: Kimmo Halme
Hats: Kimmo Halme
Dress: Kativee
Freedom celebration 7.3.2020
@ Roihuvuori youth centre
Vapausrieha is a wintery DIY celebration of Artistic Independence ranging from baby screams to post-industrial soundscapes
Live Freedom Music Performances by:
RAINBOW AIR SURPRISE
EMILIA TUOVILA
600 KATOSTA
(Oxi Koskelainen + Topi Patjas first public live ever. imagine J.Karjalainen embracing Michael Gira somewhere in Ostrobothnia)
UTTUNUL
NUDE BLUE 2 & The Invitation - The Return of the Stor rooms -
the combination performance
The Invitation - The Return of the Storerooms by Laura Pietiläinen, Saara Norvio, Leila Kourkia and Auvo Sulo Hercules
Nude Blue 2 by Sara Kovamäki and Sanni Tulipääsky
Photo by Sara Kovamäki
Supported by Live art society
The Invitation-The Return of Storerooms & Nude Blue 2 mixing performance 1.12.2019
@Performance center Helsinki
In the midst of the performance processes begun in 2006, two different performances collided. The unifying theme is a protest against the stiffness and duplicity of surrounding structures.
Nude Blue 2
Performers : Sara Kovamäki ja Sanni Tulipääsky = ANARKISSOS
Voices: Eliel Tammiharju
Video: Sara Kovamäki
The Invitation-The return of storerooms
Performers: Laura Pietiläinen - Faunifööniä
Saara Norvio - Ailalla ei ole enää juurikaan sanottavaa
Leila Kourkia - Ballaa
Virallisesti nimetön - Herkku suuJarintaulu ja Breikataan -songs: Kim Modig
Quitar backgrounds: HelzCostumes: From The storeroom, including among other things creations by Salla Oinas & Suvi Forsström.
Sweet Sensuality - perfume: Ayin de Sela
Photo: Sara Kovamäki
The Ground Beneath Her Feet: Poppies 26.10.-12.11.2019
@ Oodi Helsinki
Sara Pathirane´s video Poppies is filmed while dancing with poppies in Trevi Italy.
Video: Sara Pathirane
Dance: Laura Pietiläinen & Suvi Tuovinen
Michaela´s costume: Minna Paussu Design
Curated by: Eeva Muona & Anna Puhakka
Laura - The Light of All & Baby: Blue Babies 21.9. & 27.9.2019
@ Cultural center Laikku Tampere
The performance event Nude magic blue brings together seven artists from all over the Finland to perform at the Cultural centre Laikku Tampere. The theme of the performance is blue color as an energetic, cultural-historical and open space for different levels of meaning. Nude magic blue brings a versatile and interesting set of performances by seven unique artists. The exhibition and the performance event discuss with each other, giving viewers a chance to experience, for example visual arts, performance, dance, spoken word and poetry. The event is part of Sara Kovamäki's exhibition Nude blue. Performers: Danceartist Sanni Tulipääsky, dancer-choreographer Anniina Kumpuniemi, painter and drag artist Timo Tähkänen / Maimu Brushwood, dancer-singer-choreographer Laura Pietiläinen, visual artist-musician Viljami Wager, visual artist-poet Mirjam Brantberg and media and performance artist Paula Saraste.
Blue Babies:
Dance & rap: Laura Pietiläinen
Music: Kim Modig (Breikataan & Jarin taulu songs) & Helz (electric quitar)
Queen of Light -jacket: Salla Oinas
Photos: Sara Kovamäki
Laura -Pietiläinen, Leila Kourkia & Saara Norvio: The Invitation-The return of storerooms 6.9.2019
@ ITÄ2019 - festival Stoa Helsinki
The Invitation - return of storerooms is a re-freshened, reloved and revived dance piece from the 2006 Invitation performance. The choreographer of this work, Laura Pietiläinen, as well as viewers Saara Töyrylä (now Norvio) and Leila Kourkia, present their own interpretation of the Invitation and, through this process, evoke their unconscious, confused, fantastic and free existence. We'll also hear fresh solo songs from Kim Modig, the original show's sound designer. The costume of the re-ventilated version was found in Herttoniemi's storeroom, including designs of Suvi Forsström (Matinaro) and Salla Oinas.
