The Maddid Nordic Festival, aims to showcase up and coming Nordic artists, will take place in at The Space in London on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 July.
The Maddid Nordic Festival is a hub for Nordic work and Nordic artists to get together and perform in London. The aim of the festival is to promote Nordic work to UK as well as creating networking opportunities for the artists. All the artists, acts and groups who perform at the festival have at least one core member needs to be from one of the Nordic country (Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Finland or/and Sweden). The core member also needs to be one of the main forces behind the work. The Maddid Nordic Festival is a unique festival as there are currently no joint Nordic performance festivals in London.
The festival will feature a variety of acts. Norwegian contempoary dancer Maria Korsnes will perform her solo piece ‘Hjemme’, which deals with memories and how they fade in time, but also how the feeling from that memory may be etched into our bodies and souls. The international theatre collective Imploding Fictions and their Norwegian artistic director Øystein Ulsberg Brager will present ‘Imitating Eloquence’, which can best be described as part performance, part game and part ritual.
Mari Rettedal-Westlake is an artistic director originally from Stavanger, Norway, and she is an integral part of the Maddid Theatre Company. Rettedal-Westlake graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama as a Creative producer in 2006, and also holds a BA from University of Surrey Roehampton in Drama, Theatre and Performance studies. She is one of the founders and a core member of Maddid Theatre Company as well as the centre manager for The Space, which is a celebrated fringe venue in London.
Maddid’s Nordic Festival – in association with The Space
Saturday 11th 6.30pm & Sunday 12th July 5pm -£12/£8
The Space
269 West Ferry Road
London E14 3RS
Tickets: £12/£8. To book online, click here.