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Liis Vares, Taavet Jansen (EE)

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Liis Vares is a choreographer playing in the midfield of performing and fine arts. Her practice focuses on spatial relations, and the shifting conditions of presence in physical, online, and extended reality (XR) environments.

What does it mean to be in a body?

Liis teaches improvisation, inclusive dance and theatre practice, and performance art at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy and in the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Taavet Jansen’s work oscillates around in hybrid spaces trying to connect virtual with the physical. His main tools are body movement, digital technologies, text and generated imagery – his current focus is on audience engagement in hybrid and mixed-reality artspaces. Taavet also teaches creative coding, practice based research and visual theatre at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy and he is currently completing a PhD at the Estonian Academy of Arts.