BIOGRAPHY
I am a dancer and dancemaker from Finland, currently based in Stockholm. I recently graduated from the BA in Dance Performance program at SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts (former DOCH).
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As a dancer, I need to keep moving and sweating; experiencing and figuring things out through my dancing body. I enjoy zooming in and trying to be specific with my physicality, so in other words, getting nerdy about movement. I also have an affinity to working with sound and musicality: playing with my voice, singing and rhythm. My dancing is accompanied by constant questioning and reflecting, often in the form of writing and conversation, reading and getting influenced by other references. In my choreographic work, my questions often relate to space: What am I giving space to? What am I taking space from? How does the space get charged through the choices I’m making?
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Recently, I have worked as a dancer, performer and co-creator with Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Roula Samiotaki, Philippa Felländer-Tsai and Kacper Migas, among others, performing at Weld, höjden and Dansens Hus Stockholm. I have also gained experience a production assistant for the feminist art community UrbanApa. In my artistic work, I usually work in collective and collaborative settings, but I have also choreographed pieces on my own. My latest choreographic work, peripheral dancing, explored the peripheries, centres and orientations of the dancing body and space. Some of my other works have dealt with the psychosomatics of touch (Contact, 2018) and stress (Oikosulku, 2018). In 2021, I received the COVID-19 Grant for Artistic Research from TAIKE, The Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
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During my studies at SKH, I have performed in pieces by several guest choreographers, such as Ofelia Jarl Ortega, QUARTO, Yared Tilahun Cederlund, and Liz Kinoshita, as well as in the works of my classmates and other students from the institution. Before moving to Stockholm, I graduated as a dancer from the three-year program at Tampere Conservatoire. During my studies in Tampere, I worked and interned at several Finnish dance companies and theatres such as Kinetic Orchestra, Tanssiteatteri MD (Dance Theatre MD) and Tampereen Työväen Teatteri (TTT-Theatre).