Kaja Kann
Kaja sündis Vändras, paljulapselises perekonnas. Pärast keskooli lõpetamist asus ta õppima konserveerimise ja toidutehnoloogia erialale Räpina Aianduskooli. Ta on rahvusvaheliselt tunnustatud iseorganiseeruv kunstnik, kelle pöördumised on otsekohesed, vahel ehk liiga must - valged, kuid teravad. Tema kunstilist tegevust on võrreldud mänguga; nagu ta mängiks tsirkust, mängiks, et mängib muusikat, mängib, et kirjutab raamatut, mängib, et tantsib. Kaja ise ei taha sellega nõustuda, kui ta siiski peab seda tunnistama, siis lisab ta ise, et olgu, aga see on väga tõsine mäng elu ja surma peale. Kaja on etenduskunstnik teeb oma elust kunstiteost.
2014 - EHI Filosoofia eriala
2014 - Näitus "Kes varastas päeva?" ja lavastus 2Be Real My Dear"
2013 - Raamat "ERATEE" Kirjastaja Hea Lugu
2000 - 2003 Kanuti Gildi SAALi asutajaliige
1999 - OMAtsirkuse kunstiline juht
1999 - ZUGA Ühendatud tantsijate liige
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Kaja Kann was born in Vändra into a big family. After graduating high school in Tallinn she went on to study preservation and food technology at Räpina Gardening school. Kaja Kann is an internationally recognised self-taught artist whose language is direct, perhaps sometimes overly black and white but very sharp. Her actions have been compared to a game; as if she is playing a circus, playing music, acting as if dancing or writing a book or studying a philosophy. She on the other hand does not really seem to agree with that viewpoint but if she must then she takes it as a really serious game - a matter of life and death. She is a performance artist who turns her life into a work of art.
Artistic statement: Saying false I declare the truth.
2014 - Studying Philosophy faculty at Estonian Institute of Humanities.2014 - An Exhibition "Who Stole the Day?" and solo performance "Be Real My Dear" 2013 - author of book "Private Road", publisher "Hea Lugu" You can ask the English pdf-version thru e-post: [email protected]1999 - ... OMAcircus artistic director1999 - 2011 Member of United dancers of ZUGA
Awards: 2007 Estonian state prize for the best contemporary dance piece in 2006, Woman and Wolf2006 Estonian theatre festival "DRAAMAKE" price for strongest "audience touch", ZUGA children piece2005 Philip Morris prize for the best contemporary dance piece in 2004, Are There Laika Dogs in Estonia?2004 Estonian state prize for the best contemporary dance piece in 2003, ZUGA teeb suure linna2003 Philip Morris prize for the best contemporary dance piece in 2002, walking home solo
http://pardimaelokaal.weebly.com
2014 - EHI Filosoofia eriala
2014 - Näitus "Kes varastas päeva?" ja lavastus 2Be Real My Dear"
2013 - Raamat "ERATEE" Kirjastaja Hea Lugu
2000 - 2003 Kanuti Gildi SAALi asutajaliige
1999 - OMAtsirkuse kunstiline juht
1999 - ZUGA Ühendatud tantsijate liige
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Kaja Kann was born in Vändra into a big family. After graduating high school in Tallinn she went on to study preservation and food technology at Räpina Gardening school. Kaja Kann is an internationally recognised self-taught artist whose language is direct, perhaps sometimes overly black and white but very sharp. Her actions have been compared to a game; as if she is playing a circus, playing music, acting as if dancing or writing a book or studying a philosophy. She on the other hand does not really seem to agree with that viewpoint but if she must then she takes it as a really serious game - a matter of life and death. She is a performance artist who turns her life into a work of art.
Artistic statement: Saying false I declare the truth.
