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November 2022
Stockholm, Sweden
Khimaira
From Wood Spatial
composer Mareike Dobewall presents her first composition for string trio. The space is here not a building but a wooden stick that the composition moves through. Intricate traces left by insects
under the bark inspired this piece. The complex structures are made audible and reveal the elaborate but hidden musicality within the traces.
The piece is created in close collaboration with the musicians Eva Lindal (violin), Karl Boson (contrabass) and Svante Henryson (cello).
The project is supported by the Swedish Arts Council.
The piece will premiere on the 21st of November 2022 at Khimaira in Stockholm. Event
Photo by Mareike Dobewall
August/September 2022
Helsinki, Finland
Rikhardinkatu library
Emotionspaces is the result of the first collaboration between Mareike Dobewall and Josué Moreno. With this radio piece, they collaborate to bring the audience to an intimate, vulnerable, and yet monolithic series of imagined spaces created by emotions not usually acknowledged as they escape our language boundaries.
Emotionspaces will be performed live at the Rikhardinkatu library in Helsinki (Finland) on the 3rd of September 2022 at 14:00 by Mareike Dobewall and Josué Moreno as Edviice to celebrate the 140 years since the library's opening.
Commissioned by Yle (the Finnish national radio) and supported by Kulturfonden. Emotionspaces can be listened to on Yle Areena and on Bandcamp
Photo by Henrik Dobewall
August 2022
Trondheim, Norway
Heggli Gård
Little brook piece is a site-sensitive vocal performance that was created during a residency at 'UKE 33 - Art and Landscape'. The theme of this year was 'Deep Listening - Sound in landscape'. The piece premiered during a public sharing of various works of all artists in residency.
Photo by Mareike Dobewall
June 2022
online and Oregon, USA
Oregon State University
Mareike Dobewall presents Lumen 1+2 from her spatial sound performance Musica Mundana at the virtual listening room at the hybrid IAWM Conference “Call & (HER) Response: Music in the Time of Change”, Co-Hosted by Oregon State University & IAWM
Photo by Mareike Dobewall
May 2022
Berlin, Germany
Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts
On the 13th of May Alexandria Nova launched the book "Looking for Direction - Rethinking Theatre Directing, Practices and Pedagogies in the 21st Century". Mareike Dobewall contributed with the essay Directing as a spatial-social practice. The book is open access and can be downloaded here.
April 2022
Helsinki, Finland
Together with composer Josué Moreno, Mareike Dobewall works on sonic Emotionspaces. The project is supported by Kulturfonden, commissioned by Yle.
Image: Josué Moreno
January 2022
Stockholm, Sweden
Reaktorhallen
The full performance of Musica Mundana at Reaktorhallen can now be watched here
Image: Mareike Dobewall
22. October 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
Hugoteatern, Stockholm University of the Arts
Mareike Dobewall successfully defended her artistic research project Voicelanding – Exploring the scenographic potential of acoustic sound in site-sensitive performance, within the PhD program Performative and Media based practices at Stockholm University of the Arts. The documented artistic research project (doctoral thesis) can be found here
Image: Mareike Dobewall
October 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
Fylkingen
Danceplaying the Accordion
What if the accordionist breaks free, not from the accordion but with it? What music derives when they move together and explore their unique relationship?
Director Mareike Dobewall and accordionist Mara Peiseniece present an evening-filling performance where the accordionist shares her personal experience of a life with the accordion. As a hybrid of movement and music this free form expands and contracts while it stays connected to its center - the relation between the musician and the instrument.
Performances on the 2nd and 3rd October 2021 at Fylkingen.
Find out more on the project webpage
Image: Mareike Dobewall
September 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
Reaktorhallen
Musica Mundana was performed as part of Mareike Dobewall's Making Public Event for her artistic research project Voicelanding - Exploring the scenographic potential of acoustic sound in site-sensitive performance
The audio documentation of the performance can be accessed here
Mareike Dobewall's doctoral thesis is now available here
Image: Mareike Dobewall
September 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
Reaktorhallen
Voicelanding - Exploring the scenographic potential of acoustic sound in site-sensitive performance is Mareike Dobewall’s PhD project. It will be made public on the 22 September 2021
The presentation includes the live spatial sound performance of Musica Mundana which was created with and for Reaktorhallen in collaboration with local musicians and in dialogue with international astrophysicists. The performance of Musica Mundana will be repeated on the 24 September. Both performances will be live-streamed.
For more information: https://www.uniarts.se/english/news/events/events-spring-2021/mareike-nele-dobewall-making-public
Image: Mareike Dobewall
July 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
Fylkingen
Danceplaying the Accordion
Musician Mara Peiseniece and Mareike Dobewall started their creation process for a performance that frees the accordionist and her instrument. The instrument and the performer find ways of moving and sounding together, and alone.
The project is supported by Musikverket.
The performance will premiere on the 2nd of October 2021 at Fylkingen in Stockholm. Please follow this link for more information and updates: https://www.danceplayingaccordion.com/
Image: Mareike Dobewall
January 2020
Stockholm, Sweden
Reaktorhallen R1
Musica Mundana
Together with the local vocal ensemble "Roliga Sångförsöket" and two percussionists Mareike Dobewall continues her work with the "music of the universe". As part of her research at Stockholm University of the Arts this project explores possibilities for spatial composition in the creation of performances that are created purely acoustic, with live performers in a site sensitive way.
Image: Mareike Dobewall
October 2019
Stockholm, Sweden
Reaktorhallen - R1
Spaces as voice teachers
As part of her artistic research as PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts (Uniarts) Mareike Dobewall engaged with the reactor hall R1 as her voice teacher, 25m underground.
