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Yesterday, Mare Nostrum Elements brought The Wave Within Method: Human Rights in Motion to the IHRAF Queens Festival.

Facilitated by Nicola Iervasi, co-founder of MNE, the immersive lecture-demonstration explored how emotions, experiences, and real-life ideas can become physical storytelling through dance and theater.

Thank you to Mare Nostrum Elements and all the artists who shared their work and creative practice with us!

Photos by the amazing @robinmichals

#IHRAF #IHRAFQueens #HumanRightsArt #DanceAndTheater #TheWaveWithinMethod

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#IHRAF26 Queens LIVE: BIG thank you to @mnelements for a very interesting and interactive session with amazing performances!

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Happening today at 3 PM!

Mare Nostrum Elements presents The Wave Within Method: Human Rights in Motion as part of the IHRAF Queens Festival.

Join us today, Saturday, September 19 at 3:00 PM for an afternoon of movement, storytelling, and human rights.

🎟️ Get your tickets! link in bio.

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#IHRAF26: Come see @nicola.iervasi.dance for The Wave Within Method: Human Rights in Motion, presented by @mnelements as part of the IHRAF Queens Festival at 3PM.

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TODAY AT 3 PM!

Join us this Saturday, September 19 at 3 PM for The Wave Within Method: Human Rights in Motion, presented by Mare Nostrum Elements.

A performance that brings human rights into movement, the body, and the stage.

Tickets Available!

Come experience Day 2 of the IHRAF Queens Festival and support artists using their work to explore human rights.

#IHRAFQueens #HumanRightsArt #MareNostrumElements #DanceAndTheater #QueensNYC

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DAY 2! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 | IHRAF FESTIVAL: QUEENS

Saturday at the IHRAF Festival: QUEENS is all about movement, creativity, human rights, and the incredible diversity that makes Queens one of the most vibrant places in the world. 🌎

Join us for a full day of powerful performances and inspiring stories:

3:00 PM, The Wave Within Method: Human Rights in Motion
 Presented by Mare Nostrum Elements, this immersive lecture-demonstration explores how real-life experiences, emotions, and human rights concepts can be transformed into physical storytelling through dance and theatre.

📅 Saturday, September 19 📍 Court Square Theater 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY

🎟️ Come for one program or make a day of it, and bring your friends!

Queens is diverse. Queens is creative. Queens is human rights in motion.

#IHRAF2026 #IHRAFFestival #IHRAFQueens #HumanRightsThroughArt

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The video you are about to watch was created through the artistic collaboration of choreographer Mirko Giordano, filmmaker Christian Gargarelli, makeup artist Angie Valentino, and dancer Serena Valentino for the Fini Dance Festival in Villapiana–New York, directed by Antonio Fini.

Today, this artistic project carries an even deeper meaning: the video, thanks to Ornella Fado will be used to open a series of events organized by the Comites of New York dedicated to the issue of domestic violence.

For more than ten years, Mirko Giordano and Antonio Fini have used dance and art to address violence against women and femicide because they believe that the stage can—and must—also become a space for speaking out, raising awareness, and creating change.

This year, we decided to bring this choreography back to New York, where it began through Nicola Iervasi’s emerging choreographer series program. What we could never have imagined was that an issue we have been addressing for so many years would suddenly touch us so personally and so close to home.

A dear woman from our hometown, Ornella Forastefano, was killed by her partner.

Today, this work is also for her.

Femicide is real. Violence against women is real. And we cannot afford to stop talking about it.

We must continue to educate, raise awareness, speak out, and, above all, find increasingly effective ways to protect those living in situations of violence.

Art cannot bring a life back, but it can refuse to remain silent.

@finidancenewyork @_.r.o.e.l._ @angievalentinonyc @comitesny @_serenavalentino_ @christiangarga @ornellafado @bulli_stop @comunedivillapiana #domesticviolence #femminicidio

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A little fragment from my new work in progress, I Would Have Kept Your Name.

