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Karolina Ginman is a freelance dance artist based in Helsinki. She graduated from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London in 2008 and has since worked as a dancer, choreographer, co-choreographer and pedagogue in Finland and Europe. She works long term with choreographers Elina Pirinen, Margrét Sara Guđjónsdottir, Mikko Niemistö and actor-director Rasmus Slätis and creates her own work, most recently Fluvial (2022, Zodiak Centre for New Dance) and A Human Ensemble (2020, Cirko Centre for New Circus).
Since 2017 she has developed and continues to develop a method of free association for the poetic body that lies at the core of her dancer and choreographic work as well as her teaching. Karolina is a visiting teacher and supervisor at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. Her artistic practice often dialogues with psychoanalysis and she completed her Master's Thesis in Psychology in 2019 at University of Helsinki within the ArtsEqual - research initiative.
“Opening for the dancer as a psychophysical, perceiving, feeling being operating below or on the border of agency, I am deeply interested in the ‘whole human being’ dancing - the particularity that rises through each performer I work with. I work with an allowing, asking presence that gives space for movement to emerge from the subjective and collective sub/pre-conscious.”