Virva Talonen is a Finnish freelancer choreographer. Among the choreographic work Virva works as a dancer and a dance teacher.
FOLLOWING TRACES OF HUMANITY
In Virva's works human nature, people's behaviour and feelings, stays in the focus. The artistic work arises from the interest of different phenomena in people living through the fast stream of changes of the society and the present world.
Her dance works has been described to be humoristic and absurd while the themes stay serious. The recent themes in her artistic work has concerned recycling, value of time, the question of normality and kinship.
Tanssivirtaa Tampereella -festivaali / Dance Current -festival 2011
Virva was invited to be the resindence artist of Tanssivirtaa Tampereella -festivaali / Dance Current Festival 2011. She made a commissional dance work for the festival called MINÄ SINÄ HÄN ME TE HE ( I YOU SHE/HE WE YOU THEM ). The work was site specific and performed by two dancers outside in the middle of Tampere City.more:
MINÄ SINÄ HÄN ME TE HE
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TANSSIVIRTAA TAMPEREELLA -FESTIVAL 2011
LEENA AND PERTTI - dance work about kinship 2010
In fall 2010 Virva worked together with choreographer Jenni
Koistinen
on a piece called Leena and Pertti. Leena is Virva's mother
and Pertti
is Jenni's father. On stage audience could see two daughers
and mother
and father dancing their own individual and collective paths
together.
The work was premiered in Zodiak - Center for New Dance in
September
2010. LEENA & PERTTI TRAILER
more:
ZODIAK
Leena & Pertti interview
Residence work in Japan 2010
In Spring 2010 Virva joined artist - in - residence program in Yokohama. It was organised by Finnish Dance Information Center and Japanese Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse nro 1. Virva worked with two Japanese dancers making a work called Inhabitants. The premiere was in Yokohama ST spot Studio on February 2010.PEOPLE TRILOGY -three individual dance works 2006 -
2009
In 2006 Virva
Talonen started a trilogy of
three invidual dance works. The first work, Second Hand Shop was
premiered fall 2006 in Koko Teatteri, Helsinki.
Rush Man Waiting Mind was the second work of the trilogy and it was premiered spring 2008 in Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Helsinki.
The third work called Special Cases has been seen in Helsinki Festival as it's commissional dance work in August 2009 in Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki.
Virva Talonen has worked with the same artistic group through out the trilogy with dancers Sofia Karlsson, Esete Sutinen and Vera Tegelman, light designer and scenographer Matti Jykylä and sound designer Jaakko Kujala.