12.5.2026 at 15:00

A dance performance-ode to the generation of loneliness and vanity.

The performance in MUU is a 25-min excerpt of the full piece LOITSUT at the end of the world (work-in-progress).

After the performance there will a discussion with Polena Kolia Petersen and artist Kikka Rytkönen.

Free entry.
Refreshments.
Welcome.

End. Repeat. Escape. Delete. No. One more attempt. Before you relapse back to business as usual once again. A true amnesiac millennial. Can the movement, the voice of one body reverse this game? If every movement is a step closer to the end, how do we move?

A dance performance-ode to the generation of loneliness and vanity. An allegory for the choice to move as an opponent of a futureless present, a cry out to the collectives that we have lost.

Credits
Concept, research, choreography, performance: Polena Kolia Petersen
Music: evi nakou, Orestis Atsalakis, George Dousos
Text: Polena Kolia Petersen

LOITSUT at the end of the world by Polena Kolia Petersen (GR/DK) is a part of the E75 Art Bus project, produced by Artists’ Association MUU (FI) in collaboration with Kaltio Magazine (FI). The research & development of Polena Kolia Petersen’s work has also been supported by I. & R. Duncan Dance Center (GR), and iP12 House (GR).

E75 Art Bus that has been on the road since 10 April 2026, connects the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean – people, cultures, and perspectives, and is a part of the Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture programme.

Polena Kolia Petersen is a Greek-Danish dance artist performing, making and facilitating dance focusing on participation and community engagement. Her work explores dancing as a gesture of resistance in the space between a rite and a riot, seeking to nurture more sustainable, resilient and critical communities through movement.

Polena’s artistic approach is based on feminist and decolonial principles of co-leadership, where she draws from improvisation, queering up folk dances, and somatic training to create embodied experiences that propose more collective and connected futures through commoning dance practices.

As part of the E75 Art Bus project, Polena Kolia Petersen was in artist residency at KulttuuriKauppila in Ii, Finland, during the spring 2025.