Marika Peura is a choreographer, dancer and performer based in Helsinki, Finland. She works interdisciplinarily in the fields of dance and contemporary performance art, working particularly from the emotionality, poetics, and politics that emerge from the experiential nature of the body. Her ongoing practice center around the intimacy & erotics of the dancing body; dwelling in the emotional, sensual and social energies in the intersection of club/rave dance & culture and contemporary choreography.

She is currently working on a work called Imperial Stage (2026), the second part of a series of works that choreographically reflect on the artist's socio-political position within her local context. The first part of the series, the solo work Amalgam Melee, examined questions of Brownness and Whiteness from the perspective of a mixed-Finnish body – one that embodies the mechanisms of white supremacy acting both as a site that exercises power and one that is subjected to it. The works explore the dramaturgy of the “brown gaze”, attempting to deconstruct the white/euro centric gaze in performance making

Peuras’ dance background is in street & club dance culture; freestyle hip hop being closest to her heart. This is reflected in her artistic practice and the relation to bodily movement. She did her institutional dance and choreography studies in Uniarts Helsinki, graduating from the Choreography MA program in 2020, and BA in contemporary dance in 2017. The BA studies included an Erasmus year at HZT's Dance, Context, Choreography program.

Peuras’ recent works include solo piece Amalgam Melee (2024), down below things shudder (2023), and then they left (2021), Arvaa mitä? Arvaa Mitä! (Guess What? Guess what!) (2022 & 2021), Shall we have a drink before I start to cry (2020), Philia (2019) and Sirkka Rukoilija (2017).

In November 2023 Peura and her working partner Kaisa Nieminen were rewarded with a prize ‘Future of Culture’by the Finnish Culture Gala. Her works have been show at ImPulsTanz Festival in the context of 8:tension, ICA London, Ice Hot Nordic Dance platform, Zodiak Center for New Dance, Dance House Helsinki, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Inkonst Malmö and Stoa Helsinki.

She has worked as a dancer in works by Anna Torkkel (fin), Mikko Niemistö (fin), Lau Lukkarila (fin/aut) & Zeynab Kirikou Gueye (cz/aut), Maija Hirvanen (fin), YBDG (nl), Samir Akika (alg/fra), Branch Nebula (aus) Wang / Ramirez (ger/fra), Joona Halonen (fin), Petri Kekoni (fin), Janina Rajakangas (fin), Reija Wäre (fin), Viktor Fröjd (swe) and Christine Nypan (nor).