JOHANNA NUUTINEN DANCER / CHOREOGRAPHER 18.04.1983 / 168 cm MERIMIEHENKATU 41 A 14, 00150 HELSINKI, FINLAND +358 50 550 2868 www.johannanuutinen.com [email protected] © Jonas Lundqvist 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 ects, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland 2012 Gaga movement technique in Tel Aviv, Israel. Butoh technique with Yoshito Ohno in Tokyo, Japan. Current employer: 2002 - Finnish National Ballet ( 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 dance 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, Paris, 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, Amsterdam, Netherlands - ArtFIFA- festival, Montreal, Canada - Solo Tanz teater festival, Stuttgart, Germany - Athens 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 Barcelona * 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 fashion 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: 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 Rudolf Nureyev 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 Copenhagen 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