Breathe

Step up, step out, onto the field as the evening descends.

Milla Koistinen's solo piece Breathe evokes the sensations and memories of collective events, celebratory joy, ecstasy, and the individual within a crowd. The performer on a vast football pitch replicates images from events and plays with the distance and absence of surrounding bodies.

As the audience is invited to shift viewing positions within the empty sports stadium, the performer plays with tipping points between perceived states and the porous relationship between distance and closeness, control and chaos, togetherness and estrangement. Breathe invites the audience to revisit memories of collective euphoria and joy.

Audience members are free to move during the performance while listening to the music through headphones. The music is downloaded onto personal devices.

Large empty, outdoor spaces with solid geometrical forms have been the source of inspiration for Milla Koistinen’s collaboration with set designer Sandra E. Blatterer and musicians Paul Valikoski and Grégoire Simon.

Premiere: August 19th, 2021, Tanz im August, Berlin