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Saara Roppola is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Her practice traverses performance art, butoh dance, puppetry, installation art, video art, soft sculpture and costume art. Saara has a strong solo art practice focussing on performance-sculpture as well as working on many collaborative projects with other artists and theatre makers. As a designer, costume and puppet maker and performer Saara established Kimera Productions in Amsterdam 2013, and moved the company to Australia in 2015. She completed a Bachelor (hons) of Fine Art, Visual Art at QUT in 2011 and Master in Profession Practice, Performing Arts, USC, in 2017.
Portfolio
2020
House Conspiracy. Tipping Point exhibition | Carbon | Butoh Performance
Modifyre / Frequency TV | RAD presents a 10 hour POLLINATOR take over |Live stream of interdisciplinary performance happening
2019
BackBone | Forgotten Wings Project | Butoh Performance Sculpture with Orthotyp-A
Anywhere Theatre Festival | Existential Worm | Roving performance and soft sculpture
Kamaitachi Village Festival, Hijikata Museum, Japan | Water Pot | Butoh Performance
2018
Metro Arts Death fest |Cthonica |Psycho Ranbow | Performance costume
Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle | This is Not Art festival | Tender Tension | Solo Performance - sculpture
Penny Contemporary, Hobart | Nu:Classical exhibition event | Carbon | Solo Performance 2017
Pop Gallery, Brisbane | Puppet Tearing exhibition | Solo sculpture-performanc 2016 Analogue Gallery, Brisbane | SxPlus, Real Live Nude exhibition | Real Nude | Solo Performance
Anywhere Theatre Festival, Prohibition Brisbane |Sx Plus exhibition | Baba | Solo Performance
BARI Festival | Yonder | Candi | Solo Performance
Sword in the Shell ARI, Brisbane | Reproduction exhibition | Mamama |
Solo Performance- sculpture performances with sculptural costuming and puppetry as Kimera Productions
2015 -2018
Kimera Productions, Queensland | Woodford Folk Festival, Jungle Love Festival,, Yonder - BARI fesitival, Earth Frequency Festival, Concrete Jungle, Andromeder Festival, Manifest Festival, West End Festival, Redcliff Festival, Splender in the Grass, numerous private events.
2012 - 2015
Kimera Productions, Europe
Supperclub Amsterdam, 360° Istanbul, Studio 80 - Amsterdam, Unleashed - Amsterdam, Various town festivals -Italy
Collaborations
2018
Metro Arts/Flowstate | Death Fest | Moving Through | Performance with Kellie O'Dempsey
Queensland Art Gallery, GOMA | Picasso, The Vollard Suite | The Drawing Laberynth | Performance/life drawing/ lecture with William Platz
2017
Warehouse, Brisbane | Away and Towards | Performance with Kellie O'Dempsey
Performance Contracts 2017
MONA | Dark MOFO, Hobart | ACTION:150 | Performer with Hermann Nitsch 2016
GOMA | The Heard | Performer with Nick Cave
Community Projects
2019 - Ongoing
HOUSE CONSPIRACY, Brisbane | POLLINATOR | Monthly curated Interdisciplinary Studio Sessions
Education
~University of the Sunshine Coast, Masters of Professional Practice Performaning Arts, 2017
~Queensland University of Technology, Bachelor with honours, Fine Art, Visual Art 2011
~Zen Zen Zo training with Lynne Bradley, The Viewpoints, Butoh, Suzuki Method, 2017
~Butoh performance training with Masaki Iwana, Akira Kasai, Stefano Taiuti, Tadashi Endo, Moeno Wakamutsu at various studios, Europe. Dairakudakan, Japan, and Katsura Kan (Jap), Australia. 2011 - 2017
~Okido Yoga Teachers qualification with residential retreat qualifications, Okido Dojo, Netherlands. 2011 - 2014
~Diploma of Arts, Crafts and Community Art, TAFE Morningside. 2001