JOHANNA NUUTINEN

PERFORMER | CHOREOGRAPHER www.johannanuutinen.com [email protected] www.kinesteetikot.fi [email protected]

Education: 1992 - 2002 Finnish National Opera Ballet School 1999 - 2002 Eira High school for adults, graduate

Further studies: 2014 Deltebre Dansa, Spain 2013 Arts Management studies 25 cts, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland 2012 Gaga movement technique in Tel Aviv, Israel. Butoh technique with Yoshito Ohno in , Japan.

Employment: 2015 - Freelance artist 2002 - 2017 Finnish National Ballet

Awards | personal grants: 2017 Finnish Cultural Foundation, 3 year artist grant 2017-2019 2015 Finnish Cultural Foundation, 6 month artist grant Special Creation Award for ME-Story of a Performance dance film, Festival FIVER, Spain 2014 Jury´s Special Mention for ME - Story of a Performance, Cinedans - festival, Netherlands 2011 PRO DANCE- prize 2007 PHILIP MORRIS Flower Bud - prize 2001 Representative of Finland in the EBU Grand Prix Dance contest finals

Works: 2017 IRIS Stage production premiering in September 2017 in Helsinki, Finland ROOM Stage production premiering in November 2017 in Pori, Finland 2016 ME durational performance for art museum and exhibition spaces, 5 - 9 h GALATECA GALLERY, Bukarest, Romania EMMA Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland ARTSI Vantaa Contemporary Art Museum, Vantaa, Finland K.H. Rehnlund Museum, Kokkola, Finland

BABULUS stage production in collaboration with iCoDaCo - International Contemporary Dance Collective Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival Touring in Wales in FEB 2017

SOCIAL eMOTIONS art and science research in collaboration with neuroscientist Tommi Himberg Phd. Tanzmesse NRW - promo event OuDance Festivaali

2015 ET KLUVET HUS - DEN ENA/ DEN ANDRA (sound and video installation in collaboration with visual artist Hans Rosenström) Galleria Sinne, Helsinki Galleri Elverket, Tammisaari

2014 HATCHED solo dance production, 25 min. - i- Dance Festival, Hong Kong, China - OPEN LOOK Festival, St.Petersburg, Russia - OuDance Festival, Oulu, Finland - Fullmoon Dance Festival Pyhäjärvi, Finland

2013 “ ME “ - Story of a Performance short dance film, 8 min. - ASVOFF - film festival, Centre Pompidou, , France - MIAMI Short Film Festival , Miami, USA - Dance on Camera - festival, Lincoln centre, New York, USA - San Francisco dance film festival, San Francisco, USA - CINEDANS - festival, , Netherlands - ArtFIFA- festival, , Canada - Solo Tanz teater festival, Stuttgart, Germany - video+film festival, Ohio, USA - Dans Camera Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkki - SinemaDansAnkara, Ankara, Turkey - Prosa, Video e Danca festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Bumbershoot Festival (in collaboration with SIFF), Seattle, USA - Venice international ArtExpo 2014, Venice, Italy - DMJ International VideoDance Festival 2015, Saitama, Japan - iDance Festival, Hong Kong, China - SansSouci dance film festival, Boulder, Colorado - Dance Art Media - The D.A.M. show, Boulder Colorado - Kinetoscope at the Roxy, Boulder, Colorado - Choreoscope * Bucharest - film festival, Barcelona, Spain - El Dia Mes Curt- film Festival, Barcelona, Spain - Breaking Ground festival, Arizona, USA - New York - Finland Movement dialogue, New York, USA - Light Moves festival of Screen Dance, Limerick, Ireland - IMARP 2014 - dance film festival, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil - Pixels of Identities - International video art festival, Almeria, Spain - Hidden Rooms- International video art festival, Venice, Italy - Hybrid Identities - International video art festival, Almeria, Spain - Festival FIVER, Rioja, Spain - Athens Video Dance Project, Athens, Greece - Oklahoma Dance Film Festival, Oklahoma, USA - LOIKKA - dance film festival, Helsinki, Finland - LOIKKA ON TOUR produced by WALHALLA

