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Maija Hirvanen is a choreographer
and performer
based in Helsinki.

On Ice at Charleroi Danse, Belgium/Les Repérages festival, 26/3/11

On Ice at South Bank Centre/DancEUnion, London 16/3

On Ice:Variation at Symposium on performance art criticism/Kiasma, 8th Oct.-10

On Ice at Nordic dance platform Ice Hot, Stockholm 2/12/2010

On Ice at Nordic dance platform Ice Hot, Stockholm, 2nd Dec.-10. Performance at Moderna Dansteatern 13:00. www.nordicdanceplatform.com

On Ice at Impulstanz, Vienna, 18th and 28th July

On Ice, a solo performance choreographed, written and directed by Maija Hirvanen, will be presented at Impulstanz, Vienna, 18th and 28th July. www.impulstanz.com

On Ice in Turku

On Ice solo will be performed at Manifest Festival, Turku 18.9.

On Ice/site specific and Writing, Language and Site seminar at ANTI Festival

On Ice, directed and written by Maija Hirvanen and performed by Anna-Maija Terävä, will be re-worked to different sites in Kuopio at ANTI Festival, 2.10.2010. Also at ANTI: Edge of Europe/Maija is one of the co-curators of the ANTI seminar, 29.9-1.10. Come and see what Anna-Menna, the comical-but-sad performance character

videos screened at Jointadventures, München

Videos ‘would you dance with me for 1 minute, please?’ and ‘Swamp’ screened at Jointadventures, München www.jointadventures.net

On Ice performance, Side Step festival

The solo performance On Ice is being performed in Helsinki 12th February 2010 in the programme of Side Step festival at Zodiak Center for New Dance. The February edition of On Ice is performed in English. see more: www.sidestep.fi

‘Säröjä’ -production starts at Lahti City Theatre

In the beginning of 2010, the Helsinki based new music theatre company Kuriton is starting the rehearsals of their new production Fractures. The piece is a co-production with Lahti City Theatre. Maija is working as the choreographer of the performance. see more: www.kuriton.com

On Ice performance / Oulu

On Ice, choreographed and directed by Maija, is being performed at Tanssia Tyrkyllä, Oulu 20th September 2009.

On Ice premiere, 2nd June

Premiere of performance On Ice today 2nd June at Zodiak Center for New Dance, Helsinki. see a clip of the performance at www.zodiak.fi

video Swamp at the Institut finlandais, Paris

My video Swamp, 2005, is screened at the Institut finlandais, Paris today 15th May. See more: http://institut-finlandais.asso.fr/

Edge of Europe current things

Edge of Europe, a project on performance and writing, is currently running a writing circle at Kiasma. An artists’ laboratory, hosted by Edge of Europe and /theatre.now festival at Kiasma Theatre, and led by singaporean artist and curator Ong Keng Sen, is under construction. I’m happy to work with both

On Ice work in progress showings

A new work, a solo piece for performer and dancer Anna-Maija Terävä, is under construction. The premiere is 2nd June 2009 at Zodiak Center of New Dance, Helsinki. (See more on the right side in the menu). Now, at this point, we have 49 moves, 49 shouts, 49 actions, 49

Articles on performance by Finnish artist-writers on-line

The performancekunst.no mini-magazine consists of 5 articles by and has been collected by Maija Hirvanen. see: www.performancekunst.no

BLINK -koreografiasta kirjoitettua

Laura Mannila kirjoittaa BLINK -koreografiasta Tanssi-lehdessä: “Leikkiä silmänräpäyksillä” BLINK -koreografian arvio Turun Sanomissa: BLINK arvio

Maija’s interview/International Museum of Women/

“Freeing Finnish Women’s Voices: The Work of Artist and Choreographer Maija Hirvanen”

images/BLINK performance

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There are 4 more performances in Turku, welcome! Here’s some images…

Edge writing project starts/fall 2008

The writing project “Performance and writing through the Edge (of Europe), focused on performance writing, artistic writing and performance journalism, starts during fall 2008. The project is run by Kiasma Theatre and is created and coordinated by Maija Hirvanen. Edge has other collaborators too, of which there will be more