I was born 1970 in Helsinki. My whole childhood I danced, sung and painted, until dance took over my life completely by the age of 11. After having represented Finland at the Eurovision Competition for Young Dancers at the age of 17, I was invited to the Hamburg Balletschool. Having completed my dance education there, I danced as a soloist with Hamburg Ballet, Lines Ballet San Francisco and The Joffrey Ballet.

I continually created pieces of my own throughout my dancing career in Hamburg, San Francisco and Chicago. In 1998 I co-founded KUNST-STOFF, a dance / media and art production company in San Francisco. This first company of mine combined the interdisciplinary broad-mindedness from my childhood and the end of the millennium zeitgeist, aiming to bring together and cross-pollinate different art-forms, performing arts- and dance techniques.

After creating 15 pieces 3,5 years I moved back to Europe in 2000, expanding my stage-, film and photo works to involve documentary layers, working with peripheral societies in award winning productions like “STATE OF BEING” with disabled and professional dancers and "ICARUS- DEPARTURE TEGEL", a co-production with Germany's largest male prison. The photo exhibition “GALA DRESS”, with a 70-year-old disabled artist Tuuli Helkky Helle was followed by my first opera direction, based on unfinished fragments by Claude Debussy and Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” in Kiasma, Helsinki.

After this binge exploring different medias and producing staged documentaries, I moved to Berlin, launching PAA (Public Artistic Affairs). Since then I have been both developing theme-specific choreographic structural improvisation techniques and continued to deepen my use of justifiable dramaturgic relation-ships between live video installations and the performer. My pieces also integrate live composed electronic music and I am obsessed with having all the elements in constant communication, triggered out of each other. The Berlin-based identity trilogy consisting of “PRESENTATION – don’t let us surprise you!”, “MeMore – searching for the red thread” and “D.I.D. – a choir piece for one man” explore self image and relationship to the self, at first through the doctrine of repetition and difference and self projection, then through the lens of memory and the relationship to the past, and at last through multiple personality syndrome, torn inner dialogues, schizophrenia and extreme states.

I am currently both interested, on one hand to further push my stage-art structures and media work practices towards interactive works, and to express what the physical body of the 21st century has to say. However lately I am also very intrigued by the idea of re-connecting with my distant ballet past, to see what my accumulated knowledge could bring to it.
 










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