Bird Disco is a participatory and communal performance based on an idea and music by media artist Pasi Autio and dance by dancer and choreographer Saku Koistinen. It features dancing to music made from the song sounds of birds, with Koistinen acting as a pre-dancer and dance director.
Although Bird Disco is an entertaining, participatory and communal experience, it is based on a serious topic: The loss of biodiversity and the unequal interaction of humans with the ecosystem as a whole.
Bird Disco has engaged audiences in a wide variety of events, settings and situations, both in Finland and abroad. The work was originally created for the Helsinki Biennial 2021.
Photo: Timo Nieminen