Mira Ravald is a performing artist based in Helsinki, Finland, working within contemporary circus, dance and physical theatre.
She has graduated as a circus artist from Salpaus Further Education in Lahti, Finland, specializing in tight wire, with a strong approach of movement and dance.
With her company Portmanteau, in collaboration with the visual / circus artist Luis Sartori do Vale, Mira has created two multidisciplinary performances that have been warmly received by the public and critics alike. Portmanteau, touring internationally since its premiere in 2018, has been awarded the Sirkuksen Lumo prize as an acknowledgement for the work done to promote Finnish circus arts. Piste, piste, piste, a show for children and young audiences, has been chosen as the ITU 2020 performance.
With her solo works Mira is interested in exploring the borderline of dance and circus through movement based practices, musicality and poetic motion in search of new and fusion-like perspectives.
As a first-time filmmaker, she has written and produced the short film OMI (2020), which has gained international acknowledgement for its experimental kind.
Previously Mira has worked in various theater productions, musicals, dance theaters and afro-Cuban performances nationally and internationally with companies such as Kompani Raande-Vo, Dance Theater Hurjaruuth, Helsinki City Theater, Svenska Teatern, Tanztheater Pasión and Sirkus Aikamoinen.