2014 - Studying Philosophy faculty at Estonian Institute of Humanities.2014 - An Exhibition "Who Stole the Day?" and solo performance "Be Real My Dear" 2013 - author of book "Private Road", publisher "Hea Lugu" You can ask the English pdf-version thru e-post: [email protected]1999 - ... OMAcircus artistic director1999 - 2011 Member of United dancers of ZUGA
Awards: 2007 Estonian state prize for the best contemporary dance piece in 2006, Woman and Wolf2006 Estonian theatre festival "DRAAMAKE" price for strongest "audience touch", ZUGA children piece2005 Philip Morris prize for the best contemporary dance piece in 2004, Are There Laika Dogs in Estonia?2004 Estonian state prize for the best contemporary dance piece in 2003, ZUGA teeb suure linna2003 Philip Morris prize for the best contemporary dance piece in 2002, walking home solo
http://pardimaelokaal.weebly.com
Alissa śnaider
There is a rumour that Alissa is made of smoke and perhaps we don’t really know whom we are talking about.
But I must say that is not true!
Alissa Šnaider, born in Tallinn in 1985, is an artist, choreographer and performer. Currently Alissa obtained MFA diploma at Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam). Her works are taking various shapes and forms while bouncing from one discipline to another, liquefying the borders and thin lines, mutating from white spaces of the void into the black lines, where silence, small talk or an awkward pause becomes something else, where something else is always the thing.
‘’She or he or them or it or now runs through several bodies and spaces like a mathematically engineered wave across centuries. Its awkwardness cringes on the edge of perfection and perfection is always there, like the dream where you suddenly see the manifestation of an entire life in one beautiful scene’’
Raimundas Malasauskas
She has presented her works at venues and festivals including: Julia Jongma gallery (Amsterdam), Frankendael Huise (Amsterdam), Frascati Theater (Amsterdam), Het Veem Theater (Amsterdam,2013), Venice Biennnale in the frame of "oO"- Cyprus and Lithuanian Pavilion,Uferstudios (Berlin, 2013), Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Tallinn, 2012), Baltic Cirlce Festival (Helsinki, 2011), Uzés Danse CDC; TanzWerkstatt; O Espaço do Tempo (France, Germany, Portugal, 2009).
Selected Projects:
2014
Charms and other Incidences performance and a series of events such as Dj set, lecture performance, publication and a series of kitchen talks. With Tea Teearu, Olga Tsvetkova and Inga Jautakyte. Shown at: Porn for the Blind (Julia Jongma gallery, Amsterdam), Lost and Found (Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam), Frankendael Huise (Amsterdam), Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Tallinn, Estonia)
2013
Repose in collaboration with Olga Tsvetkova/Renzo van Steenbergen, premiered at Frascati (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Festivals: Aerowaves (Umea, Sweden), Why Not, Mediamatic Fabriec (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Perestojka! at NDSM (Amsterdam, Netherlands); TanzRaumBerlin at Uferstudios (Berlin, Germany); TSEKH Festival (Moscow, Russia). 2013 End of Forest (2nd last scene) collaboration with Olga Tsvetkov/Renzo van Steenbergen, premiered at Het Veem Theater (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2012- ongoing research project that takes shapes of: Invisible performance, a reversed choreographical piece composed for 3 TVs, performance and a text Talk to me with Alex Bailey and a guided tour performance (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2011
Dr. Acula new circus performance (Circus Tree Festival, Tallinn (Estonia); Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn (Estonia)) 2010 Neon nails and plastic hair a solo performance (Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia).
Some tips a performance on how to become a contemporary dancer in 10 minutes at Maraton, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn (Estonia).
Everything Under Heaven is Total Chaos book and an exhibition in collaboration with International Festival/Mårten Spångberg/ Krõõt Juurak.
2009
Tavaj! in collaboration with Renzo van Steenbergen/ Paar Parenson (Estonian Dance Platform, Tartu, Estonia; Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia Stundent evenings series, Viljandi, Estonia). This performance was nominated for new emerging choreography award. 6 passengers in collaboration with Jaak Prints (Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia; NO99, Tallinn, Estonia). The piece was nominated for the breakthrough of the year.