Choreography and dance: Laura Pietiläinen
Dance and co-creation: Leila Kourkia ja Saara Norvio
Music: Kim Modig
Costumes: among others Salla Oinas and Suvi Forsström
Sweet Sensuality -perfume: Ayin de Sela
Photos: Juuso Westerlund, Veera Lamberg
Laura Pietiläinen, Sara Pathirane & Iina Taijonlahti: The Ground Beneath Her Feet 18.5.2019
@ Villa Fabri Trevi Italy
Sara Pathirane's video installation, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, opened at the Palazzo Lucarin Italian Museum of Contemporary Art on May 18. The installation was created in collaboration with three Finnish dancer-choreographers, Laura Pietiläinen, Iina Taijonlahti and Suvi Tuominen. At the opening of the exhibition, Pietiläinen(feat. Sara Pathirane) and Taijonlahti performed a ritualistic performance of solo dances inspired by Italian soil and land.
Solochoreography & dance: Iina Taijonlahti
Choreography, dance & singing: Laura Pietiläinen
Performing: Sara Pathirane
Goddess-costumes: Minna Paussu, Marita Huurinainen
Sweet Sensuality-perfume: Ayin de Sela
Photos: Sara Pathirane, Mara Predicatori, Barbara Presinská
Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything & Sara-The Transformer: Metamorphic Rocks-Summersphere 19.4.2019
@ UrbanApa Witchcircle club Putte’s Helsinki
Dance: Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything & Sara-The Transformer
Music: Sirja Puurtinen
Costumes: KATIVEE/ Kati Viljava
Mobile-installation: Mitja Lehtevä
Summer-perfume: Ayin de Sela
Photos: Jenna Broas
Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything, Sara-The Transformer & Superartists: Metamorphic Rocks- Four spheres of flowing seasons 22.-24.3.2019
@ gallery Kajaste Helsinki
Dance, visual art, music, fashion and fragrance performance
Metamorphic Rocks - four spheres of flowing seasons moves from the space, the sphere to the other and audience follows. The performance is a physical, transformational journey and dance duet of Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything and the dancer- visual artist Sara Kovamäki Sara-The Transformer. At the same time it is the concert of several music artists, fashion show, the installation of visual art and magical sphere of fragrances. Each dance scene resonates with different music artist, fashion design, visual art and fragrance.
Superartists:
Music: Biitsi (Kim Modig & Heidi M. Wee), Helz, Sirja Puurtinen, Eero Savela
Visual Art: Mitja Lehteva, Hermanni Saarinen, Joel Slotte, Saku Soukka
Fashion: Jatuli / Nina Jatuli, KATIVEE / Kati Viljava, Iljana / Katja Iljana, Minna Paussu Design / Minna Paussu
Fragrances: Ayin de Sela
Promophotos: Jannis Sid
Photos of performance: Raimo Granberg and Danila Calabrese
Michaela - The Queen of Fucking everything, Paula Tuovinen, Hot Tubes: Blondes, 5.-18.12.2018 and 18.-19.1.2019
@ Zodiak New Dance Center & Jo Jo The Dance center of Oulu
Blondes is a version of Paula Tuovinen's 2000 solo piece Blonde reworked for Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything/ Laura Pietiläinenl and Go Go Dance Group Hot Tubes. It is a recycled version of the original choreography that assumes its own shapes, and flows without any restrictions.
Paula Tuovinen's original performance explored the notions attached to the white female: woman as nature, woman as a child or a child-like creature, the white woman as a person of colour and the white woman as a joke. In the new version Laura and the Hot Tubes blow up the notions and expressions of blondeness and give the centre stage to the inner bimbo in us all. The performance is inspired by everything silly and weird. The bimbos can be children of nature, innocent, mean, unpredictable, irrational; they can come in high heels with high voices. They can be desired and despised, simultaneously goddesses and idiots – or not.
Paula Tuovinen has granted Laura artistic freedom to work the motion material and the overall performance as her inner bimbo guides her, yet the effort still focuses on group work. Laura is inspired especially by the aspect of the bimbo as something liberating and emancipatory. All the performers Laura Pietiläinen, Joonas Lampi, Paula Tuovinen, Elina Hauta-aho, Linda Priha ja Elisa Tuovila are members of Go Go Dance Group Hot Tubes, a collective of approximately ten dancers that perform freely in various configurations. In their earlier productions JUST Queens (2013) and Divine (2015), Hot Tubes explored femininity and gender in general from various perspectives: the personal, the risky, the weird and the familiar.
