upcoming 2024


PREMIERE Elina Pirinen: Doves and Bloods
Viirus Theatre. 31.8.2024.
Performer.

RESIDENCY Sweet Disasters working group. Ehkä Productions, Kutomo, Turku. October 2024.

RESIDENCY Ex Ruina working group. Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn, Estonia. Supported by Finnish Cultural Foundation. November 2024.


ONGOING COLLABORATION Inspire Conspire Expire with actor Rasmus Slätis. Workshops, teaching, research.
Dancer-choreographer-pedagogue.

past 2024

TEACHING/PSYCHOCORPOREAL PRACTICE Carte Blanche - Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance
Bergen, Norway. March 2024.



PREMIERE Margrét Sara Guđjónsđóttir: Boundless Ominous Fields
Side Step Festival, Zodiak - Centre for New Dance. 1.-3.3.2024.
Dancer, convener, production.

More dates:
Barker Theatre, Turku 9.-10.2.2024
Zodiak Centre for New Dance, May 2024


past 2023

PERFORMANCES Rasmus Slätis: Raja/Hermes
Teatteri Takomo, Helsinki. 29.11-9.12.2023.
Choreographer, spatial composition, co-dramaturg, directing, costume.


PREMIERE Virva Talonen & working group: PLAY at Zodiak Centre for New Dance. November 2023.
Dancer + assisting choreography and direction of child performers. Zodiak - Centre for New Dance.

TEACHING Theatre Academy, Helsinki. Autumn 2023.

PERFORMANCES Elina Pirinen: MORTAL TROPICAL DANCES

Meteor Festival, Begen, Norway. 18.-19.10.2023

PERFORMANCES & WORKSHOPS A Human Ensemble
26.-27.8.2023. Daamasali, Vaasa.


PREMIERE Elina Pirinen: MORTAL TROPICAL DANCES
Dance House Helsinki. May 2023.
Co-commissioned by Zodiak - Centre for New Dance.
Dancer.



2022


WORKSHOP På tal om dans! Zodiak - Centre for New Dance, Helsinki


PUBLICATION (cross-disciplinary research)
Classroom-Integrated Movement and Music Interventions and Children's Ability to Recognize Social Interaction Based on Body Motion.
Published 13.12.2022 in Education Science.

WORKSHOP Den skrivande kroppen - Kirjoittava ruumis - The writing body (på svenska! in Swedish!) with dramaturge Sinna Virtanen.
Labbet rf. & Zodiak - Center for new dance. Fredag ​​9.12. 17.00-19.00, lördag 10.12 10.00-15.00, söndag 11.12. 9.30-13.00.
Kursplatser: Fredag ​​9.12. i Labbet rf på adressen: Medelhavsgatan 14 A, lördag 10.12 och söndag 11.12. på Zodiaks studio C4.
Anmäl dig här.

PREMIERE Rasmus Slätis & working group: Gräns/Hermes
10.11-19.11, Teater Viirus, Helsinki.
Choreographer, co-dramaturge.

TEACHING at the MA in Dance programme at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki. October.

PREMIERE Mikko Niemistö: Wakey Wakey
22.9-1.10.2022, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Performer.


PERFORMANCE Karolina Ginman: Fluvial
Manifesti festival, Turku 15.9.2022.
Choreographer-performer.

SITE SPECIFIC Inspire / Conspire / Expire
with Rasmus Slätis and Fyren at Hangö Teaterträff, 9.-12.6.2022.

RESIDENCY Ginman-Guđjónsdóttir-Moilanen. Kutomo, Turku. July 2022.

RESIDENCY Ginman-Guđjónsdóttir-Moilanen. Pengerkatu 7 Työhuone, Helsinki. April 2022.

PREMIERE | PREMIÄR Rasande Stillestånd
Rasmus Slätis (regi), Leppänen (musik), Ginman (koreograf), Nyberg (scenograf) i samarbete med Lilla Teatern och Svenska Institutionen för Skådespelarkonst, Teaterhögskolan vid Helsingfors Konstuniversitet. 10.5.2022.

PREMIERE Karolina Ginman: Fluvial
Co-production by and premiere at Zodiak - Center for New Dance, March 2022.
Choreographer-dancer.


2021

PERFORMANCES Virva Talonen: Ihona
Dancer.
Universum theatre, Helsinki, 17.-18.12.


WORKSHOP for performing arts / movement students, professionals and enthusiasts
Zodiak Centre For New Dance, Helsinki. November 2021.



PERFORMANCES A Human Ensemble
27.-28.11. 2021. Barker Theatre, Turku.

La/Lö/Sat 27.11. @ 19.00
Su/Sö/Sun 28.11. @ 15.00
Liput/Biljetter/Tickets: 10/22 €
Lippuvaraukset/Biljett reserveringar/Ticket reservations: liput@barkerteatteri.fi



RESIDENCY: new solo work Fluvial
Choreographer-dancer
La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne , Institut finlandais, Paris. October 2021.

