Because we cannot do otherwise (2022, HD Video, 4'17")
Language: English
A poetical digital story by Tina Bikic
Credits
Filmed, Edited, Written and Narrated by Tina Bikic
Cast
In the role of the dancers:
Marfa Rybakova
Cesar Westerholm
Lumi Lahtinen
Choreography
Sathis Hettitanthri and Katja Köngäs
Costume Design, Make-up, Hair
Tanja Stenberg
Music
Le Verrou de Lordat by Circus Marcus
Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License https://freemusicarchive.org/music/CI...
Music
Hidden Orchestra – East London Street (Drums Only Version) Written and produced by Joe Acheson Published by Full Thought Publishing (P) 2017 Used with kind permission from Tru Thoughts Records Ltd. www.tru-thoughts.co.uk
Space
Filmed at Villa Skeppet, Ekenäs, Finland — the last private home designed by Alvar Aalto (1969–1970) for author Göran Schildt and his wife Christine.
Producer
Hurja Piruetti
BECAUSE WE CANNOT DO OTHERWISE
ABOUT
2.4 Defining the poetic script: composing poetics in both text and screen
2.6 Narrator’s voice as a new character in the story
2.7 Spaces as narrative agents
2.9 Rhythm: Writing, narrating, editing
About
This work was created in collaboration with Hurja Piruetti Dance School and its participants. Through a process of co-creation, it brings together the local milieu with Finnish design and architecture.
Developed as part of Hurja Piruetti’s Sustainable Development Project (2021–2022), the piece was filmed at Christine and Göran Schildt’s home in Ekenäs, the last private residence designed by Alvar Aalto. The interior combines Aalto’s furniture with Mediterranean objects, creating a spatial dialogue between northern modernism and southern memory.
Through both improvisation and choreographed movement, the dancers engaged directly with architectural space as a living environment. The process became an exploration of dialogue, negotiation, sensing, and listening, dancing through and within space as a way of thinking.
This work is part of my continuous research on space, memory, and imagination. In this film, movement and narration intertwine to reflect on how creativity emerges through shared action and embodied presence.
Dear audience, meet the dancer.
-EXCERPT FROM BECAUSE WE CANNOT DO OTHERWISE
Dear audience, meet the dancer.
-EXCERPT FROM BECAUSE WE CANNOT DO OTHERWISE
Because we cannot do otherwise
Written and Narrated by Tina Bikic
Being in the arts is like... being immersed in a dream.
So real that you can touch, question, play, act, and dance...
Pure magic.