Choreography: Laura Pietiläinen, Paula Tuovinen
Performers: Michaela - The Queen of Fucking everythingl, Joonas Lampi, Paula Tuovinen, Elina Hauta-aho, Linda Priha, Elisa Tuovila
Lighting and space design: Mikko Hynninen
Stylist: Joonas Lampi
Videodesign: Juhani Haukka
Music: Lotta Wennäkoski
Perfume: Ayin de Sela
Residency: Saaren kartano
Production: Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Paula Tuovinen, Laura Pietiläinen
Photos: Katri Naukkarinen
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything & Sirja Puurtinen: Purple Power(Bitches) 18.10.2018
@ The opening of Augmenting Reality-exhibition, Korjaamo Helsinki 18.10.2018.
Purple Power(Bitches) is about warriorpower, dynamic energy, fearless, insanity, spiral, twist.
Dance & poem: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything
Violin & electronic: Sirja Puurtinen
Michaela´s leather costume: Salla Oinas
Fenix-birds: Emma Rönnholm
Filming: Rigulio Graak
Frank/ie presents: Rooms 14.9.2018
@Frank/ie, Helsinki.
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Lea Tuuri & Minna Paussu Design:
Dance: Laura - The Light of all
Violin: Lea Tuuri
Costumes: Minna Paussu
Photos: Linda Lipponen, Kati Viljava
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Joy Regwan & Kativee:
Dance: Laura - The Light of all
Music: Joy Regwan
Costumes: Kativee/ Kati Viljava
Photos: Kati Viljava
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything & The Hottest Men in the Universe: Destroyer of Darkness&Sweet Sensuality 15.9.2018
@ Weekday presents:Zeitgeist Helsinki, Tiivistämö Suvilahti.
Destroyer of Darkness is power, emotions, fearless, going through darkness... Sweet Sensuality is sensuality, sweetness, touch, bare, playful…
Dance and choreography: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything (Laura Pietiläinen)
Dance&co-create: Mars (Iiro Näkki) & Ken (Johannes Purovaara)
Music 1: Viljami Lehtonen
Music 2: Viljami Lehtonen “M. Jackson: In the closet”
Singing melody & arrangement: Sirja Puurtinen
Lyrics in finish: Laura
Costumes: Weekday, Zeitgeist, Laura & Suvi Matinaro
Healing perfumes: Ayin de Sela
Photos: Jenny Åkerfeldt
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Eero Savela & Vestiarium: Fucking Free from Everything 23.8.2018
@ Esplanad park, Helsinki.
The show comes out of energy, called Fucking Free from Everything. It goes to full freedom, independence, nature, life power, animals, land, fire, disconnected from definitions, disconnected from man-made structures. The inspiration for the show is Hayao Miyazaki's movie: Princess Mononoke. For this performance, Laura has invited a musician, composer, performer and master of improvisation Eero Savela.
Laura´s costume: Camilla Mikama/ Vestiarium
jewellery: Miia Magia
healing fragrance: Ayin de Sela
photos: Lauri Mattila
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Riikka Pietiläinen-Caffrey & Kristin Vining: Endless Ether 6.5.2018
@First congregational church of Walla Walla, USA
Endless Ether-clarity in darkness, accepting how we are, finding our own voice and truth, space...
dance: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything
singing: Riikka Pietiläinen-Caffrey
music: Kristin Vining
original artwork on the sleeve and the back of the sweatshirt: Salla Oinas
crystal necklace: Miia Magia
healing perfume: Ayin de Sela
head jewelry: Remake Ekodesign
recording: Maddie Wilner, edit.Laura Pietiläinen
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Riikka Pietiläinen-Caffrey & Whitman Chamber Singers: Across The Vast Eternal Sky 14.&22.4.2018
@Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA
Choreographed choir piece about death and rebirth
choir directing: Riikka Pietiläinen-Caffrey
music: Calixto Álvarez; Requiem Osún & Ola Gjeilo; Across The Vast Eternal Sky
singing & moving: Whitman Chamber Singers
choreoraphy, dance & singing: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything / Laura Pietiläinen
costume design: Salla Oinas, Emma Rönnholm, Laura & Riikka Pietiläinen-Caffrey
Vageyena-jewel: Carolina Mobarac
financial support: Samuel Huber Art Foundation & Kone Foundation
Photos: Grace Sanwald
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Sirja Puurtinen & Salla Oinas: Purple Power (Bitches) 13.1. & 2.2.2018
@UTU Russian Poets publication, Alakulttuuritalo, Helsinki
Purple Power(Bitches), rocking power, dynamic energy, madness, twist.
