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YELP danceco.
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mariela
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nestora
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YELP danceco. was founded in London UK by choreographer Mariela Nestora and is now based in Athens. Under her artistic direction the company has collaborated with artists from various European countries. YELP has performed in Maribor, Slovenia (96), Zagreb, Croatia (96), Kassel, Germany (97), London -UK (96-01), Montpellier-France (2000), Thessaloniki, Greece (98,99,02) and Patras, Greece (2002,2005), Romania (2007), Parnu- Estonia (2008), Kavala- Greece (2009), Crete-Greece (2010,2011), Ipswich-UK (2010), Aarhus-Denmark (2010) and Athens-Greece (97-11). The company was sponsored by Papastratos co. and Kraft-Jacobs-Suchard, METAXA, Tsantilis S.A. and H2O and has been financially assisted by Oxford Metrics, the Northern General Hospital, The Robin Howard Foundation. YELP has also been commissioned by Kaleidoscope EU, Plesna Isba, Municipal Theatre of Patras, Patra Cultural Capital, The Place Commissions and The Video Place and has participated in the research program Choreodrome at The Place, London. The company has been funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture in 2002-2005, 2007-2008,2009-2010. In 2006 YELP’s production Scale 5:1 was commissioned by Patra Cultural Capital and was selected by an international committee to participate at the Biennial Greek Dance Platform. Production Das (ist) ein….premiered at the Athens Festival 2009, was selected by the international theatre system (ITI) to participate at the Athens System platform, was also selected to participate at the Biennial Dance Platform in Athens and was presented at PULSE festival, U.K. Production LEBENSWELT was funded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, was co produced with the Onassis Cultural foundation and premiered at the Junge Hunde International festival in Denmark. Mariela Nestora was born in Athens. She studied Biology- B.Sc., Queen Mary and Westfield, followed by a M.Sc. at St.Mary’s Medical School, Imperial College, in Human Molecular Genetics. Then she went to London Contemporary Dance School for dance and choreography and completed her studies with a diploma on Visual Design for Dance at the Laban Centre. She danced with Allmouth.co. , Hanna Gillgren co. and Snjezana Premus and also as lighting designer for various dance companies. She started creating works with YELP danceco. and she has been commissioned to choreograph for films and videos. After ten years in London she moved to Athens where she is creating one production a year for YELP and works extensively in theatre as a movement director. She has collaborated with several directors for works presented at the National Theatre, the National theatre of Northern Greece, the Municipal theatre of Patras, The Epidaurus Festival and the Greek festival.
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Movement artist(dancer/interdisciplinary performer)
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