PERFORMANCES Virva Talonen: Ihona
Dancer.
25.-28.9. 2021. Barker Theatre, Turku.

RESIDENCY & DEMO Elina Pirinen. and working group. Tanssin Talo (Dance House Helsinki). July 2021.
Dancer.

WORKING PERIOD Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir in collaboration with Margrét Sara Guđjónsdóttir: SILICA film project
Performer.
Berlin. June, 2021.

STREAMED ONLINE: OPEN STUDIO + DISCUSSION A Human Ensemble @ Pixelache festival #Burn___ 2020-21, 9.6.2021.

VISITING PRESENTER Esitys ja psykoanalyysi - kurssi (Performance and Psychoanalysis - course). University of the Arts’ Theatre Academy, Helsinki. 3.6.2021.

PERFORMANCES AUO
(Not public due to restrictions)
Directing (part 1) with Eeva Muilu (part 2 and 3)
Bachelor programme in Dance, University of the Arts’ Theatre Academy
Maneesi, Cirko Centre for New Circus 26.-31.3

TEACHING/DIRECTING at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki. March 2021.


HYBRID PERFORMANCE Angela Aldebs & Kati Raatikainen: Dancing With Social Distance
Dancer.
Side Step - festival, Zodiak - Centre for New Dance, 3.-13.2.2021.

WORKING RESIDENCY & LIMITED INIVITED AUDIENCE Virva Talonen: Ihona
Dancer.
Barker-theatre, Turku. January 2021.



2020

RESEARCH: NEW SOLO WORK November-December 2020, Helsinki.


TEACHING at the Master’s programme in Dance at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki. December 2020.


PERFORMANCE + DISCUSSION PLATFORM Karolina Ginman & working group: A Human Ensemble
Teurastamo, Mad House Helsinki hosted by Pixelache - festival. Wed 16.12.2020 at 19.00.
THE PIXELACHE CO-PRODUCED PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO CURRENT COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS IN HELSINKI. NEW DATES IN 2021 TBC.


TEACHING at the Master’s programme in Dance at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki. September 2020.


PREMIERE Niemistö: Odd Meters
Zodiak - Centre For New Dance, Helsinki. Premiere 2.9.2020.

PREMIERE Karolina Ginman & working group: A Human Ensmeble
Maneesi, Cirko - Uuden sirkuksen keskus, Kaasutehtaankatu 1, Helsinki.
Fri 28.8 at 19.00 premiere / Sat 29.8 at 19.00 / Sun 30.8 at 15.00


JURY MEMBER Antonia-priset. Hangö Teaterträff 2020.


TEACHING at the Bachelor’s programme in Dance at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki. March 2020.


RESIDENCY & DEMOS A Human Ensemble
Tue 3.3 and Wed 4.3 at 17.00.
Studio C4, Z-free, Zodiak Centre for New Dance, Helsinki.


2019

TEACHING Movement studies at the Programme of Acting in Swedish at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki. September 2019.


PERFORMANCE Soiva Liike/Sounding Motion: Resonance
Dancer-choreographer.
14th June 7pm, Theatre Academy Helsinki.


CONFERENCE Nordic Forum for Dance Research 14th International conference 2019: Practice Participation & Politics.
Arranger with Mikko Orpana & NOFOD board.
12th-15th June. Theatre Academy, Helsinki.


RESIDENCY & DEMO Virva Talonen: Ihona
Routa Company, Kajaani. March 2019.


PERFORMANCE Elina Pirinen: Brume de Mer
Dancer.
22.3, 23.3.2019. Brut. Vienna, Austria.
https://brut-wien.at/en/Programme/Calendar/Programm-2019/Maerz-2019/Elina-Pirinen-Brume-de-Mer




2018


PERFORMANCE Elina Pirinen: Brume de Mer
Dancer.
World premiere: 29.08.2018, MDT Stockholm
Photos: Ilkka Saastamoinen


TEACHING Movement studies at Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts. September - October 2018.


TEACHING Indulge in Movement course Zodiak Centre for New Dance. FULLY BOOKED.


RESIDENCY Dancer. Elina Pirinen: Brume de Mer. MDT Stockholm. August 2018.


RESIDENCY Dancer. Elina Pirinen: Brume de Mer. Hellerau, Dresden. June 2018.


RESIDENCY Deborah Hay: Being a pig or a questionable formula for the practice of dance.
Austin, Texas 23.4-3.5.2018. Supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.


MUSIC/PERFORMANCE Raquel Bell/Galecstacy + Karolina Ginman @ Electric Church, Austin, Texas 26.4.2018


WORKSHOP + DEMO 19.-22.2.2018: Encountering the corporeal self - Dancing the being
@ Mad House 2018. Tiivistämö, Helsinki. February 2018.
Info & enrolment: http://madhousehelsinki.fi/events/workshop-karolina-ginman-fi-encountering-the-corporeal-self-dancing-the-being?locale=en
FULLY BOOKED.