Thanks to Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Image: Mareike Dobewall
July 2019
Hannover, Germany
Kesselhaus Linden
Spaces as voice teachers
As part of her artistic research as PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts (Uniarts) Mareike Dobewall will engage different spaces as her voice teachers. In July she will collaborate
with the “Kesselhaus Linden” (=“Boiler House Linden”). Towards the end of her residence there she will be joined by singer Susanne Kautz.
Presentation: 21. July 2019 at 12:00 in “Kesselhaus
Linden”
Image: Andreas Kleine
March 2019
Reykjavik, Iceland
Óperudagar í Reykjavík was selected the Music Festival of the Year 2018 at the Icelandic Music Awards. Congratulations!
As artist in residence Mareike Dobewall created the following works for the festival.
29. March 2019
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm University of the Arts
Mareike Dobewall is holding her 50% PhD seminar as PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts. More information
Image by Mareike Dobewall
October 2018
Reykjavik, Iceland
Reykjavik Opera Days
As artist in residence Mareike Dobewall is working at the first Opera festival in Reykjavik. Among other works her spatial choir performance VOICELAND will be presented in its new version at Kartöflugeymslunum, Ártúnsbrekku, Saturday 3. november at 14:30 and 17:00.
Presented works at the Festival
Image by Dorothy August
August 2018
Demmin, Germany
Sound-Space-Research at fortress and “Haus Demmin”
A two-week workshop
Together with singers from “Peenechor” in Demmin Mareike Dobewall explores history and stories of the area of “Haus Demmin” with the sound of their voices. The ruins of the fortress (from 11th century) and “Haus Demmin” (private estate from 1850 and boarding school 1948 - 1986) were inspiration and resonant bodies for the open air spatial compositions that Mareike Dobewall developed during the workshop.
On Saturday, 1.9.2018 at 14:30, there will be a presentation with starting point at the small bridge. Welcome!
Photo by mmschwaegermann
July 2018
Theater Freiburg, Germany
Pop-Up-Opera Festival VOLKSOPER
In Freiburg you will have the opportunity to come close to the character Genia from “The unknown Country” ( “Das weite Land”, 1911), extracted from the installative opera Schnitzler´s Dreams (2015). You can wander through her soul landscape that takes shape in the musical arrangement of composer Evelin Seppar. Genia will be perfomed by Mezzo soprano Mari Askvik. More about the festival
More about the performance
Photo by Jan Hajdelak Hustak
February 2018
LARVA, Guadalajara, Mexico
As part of Mareike Dobewall´s artistic research, she is artist in residence at LARVA (Laboratorio de Arte Variedades). Mareike Dobewall invited architect Juan Pedro Ponce Bolaños and choreographer Karina Bosche together with music students from the University of Guadalajara in order to explore the theme of Musica Munda in the form of a spatial composition.
more details here
Photo by Mareike Nele Dobewall
January 2018
Stockholm
At the University of Opera in Stockholm Mareike Dobewall presented her 30% seminar with the title Soundchoreography with choir - Confessions of a
spatialist.
Photo by Vanja Hamidi Isacson
Photo by Juan Pedro Ponce
August 2017
Akureyri
Together with the Icelandic choir Hymnodia, composer Gísli Jóhann Grétarsson and scenographer Ylva Owren, Mareike Dobewall prepares the first version of the site-specific original living choir installation VOICELAND.
Premiere: 1st september 2017
More information
July 2017
Demmin
Mareike Dobewall spent two weeks exploring the architecture and the structure of the city Demmin in Germany. During an intense research together with curator Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann she
studied the history of Demmin and listened to personal stories about particular places. The goal is to create a series of workshops for locals that will make different parts of the city sound and
connect places and people with each other. The workshops on social aural composition are planned for June 2018.
Photo by Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann
May 2017
Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm
In order to prepare the first version of the living choir performance Voiceland Mareike Dobewall facilitated an open studio with composer Gísli Grétarsson and scenographer Ylva Owren at the Opera Department.
Voiceland - Version 1 will be shown during the Performing Arts festival "A!" in Akureyri, in Iceland, on the 1st and 2nd September 2017.
More information about the project:
Photo by Mareike Dobewall
March 2017
Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara
Together with Natalia Orendain, Mareike Dobewall prepares the choir performance Vokal-De-Konstruktion at Instituto Cultural Cabañas.
Photo by Katia Orendain
December 2016
Dansearena nord, Hammerfest
Dancers Gry Bech-Hanssen, Marianne Kjærsund and Maja Roel explore "Klangkörper" together with director Mareike Dobewall.
photo by Zbigniew "Ziggi" Wantuch
November 2016
Farsta Centrum, Stockholm
The performance "Open Doors" is part of the ongoing project "To have a voice" at Folkoperan.
Photo by Mareike Dobewall
October 2016
Residency at Bergen Center for Electronic Arts in Bergen
With the support from Kulturrådet and BEK Gísli Jóhann Grétarsson and Mareike Dobewall are able to experiment digitally with the "Voiceland" material from the workshop in Iceland. Come by for the artist talk on the 21st of October at 13:00 at Project space 1 at BEK.
Photo by Mareike Dobewall
September 2016
Several Locations, Akureyri
Together with composer Gísli Grétarsson and the Icelandic choir Hymnodia, Mareike Dobewall is experimenting with spatial choir composition.
More info about the VOICELAND project here.
photo by Eyþór Ingi Jónsson
June 2016
TELPA Daugavpils
Mareike Dobewall receives the prize for best directing at the theatre festival TELPA DAUGAVPILS in Lativia.
photo by Džeina Saulīte