Pie Kär, Lintu Lunar & Maya Oliva: LOVE&MAKING
There was a wish to dance like birds. Train the body, our bodies and voices, to partake in the motion of reaching towards highs, or something. There was a need to fall back in love with what we do, but not the contemporary we cultivate. A few years of heartache and nausea went so slow, went so fast. I, we, I still want to sing to you, yes: you, and open my body to you, but as you see, the ways I love&make are composting, blooming in morphosis
LOVE&MAKING is a performance by artists Maya Oliva, Lintu Lunar, and Pie Kär. It may become a romantic ode to dance or a love poem recited with a wry smile, ceaselessly falling in love with the side of dance that has and keeps giving us hope in hopeless times, 4ever. With all the love and making we have and do, the performance becomes (what it becomes).
In LOVE&MAKING, Lunar, Oliva, and Kär each bring materials from their other works to develop or re-enter, with the questions:
How do we love in relation to how we make?
(Love is a matter of interdependence, right?)
How to reconnect with purpose, but not reconstruct iconography?
The form of the performance is a combination of dance and song sensed through performance format is a combination of traditional dance and song sensed through traditional spectatorship, and a guided experiential celebration and ritual. The music by Lintu Lunar makes space for mediative being and club dancing. The performers support the situation, but do not demand constant attention.
Are we going to be extict at the same time?
I hope we die at exact same time, since
I can't live without your love.
Birds.
I hear you singing in the morning and I can fall in love,
I see you flying to the sunrise and I can fall in love, I see you dancing your dances and I can fall in love again and again.
Working group:
Pie Kär – Author & performer
Lintu Lunar – Author, performer & responsible for sound/music
Maya Oliva – Author & performer
LOVE&MAKING is supported by the Arts Promotion Center Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
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Pie Kär is a non-binary multidisciplinary dance artist based in Helsinki. They are currently taking a critical look at individualism in contemporary art and searching for artistic and communicative means that will appeal to a wider audience, harnessing contemporary dance and performance art to foster a culture of community and support rather than promoting loneliness and competition. Their works and activities often combine dance, song, text, (socially) choreographic objects, and communal thinking. In 2020-22, for example, they produced festival-based compost for the audiences of the Moving in November. Kär's works have also been featured in the programs of Dance Theater Minimi, Dance Theater Hurjaruuth, Hangö Teaterträff, Lonely in the Rain, UrbanApa, and the XS Festival, among others.
LINTU/LIPGLOSSBOY is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, dancer, poet, and musician. He works with memory pattern embodiment, sense of belonging and ancestral trans(gender) dimensions. In his art, all fantasies become physical. Lintu states that fantasy is already true in itself and that the division between fantasy and reality has transcended binary codes.
Maya Oliva is an Italian dancer and choreographer with roots in Italy, Poland, Venezuela, and Canada. Shaped by a three-generation-long nomadic background, they explore themes of belonging and the unearthing of home through flesh, music, and dance compositions made of contradicting emotions. Through movement, these rub against the social, political, and cultural forces that have cumulatively inscribed themselves on the body.
Maya explores movement and choreography through dance, but also through performative textiles, voice, and synthetic sound. She uses these as visible and invisible extensions of physical movement. Maya has performed her works in Italy, Belgium, France, Finland, Iceland, and the Czech Republic.
Photo: Rosaliina Elgland
SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 19, at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 21, at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 22, at 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 24, at 7:00 p.m.
LOCATION
Parvisali, Tekstin Talo Lintulahdenkatu 3, Helsinki
DURATION
90 min
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
During the performance, we will move between different floors of the Text House. We will use the elevator to move between floors. The route is accessible.
There are parts of the performance where the audience is invited to participate. Participation is voluntary.
WORKSHOP
Maya Olivan, Pie Kärin, and Lintu Lunar's LOVE & MAKING workshop will be held in January 2026.
Read more about the workshop and sign up.
TICKETS
Tickets €10–40
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