TINY WILDS
an artistic project exploring the porous relationship between the body & the land
2025
︎ Spontaneous performances
︎ Local and international artists
︎ Artistic exchange
︎ Open community jam sessions with live music and dance improvisation
ARTISTIC DIRECTION | Yasmine Lindskog
DANCE ARTISTS | Yasmine Lindskog, Deborah Lotti, Alejandra Gissler, Rebecca Laube-Pohto, Khadidiatou Bangoura
PRODUCER | Beniamino Borghi
WITH SUPPORT FROM | Art in Lov, SaltFest ‘25, SaltBodan, Lovisa Kafferosteri, Univeristy of Kucku
TINY WILDS is an artistic project exploring the porous relationship between the body and the land through dance improvisation and real-time composition. Each week guest artists from across Europe join artist Yasmine Lindskog (US/FI/SE) in a week-long process of artistic exchange, community engagement, and spontaneous performances. Guest artists include Deborah Lotti (LU), Alejandra Gissler (CH/CO), Rebecca Laube-Pohto (FI), and Khadidiatou Bangoura (DE/FR/LB/GN).
Shaped by temporary gatherings, shifting terrains, and communities encountered, the project follows a regenerative structure, inviting new voices to expand its living archive of reflections and textures to deepen the dialogue between body, land, and story. It engages with dynamic systems, exploring emergent improvisational structures that respond to shifting environments and interactions.
TINY WILDS is about collaborative storytelling, process-driven work, imagination, and the ways we relate to our inner and outer landscapes. TINY WILDS is a space where wildness and softness coexist, where body and land meet in dialogue, and where process is a practice of presence—alive, immediate, unfolding.
E V E N T S
TINY WILDS
7 July ︎︎︎ 3 August 2025 - Loviisa, Finland︎ COMMUNITY JAM SESSIONS
w/ dance and music improvisation at Lovisa Kafferosteri
11, 18, 25, 31 JULY @ 17:00
︎ SPONTANEOUS PERFORMANCES
with collaborating artists at SaltBodan
13 JULY @ 16:00 - Deborah Lotti and Yasmine Lindskog
20 JULY @ 16:00 - Alejandra Gissler and Yasmine Lindskog
27 JULY @ 16:00 - Rebecca Laube-Pohto and Yasmine Lindskog
3 AUGUST @ 16:00 - Khadidiatou Bangoura and Yasmine Lindskog (as part of SALTFEST ‘25)
︎ ARTISTS in RESIDENCE
at Art in Lov
7 July ︎︎︎ 13 July - Deborah Lotti and Yasmine Lindskog
14 July ︎︎︎ 20 July - Alejandra Gissler and Yasmine Lindskog
21 July ︎︎︎ 27 July - Rebecca Laube-Pohto and Yasmine Lindskog
28 July ︎︎︎ 3 August - Khadidiatou Bangoura and Yasmine Lindskog
Artists
Participating Artists in TINY WILDS edition in Loviisa, Finland from 7 July ︎︎︎ 3 August 2025
Deborah Lotti
7 July ︎︎︎ 13 July 2025Deborah Lotti began her dance training in Luxembourg before earning a Dance Teacher Diploma from the Institut de Formation Professionnelle Rick Odums and a BA from Université Paris 8. She has performed with Ballets Jazz Rick Odums, Armstrong Jazz Ballet, and Les Allumettes, expanding her skills through programs like Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Program and Gaga Summer Intensive. She has worked with choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Damien Jalet. Currently based in Paris, Deborah tours with RB Dance Company’s Stories and has performed in projects like Mahalaga Landscapes (Jill Crovisier) and Chiroptera (Damien Jalet & JR at Opéra de Paris). In 2024, she joined MAISHA, created by the African and European Union and choreographed by Serge Aimé Coulibaly. She was selected to dance among 150 dancers at the Paralympic Opening Ceremony in Paris choreographed by Alexander Ekman. She has also performed for Handicap International Luxembourg and at Paris Fashion Week 2025 for Valentino. Passionate about dance film and education, she directed The Beginning Of… and appeared in Chapter and Nothing To Do, while teaching and performing at festivals across Europe.
