Fungi Feel: Cycles and Waters is a performative hypha of Maija Hirvanen and the working group’s performance Fungi Feel (premiere at Kiasma Theatre, 2025). The performance is a site-specific adaptation of one part of the stage performance and, at the same time, a completely new entity. The piece consists of elements of cycles, water, and transformation, as well as the connections between bodies, materiality, language, and space. Hirvanen has been working with the notion of fungal choreography and performance in different ways for several years. Fungi Feel: Cycles and Waters is part of this trajectory, in the form of a situation-specific choreographic-material act, soundscape, and text.

Bio

Maija Hirvanen is a choreographer and a performance maker. Her interests range from the relationship between art and different belief systems and ways of re-learning to questions of embodiment and the more-than-human approach in performance and choreography. She makes performances on stages and in places, writes, researches, and teaches.

Hirvanen’s work has been presented at festivals and venues e.g. Tanz im August/Hebbel am Ufer/Berlin, ImpulsTanz/Vienna, Sadler’s Wells and South Bank Centre/London, SPRING Festival/Utrecht, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine- Saint-Denis, SAAL Biennaal/Tallinn and Dansens Hus/Stockholm, Kiasma, Baltic Circle, Moving in November, Zodiak and Helsinki Festival. Currently, she is the Artistic Professor in Dance 2024–2028, an honorary title granted by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Doctoral Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki, conducting her research on fungal choreography and performance.

http://www.hirvanen.net