Residency artists and researchers Dance Maija Hirvanen BA in interdisciplinary arts, MA in Visual Culture rtist, dancer and performance producer Maija Hirvanen has been active in the art world since the late 1990s. In her work the body is always treated as an entity created through the amalgamation of differing perspectives. Humans are simultaneously social, aesthetic, experiential, political and linguistic, among other things. Maija used her stay at the Saari Residence to produce her latest solo choreographed piece On Ice, and also worked on presentation texts. On Ice premiered in the Zodiak Centre for modern dance in Helsinki on 2 June 2009. For more information on On Ice and other work by Maija Hirvanen, see WWW.HIRVANEN.NET.