(c) Nadja Pärssinen

Choreographer and dancer Nadja Pärssinen and video artist Alisa Javits moved and filmed coequally The landscape escapes in a relation to…. dance film. The creative process of making the dance film took place in Trolltunga, 12-hour hiking road in Norway in June 2020. The Trolltunga hiking trail is one of the best-known and most sought-after landscape destinations in Norway but as well internationally. 

In The landscape escapes in a relation to… dance film, Pärssinen and Javits is creating a dialogue through wandering, site-orientated and articulated composition and language. Written texts and language is the key of the film to create a dialog in a relation to inhuman nature and vast landscapes. The rugged and, at the same time poetic language intertwines with various filming materials bringing as well different proposition between human and inhuman. It calls the attention to listen different kind of relations while inviting viewers as well to reflect their own memories of wandering in nature.

The language role was to create a dialog between inhuman nature and humans, friends, strangers wandering, dancing and discovering the environment through the 12 hours long hiking process. With the help of the language me and Javit´s could talk and share memories of the journey. Language brought another kind of material to be in a relation to the visual and video materials. It was the only soundscape that we could make. It also gave bigger role to the vast landscapes to be part of the compositions, instead of to highlighting human beings capability in the center of the landscape.

  • Concept: Nadja Pärssinen
  • Collaboration with a video artist Alisa Javits
  • Promophoto: Nadja Pärssinen & Alisa Javits
  • Length: 8.31 min.
  • Production: FlowWowProductions
  • Supporter: Taike – Art Promotion Center in Finland & Regional Dance Center of Western Finland
  • Trailer

SCREENINGS 2020-2024

  • Tanssivirtaa Tampere contemporary dance festival´s film day, Tampere city
  • TeeMaa tearoom house, Helsinki city
  • Hooray dance films! event in WHS theatre, Helsinki city
  • Dancing Christmas event in main library, Turku city
  • Tanssivintti´s dance school, Helsinki city
  • Kälviä´s folk high school dance department, Kälviä city
  • RIVERIA vocational school´s dance department, Outokumpu city
  • Dancing in the mountains intensive, Nova Lesna city, Slovakia
  • Dance film´s pop up x Lahti, Lahti city (3 times)
  • MAPPING dance art festival, Helsinki city (2 times)
  • High school of Steiner school, Espoo city  (2 times)
  • Embodiment of the wandering event in virtual world, (whole day), supported by the region of Western dance center (Turku city)
  • Part of international dance day in main library of Matinkylä, Espoo city (4 times)
  • Alakaupunki-festival, Lauttasaari (2 times)
  • A Block & Aalto University, Espoo city (5 times)