Maria Rutanen
The Rooms
The Rooms is a piece about shared common experience on privacy in our culture. It questions the concept of home and on going gentrification, when people are desperately searching for a space to inhabit, to be alone and to be together, that could be felt like home.
Choreography and concept: Maria Rutanen
Performance: Rocio Marano and Maria Rutanen
Sound: Electronic Traffic
Nah Dran, Ada studio
Thanks to Gabi Beier/Ada Studio
Berlin 2015
Link trailer: https://www.tanzforumberlin.de/en/production/the-rooms/
Review Ada studio writer: https://ada-studio.jimdofree.com/studioschreiber-texte/studioschreiber-texte-2015-16/text-2-2015-16/
photo: Alex Zampini
Happy Fears
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Two tables, two chairs, two light bulbs, two performers and two bars in the two different evenings.
Choreography and performance:
Anna Neuber and Maria Rutanen
Sound: Electronic Traffic
48 Stunden Neukölln/48 hours Neukölln -festival
Berlin 2014
Link trailer: https://vimeo.com/115487135
photo: Rocio Marano
The Four Elements
The Four Elements is a multidiscipline performance that unites live music, dance, poetry, paintings and visual art together. Tuli (Fire) is a solo piece, which is a part of the Four Elements score. The performance is made for a music composition by Luis Pato "The Four Elements".
Concept: Teija Englund, Luis Pato and Meinert Steensen
Artistic direction: Teija Englund
Composition: Luis Pato
Piano: Teija Englund
Cello: Jan Wahlsten
Dance: Maria Rutanen
Paintings: Anna Leppä
Visuals: Meinert Steensen
Assistant: Katja Menzel-Lahtinen
Poetry: Maria Laiho
Supported by Credere Fund
Lahti, Finland 2012
Cold Café
Cold Cafe explores detailed staccato movements that are performed precisely in timing and unison.
Duo work choreographed and performed by
Maria Rutanen and Lou Poirier
Sound: Ticklisch
E-WERK Freiburg
Supported by Bewegungs Art
2011