​Nina Vogel is an award-winning international multi-artist, creator of original solos that transcend the boundaries of artistic languages: director, actress, puppeteer, lyrical singer, costume designer. In recent years, he has presented his work to more than 20 countries around the world. With her limitless creativity, manifested in her contemporary visual theater and animation performances, the artist is also known as the "poet of the invisible". She is an actress, with a BA in theater from the Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena (2012). In 2017, he won two scholarships from the government of Québec, Canada to undertake a Specialization in Contemporary Animated Theater at UQÀM (Université du Québec à Montréal). His first training is music, having completed training in classical piano, theory and history of music, at the Instituto Carlos Gomes (Carazinho, RS), for 11 years. She is also a lyrical singer, with several international trainings and studies with the Brazilian tenor Benito Maresca and repertoire with Maestro Bruno Roccella. In 2023, she was selected from hundreds of artists from around the world to participate in the RARE performance session of the Prague Quadrennial, in the Czech Republic. In 2024, as a guest artist, she spent a season in Canada among 3 new projects, followed by a long season in Asia, where she created and premiered the Ópera-Fábula UIRAPURU TORI, commissioned by La Forêt Productions (Japan) and the performance Echo n' Action. He recorded and prepared for the underwater film WE-ME, Dancing with the Invisible and on his return to Brazil, he premiered the show DesConcerto Cênio, commissioned by SESC Carazinho (RS). 
Parallel to all these premieres and creations, in partnership with Purificadores Europa, he launched the web series ARTE and ANDO around the world with Nina Vogel and Europa.

 

ConCordis - the Heart, debuted in Montreal, in 2019, during a tour between France and Quebec. In 2020, when the world's borders were closed, her Heart made it possible for her to connect with people from all over the planet, in one-on-one virtual sessions, crossing distances and time, despite everything. She has performed more than 150 sessions around the world, presented in two sold-out seasons, at the invitation of W. P. Puppet Theater in Canada and Open Eye Theater in the United States. Participates in Puppet Power 2020, as presenter of a conference on Lambe-Lambe miniature theater, human and post-human agencies, in both languages ​​- English and French. She has also taught 2 sold-out workshops for Open Eye Theater and participates in several international festivals, such as the 2020 Beijing International Puppet Theater Festival, the IF Barcelona Symposium and the Paideia International Theater Festival in São Paulo. His adaptation of ConCordis into a stop motion film was awarded Best Work of Art at the Chuncheon International Puppet Film Festival. Based on the images and testimonials collected in each session of the exhibition, she is creating a poetic documentary in partnership with another Brazilian artist.

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The 2021/2022 season marked his return to the stage, due to the pandemic. She performed as a guest artist and created a solo version of Pedro and the Wolf, by Sergei Prokofiev, with OSESP, in the iconic Sala São Paulo, considered one of the best concert halls in the world. In 2024, he continues his travels across the 5 continents and sharing his creations and experiences with videos on the ARTE and ANDO program around the world with Nina Vogel, on his YouTube page and social networks.

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​During the 2022/2023 season, she was invited to represent Brazil and Latin America at the AVIAMA World Congress in South Korea, followed by a Brazilian and Canadian tour of Pedro and the Wolf, an artistic residency in Indonesia and an invitation to perform at Prague Quadrennial 2023 in the Rare Experiences and PQ talk session. She was also invited as an actress to Fernão Capelo Gaivota's debut world tour, with Orquestra Ouro Preto.

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DIRECTOR. An award-winning art director and stage director, in 2021, Vogel received the Lisa Simon Scholarship, from the renowned Art Institute at the O'Neill Theater Center in the USA, awarded to a director whose work is currently growing in the field of puppetry arts. In 2020, she was the director of ConCordis Lambe-Lambe MOTION - a stop motion short film adapted from her miniature theater show - awarded the Outstanding Work Award at the International Film and Puppet Theatre Festival in South Korea. Between 2021 and 2022, she directed more than 30 Lambe-Lambe theater shows (short miniature forms), by artists from the United States and Canada. She was also the art director of ANIMA, a minidocumentary made in partnership with FRONTERA Films in 2021. In addition to the conception, creation and performance of her authorial solos, she frequently self-directs in many of them.

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PUPPETEER. It was in this identity that Nina found the space and freedom to create connections between the performing artist and the visual artist, between the singer and the director. Since then, she has never stopped animating other beings and objects, playing of being inhabited by different beings and sharing the scene with them. In 2017, she won two scholarships for a Master at UQÀM (Université du Québec à Montréal), in Contemporary Animation Theatre.

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ACTOR. Actor by training, with a bachelor's degree in theater from Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena (2012), she acted for more than a decade in numerous plays, commercials, films, and short films in the city of São Paulo. Today she performs in her own authorial solos and in Operas, Concerts when invited. In 2022, she acted as a narrator actress in the world première of the Cantata Cênica for Choir and Orchestra Jonathan Livinston Seagull along with Ouro Preto Orchestra, in Belo Horizonte and at the Riachuelo Theatre in Rio de Janeiro.

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COSTUME DESIGNER. Passionate about bold shapes, fabrics, textures and colors, Vogel designs and builds the costumes and wearables she wears in her performances in a self-taught way.  In her authorial creations, the expanded costumes are frequently the setting, the scene and characters of the stories, such as in her Peter and the Wolf. She has been recognized for her design skills and was selected to perform at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial at the Rare perfomances session.

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SINGER. Nina Vogel has more than 15 of formal training in lyric singing, between Brazil, France and the United States. Nina performed on stages in Brazil, the United States, France and Canada. Today, singing and voice are integrated into her performances and authorial shows of visual and animation theater.