The performance has been inspired by the Undetermined Purple song from UTU.
dance: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything
music: Sirja Puurtinen
Michaela´s leather costume: Salla Oinas
top: Camilla Mikama
photos: Katri Antikainen
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Anni & Salla Oinas: Queen of Light 8.12.2017
@ ASS-H Xmas party, Helsinki
Queen of Light- ove, light, forgiveness, power
dance: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everythingl
music: Anni Mattila
costume: Salla Oinas
headwear: Eetu Heinonen
crystal jewellery: Miia Magia
fragrance: Ayin de Sela
photo: Aleksi Poutanen
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything & Ayin de Sela: Essential 30.10.2017
@ Château de Monthélon, France
Essential- rebirth, Phoenix rising, essence, core, source, nature, mystery
dance: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything
scents, alchemy, dance: Ayin de Sela
crystal jewellery(Diamond): Miia Magia
photos: Carine Tedesco
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything in Design ArtMAJA 14.-16.9. 2017
at 18, 19, 20, 21
@Lucia-class pavilion, Kalasatama park, Helsinki
14.9. Sweet Sensuality – wonderful, sensual, bare, playful, landed, liberated, water ...
dance: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything
music: Sirja Puurtinen
costume: Marita Huurinainen
jewellery: Miia Magia
scent: Ayin de Sela
make-up&hair: Emilia Kawamura
produced by: Gruppen fyra
15.9. Destroyer of Darkness – penetrating, through darkness, terrific, fearless, brave, light, cleansing, fire ...
dance: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything
music: Mikko Joensuu
costume: Burlesque Tsunami/ Riina Salmi
jewellery: Miia Magia
scent: Ayin de Sela
make-up&hair: Emilia Kawamura
produced by: Gruppen fyra
16.9. Clarity - bright, wise, intuitive, light, playful, beautiful, pure, crystal, subtle ...
dance: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything
music: Teemu Mustonen
costume: Lovia/ Outi Korpilaakso
jewellery: Miia Magia
scent: Ayin de Sela
make-up&hair: Emilia Kawamura
produced by: Gruppen fyra
photos: Thomas Nie & Elisa Saarenketo
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Eero Savela & Vestiarium: Fucking Free from Everything 6.9. 2017
@ Vestiarium, Galleria Esplanad, Helsinki
The show comes out of energy, called Fucking Free from Everything. It goes to full freedom, independence, nature, life power, animals, land, fire, disconnected from definitions, disconnected from man-made structures. The inspiration for the show is Hayao Miyazaki's movie: Princess Mononoke. For this performance, Laura has invited a musician, composer, performer and master of improvisation Eero Savela. Michael's dance is impressed by the dress designed by Camilla Mikama / Vestiarium.
shoes: Julia Lundsten/Finsk
jewellery: Miia Magia
healing fragrance: Ayin de Sela
photo: Thomas Nie
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Vestiarium, Anni: Breaking Free 26.7.2017
@Vestiarium fashion show Amos Anderson art museum, Helsinki Fashion Week
Dance & Choreography: Laura - The Light of All
music: Anni
costume: Camilla Mikama/ Vestiarium
Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything & Sulo Soturi AKA DR.Love: Rakkaus (Love) 26.2.2017. klo 19
@ Helsingin Ylioppilasteatteri/The Student Theatre of Helsinki, Finland
A delicate love song. This is the love song by Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything and Sulo Soturi. They share each other with songs that reflect their delicate and vulnerable but beautiful and odd love.