2008-ongoing project QueeNNaive in collaboration with Sandra Z. A lo-fi offroad pop-music duo that never repeats its live acts. QueeNNaive creates shows too spontaneous to be put to words (Baltic Circle Festival, Helsinki (Finland); Tallinn Music Week (Estonia); Genialistide Klubi, Tartu (Estonia); Plektrum Festival (Estonia); Tallinn Fashion Week (Estonia); NU PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL III, Tallinn (Estonia) )
But I must say that is not true!
Alissa Šnaider, born in Tallinn in 1985, is an artist, choreographer and performer. Currently Alissa obtained MFA diploma at Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam). Her works are taking various shapes and forms while bouncing from one discipline to another, liquefying the borders and thin lines, mutating from white spaces of the void into the black lines, where silence, small talk or an awkward pause becomes something else, where something else is always the thing.
‘’She or he or them or it or now runs through several bodies and spaces like a mathematically engineered wave across centuries. Its awkwardness cringes on the edge of perfection and perfection is always there, like the dream where you suddenly see the manifestation of an entire life in one beautiful scene’’
Raimundas Malasauskas
She has presented her works at venues and festivals including: Julia Jongma gallery (Amsterdam), Frankendael Huise (Amsterdam), Frascati Theater (Amsterdam), Het Veem Theater (Amsterdam,2013), Venice Biennnale in the frame of "oO"- Cyprus and Lithuanian Pavilion,Uferstudios (Berlin, 2013), Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Tallinn, 2012), Baltic Cirlce Festival (Helsinki, 2011), Uzés Danse CDC; TanzWerkstatt; O Espaço do Tempo (France, Germany, Portugal, 2009).
Selected Projects:
2014
Charms and other Incidences performance and a series of events such as Dj set, lecture performance, publication and a series of kitchen talks. With Tea Teearu, Olga Tsvetkova and Inga Jautakyte. Shown at: Porn for the Blind (Julia Jongma gallery, Amsterdam), Lost and Found (Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam), Frankendael Huise (Amsterdam), Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Tallinn, Estonia)
2013
Repose in collaboration with Olga Tsvetkova/Renzo van Steenbergen, premiered at Frascati (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Festivals: Aerowaves (Umea, Sweden), Why Not, Mediamatic Fabriec (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Perestojka! at NDSM (Amsterdam, Netherlands); TanzRaumBerlin at Uferstudios (Berlin, Germany); TSEKH Festival (Moscow, Russia). 2013 End of Forest (2nd last scene) collaboration with Olga Tsvetkov/Renzo van Steenbergen, premiered at Het Veem Theater (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2012- ongoing research project that takes shapes of: Invisible performance, a reversed choreographical piece composed for 3 TVs, performance and a text Talk to me with Alex Bailey and a guided tour performance (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2011
Dr. Acula new circus performance (Circus Tree Festival, Tallinn (Estonia); Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn (Estonia)) 2010 Neon nails and plastic hair a solo performance (Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia).
Some tips a performance on how to become a contemporary dancer in 10 minutes at Maraton, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn (Estonia).
Everything Under Heaven is Total Chaos book and an exhibition in collaboration with International Festival/Mårten Spångberg/ Krõõt Juurak.
2009
Tavaj! in collaboration with Renzo van Steenbergen/ Paar Parenson (Estonian Dance Platform, Tartu, Estonia; Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia Stundent evenings series, Viljandi, Estonia). This performance was nominated for new emerging choreography award. 6 passengers in collaboration with Jaak Prints (Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia; NO99, Tallinn, Estonia). The piece was nominated for the breakthrough of the year.
2008-ongoing project QueeNNaive in collaboration with Sandra Z. A lo-fi offroad pop-music duo that never repeats its live acts. QueeNNaive creates shows too spontaneous to be put to words (Baltic Circle Festival, Helsinki (Finland); Tallinn Music Week (Estonia); Genialistide Klubi, Tartu (Estonia); Plektrum Festival (Estonia); Tallinn Fashion Week (Estonia); NU PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL III, Tallinn (Estonia) )