Interests

I'm a Finnish freelance dance artist graduated from Balettakademien Stockholm. Currently I'm living in Helsinki. For me, one of the most important aspects of being a dancer is that I can use my physical capacity and expression to discover different ways of being, feeling and connecting to myself and to others. I really want to work in choreographies, which are technically demanding, risk taking and full of motion and passion. During the past few years, I have also become more inspired by physically demanding dance theatre. Being able to perform and use, not only movement, but voice, text and acting is challenging but very intriguing and fruitful. I'm also trying to use more breath, qualities of vulnerability, roughness and reflections of different life experiences in order to find more meanings into my dance and movement quality.

What I do

After my graduation in 2010, I have had the honor to dance in performances choreographed by f.ex. Joona Halonen, Thomas Freundlich, Johanna Nuutinen, Milla Virtanen, Reija Wäre, NordCC and Nomodaco. I have also been part of a few big productions at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki and Finnish National Opera.

I'm very motivated in being active on my own creative work and co-operating with other artists and filmmakers. In 2012, together with dancers Meeri Altmets and Emmi Väisänen, we founded NosteK that is a collective that creates and produces dance art with choreographers and freelancers from different artistic fields. So far NoskeK has performed two full-length dance pieces.

Teaching contemporary, lyrical and modern jazz has also been part of my career since graduation. I really enjoy this challenge and I want to share my knowledge about movement and body as pedagogically as possible and inspire people to move and dance. Besides working, I have regularly continued taking professional classes and courses in Finland, around Europe and in Israel in order to keep up my strength, improve my technique and broaden my horizon.

Academic career

In addition to my great interest in dance, I have studied in the University of Jyväskylä, Regina and Gothenburg during the years 2003-2008. My major was educational science and my minors were ethics, gender studies and psychology. I’m having a break from my academic career during the near future, but I have decided to write my theses one day and possibly connect the research work with dance. I think that dance as a cultural phenomenon, lifestyle, sport and art genre is worth researching because the dance world is full of interesting people, pieces of work and phenomena that should be lifted up. But before the theoretical aspect, I want to take part in it practically as much depth as possible.