By and with Mia Habib
Costume: Mia Habib
Light: Inger Johanne Byhring
Photo: Petter Goldstine
Choreographical concultant: Ingunn Rimestad
Music: “habibi”, funk fra favelaen Cidade de Deus, Shabak
Ticket: 70/120
* Public discussion with the artists follows after the performance.

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If not this way, how, and if not now, when?”
Ray Smith

What leads to apathy
What leads to action
The oppressed and the oppressor lives within us
Always every day now everywhere

Mia Habib graduated in 2003, from the State College of Ballet, after studying choreography and pedagogy. She has been working as a choreographer and dancer in the Nordic countries, Madagascar and Brazil with projects such as the norwegian-madagascan Masinandraina, the Nordic project “Ny Nordisk Koreografi”, in the performance group L.U.N amongst others. This fall she will be working as a dancer with Inger-Reidun Olsen and Peter Goldstine. Through her work she sets focus on current subjects in society. Her projects have found place in such diverse venues as asylum centres, outdoors, concert arenas in addition to the traditional stage.

    

FAVELA VERA ORTIZ /FIN/
„Alue“

Choreography: Favela Vera Ortiz
Dance: Tanja Kuisma
Sound: Jan Noponen
Costume: Niina Huovinen
Lights: Minna Heikkilä
Duration: 15´
Thanks to Svenska Kulturfonden, Indie Art Factory Festival.
Premiere: 8.9.2005 Indie Art Factory Festival, Ateneum-sali Helsinki
Ticket: 70/120

A trip to zero-point. RADAR.
Boundaries level the scenery. LEVEL.
Compact field. Compass is pointing. BODY.
The position is booked in the terminal. LARGE.

INTERVAL (ALUE) is a hypnotic solo where a person is adjusting to the limited space.


* Public discussion with the artists follows after the performance.

Favela Vera Ortiz (1972) is a Finnish, Helsinki-based dance artist. She has graduated from the University College of Dance (Danshögskolan) in Stockholm 2001.
Favela Vera Ortiz combines dramatic elements with modern dance. Often she approaches choreography from the psychological point of view. Breaking the natural experience of time is characteristic of her works as well as rapid changes in the energies.
In her work Favela Vera Ortiz doesn't use only one type of movement that would follow from one piece to another. She uses the techniques of contemporary dance, which merge stylized gestures and everyday movements. Along with the dramatic approach she has produced entirely abstract choreographies and wishes to devote herself to different kind of styles also in the future.
Content=form and form=content
A choreographer's intention is to find the form that supports the content in best possible way. She is also open to new experimentations. Moving installations, site-specific work and dance video are all possible ways of working for her.
Favela Vera Ortiz has been working with dancers, actors, mimics and young people aiming at the dancer's profession. Usually choreographies are made in tight cooperation and through improvisation.
On the student level it's important to take into account differences in capabilities. In that case it's more likely that the choreographer creates the movement language herself.
The means in the process evolve according to the production as well as the ways of moving change according to the subject. New ideas lead into new objectives and these objectives define the ways in which they can be reached best.