JOHANNA NUUTINEN

DANCER / CHOREOGRAPHER 18.04.1983 / 168 cm MERIMIEHENKATU 41 A 14, 00150 HELSINKI, +358 50 550 2868 www.johannanuutinen.com [email protected] © Jonas Lundqvist

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

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

Current employer: 2002 - ( on leave of absence 2012 - 2013, 2015 - 2016 )

Awards and grants: 2015 Finnish Cultural Foundation, 12 000 €, Artist grant for 6 months Special Creation Award for ME-Story of a Performance film, Festival FIVER, Spain 2014 Jury´s Special Mention for ME - Story of a Performance, Cinedans - festival, Netherlands Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, 7 000 € for a solo dance production Helsinki City of Culture Office, 3 500 € for a solo dance production 2012 Finnish Cultural Foundation, 20 000 € for a dance film production 2011 PRO DANCE- prize 2007 PHILIP MORRIS Flower Bud - prize 2001 Representative of Finland in the EBU Grand Prix Dance contest finals

Choreographies: 2014 HATCHED solo dance production, 25 min. - i- Dance Festival, Hong Kong, China - OPEN LOOK Festival, St.Petersburg, Russia - OuDance Festival, Oulu, 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 - Sao Carlos Dance film festival, Brazil - 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 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: 2012 Centre de Création choréographique Luxembourgeois

Teaching: 2014 Movement Improvisation MINDFUL MOTION - i-Dance Festival, Hong Kong, China 2013 - Finnish National Opera Ballet School professional education program Soloist and corps de ballet roles in works by, among others: 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 Nutcracker Patrice Bart Don Quijote

Festival performances as a dancer: 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 I - Dance 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.

Press: ME-Story of a Performance “ Thursday night's array of shorts include the minimalist, gravity-defying ME -Story of a Performance, a Finnish, Japanese and Estonian collaboration set in a chic wintry landscape of the imagination. “ CARLA ESCODA / 31.10.2014 Huffington Post

“ This one-minute short is evidence of all these factors at play, and while I don’t know what it is or what it might be, I for one don’t need a story to enjoy Me-Story of a Performance. ... the images in tandem with the score are exciting, and as its just one minute long I was left wanting more. “ SARAH ELGART / 26.11.2014 Cultural Weekly “ Jury´s Special Mention for the film ME - Story of a Performance, Director JOPSU RAMU, for the powerful performance by the choreographer JOHANNA NUUTINEN" CINEDANS Jury 2014, Amsterdam

DecaDance ( dancer ) “ Especially Johanna Nuutinen was a real eye-catcher with her intense radiation and a new sensitivity that she seems to have cultivated during her year out on the freelance field. “ JENNY JÄGERHORN/ 5.11.2013 Huvudstadsbladet

X-it ( choreographer, set-, costume-, projection- and lighting designer and dancer ) ” Johanna Nuutinen´s X-it stirred up the audience. It was the most interesting piece of the evening, visually distinctive and intact as a whole. ” MINNA TAWAST/ 04.05.2011 Finnish Dance -magazine

” Among the most memorable offerings of the evening was Johanna Nuutinen´s piece. ” MARJA HANNULA / 12.9.2011 Helsingin Sanomat

” Nuutinen has strong sense of the whole and carries her ideas in a clear manner. She proves herself to be a very mature choreographer.” SARA NYBERG / 21.5.2011 Etelä-Suomen Sanomat

” The piece as a whole is articulated in a very mature fashion and also the choreographer herself shows a new, strong side of herself as a dancer. ” JAN-PETER KAIKU / 22.5.2011 Hufvudstadsbaldet

” As a choreographer Johanna Nuutinen has a very strong and individual touch. As a dancer she threw herself rather skillfully with five other dancers of the Finnish National Ballet into the world of contemporary dance and -ballet. ” HANNELE JYRKKÄ / 21.5.2011 Helsingin Sanomat

Blood wedding ( dancer in a role of the bride ) ” Nuutinen is innocently fragile in her role and acts out great emotions with intelligent nuances getting those emotions to well up also inside the spectator. ” MIKA SAARELAINEN / 5.11.2010 Helsingin Sanomat

2 min. 12 sec. ( choreographer, set- , costume- and projection designer ) ” One of the most accomplished short pieces of the evening was Johanna Nuutinen´s choreography 2 min. 12 sec. “ AULI RÄSÄNEN / 6.2.2006 Helsingin Sanomat

VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/album/1837369 password: johannaswork

ME - Story of a Performance © Mark Stubbs

HATCHED © Joonas Tikkanen Johanna´s essay on dance and film on LOIKKA- dance film festival catalogue 2014:

Observe. Receive. Deliver.

During my career I have been working with dozens of talented choreographers. Each one of them has left marks on my body and my mind with the language of their movement. The intensity of each mark depends on how many physical repeats I have done, but the strongest bodily memories were born in the hands of the kind of choreographers who have also opened the landscape of my mind and in that way opened different shades of my performing. Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin and butoh artists Yoshito Ohno and Akaji Maro are some of the most recent artists that have influenced my work. The limitless world of bodily imagination and relentless curiosity to investigate all the possibilities it offers were some of the things I learned when I was working with Ohad. While studying with Yoshito and also watching the performances of Akaji Maro my perception of time and the way I sense it passing by through present moment developed towards interesting paths. For audiovisual content and implementation of my pieces I usually draw the inspiration from other fields of art. These are, for example, architecture, contemporary and surrealistic visual arts, photography, movies, installations, interesting sound environments and music. What are the things the other artist has chosen as a part of his or her work and what has possibly been left out? How the inner rhythm of the piece works and how does it captivate my mind? When heading to a new project I considered with what kind of concept I could offer my work for the widest possible range of viewers. I ended up with making a dance film. What comes to the distribution of film, the costs of travelling and cargo are non-existent and nowadays one can send a clip to the other side of the world with a push of a button. The concept worked brilliantly: The short film ME – Story of a Performance, which has been created in co- operation with design studio MUSUTA, has previously been presented in Paris, New York, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, and now in Helsinki. The film has also been chosen to be a part of the program of one of the most recognized art film festival, ArtFIFA, which takes place in Montreal. And more is to come. When taking the work outside the stage I enjoy how multi-dimensional locations impact on my body, its perception and through that expand the landscape of my mind. The texture of movement gets different shades when dancing in water, in a freezing cold environment or on a rough concrete floor. The space leads towards the unknown, sometimes even in a harsh way. Location is one of the most important elements for me when making a film. Very important is also a crew that shares the same vision and from whom I can learn new things. I look forward to see A Chair Fit for an Angel, a new documentary of Raymond St. Jean in Loikka film festival. It will also be great to see how one of my favourite pieces, Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen, lives and breathes on the big screen. Although the history of dance films is as long as the history of film itself, the journey has only just begun and there are still lots of things to investigate. Just collect some knowledge and talent into the toolbox and direct the vision on the screen. Only the imagination is the limit.