UPCOMING SHOWS:
‘MATTIES,’- Danstheater AYA with Choreographer Wies Bloemen
Matties is about finding your place in the brutal high school battlefield. Touring The Netherlands March-May 2021
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Solo work ‘Mana Ōrite,’ performs at Teatr Tańca Zawirowania in Warsaw, Poland.
Review of ‘MANA ŌRITE’ – Strona Tańca – 05/12/2020
“I have no doubts that “Mana Ōrite” by Isabelle Nelson, staged as part of the 16th International Zawirowania Dance Festival, was the best and most interesting dance performance that was shown in Warsaw in 2020. Her dance is universal, and when well composed, as in the case of “Mana Ōrite”, it simply delights. If we add the intensity of the message, great – really fantastic – designed lights, engaging, almost trance-like music, we have a recipe for success.”
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“And then the energy of “Mana Ōrite” – a fantastic New Zealand performance by Isabelle Nelson based on the Maori creation myths – exploded. I consider “Mana Ōrite” to be the best spectacle staged in Warsaw during the pandemic – it had everything that delights: from extraordinary inspiration (in addition, culturally different), through unusual production – in lighting, props and scenery (the spectacle was played on real soil scattered on stage), to emotionally moving and technically excellent dance. Nelson was not only the most interesting dancer of the entire Zawirowania festival, but also a strong, most expressive stage character, of those portrayed by the artists of the entire Warsaw event.”
– Sandra Wilk, Dance Party
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