Maija Nurmio: Dark Dances
A contemporary dance performance for three dancers and breathing. Audience can participate to a breathing workshop 1h prior the performance. The performance is part of Feels Like Home exhibition program.
About
A dance work for three bodies and the breath that connects us to all things in the universe.
Dark Dances studies choreographically, where breath routes in us. It concentrates on contradictions, both those absorbed from the outer world and those that reside in us, inherent darkness and exhales a dance deriving from it.
What do we feel and hear when we listen to our or someone else’s breathing?
Who has room to breathe?
The performance is directed to adult audiences, but chilren over 10-years-old can be taken along according to the parent’s discretion.
Breathing workshops
The performances are accompanied by open breathing workshops 1 hour prior the performances at Kiasma’s Seminar Room. The workshop includes to the ticket. The workshop is not held on April 11.
Choreographer
Maija Nurmio is a Helsinki-based choreographer and dancer, who has worked extensively in dance art in Finland and abroad for a couple of decades. At the center of Nurmio’s artistic work is corporeality, accessing the knowledge and dimensions carried by the body. Her work lies at the edge of deep humanity when dealing with the issues of life and death, between the human and the non-human.
Nurmio’s choreographies have been presented in e.g. Vaba Lava in Tallinn, Mad House in Helsinki, Saint Paul’s Church in Limerick, Üfestudios in Berlin, Kansallisteatteri, Barker in Turku, Finnish SOS Children’s Village and prisons.
Credits
Dance: Jonna Eiskonen, Marlon Moilanen & Ervi Sirén
Choreography: Maija Nurmio
Costume design: Kirsi Gum
Lighting & set design: Heikki Paasonen
Sound design: Miikka Ahlman
Co-production: Maija Nurmio, Esitystaiteen seura & Kiasma-teatteri
