Dance performance "The Field" - Valga Cultural Centre

Choreography, staging, dance: Maria Uppin-Sarv, Valeria Tagel
Music: Argo Vals
The artist: Ursula Goldstein
Dramaturg: Kristjan Sarv
Lighting artist: Priidu Adlas
Graphic design, photos, videos: Kadi Aare
Organisation and technical implementation: Estonian Dance Agency

The “faster, higher, further” that characterises the modern world has taken over the individual's way of life, forcing us to either keep up or fall behind. Abundance has been swiftly replaced by overabundance - so much information, so many things, so much speed, that expectations, goals and targets are often reduced to burdensome obligations. How do you keep yourself going when the environment around you is not conducive? How can we cope and thrive when we are saddled with the responsibility for the future of ourselves and the world? Is there room for beauty in the midst of all this clutter?
The dance performance “The Field” takes us to the fields of accompanying beauty. A journey where beauty, happiness and joy appear as an accidental side effect of a bad situation, offering support and helping to maintain hope.

Valeria Tagel is a dance teacher and dance artist who graduated from the Viljandi Academy of Culture, University of Tartu, specializing in dance. Valeria has studied dance in Estonia and abroad and participated in several residencies. In recent years, Valeria has collaborated with various performance artists as a choreographer, dancer, director, artist and dramaturg. In 2018, Valeria Tagel participated in the TantsuMENÜÜ programme as one of the performers of Maria Uppin-Sarve and Marie Pulleritsu's production “The Only Situation”.

Maria Uppin-Sarv is a freelance dance artist and artistic director of the dance company Lee. She is a graduate of the José Limón Dance Foundation's professional dance training programme in New York and holds a Master's degree in choreography from Tallinn University. Maria has danced in operas and operettas of the Estonian National Opera, in the revue theatre Starlight Cabaret and in various contemporary dance productions. Together with Marie Pulleritsu, she created the dance production “Unique situation” in 2018, which was part of the programme of the first season of TantsuMENÜÜ.

Premiere: 26 October 2024 in the Theatre Hall of the Estonian Dance Agency

Duration: 50 minutes
Recommended age: from 15 years onwards