Sulo Soturi AKA DR.Love
Nathanael Nader Johnson is Canadian born guardian of the forest who became kuhmolainen. He is a musician and a rapper, dog lover and a single parent of two children. He met Michaela while picking mushrooms in the woods of Kuhmo
Dance, singing: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything
singing, guitar: Sulo Soturi
Michaela´s costume: Satu Mimmi
photo: Lauri Ranta
Spectac-O-Rama -Reloaded 10.12.2016
@ Music theatre Kapsäkki, Helsinki, Finland
Scifi adventure launches us into another reality. Hot goddesses representing mysterious forces show how each person can transform their mundane lives into an aura of inexplicable momentum of change. The method of performance can be described as a rejuvenation of vaudeville, where music and dance flourish side by side, both amusing in its lightness and moving with its deep themes. This time rockabilly meets contemporary dance.
performing: Sweet Jeena and her Sweethearts (Jeena Rancken, Risto Klemola, Olli Liljeström ja Jesper Eklund), Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything (Laura Pietiläinen) and Her Hottest Thing in the Universe (Pietari Kärki), The Golden Goddess (Anni Rissanen) ja The Beat Girl (Virpi Juntti) and Nina Kurko.
Laura´s make up: Emilia Kawamura
Laura´s costumes: Suvi Matinaro
Space videos: Juhani Haukka
Cruising for Art 14.10.2016
Dance House, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
photo: Noora Geagea
Cruising for Art is a club concept by London-based performance artist Brian Lobel that combines art, entertainment and night life. Performers meet the audience in one-to-one performances. Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Ecverything appears in her new Endless Ether manifestation. Individual audience members can experience resonance of the planets and translucent, deep ether with Laura.
In the performance club, the audience can also experience Celebrity moments, Sweet Sensuality and Venus Energy with Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything and the Hottest Male Dancers of the Universe, Mikko Makkonen (Magic Mike) and Iiro Näkki (Mars). The club is hosted by Kaari Martin and Season Butler. Music and party atmosphere is created by the DJs of La Persé.
One to one -performing: Kaari Martin & Auri Ahola, Jussi Väänänen ja Katja Koukkula, Anneli Kanninen, Jouka Valkama, Anniina Tikka, Mette Linturi ja Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything.
Celebrity moments: Rauli Kosonen, Atte Kilpinen, Jussi Väänänen & Katja Koukkula sekä Michaela & the Hottest Male Dancers of the Universe: Mikko Makkonen (Magic Mike) ja Iiro Näkki (Mars) .
Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything/ laura Pietiläinen: Endless Ether-one to one:
performing: Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything
Bopypainting design, realization: Emilia Kawamura
hair, bodypainting realization: Joonas Lampi
headjewellery: Remake Ekodesign
Endless Ether-perfume: Ayin de Sela
Sweet Sensuality & Venus:
performing, choreography: Michaela - The Queen of fucking Everything, Mikko Makkonen (Magic Mike), Iiro Näkki(Mars)
music: Viljami Lehtonen, M. Jackson, Riley
lyrics: M.Jackson, Laura, Sirja Puurtinen
singing arrangement: Puurtinen, Laura
14.10.2016 klo 21-02
Michaela-The Queen of Fucking Everything 8.-18.9.2016
Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki, Finland
Michaela – The Queen of Fucking Everything is a wild and moving show full of explosive energy. Its song and dance scenes are inspired by the music of Michael Jackson. Michaela is transforming and reveals her story of growing up, drawing strenght from Michael´s songs and energies.
Premiere
08.09 klo 19 Zodiak Stage
10.09 klo 19
11.09 klo 15
13.09. klo 19
14.09. klo 19
16.09. klo 19
17.09 klo 19
18.09 klo 15
Concept, choreography, dance, singing: Laura Pietiläinen
Sexy singing male dancers: Pietari Kärki, Mikko Makkonen, Iiro Näkki, Johannes Purovaara
Song and dance choir: Fred Baube, Jaakko Kaartinen, Markku Haapanieni, Jari Kovalainen, Anniina Mustalahti, Salla Oinas, Freia Stenbäck, Kristiina Rajamäki, Jenni Tuulasjärvi, Iina Ukkonen
Children's choir: Seela Hallaste,Helmi Rosti,Emmi Surwillo
sister, singing, choircomposition : Riikka Caffrey
Music and sound design: Viljami Lehtonen, Sirja Puurtinen
Costume design: Suvi Matinaro
Scenography: Veera-Maija Murtola
Lighting design: Anna Pöllänen
Video design: Juhani Haukka, Lauri Ritari
Make-up design: Emilia Kawamura
Make-up: Joonas Lampi
Choreographic dialogue: Maija Mustonen
performing in videos: Chamber Singers((filming of choir):Evan Martin), Maila Korhonen, Heli Meklin, Anja Patrikka, Laura Pietiläinen, Riikka Pietiläinen, Riitta Pietiläinen, Sanna Valkeapää.
