Backstage before the "Soledad". Stockholm, November 2024
Festival Koolitants 2024. Rakvere Theatre, Estonia.
Getteing ready for the stage. "Soledad", Stockholm 2024.
Dancer and choreographer Tiina Mölder in the rehearsal of "Care" by Helena Krinal and United dancers of Zuga.
The dance performance "Field" takes us to the fields of captivating beauty. A journey where beauty, happiness, and joy manifest as accidental side effects of a bad situation, offering support and helping to maintain hope.
The "faster, higher, further" that characterizes the modern world has taken over the individual's life, forcing us to either keep up or fall behind. Abundance has quickly been replaced by excess - there is so much information, things, and speed that expectations, goals, and targets often leave only crushing obligations. How to take care of yourself when the surrounding environment doesn't encourage it? How to cope and move forward successfully when we are burdened with the responsibility for the future of ourselves and the entire world? Is there room for beauty amidst this chaos?
Aneta Varts and Dennis Duffin. Narva, Estonia 2024.
Helen Reitsnik in the rehearsal of "Care". Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
Allar Valge in "Rhythmus". TantsuMENÜÜ / DanceMENU 2024.
Maria Uppin-Sarv in "Field". Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
Ingrid Mugu in "Soledad". "Soledad" was nominated to Estonian theatre awards for the best dance production in 2024.
Choreographer Igor Lider's dance performance "Change" invites the viewer into the exciting world of street dance. Dedicated to hip-hop culture since childhood, four male dancers bring their years of experience to the stage. Their encounter with theater and contemporary dance space creates a new and extraordinary change. Multi-level, modern and eloquent.
Aneta and Dennis. Backstage of Narva Vaba Lava 2024.
"Field". Moment from the performance.
Aneta and Dennis in black and white. Backstage of Narva Vaba Lava 2024.
Helen Reitsnik and Ajjar Ausma. The dance performance “Care” focuses on how difficult, easy, depressing, and uplifting it is to care for someone else.
Valeria Tagel is a dance teacher and dance artist who graduated from the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy with a degree in dance art. Valeria has pursued professional development both in Estonia and abroad and has participated in several residencies. In recent years, Valeria has collaborated with various performing artists as a choreographer, dancer, director, artist, and dramaturg. In 2018, Valeria Tagel participated in the TantsuMENÜÜ program as one of the performers in Maria Uppin-Sarv and Marie Pullerits production "Ainukordus". Maria Uppin-Sarv is a freelance dance artist and the artistic director of the dance ensemble Lee. She graduated from the José Limón Dance Foundation's professional dancer training program in New York and holds a master's degree in choreography from Tallinn University. Maria has danced in operas and operettas at the Estonian National Opera, at the Starlight Cabaret revue theater, and in various contemporary dance productions. Together with Marie Pullerits, she created the dance performance "Ainukordus" in 2018, which was part of the first season of the TantsuMENÜÜ program.
Tiina Mölder. Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
Folkshow. Estonian Dance Agnecy 2024.
Valeria Tagel and Maria Uppin-Sarv. Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
"Care". The dance performance “Care” focuses on how difficult, easy, depressing, and uplifting it is to care for someone else.
"Field". Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
Tiina Mölder. Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
Moments on the stage. Fstival Koolitants, Theatre Vanemuine, Tartu, Estonia 2024.
Tiina Mölder, Ajjar Ausma. Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
Helen Reitsnik. United Dancers of Zuga 2024.
Helen Reistnik. Zuga United Dancers is an association of dancers and choreographers that has been active since 1999. They have been invited to perform in many countries and have received several theater and dance awards for their work over the years.
Allar Valge in "Rhythmus" 2024.
Maria Uppin-Sarv in "Field" 2024.
Throughout our lives, we all care for someone or are cared for. Sometimes it’s so hard, taking care of someone. And then it’s so hard when no one needs our care anymore. Not to mention how hard it is to give yourself into someone else’s care. And despite all this, there is so much love in caring, providing care, and being cared for. Love that elevates us and offers redemption for past mistakes. Care carries us through life, from birth to death.
"ReAlign" by Anna Kenrick. Festival Koolitants 2024.
"Care". Tiina Mölder and Helen Reitsnik. Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
Matthew James Jordan in "Rhythmus" 2024.
"Care" by Helena Krinal and United Dancers of Zuga. Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
"Rhythmus" is a tap dance and rhythm performance that shows the special aspects of tap dance. Rhythmus is bringing to the stage references from the performances of legendary tap dancers a hundred years ago, but also looking for something new – we see tap as a moving and energetic dance, but we also hear it as a musical style. The performance looks at this through two characters, one with an anxiety disorder and the other with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). How do they manage to keep their disorders under control and help each other overcome difficulties through music and dance?
United Dancers of Zuga 2024.
Valeria Tagel and Maria Uppin-Sarv 2024.
Moments from "Care". Estonian Dance Agency 2024.
Allar Valge in "Rhythmus". Eesti Tantsuagentuur 2024.
The dance performance “Care” focuses on how difficult, easy, depressing, and uplifting it is to care for someone else.
Allar Valge 2024.
Maria Uppin-Sarv 2024.
Helen Reitsnik and Ajjar Ausma 2024.
Maria Uppin-Sarv.
Tiina Mölder and Ajjar Ausma in "Care".
Allar Valge and Matthew James Jordan in "Rhtyhmus".
Tiina Mölder, Ajjar Ausma in "Care".
Valeria Tagel, Maria Uppin-Sarv.
Helen Reitsnik, Ajjar Ausma.
Ingrid Mugu. Backstage in Stockholm 2024.
"Rhythmus" is a tap dance and rhythm performance that shows the special aspects of tap dance. Rhythmus is bringing to the stage references from the performances of legendary tap dancers a hundred years ago, but also looking for something new – we see tap as a moving and energetic dance, but we also hear it as a musical style.
"Rhythmus".
"Rhythmus".
Allar Valge.
Ingrid Mugu.
Ingrid Mugu. TantsuMENÜÜ / DanceMENU 2024.
Dane performance by Anna Kenrick. Festival Koolitants 2024.
Folkshow. Eesti Tantsuagentuur 2024.
Guest performer from Japan performing on the stage of Theatre Vanemuine in Tartu, Estonia. Festival Koolitants 2024.
,,Soledad’’ or ,,Loneliness’’ is a piece about the freedom that being alone gives us, but also about the barriers that we have to build between ourselves and the others. Being free inside our delimited space, we still have to face ourselves in its most direct and rawest form. Isolation in its duality could at the same time be calming and making us anxious, it could be a refuge or a motive for escaping it. Being a (flamenco) artist and spending hours upon hours alone, working on every small movement detail or sound, one also has to face their own doubts and fears. All this trouble just to later meet with other artists like themselves, enjoy and create together for a moment onstage and then disperse and go back to their familiar loneliness. But what makes some of us stay in isolation permanently?
Ingrid Mugu in "Soledad" 2024.
Ingrid Mugu in "Soledad" 2024.
"Change".
"Field".
,,Soledad’’ is a meeting place for flamenco culture and contemporary dance. Musicians from Spain, Canada and Estonia with a local flamenco dancer move through various stages and emotions created by loneliness.
Kelly Vask. Theatre Vanemuine 2024.
Artistic team of Koolitants 2024. Ingrid Mugu, Kristiina Siig.
Team of "Soledad". Stockholm 2024.
Igor Lider. Rakvere Culture Centre 2024.