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Riikka Theresa Innanen

Graduated from School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in 1997 after which she has been working both as an artist and as a teacher with in dance and video around Europe.

Throughout her career, she has been supported in Finland by Kiasma - Finnish National Museum of Modern Art, Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Kokoteatteri, Samuel Huber's Arts Foundation, including Artist Bursary from the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland / Svenska Kulturfonden and other foundations and events in Holland, Italy, France, China, Denmark and Ireland.

Influential collaborations include working with: Luíss, Daghda Dance Company (Michael Klien, Steven Valk, Ellen Kilsgaard, and mathematician Alexic Clancy), Outi Yli-Viikari, Helinä Rautavaara Museum, Giorgio Convertito , Soile Lahdenperä, Leena Rouhiainen, Jouni Tauriainen, Liisa Pentti, Improvisation group Rio - Real Time Orchestra, Helsinki Research Center for Reality and Risto Santavuori, Oblivia group, Eileen Standley, Scott deLahunta, Susan Rethorst, Julyen Hamilton.

Through dance and choreography, she is interested in researching how we interact and create realities on physical, mental and spiritual levels, deal with the invisible, unknown or mysterious, and in contributing to the community by creating meaningful platforms of interactions and experiences out of the ordinary. Projects 2013

Wilderness residency with HELLO/EARTH Artistic leader Vera Maeder, (Finland and Iceland)

Minä ja Dhaanto. Cultural arts project for Somali youth in Espoo, Finland (with EJY and Helinä Rautavaara Museum)

Luíss performance,  Raum_4, Vienna

Tartu Käteen benefit concert for Benin stage managing and performing at in Kulttuurikeskus Gloria, Helsinki

Pa-f residency and working with DasArts & Social Dreaming

Artist Residency at Villa Karo, Benin West Africa (Nov 2012- Jan 2013)

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.

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.

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Riikka

Theresa

Innanen

Education

Bachelour of Arts Amstedam Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten - School for New Dance

Development 1993-1997.

Choreographic works

2012

In Total Darkness

Choreography and dance. Work created in collaboration with sound artis Marko Timlin

I Think Not

solo adaptation and dance of Deborah Hays choreography

Skin(s) Cradle.

A solo for Isabella Oberländer premiere in Dance House Ireland Jan ‘12

2011

Luíss (film and performance) In collaboration with improvisation group Luíss

NUMBER Helsinki Adaptation

2010

ANIMA Commissioned solo work on ecology for dancer Outi Yli-Viikari. Telakka Theatre,

Tampere

Tunnel of the Eye Finnish-Greek-Danish co-production mixing dance and music.

Double premiere: KokoTeatteri, Helsinki 23.2.2010, Balltoppen, Copenhagen 3.5.2010

Domus en Corpore Group piece for 1st year students using improvisation of Outokumpu

Dance Education.

2009

NUMBER A group work using counting and algorithms. Dramaturgical assistant

mathematician Alexis Clancy, Daghdha Dance Co, Ireland.

Sessions of a Seismograph, solo dance and exhibition of drawings by Innanen, Bedford

Row Centre, Limerick Ireland.

A Walk in A Forest, A duet with Innanen and Giorgio Convertito, Daghdha Dance Co,

Ireland

A Hero Nearing the End of an Illusion, solo dance with Innanen, Daghdha Dance Co,

Ireland

2008

While Rigding the Path, I looked up; a Bird. Group work at Zodiak Center for New

Dance, Helsinki,

Borta Bram men Hemma Bäst. Perfomance Art duet with Barbro Björkfelt

2006-2007

Passato, solo with dance, 8mm film, and a Dictaphone sound score by Innanen

Zodiak Center For New Dance, Time for Dance festival, Jyväskylä, Body Navigation

Festival, St.Petersburg.

Asunnottomat - commission group work based on homeless

2005

Uni-versio 3, Trio with dance, videos and Ketcup, Art Hall Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Peloton –improvisation, Art Hall Museum, Helsinki, Finland (with free jazz orchestra

Peloton and improvisation group RIO-Real Time Orchestra)

2004

viRIO, improvisation group RIO – Real Time Orchestra dancing with short films from

AV-Arkki (contemporary film archive), Zodiak Center for New Dance, Helsinki

2003

Scatola Magica Live installation performance with video and improvised

dance.Collaboration with dancers Marisa Grande and Giorgio Convertito. Theater

Gasthuis, Amsterdam. Kiasma Museum, Hki.

2002

ANANAS, a piece for a dancer in flipflops, pineapple and a TV cook. Dance Theater

Hurjaruuth, Hki

Work as a Dancer

2012

The Nothing Fields Choreography and Concept Michael Klien, curated by Giorgio

Convertito

2011

Dromos Choreography Soile Lahdenperä performed at Tennispalatsi Museum’s South

Africa exhibition

2008

While Riding the Path, I looked up; a Bird. Dancer in own group work Zodiak – Center

for New Dance

2007

Kaappi (The Closet) Opera by Seppo Pohjolan.

Directors: Jaakko Nousiainen ja Miika Hyytiäinen. Production: Seppo Pohjola, Turku

Music festival, and Helsinki Festival

Olotila Research Center for Reality.

2006

Myrskyn ja myötätuulen terraario Choreography Soile Lahdenperä, Zodiak – Center for

New Dance.

Dancer in own works Passato (solo) and Asunnottomat.

2005

Bodies Are No Good Oblivia group. Directed by Annika Tudeer and Anna Krzystek.

Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth, Helsinki, Lawless festival Pori.

NYT –Hetken koreografiaa Choreography Soile Lahdenperä. Tennispalatsi Museum of

Cultures.

Dancer in own works Uni-versio 3 and Peloton

2004

Välitön Tila, Meilahti, Choreography Soile Lahdenperä, Museum for Contemporary Art,

Helsinki.

Camp numero 5 Choreography Arja Tiili. Helsinki Festival & Zodiak , Helsinki.

2002

Crack-Särö Choreography Arja Tiili. Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth,

Dancer in own solo work ANANAS