NIMI COLLECTIVE

Nimi is a collective of independent artists.

Miia Mäkilä, Katerina Sotiraki, Nikita De Martin and Valentina Lopez are four female artists with different backgrounds and training in dance, music, sociology and performance.Their focus is on questioning cultural norms around the body. Driven by their different backgrounds and various devising techniques, they strive to play with physicality.

Freshly established in the post-pandemic summer of 2021, Nimi Collective has had the chance to present their first concept Still, falling from 0 at the Cleave Festival in London as part of the MA Performance Making final show of Goldsmiths University of London. Still, falling from 0 was the first sketch drawn by the company's intention to work on society related issues, concerning capitalism and the application of its rules to artistic practices.

 The strength of the group resides on the ability of spreading their knowledge into different research fields, technical and philosophical. Besides the ability to translate these in four different languages.

Aiming at exposing the creative space that goes beyond the boundaries of labeled practices (such as dance, music, painting, cooking) they stubbornly defend the idea of connecting more practices together in a playful and sometimes naive way.