Every order entails disorder, and every disorder is the starting point of a new order. The difference is whether we are able to see it. Order in Disorder is the pushing and pulling of forces, movement and sound, to evolve, manipulate and mold into a new form. The collaboration of dancer Zala Pezdir and Project VO musicians Rieko Okuda and Antti Virtarnta performs between the lines of disorder and order. It is a clear shape that collapses into seemingly random movements and sounds that are already another form.

Rieko Okuda is a pianist and a composer from Japan. She began to play Classical music at the age of 3. She moved to USA to study Jazz music. She performed with great American Jazz musi-cians/improvisers such as Marshall Allen (from San Ra Orchestra). Her interests in Improvised music led her to move to Berlin. In 2017 and 2018, she got the residency in Elektronik Music Studio (EMS) in Stockholm, Sweden. This residency experiences inspired her to Electro-Acoustic field. In 2020, she has gotten the residency in Visby International Center to extend her experience, and find more possibilities to create various sounds and composition techniques.
riekookuda.com

Antti Virtaranta is a bassist and composer, currently based in Berlin. He is focused on expressing his voice in music and sound through composition and improvisation. Using his influences from jazz and rock music and contemporary techniques, his musical language is formed.
avirtmusic.weebly.com

Zala Pezdir is a dancer, dance teacher, choreographer, and cultural anthropologist born 1981 in Slovenia and living in Uppsala, Sweden. She has decided to stop dancing indoors with the beginning of the pandemic and has since then been focusing on dance as a source of interaction, soli-darity, and intimacy within physically distant contexts.
zalapezdir.wordpress.com

The soundance festival berlin presents joint projects by dancers, choreographers, musicians and composers from the Berlin independent scene and invites international guest artists. As a stimulus for dialogue between the various disciplines, the festival presents a broad spectrum of artistic styles, from contemporary dance to real-time music, from Post Butoh to New Jazz and improvisation – analog and electronic. Across generations, diverse works and formats between sound and movement will be experienced by audiences in theater and urban space.
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