Productional help: Riikka Thitz, Joanna Pätsi
Photograpies: Noora Geagea
Graphic design: Kiira Sirola
Perfumes: Ayin de Sela
Production: Zodiak-Centre of New Dance, Laura Pietiläinen
photos: Noora Geagea,Katri Naukkarinen
Kuplat-Juhlat 27.8.2016
The night of ancient fires, Hanko, Finland
Kuplat-Juhlat is a magical, ritualistic and communal event, with elements of performance, concert and party. A group of music, dance and circus artists place themselves in a maritime setting with KomsioDome tents. The event lasts for several hours and it provides an unique opportunity for empowerment, enchantment, and transformation, together with nature and with other people.
concept: Tuomas Norvio, Saara Norvio ja Sari Palmgren
light designing: Anna Pöllänen
costume designing: Kaisa Kemikoski
performing: Agit-Cirk, Juuso Hannukainen, Emma Lister, Sakari Männistö, Michaela - The Queen of Fucking Everything, Saara Norvio, Sari Palmgren, Jukka Peltola, Pohjonen-Alanko (Kimmo Pohjonen, Ismo Alanko, Tuomas Norvio), Anni Rissanen
photos: Sari Palmgren
Video: Ilkka Rautio
Michaela Featuring Spectac-O-Rama Reloaded 2016 26.8.2016
The night of Middle town, Seinäjoki, Finland
Scifi adventure launches us into another reality. Hot goddesses representing mysterious forces show how each person can transform their mundane lives into an aura of inexplicable momentum of change. The method of performance can be described as a rejuvenation of vaudeville, where music and dance flourish side by side, both amusing in its lightness and moving with its deep themes. This time rockabilly meets contemporary dance.
performing: Sweet Jeena and her Sweethearts (Jeena Rancken, Risto Klemola, Olli Liljeström ja Ville Hatanpää), Michaela The Queen of Fucking Everything and Her Hottest Men in the Universe (Pietari Kärki, Johannes Purovaara), The Golden Goddess (Anni Rissanen).
Michaela´s costumes: Suvi Matinaro
The Darkest Hits 28.4.-7.5.2016
Cultural Centre Valve , Oulu, Finland
The Darkest Hits brings together eight artists and eight somber songs. Rea-Liina Brunou, Jouni Järvenpää, Leena Kela, Heli Keskikallio, Kirill Lorech, Michaela - Destroyer of Darkness, Vihtori Rämä and Pirjo Yli-Maunula perform their works to songs of their choosing.
This is the third part of the popular series by Maija Mustonen. Previous parts The Greatest Love Songs (2012) and The Greatest Dance Hits (2014) were premiered at Zodiak – Center for New Dance in Helsinki.
To 28.4. klo 19 Ensi-ilta/premiere
Pe 29.4. klo 19
Ti 3.5. klo 19
Ke 4.5. klo 19
Pe 6.5. klo 19
La 7.5. klo 19
directing and concept: Maija Mustonen
performing and choreography: Rea-Liina Brunou, Jouni Järvenpää, Leena Kela, Heli Keskikallio, Michaela - Destroyer of Darkness, Vihtori Rämä ja Pirjo Yli-Maunula
videopeace: Kirill Lorech, performer: Markus Heino. Video is a part of a performance End of Time (2015; Markus Heino, Anna Maria Häkkinen, Kirill Lorech & Heidi Väätänen)
light designing: Anton Verho
sound designing: Viljami Lehtonen
producer of the group: Linnea Kejonen
production: JoJo – Oulun Tanssin Keskus, Maija Mustonen
photos: Suvi Matinaro ja Jussi Tuokkola
Sparkles & Smells -training tour
Château de Monthelon Montréal, France ja Villa Norellha, Vale da Telha, Portugal (feb-march 2016)
photos: Heli Meklin, Ayin de Sela
