Projects 2011 -2012
Touring USA Feb-April 2012 Performing I Think Not in Austin at Mercury Hall and at the Komo Dance Works Studio, Texas, in San Francisco at THEOFFCENTER.
Teaching and lecturing as a guest by Margi Cole, The Dance COLEctive and Columbia Collage in Chicago, Improvising as guest of Chris Cogburn (Austin)and Liliana Goldsman Carriso (Chicago).
Jan: Dance Ireland Residency / Skin(s) Cradle solo choreography for Isabella Oberländer. perf: Dance House Dublin and Ormston House Gallery in Limerick.
December: Meeting Point festival 5 days international improvisation event run by Giorgio Convertito in Helsinki.
November: Hammerfest/ Dansefestival Barents: Filming and showing About to Dance with Pia Lindy.
October: Luíss playing at New Adits festival Klagenfurt.
September / January 2012: Residency creating a solo choreography Skin(s) Cradle for Isabella Oberländer at Dance House Ireland.
August 2010 - Spring 2012: adaptation of Deborah Hay choreography I Think Not, Scotland/Ireland/Finland
August 2010 Directing of Documentation, Stage Managing & Badge Layouts for HH Dalai Lama's visit to Helsinki.
June- Improvisation group Luíss: Residency at Hotel Pupik, Austria creating on a film and performance based on dance and music improvisation with musician Ingrid Schmolinder, Elena Kakaliagou and Matthias Erian.
July: GVA Sessions, Studio 44 Geneva, Switzerland. Meeting of composers and choreographers led by Gilles Jobin, Marlon Solano Barroso and Christian Vogel. During the meeting working on new ideas such as creating a choreography "A Choreography for a Musicologist" for musicologist Adam Harper and sound score for NUMBER.
2010-2011
Riikka has been working on her group choreography
NUMBER in collaboration with the Irish mathematician Alexis Clancy, with
ANIMA, an eco-choreography commissioned by dancer Outi Yli-Viikari,
Tunnel of the Eye, a Greek-Danish-Finnish collaboration with dance and music and as a dancer and video artist for Soile Lahdenperä on her doctorate research based on applications Alexander Technique in Improvisation.
Other recents Resent Choreographic work include duet A Walk in the Forest with Giorgio Convertito and solos Guardian of the Body, A Hero Nearing the End of an Illusion and Sessions of a Seismograph. Solo Passato and group work While Riding the Path, I looked up; a Bird, were both shown and supported by Zodiak Center for New Dance.
In 2008- 2009 she spent a year at Daghdha Company in Limerick, Ireland surrounded by a collective of artists and creative synergy while creating several works during her Artistic Residency.
Throughout her career, she has been supported by Kiasma - Finnish National Museum of Modern Art, Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Kokoteatteri, Samuel Huber's Arts Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden and other foundations and venues in Finland, Holland, Italy, France, China, Denmark and Ireland.
Besides her artistic work she has been curating and organizing events such as Side Step- festival (since 2001- 2009), been a part of Z- score choreographer collective, co-organized Z-open open forum for performances and curated several video compilations shown domestically and internationally. Additionally she has collaborated with Helinä Rautavaara Museum in Espoo, Finland creating project for special groups and communities. She has created several video and installation work and since 1997 she’s been teaching editing, camera and composition (most extensively at the Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK) and Outokumpu Dance Education). Her teaching includes also sharing her personal approach and in-depth knowledge in Somatic body training by teaching in various places and constellations.
Influential collaborations include working with: Improvisation group Rio - Real Time Orchestra, Helsinki Research Center for Reality and Risto Santavuori, Oblivia group, Soile Lahdenperä, Eileen Standley, Scott deLahunta, Susan Rethorst, Julyen Hamilton, and at Daghda Bush Hartsorn, Michael Klien, Steven Valk, Ellen Kilsgaard, Giorgio Convertito and mathematician Alexic Clancy.