UPCOMING
SOMETHING ELSE: an expansive night of improvised music and performance with Lumi Mannermaa (cello, electronics), Viktor Toikkanen (electronics), Wilson Tanner Smith (cello) & Katia Skylar (physical performance).
WHEN & WHERE: 23 April at 19, bar Musta Kissa, Toinen linja 15, Helsinki
Katia Skylar is an actor (FIA), performance maker, and butoh dancer based in Helsinki. Her work spans stage, screen, and immersive formats — blending movement, physicality, and multilingual performance.
MUNDANE.MAGIC, location-fluid performance-journey, dir. Katia Skylar, Viimsi Artium and Tallin public spaces (Tallinn & Viimsi, Estonia, 2024). Photo by Becca Green
CITY PEOPLE SHAPES, short film, dir. Silvija Bumbak. In the program of the Tampere Film Festival 2022
Identity Cabaret DRAG SHOW, dir. Jüri Nael. Sakala 3 Theatre (Tallinn, 2022)
CONCORDIA, gentle butoh intervention in Emma – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, choreography by Ken Mai (Espoo, 2022). Photo by Maria Bayat
GET DOWN FORM THERE AND OTHER REMARKS, a contemporary dance/ parkour performance, choreography by Jukka Tarvainen. Zodiak (Helsinki, 2021). Photo by Uupi Tirronen
DESCANSOS, a (video)performance created in collaboration with a video-artist Maria Bayat for the Quantum Critic, an international contemporary art exhibition curated by Myymälä2 (2020)
LUOTTOMIES (Wingman) | Border guard Polina, dir. Kari Ketonen, YLE Draama (2020)
ARRIVAL, a short film, Kino Euphoria (2021)