You\u00b4re currently reading this years second issue of Nokturno. This time we dive into different unions between dance and poetry in our featured essays, interviews, video documentations and dance poetry videos. We also bring you the latest work of H\u00d6YRY, a Helsinki-based digital verbal art collective and last but not least, minimalistic concrete poetry from USA!<\/p>\n
We open with A Pile of Frames<\/em><\/a> by poet Dirk Huelstrunk <\/strong>and dancer Milla Koistinen<\/strong>. Their collaborative work, combining sound poetry and contemporary dance was born at Kone Foundation\u00b4s Saari Residence in 2014, when both of them were working with their individual projects. A Pile of Frames<\/em> is based on structured improvisations and so each performance is different. We present documentations of two compelling performances, one that took place in Helsinki and other from Frankfurt. In Franziska Helms<\/strong>\u00b4 interview<\/a>, originally published at the web site of Lettr\u00e9tage, Huelstrunk and Koistinen talk about one of the central themes of their work, repetition, as well as improvisation and relationship between words and dance.<\/p>\n In Vilma Tihil\u00e4<\/strong>‘s work-in-progress video Ella & Alina<\/em><\/a> Ella Holappa<\/strong> and Alina Sakko<\/strong> dance her choregraphy, inspired by Milka Luhtaniemi<\/strong>\u00b4s poetry. Director, choreographer and film maker Tihil\u00e4 also contributes to this issue with an essay on the theoretical and aestethic perspectives behind her work<\/a>. The essay explores the thinking of Maya Deren<\/strong> (1917-1961), pioneer in dance movies, who frequently used the term \u201dpoetry of film\u201d in describing her relationship to creating films. Tihil\u00e4\u00b4s essay is simultaneously an open call for a poet to collaborate with her in her next project.<\/p>\n Eino Santanen<\/strong> is known for his acclaimed poetry books and intensive live performances \u2013 both in solo and together with Matti Kangaskoski<\/strong> and Tuomas Timonen<\/strong> in black m\u00f6dernism \u2013 but within the dance scene in Finland he\u00b4s equally known for his collaboration with dancer and choreographer Valtteri Raekallio<\/strong>. Since 2014 Raekallio has built immersive site-specific dance and poetry performances based on Santanen\u00b4s poetry. Santanen answered via mail to Nokturno\u00b4s questions about their joint projects and how his relationsship to poetry has changed along the years of collaboration. You can read the Finnish interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dialogue between poetry and dance is further probed in the essay Jumalallinen tanssirunous<\/a> by Hanna-Mari Ojala<\/strong>. Ojala is the winner of 2017 Lahti Poetry Marathon video poetry competition and her videos combining dance and poetry have been presented in several international poetry and video festivals. In her essay Ojala discusses with the Slovakian poet Eleni Cay<\/strong> and reflects the nature of the art forms and the creative process that takes places in the intersection. In a selection of five videos<\/a> we present you some of her most succesful videos, including Echoes<\/em>, awarded both at AltFF Alternative Film Festival and Avalonia Festival and Solitude<\/em>, most recently featured at the ScreenDance Festival in Stockholm.<\/p>\n H\u00d6YRY is a Helsinki-based digital verbal art collective formed by poet Henrik Pathirane<\/strong> and philosopher Juho P\u00e4\u00e4kk\u00f6nen<\/strong>. Their previous works include Oleminen | Being<\/em><\/a>, published in Nokturno last year. In Vallan kielet <\/em><\/a>Pathirane and P\u00e4\u00e4kk\u00f6nen have utilized the machine-learning based method of topic modeling to create a series of poems based on documents by the Finnish parliament working period of 2014-2017. Poems comprising from lists of words are read by Microsoft\u00b4s speech synthesizer Heidi.<\/p>\n