
solo performance created and performed by Beljana Metje
voice: Beljana Metje, music: Otacílio Melgaço
Outside eye: Julyen Hamilton
Artistic research supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR
10 min
Canary Islands, El Hierro, Nangilima studio, May 2024
A solo between spells and spellings - "'Nocturne' is a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night" (Source: Wikipedia) The solo deals with the negotiation between being victim to the spells that the past casts over us and managing the “chaos” that they have left in the present. Spells like stories that come from the old book and take over the body. Are we empty puppets, or poetic characters writing that story? Are we victims of what has happened — or do we need stories and books to nestle in our own words, in order to hear them feed back to us? “Nocturno” is a diary written by night, never finished nor concluded, loaded with words not understandable, questions arising from the subconscious. A voice rather connected to the reason why night birds sing, moving from the inside of ancientness.

duo performance created and performed by Valtteri Keinänen and Beljana Metje
20 min
Festival de Danza Canarias Dentro Y Fuera, Tenerife Dec. 2024
El Hierro, Nangilima studio, May 2024
Crimson is a contemporary dance piece for two performers, in a setting of 7 construction blocks with a rhythmical animating, ritualistic charisma. The piece speaks in the language of practical musicality and by transforming the space on this level, aims to open realms of dreams and emotionality. “I listen to the sky pumping blood Inside the big stone. The wet organ blind. And big eagles hover over the desert, For the warm air’s sake. There, where they feel the friction, They hover and spread their wings. Big wings over yellow air’s shiver. In the shiver of eternal shivers, In the heart of eternal hearts, They shiver in rhythm of the wet stone’s organ, Where the shielding coat depends upon high wings. But this story I tell to the blind stone, To the shiver I hear where it never was searched for. Where it never belonged and never was found. There, in the glow of warm fire, And the yard of a listening hand.” -poetry from the soundtrack of the piece

group performance created by Valtteri Keinänen and Beljana Metje, performed by the dancers of N.E.F.C.D
20 min
Sweden, Härnösand Folkhögskola, 2023
Instincively we never can stay still, once you dig with your hands in the mud, they become hands of the whole earth. We carry our flower through the voices out there on the market place. We guard the beast, the little man dancing in the belly, the secret rhythm surviving in the fingertips over time. We celebrate the dance of deep sea fishes and of Grandma's on the waves. We are daring to walk right through the white canvas, falling between words to start speaking, chopping wood every instant, shooting the arrow before the bow is drawn back, and sharpening our pencils, ready for dreams.

duo performance created and performed by Valtteri Keinänen and Beljana Metje
40 min
Finland, Turku, Circus Lounge, 2023
Canary Islands, El Hierro, Nangilima studio, 2023
40 minutes of interwoven dance, music, stories and poetry, sourced from the moment. In a unique interplay between spontaneity and the craft of composition, this is a celebration for story hunters, life surfers and deep sea philosophers.

trio performance created and performed by Jonas Marx, Valtteri Keinänen and Beljana Metje
60 min
Tenerife, Canary Dance Festival, 2023
Berlin, K77, 2023
A hommage to the craft and knowledge of instant composition. Abundance and accurateness from the depths of the moment. Light humour is paired with existential life questions beyond explanation. The audience is being invited to be their own philosophers and poets. Dance, abstract, concrete, voice, ordinary objects, poetry, music: Ingredients get juggled up, integrated, weaved together, form and get destroyed. Simple as a soup pot and complex as the whole entangled life which each performer and each spectator bring to that unique moment.
solo performance created and performed by Valtteri Keinänen
65 min
Sweden, Teater Albatross, 2022

Tired to play hide and seek so good getting lost now I can't find me this is not the guy I would like to be but where should I walk I can't find my feet I don't like this film wanna slice the screen walk inside what's behind the scene? would be nice to meet guy who is writing this directly can we have little talk in the private, please?

solo performance created and performed by Beljana Metje; soundscape created by Otacílio Melgaço
40 min
Germany, Cologne, Tanzfaktur, 2021
"What remains? A walk inside the blazing volcano. Breathing gaps under my feet, Embryonic poems, Cloud wind under the skin." We humans have many lives underneath our skin. Alisio is a journey through inner worlds of body memory and imagination, landscapes of real dreams and dreamed realities."
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