I was born in 1992 in Helsinki, Finland. I am an only child. Although I remember my childhood as safe and exciting times, I have always spent quite a lot of time in solitude. I think it has been significant to my development as an art maker. I think my art merges a lot from my experiences with my own loneliness.

 

I started to play the piano at the age of four and then switched to flute at the age of nine. Playing classical music has been a big part of my early life until the beginning of my twenties. I started rhythmic gymnastics at the age of ten and immediately fell in love with the sport. I loved the aesthetics of it and I loved the training even though I wasn't the most talented in that. Then I got a back injury at the age of fifteen and decided to quit the sport, but continued to be a coach and a competition judge.

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When I started at Kallio High School of Performing Arts, I got familiar with contemporary dance. The physicalities and ways of expressing in dance felt so soulful. I especially enjoyed improvisation and contact improvisation. During the last year of high school I decided to abandon my plan of becoming a professional flute player. I applied to dance educations instead. I then got in to Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Kuopio.

 

The time at Savonia was so much fun. I did a two-semester student exchange at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). The time at KHiO was so inspiring, physically tough and mentally demanding. I graduated as a contemporary dance teacher from Savonia 2016. It was time for a deep, professional identity crisis. I have always been very ambitious and conscientious and did not know what to do with that. It was, however, always self evident to me that I wanted a master's degree in arts so in 2019 I applied to the master's programme in Dance Performance at the University of the Arts Helsinki. I got in and graduated in 2021. I studied during the Covid pandemic and I was quite disappointed in how my studies turned out because of that even though the education was very fruitful.

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After graduating I was lucky to receive some grants and project fundings so I got to work passionately with my art right away and do that with incredible people as co-operators! I also took on the responsibility of being the president of the Finnish Union of Dance and Circus Artists. So therefore I also work a lot in the structures of our field. 

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Now I work in the field of contemporary performance and live art in multiple roles (and often at the same time). I perform, do choreographic work, produce, curate, arrange, do accounting and budgeting... In 2025 I am starting as the artistic director of Dance Theatre Tsuumi in Helsinki.

 

To be continued :)