So many beautiful memories from earlier this year. @graci.xela and @_destinee.jimenez_ , qué maravilla crear con ustedes. So much love for you both 🖤 siempre siempre

Choreography: Mar Talavera-Tejeda Dancers: Chela Portillo and Destinee Jimenez

Developed during the ECS Alumni Choreography Residency by @mnelements and presented as a WIP at @lpacinnyc in March 2026.

#contemporarydance #choreography #choreographers #wip

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🇮🇹✨ Da New York al cuore della Calabria.

Siamo felici di accogliere @nicola.iervasi.dance all’International Summer School Italy 2026 di Villapiana.

Co-fondatore e Direttore Artistico di Mare Nostrum Elements, Nicola porta con sé anni di esperienza internazionale tra performance, ricerca e insegnamento, sviluppando una personale visione teatrale e contemporanea.

Attraverso il suo metodo “The Wave Within”, i danzatori esploreranno corpo, mente ed emozioni come un’unica forza espressiva, sviluppando creatività, presenza scenica e consapevolezza artistica.

🌊 3 settimane intensive
🌊 Faculty internazionale da New York
🌊 Classi, workshop, performance e laboratori creativi sul mare
🌊 Un’esperienza artistica unica nel cuore della Calabria

📍 Villapiana, Calabria
📅 6 — 25 Luglio 2026

Iscrizioni aperte:

https://finidance.nyc/portfolio-articoli/summer-intensive-calabria/#iscriviti

🇺🇸✨ From New York to the heart of Calabria.

We are excited to welcome Nicola Iervasi to the International Summer School Italy 2026 in Villapiana.

Co-founder and Artistic Director of @mnelements Nicola brings years of international experience in performance, research, and teaching, developing his own contemporary and theatrical artistic vision.

Through his method “The Wave Within,” dancers will explore body, mind, and emotions as one unified expressive force, developing creativity, stage presence, and artistic awareness.

🌊 3 intensive weeks
🌊 International faculty from New York
🌊 Classes, workshops, performances, and creative labs by the sea
🌊 A unique artistic experience in the heart of Calabria

📍 Villapiana, Calabria
📅 July 6 — 25, 2026

Registration is now open:

https://finidance.nyc/portfolio-articoli/summer-intensive-calabria/#iscriviti

#finidance2026 i #MareNostrumElements #FiniDanceChangeYourDestiny

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Flushing Town Hall is pleased to co-present the ECS 2026 Highlights Festival with Mare Nostrum Elements (@mnelements), celebrating 25 years as a Queens-based performing arts company!

The program features works by six choreographers:
Garrett Parker (@parker.garrett),
Heather Dutton (@featherrbutton),
Lavy Cavaliere (@xlavvvy),
Grace Tong (@graceytong),
Makayla Peterson (@m.akaylamonet), and
Edward Lathan (@grey_poupon87)

Drawn from over a decade of the Emerging Choreographer Series, the Highlights Festival honors that history by bringing some of the series' most memorable works back to the stage.

Saturday, May 9 | 7 PM | Performance + Reception
Sunday, May 10 | 1 PM | Performance + Q&A

Tickets available at the link in bio!

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✨SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT✨

Special opportunity to see a reprised excerpt of Garden Tongues (2020-2023) at Flushing Town Hall on Sat 5.9 & Sun 5.10 with @mnelements!

Returning to this excerpt 4 years after its premiere with new bodies & memories is surreal and cool— we can’t wait to share it with you! See you soon?

ECS Highlights Festival at Flushing Town Hall
SAT MAY 9 at 7pm (with post-show reception)
SUN MAY 10 at 1pm (with post-show Q&A)

Created by:
Grace Yi-Li Tong in collaboration with the performers

Performed by:
Sydney Shu-Yu Chow @sydneeyyc
Rachel Ha-Eun Lee @rleeforever
& Hiroka Mori Nagi @_rokadayo_

Costumes by:
Dan Wang @damaocuc2018

Garden Tongues is a spiteful re-appropriation of the “figure of the Asian Woman” as she has been drawn over time. This excerpt was created with the support of @mnelements in 2022.

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Thank you for coming to the live revival of “Euphonic Connection,” stay tuned to see the film.

Please come again!!!

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