TINY WILDS
an artistic project exploring the porous relationship between the body & the land
2026
︎ 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 ‘26, SaltBodan, University 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
3 July ︎︎︎ 3 August 2026 - Loviisa, Finland︎ COMMUNITY JAM SESSIONS
w/ dance and music improvisation at Plagen
10, 17, 24, 31 JULY @ 17:00
︎ SPONTANEOUS PERFORMANCES
with collaborating artists at SaltBodan
12 JULY @ 16:00 - Alejandra Gissler and Yasmine Lindskog
19 JULY @ 16:00 - Rebecca Laube-Pohto and Yasmine Lindskog
26 JULY @ 16:00 - Deborah Lotti and Yasmine Lindskog
2 AUGUST @ 16:00 - Khadidiatou Bangoura and Yasmine Lindskog (as part of SALTFEST ‘26)
︎ ARTISTS in RESIDENCE
at Art in Lov
7 July ︎︎︎ 13 July - Alejandra Gissler and Yasmine Lindskog
14 July ︎︎︎ 20 July - Rebecca Laube-Pohto and Yasmine Lindskog
21 July ︎︎︎ 27 July - Deborah Lotti and Yasmine Lindskog
28 July ︎︎︎ 3 August - Khadidiatou Bangoura and Yasmine Lindskog
Artists
Participating Artists in TINY WILDS edition in Loviisa, Finland from 3 July ︎︎︎ 3 August 2026
Alejandra Gissler
7 July ︎︎︎ 13 July 2026Alejandra Gissler is a Swiss–Colombian contemporary dancer, maker, and educator, currently based between Colombia and Europe. Her work engages sensitively with ecological questions, materiality, and the relationship between body and space. Her versatile practice spans movement facilitation in non-conventional sites and the creation of immersive spaces where performance, collective improvisation, and guided rest gently intertwine. Drawing from her multicultural background, she explores the intersection of diverse movement languages, weaving contemporary techniques such as Floorwork, Flying Low, and Cunningham technique with the rhythms and textures of Colombian dance practices. Since graduating from her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the London Contemporary Dance School, her work has been presented at The Place Theatre, Whitechapel Gallery, The Story Garden, and at festivals internationally. In her hometown Bucaramanga, she co-founded Lo Poroso, a platform fostering cultural and artistic exchange within contemporary dance practices.
Rebecca Laube-Pohto
14 July ︎︎︎ 20 July 2026Rebecca Laube-Pohto is a Finnish dance artist, choreographer, performer, and educator working between Brussels and Central Finland, whose work spans international artistic contexts. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Keskellä Collective and has developed her practice through extensive studies and professional experience in dance, improvisation, and real-time composition. She works internationally, creating artistic projects that combine choreography, improvisation, and collaborative practices. Her work is rooted in physicality, presence, and real-time composition, informed by extensive international studies, intercultural experiences, and a diverse movement background drawing from contemporary dance, contact improvisation, partnering, classical ballet, hip hop, house, voguing, and other movement practices. She has performed and taught internationally across Europe, Asia, and South America, and has collaborated with artists including Sari Palmgren, Iselin Brogeland, Yasen Vasilev, Terhi Kuokkanen, and Mirva Mäkinen. Her artistic approach has been shaped by long-term studies with David Zambrano and extensive engagement with the practices of Flying Low, Passing Through, and Instant Composition. Her current interests explore body memory, belonging, embodied landscapes, and choreographic processes that emerge through relationships between people, place, and movement.
Deborah Lotti
21 July ︎︎︎ 27 July 2026Deborah 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 Alexander Ekman, 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. The same year, she was selected for 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. Recently, she joined the company Faso Danse Théâtre for their new creation choreographed by Serge Aimé Coulibaly. 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.
Khadidiatou Bangoura
28 July ︎︎︎ 3 August 2026Khadidiatou Bangoura is a dancer and choreographer based in Cologne, Germany and the director of KHARABA & GUESTS. She is originally from Liberia and Guinea, born in France and raised in Germany. Following her studies in International Relations, Development Studies, and African Studies in London, she completed her dance training at Danceworks Berlin and the Tictac Art Centre in Brussels. Her work focuses on relationality and perception. She investigates our relationships to ourselves, to each other, and to our environment—aiming for new narratives and perspectives, greater self-reflection, and deeper self-awareness. Her works include "FÜHL DIE WELT DURCH MEINE HAUT – Observations on everyday racism" (2021), "LIFE IS A JUNGLE" (2024) for blind, visually impaired, and sighted audiences, and "PINKE PINKE – a poetic reflection on money for 8 years up (2025). Since 2024, she has been offering the inclusive workshop "DANCE TO THE MUSIC" for blind, visually-impaired and sighted persons and the improvisation session "PLAYTIME" for dancers of all backgrounds and all levels of experience. She was the artistic co-director of the Sommerblut Kulturfestival in 2024 and is currently a member of the advisory board for the FAVORITEN Festival 2026. In March 2026, she became a scholarship holder of the Kunst Salon Foundation.
Yasmine Lindskog
3 July ︎︎︎ 3 August 2026Yasmine 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, FLOCK, Kaeja d'Dance, cia Jordi L. Vidal, amongst others. She co-founded Lo Poroso, a platform for artistic and cultural exchange between contemporary dance practitioners 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, Teatro Ermete Novelli, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, amongst others. 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. Yasmine is passionate about art’s potential to ignite change through connection, community, and cultural exchange.