LÄBU VOL2 | EPISODE 7 | Oskar Moore | Maria Papachristodoulou

It’s Okay
by
OSKAR MOORE
Latvia

Author and performer: OSKAR MOORE
Sound design: MARINA KARPOVA
Lighting design: ROMMI RUTTAS and LEON ALLIK
Technical support: ZHENYAN DING
Dramaturgical support: SANDRA KÜPPER and GIACOMO VERONESI
Producers: JÜRI NAEL and ANNIKA ÜPRUS
Thank you: To Jüri Nael and the CPPM teaching team (guest artists included) and associate teachers Karmen Haiba, Maret Mursa Tormis and Kaisa Marran, as well as to my friends and family for their undying love, care and support.
Production: CPPM | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Premiere: 13 September 2025 Kanuti Gildi SAAL

This is an autobiographical performance where the author of the piece Oskar Moore looks into his past to uncover why he has had trouble with fitting into groups. He looks at his experiences with family during his teenage years and tries to make connections between these experiences with moments later in life in the context of being part of a group.

After extensive research, Oskar has come to the conclusion that it might be something to do with his ability to combine fun with structure and discipline.
During this solo performance, Oskar shares what he has discovered during the creative process. The result is an interdisciplinary blend between live sound synthesis and movement, which also features text, as spoken by its author Oskar Moore. During the piece Oskar's movements are accompanied by sound design and live modular synthesis as performed by Marina Karpova, featuring a drum track that was played and recorded by Vija Moore.

Oskar Moore is a performer, movement artist and choreographer from Riga, Latvia. He has a background in stage acting and contemporary dance and graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture with a Bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance (June 2022). During his time at the Academy, Oskar first did a year of stage acting training before transitioning into contemporary dance. Through the variety of his experience, he discovered a strong connection between physical and emotional perception which can lead performers and audience alike into new spaces of feeling. He found that movement often makes it possible to experience what cannot be expressed through words.

Spanning theatre and contemporary dance, Oskar continues developing his interest in inner emotional dynamics and how they are enabled by corporeal expression.

Oskar is currently doing his MA at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in the Contemporary Physical Performance Making course, and he plays several roles in theatre plays in theatre houses in Latvia, applying his knowledge of movement to portray characters without the use of speech.

onoma:
by
MARIA PAPACHRISTODOULOU
Greece

Author and performer: MARIA PAPACHRISTODOULOU
Scenography: MARIA PAPACHRISTODOULOU
Sound design: TASOS ASONITIS and MARIA PAPACHRISTODOULOU
Lighting design: ROMMI RUTTAS and LEON ALLIK
Technical support: JESON JOY
Dramaturgical support: SANDRA KÜPPER and GIACOMO VERONESI
Producers: JÜRI NAEL and ANNIKA ÜPRUS
Thank you: CPPM cohort, Angeliki Nikolaidou, Sofia Patsinakidou and Tasos Asonitis
Production: CPPM | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Premiere: 13 September 2025 Kanuti Gildi SAAL

“Οnoma:”,meaning “name:” in Greek, is a performance that takes the audience on a journey through shifting spaces of identity, challenging the performer physically and emotionally: a Maria among Marias, constantly trying to reclaim her name.

Her name is Maria. She was named after her grandmother. She didn’t have a choice, so she took it on. What is it like being a Maria?

A name can be considered an intimate space where identity exists. Using this idea as a starting point, the performance investigates and unfolds the identities within this mundane yet symbolic name. The name of the performer, but also the name of millions. Maria is an exposed personal space.

This solo physical performance incorporates elements of installation, performance art and physical theatre to explore the name “Maria” and the multiple identities, stereotypes, and stories it carries, shaped by the performer’s life, society, pop culture, and religion.

Her name is Maria. They don’t know who she is. But they sing her name, eat her as a cookie, and give her a kiss. They all know Maria, but they actually don’t. Who is she, anyway?

Maria Papachristodoulou (she/her, 1995) is a performance artist, an architect and a tea addict from Greece. Currently, her artistic research focuses on paradoxical connections between diverse elements of human experience, rituals and materiality, aiming to create absurd landscapes that feel both strange and deeply familiar. Her media range from movement, text, voice to visual arts, object manipulation and architecture.

She is an MA student in the Contemporary Physical Performance Making program at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and she holds an integrated master’s degree in architecture engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH).

LÄBU VOL2 is proudly part of the Tallinn Fringe Festival
Performer: Oskar Moore Maria Papachristodoulou
Genre: contemporary performance
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours
Age suitability: 18+
Tickets: 15€ 10€
World premiere
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