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Maria Nurmela and Vesa Loikas pitching their work "Entanglement: Skin Rivers" at the IceHot Nordic Dance Platform, Oslo, on February 15th 2024
15. helmikuuta 2024
IceHot Nordic Dance Platform, Oslo, Norway 14-18.2.2024
Maria Nurmela and Vesa Loikas pitch on Thursday February 15 at 10:00 – 11:30
VEGA Scene
https://www.icehotnordicdance.com/event/maria-nurmela-vesa-loikas/
"Entanglement" is an cross-disciplinary 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.
Maria starting to collaborate with Lisi Estaras with a new solo work premiering in January 30th 2025 at the Turku City Theatre - Sopukka Stage
30. tammikuuta 2025
Maria Nurmela and Lisi Estaras, two experienced choreographer-dancers, join forces to celebrate the long and successful careers of mature female performers in the field of contemporary dance. Premiering in January 2025 at the Turku City Theatre's Sopukka, the production offers the Turku audience an evening of two solo pieces, appealing to those interested in contemporary dance, theater, performance and even stand-up. The evening delicately explores women’s life and the societal and social phenomena that shape it in a lively and compassionate manner.
Maria is invited to create a new work for the Pori Dance Company, premiering in September 2024 at the historic former Bus Station of Pori!
1. syyskuuta 2024
The inspiration for the creation for the Pori Dance Company stems from Clarice Lispector's novel "A Breath of Life," where the character Angela rebels against the role imposed by the author. The rich dialogue and exploration of themes, temporal layers, and mundane occurrences in human life within the book serve as catalysts for the creation of the dance work. Four performers traverse and inhabit a multitude of scenarios, drawing from Lispector's prose as well as text fragments crafted collaboratively, all underscored by immersive sound design.
Maria´s latest work VoxFemina / Feral Polyphony premiered in Turku 19.1.2024 in former Kakola Prison Church gets praising reviews in Turun Sanomat!
20. tammikuuta 2024
Review by Heidi Horila in Turun Sanomat 20.1.2024 (Translated from Finnish)
Direction, choreography Maria Nurmela, lyrics by the working group, composition Jane Sheldon, sounds Jaakko Vastapuu, lights Erno Seppälä, costumes Maria Nurmela. Kakola Hall 19.1.
Dance maker Maria Nurmela has used to take her performances to non-conventional performance spaces such as the civil defense shelter and the current Art House, before the space was used as an Art House. Now, Nurmela and her working group's long-term VoxFemina project Feral Polyphony, which explores femininity with several different women artists, can be seen in Kakola Hall, the former church of a former prison. The choice is apt.