The Feldenkrais® Method is a holistic somatic learning method where movement serves as a foundation, offering participants the opportunity to expand their awareness of themselves and the surrounding world through various movement themes, sensations, bodily states, and imagery.

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Maria Nurmela's contemporary dance piece A breath of a mild kind, created for Pori Dance Company
at the historic Porin bus station, now a cultural center Asema44, 7.9.-15.9.2024

Maria Nurmela's contemporary dance piece A breath of a mild kind, created for Pori Dance Company,
will have its premiere at the historic Porin bus station, now a cultural center Asema44, in September.

Dance artist Maria Nurmela and photographer-filmmaker Vesa Loikas have been collaborating on experimental short films since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. They have produced four short films so far, which have premiered at international festivals. The works have attracted attention with their unique visual and choreographic language, where strong imagery, movement, and corporeality merge into a web-like dramaturgy.

Maria invites the participants to dive into an adventure, where we approach the potential of bodies through various motions, movements, sensations and bodily states. During the course, we will question, through different improvisational and exploratory tasks, how we can find new ways to move and allow the motion that already exists in us to be augmented into unexpected amplitudes. Workshop is open for all levels!

Maria worked with the 1st and 4th year students of the Modern Dance Department of the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory 16.4.-19.4.2024. On Friday 19th the students will have a showing in the Main Hall of the Campus of the themes and practices they researched during the four days workshop.

Maria is creating a new work for the Pori Dance Company, premiering in September 2024 at the historic former Bus Station of Pori!

Mon, Mar 4, 2024, 2:45 PM Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 4:45 PM
https://ilmonet.fi/course/H240537

The Feldenkrais® method is a holistic somatic learning approach developed by Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), where gentle movement serves as a pathway to learning. The method offers participants the opportunity to fine-tune their senses, improve their bodily awareness and their relationship with their environment, learn new fine motor skills, and discover ease in everyday activities.

"Entanglement" is an interdisciplinary artistic project of the intricate connections between an oak forest, its trees, vegetation, animals and human beings. Using contemporary dance, moving images and sound design to better understand our place in the biosphere, dance artist Maria Nurmela, photographer/filmmaker Vesa Loikas and composer Jane Sheldon turn to the ancient oak grove in Kaarina Vaarniemi.

VoxFemina / Feral Polyphony is a loud glimpse into the quiet history and present day of femininity. The performance is a polyphonic and surprising event, a continuum of ever-rebuilding and disintegrating feminine events.

The work will be presented in Turku 19.-20.1.2024.

Mon, Jan 8, 2024, 6:00 PM Tue, Jan 9, 2024, 7:00 PM
Maria and visual artists Saara Nurmi will lead a VoxFemina-workshop at Kalliola Setlementti.

https://opisto.kalliola.fi/kurssit/tanssi/

Mon, Dec 11, 2023 ,4:00 PM Tue, Dec 12, 2023 6:00 PM

Maria, visual artists Saara Nurmi and performer Reettaleena Rauhala will lead a VoxFemina-workshop at the Joulukalenteri Festival 2023. The workshop will take place 11.12. in Turku Library at 4-6pm and 12.12.2023 at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art. At 5.30 pm 12.12.2023 there will be a participatory open event at the entrance Hall of the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum (duration pro 30 minutes).

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https://www.impermanence.co.uk/event-test/the-days

Supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Regional Dance Center of Western Finland.

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk

Tour is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and Regional Dance Center of Western Finland.

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/arts-centre

Photo by Ville Oinonen, 2022.

The workshop is organized by Fine5 Dance Theatre at the Sakala 3 Cultural Center.

The Days Project will have its first Bulgarian premier at the Derida Dance Center in Sofia.

The 10 days visit to Bulgaria is supported by Culture Moves Europe and Regional Dance Center of Western Finland.

Breathing, Movement and Interaction

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Vesa Loikas and Maria Nurmela

SERIES OF DANCE FILMS
As part of the visual arts exhibition 13.-23.9.Mon-Fri 14-19 Sat-Sun 11-18@Vanha Viinatehdas
Exhibition opening 13.9. at 18-21
Meet the Artist Sunday 17.9. at 13.00

Movement and embodiment intertwine in a series of four short films

The Finnish Feldenkrais Association organises

https://jojo.fi/oudance-the-days/

The Days Project, workshop for local dance enthusiasts, Oulu, Finland

https://ip-tanz.com/2023/absence3-deconstruction-of-time/

Exciting new dance theatre performance Pierrot le fou - how to dance Godard is coming to a premier in June, on the streets, parks and yards of
Helsinki!

Tue, Apr 18, 2023 2:00 PM Wed, Apr 19, 2023 5:00 PM

In the workshop, we will interact at multidisciplinary frontiers and open up our own voices through different stories, movements and metaphors.
The workshop will be led by dance artist-pedagogue Maria Nurmela and visual artist Saara Nurmi from the VoxFemina working group. The workshop will include a visit to the SALONG 3+ Renaissance exhibition at the museum.

Thu, Feb 2, 20238:00 PM  Sun, Feb 5, 20239:00 PM

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Maria Nurmela's contemporary dance piece A breath of a mild kind, created for Pori Dance Company at the historic Porin bus station, now a cultural center Asema44, in September.