Nóra Varga

Year of birth: 1991

Biography

Nóri Varga is a Helsinki- and Budapest-based theatre pedagogue, performance artist, theatre researcher. She is trained as a teacher of drama pedagogy and experiential pedagogy. She learned puppet creation in Brussels and she is trained in wood carved puppet making, puppetry is essential for her creative work. She created a workshop model about antiracism and multiculturalism for Yhteiset Lapsemme and worked on a podcast workshop series for Yle. In Helsinki, she was a performer in an experimental, contemporary opera and exhibited a sound art piece at SOLU Bioarts Gallery. She also presented her participatory performance series titled Forever in Our Hearts, Fe(a)tus and Stretch Marks.

Dream

I would love to work in an inclusive and progressive community, with which we could create together socially subversive, slightly uncanny pieces.

Special skills

• puppet creation (wood carved, paper cuttings, thermoplastic)
• teaching of experiential education
• training in sexual education

Language skills

• Hungarian, English, Spanish (excellent)
• French (good)
• Finnish, Latin (basics)

Thesis

**ck* the system gently
Incorporeal, subversive ways of reconstructing body narratives through artistic practices 

Other education

Master of Arts in Theatre Studies, KRE University, Budapest, 2017
Bachelor of Arts in Hungarian (Culture Studies Specialisation), ELTE University, Budapest, 2016
Bachelor of Liberal Arts (Aesthetics Specialisation and Film Theory Teaching Qualification), ELTE University Budapest 2015

Selected cv

Stretch Marks, sound art performance 2020
Production: Theatre Academy Helsinki
Role: performer, writer, sound designer

My Eye Candy, My Somatic Fiction and My Body Archive 2020 
Virtual exhibition
Production: Theatre Academy Helsinki
Role: creator, performer

Forever in Our Hearts, participatory solo performance 2019
Production: Theatre Academy Helsinki
Role: performer, director

f. killjoy jelly, sound art installation 2019
Production: SOLU Bioart Society
Role: creator

Podcast workshops for adolescents, podcast creation 2020
Production: Yle & Theatre Academy Helsinki
Role: facilitator, workshop creator

Archive B., body narrativity workshops 2020
Production: Theatre Academy Helsinki
facilitator, researcher