BANE contemporary dance production for 3 women, 52 min. - UrbanApa festival, Helsinki, Finland. - ITAK (Itäinen tanssinaluekeskus), Kuopio, Finland

MARIMEKKO show in collaboration with FNB dancers, 25 min. - Open air show at Esplanade park, Helsinki, Finland

2012 Re-Touch contemporary dance production for 2-5 dancers, 40 min. (as an assistant choreographer for Jarkko Lehmus) - TROIS C-L, Luxemburg. - JOJO - Oulu center of Dance, Oulu, Finland. - WATT - The regional Dance Center of Ostrobothnia, Vaasa. - TIME OF DANCE festival, Jyväskylä, Finland.

MARIMEKKO fashion show in collaboration with FNB dancers, 25 min.

2011 X-it Finnish National Ballet, contemporary dance prod. 6 dancers, 30 min. - Almi Hall, Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, Finland.

2009 3+1 contemporary dance production for 3 women, 4 min. - Almi Hall, Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, Finland. Residencies:

2018 Dance Centre, South Korea

2017 Shawbrook Residency Centre, Ireland Centre de Création choréographique Luxembourgeois

2016 Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, Sweden Workroom, Glasgow, Scotland Chapter, Cardiff, Wales 2012 Centre de Création choréographique Luxembourgeois

Teaching:

Oulu University of applied sciences, i-Dance Festival (Hong Kong, China), Finnish National Opera Ballet School professional education program, Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, Glasgow - Workroom, Beijing Dance Festival, Helsinki City Theatre.

Soloist roles in works by, among others:

Ohad Naharin DecaDance William Forsythe WorkWithInWork Tero Saarinen Kullervo Jacobo Godani Spazio tempo/ quartet Johan Inger Walking Mad/ woman in red Jiri Kylian Forgotten Land/ white couple, Petite Mort/ 3rd couple, Svadebka Jorma Elo Happy is Happy Ashley Page Hippolyte and Aricie Susanna Leinonen Trickle Green Oak Jorma Uotinen Colours Cathy Marston Blood Wedding / the bride Terence Kohler Cinderella/ 1st step sister Sylvie Guillem Giselle/ two wilies Javier Torres Sleeping Beauty/ Grazia - fairy of joy Wayne Ealing Nutcracker and the Mouse King / solo snowflake and flower waltz soloist couple John Cranko Taming of the shrew / pas de six George Balanchine Serenade John Neumeier The Seagull Glen Tetley Voluntaries Harald Lander Etudes / white Patrice Bart Don Quijote Festival performances:

2017 Beijing Dance Festival HATCHED, Beijing, China Hangzhou Dance Festival HATCHED, Hangzhou, China

2016 Full Moon dance festival HATCHED, Pyhäjärvi, Finland 2015 Open Look Festival HATCHED, St.Petersburg, Russia Kuopio Dance Festival Spazio Tempo, Kuopio, Finland OPEN LOOK Festival HATCHED, St.Petersburg, Russia OuDance Festival HATCHED, Oulu, Finland 2014 iDance festival HATCHED, Hong Kong, China 2012 Täydenkuun tanssit Taivaaseen Juurtunut Puu, Pyhäjärvi, Finland 2008 June - Events Trickle Green Oak, Paris, France Exit Festival Trickle Green Oak, Paris, France 2007 Kuopio Dance festival Orchid Man, Kuopio, Finland Juli Dans Trickle Green Oak, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2005 Summerdance Festival, Happy is Happy, Denmark 2004 Houston Dance Salad Festival, Trickle Green Oak, Texas, USA.

ME - Story of a Performance © Mark Stubbs

HATCHED © Joonas Tikkanen