Alejandra Gissler
14 July ︎︎︎ 20 July 2025Alejandra Gissler is a Colombian/Swiss dancer and transdisciplinary artist based in London, UK. Her work integrates themes of ecology and dance practice in unconventional environments such as community gardens, based on improvisation and the sensitive experience of the body. In her role as a facilitator, teacher and choreographer, Alejandra explores the spectrum between rest, movement and pleasure. Since her Bachelor and Master training at London Contemporary Dance School, her choreographic and film work has been shown at The Place (2018, 2020), Whitechapel Gallery (2023), Encuentro Trapiche (2023), The Story Garden (2023), Inklingroom (2023), among others. Currently, she works with two co-founded collectives, Colectivo Anhelo and Coop Dance. She also co-directors the Lo Poroso festival, a dance gathering in Bucaramanga, Colombia
Rebecca Laube-Pohto
21 July ︎︎︎ 27 July 2025Rebecca Laube-Pohto on suomalainen tanssitaiteilija, esiintyjä, koreografi ja tanssipedagogi, sekä Keski-Suomessa toimivan Keskellä-kollektiivin toinen perustaja ja taiteellinen johtaja. Laube-Pohto valmistui tanssialan korkeakoulututkinnosta 2015 (Tanssinopettaja AMK/Bachelor of Culture and Arts), jonka jälkeen hän on toiminut erilaisissa projekteissa ja vapaan kentän työryhmissä esiintyjänä, koreografina, fasilitoijana ja tuottajana. Laube-Pohto on esiintynyt Pohjoismaiden lisäksi muun muassa Virossa, Belgiassa, Portugalissa, Japanissa ja Intiassa. Viime vuosina hän toimii tanssijana koreografien Sari Palmgrenin, Yasen Vasilevin, Terhi Kuokkasen (Off/Balance) ja Mirva Mäkisen kanssa sekä esiintyjänä ja koreografina Keskellä-kollektiivin ja muissa vapaan kentän työryhmissä. Laube-Pohto toimii lisäksi ympäri Suomea tanssin ammattilaisten työpajaopettajana ja hän on tällä hetkellä erityisen kiinnostunut hetkessä syntyvästä koreografiasta, läsnäolon tutkimisesta sekä ihmisten ja tilan välisistä yhteyksistä.
Khadidiatou Bangoura
28 July ︎︎︎ 3 August 2025Khadidiatou Bangoura is a Liberian-Guinean artist born in France and raised in Germany. With a background in International Relations & Development Studies (BA) and African Studies (MA) from London, and Contemporary Dance at Danceworks Berlin. She uses dance to analyze our relationships to each other, to ourselves and to our environment. In doing so, she discovers and creates new narratives that lead to (self-)reflection. She has worked with artists such as Okwui Okpokwasili, David Zambrano, Ester Ambrosino (Tanztheater Erfurt), Rafaële Giovanola (Cocoon Dance), Jan Pusch, Melissa Guex, Felix Dompreh (Kuyum Arts) and Horacio Macuacua. Her choreographic works include The Heart is a Muscle, fight, flight, freeze, and FÜHL DIE WELT DURCH MEINE HAUT. In September 2023, she performed at the KUYUM ARTS FESTIVAL in BERLIN in the duet “DIEKPO” with Luana Madikera under the direction of Felix Dompreh. Bangoura is committed to inclusive dance, developing a course for blind and visually impaired dancers and premiering LIFE IS A JUNGLE in 2024, a dance performance for blind, visually impaired and sighted audiences without audio description. She also leads the PLAYTIME series, where dance enthusiasts from different backgrounds and experience levels come together to practice spontaneous composition. In 2024, she became the artistic co-director of Sommerblut Kulturfestival.
Yasmine Lindskog
7 July ︎︎︎ 3 August 2025Yasmine Lindskog is a Swedish/Finnish/American dance artist, improviser, and choreographer based in Brussels, Belgium. She is fascinated by the collective energy and is drawn to curating collective experiences in her work. Often working with instantaneous composition, she curates improvisational structures to explore the potential of physicality, presence, and interconnectivity. She has performed in the USA, UK, Europe, Colombia, Ethiopia, and China, in works by Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Aïda Colmenero Dïaz, Adaptations Dance Theater, Shobana Jeyasingh, Tony Adigun, Hagit Yakira, FLOCK, Kaeja d'Dance, cia Jordi L. Vidal, amongst others. She co-directors the Lo Poroso festival, a dance gathering in Bucaramanga, Colombia, and co-directs SonicMvmtScapes, immersive AR sound-movement experiences. Choreographic credits include commissions for Irvine Valley College, FLYOUT Transition Dance Company, John Hopkins University's Peabody Prep, California State University Los Angeles, Teatro Ermete Novelli, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, and Resolutions Festival. She collaborated with musicians: Oneohtrix Point Never, Little Grim, Sumalgy Nuro, Platonica Erotica, and borev. She was selected for MAISHA dance, an Afro-European dance project created by the EU Delegation to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She received her BFA in Dance from Cal State University Long Beach and her MA in Contemporary Dance from the London Contemporary Dance School where she was part of the EDge Dance Company under artistic direction of Jeanne Yasko. While living in Brussels, she spent time studying intensively with David Zambrano. She also studies with Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek in their Fighting Monkey Practice. Yasmine is passionate about art’s potential to ignite change through connection, community, and cultural exchange.