I am a dancer, dance-teacher, performance-artist and bodyworker made in Finland.I have studied dance- and theatre pedagogy in Finland, Helsinki – in Theatre Academy of Finland,
from where I got my master´s degree 2008.
Though – I would say my dearest school in contact-improvisation has been the Finnish contact community,
where I have learned so much from my colleagues, friends and fellow dancers,
by sharing the dance and rolling point almost 30 years…Some dancers and teachers have been big inspiration for me. Joerg Hassmann, Mirva Mäkinen, Hugh Stanier, Iiris Raipala,
And many others have influenced me with their beautiful ways to deliver this dance form.Contact Improvisation has been in my life since i was a teenager ! So – I´ve gone through many kinds of chapters with this practice.
Recently I´m more and more interested in details, quality, fine tuning, listening, presence.
Accompanied with deeper understanding of underlying principles of contact improvisation.
How can we break our patterns, explore un-known, improvise with the tools of contact.
I am interested in the state of mind and body, where we can be open into multiple directions, change, choose, re-direct and play.Breath plays as well big part in my dancing. It brings me naturally into moments of momentum, falling, flying, swinging and bouncing.
