Curriculum Vitae Sanna Kekäläinen choreographer - dancer artistic leader and choreographer of Kekäläinen & Company Address: Tehtaankatu 19 B 10, 00150 Helsinki, Finland Tel: +358-41-510 1151, Fax: +358-9-621 6009 e-mail: kc@kekalainencompany.net EDUCATION Studied modern dance and ballet training in Helsinki, professional student 1978 - 80. Studied at the London School of Contemporary Dance 1980-83 studies in modern dance, choreography, ballet, music and art). Studied at the Theatre School of Amsterdam, Dance department 1983 and 1985 (studies in new dance, different teachers). Related studies: voice training, singing, yoga, t'ai chi. WORK Worked widely as a choreographer and/or dancer in many theatres and dance-companies in Finland. Worked innovatively in co-operation with several visual artists, writers, composers, performance groups and musicians. Founded Zodiak, a center for new dance and dancers 1986. Artistic leader-choreographer of Physical Art Theatre, from 2001 on Kekäläinen & Company (K&C), founded in Helsinki 1996. Numerous performances in different festivals and theatres in Europe and USA. As an artist in residence to WUK in Vienna, Austria (TransEuropeHalles) in Summer 1998. A Reconstruction -series of four of Sanna Kekäläinen's earlier choreographies commissioned by Kiasma-Theatre as an opening programme, 1998 As an Goethe Institute´s expert guest in the Global Dance Festival in Düsseldorf, Germany in Summer 2002 AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Received a four-year scholarship from the Ministery of Culture and Education 1989. Received a State Dance Award for Zodiak 1990. Received an important "Young Finland" -state award for arts for her work as a dancer and choreographer 1994. Received a three-year scholarship from the Ministery of Culture and Education 1996. Received a five-year scholarship from the Ministery of Culture and Education 1999. Received a year scholarship from the Ministery of Culture and Education 2004. Received a five-year scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Education 2005 Received a five-year state grant from the National Council of Dance 2005. CHOREOGRAPHIES (selected) Unfair situation, 1983 Ladies, 1984 Serenade, 1984 Strip, 1985 · Amsterdam Het Veem-theatre January 1985 Rockaby, 1985 - 86 · Copenhagen Kultural Center may 1986 Der Raum, 1987 · Stockholm's Finland on the way to the 90's -festival october 1987 Lilith Lins, 1988 White and Silent Cries, 1989 - 90 Santa-Maria delle Grazie, 1990 Santa-Maria Furiosa, 1990 - 91 · Paris, La Fondation Boris Vian february 1991 Onnellinen (l'Hereuse), 1991 Studien über Hysterie, 1991 · New York, NYU Theatre march 1992 My sword has seven edges and three knots, 1992 Skolaris, 1993, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki You who live the time, 1993 Proposal for a Duet for Two Men, 1993 Songs of the Blissfull, 1994 Moondrunks, 1994 Fifth season, 1995 The Double, 1995 · Budapest, International Contemporary Solodance Festival Nov. 1995 Requiem - a dance performance in the spirit of Mozart, 1996 · Tampere Theatre Festival, Finland 1996 Afternoon of a Faun, 1996 Commissioned work, Kuopio Dance Festival · Paris, Institute Finlandais -98; Neuer Tanz -festival Vienna -98 · the 5th Juksan International Arts Festival, South-Korea -99 · the Festival de la Nouvelle Dance d'Uzes, France -99 · Festival du Cinema Nordique, Rouen, France 2000 · "IV International Festival of Movement and Dance on the Volga", in Yaroslavl, Russia, August 2000 · International Platform for Choreographers, Almada, Portugal, November 2000. Acts of Desire, 1996 · MU-theatre, Budapest Nov. 1996 Katharctic, 1997 · Helsinki Act Festival Querelle - variations, 1997 · Neuer Tanz -festival in Vienna 1998 Spartacus, 1998. The Swedish Theatre, Helsinki Retrospective-series, 1998 Commissioned by Kiasma Theatre - Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. Four choreographies reconstructed 1987-92 Prisoners of Love, 1999 · Neuer Tanz -festival, Vienna 1999 · IV Annual International Contemporary Dance Festival, Poland 1999. Death in Venice, 1999 Collaboration with the Finnish National Opera. Net - Images of the Other, 2000, Theatre Raivoisat Ruusut, Helsinki · "IV International Festival of Movement and Dance on the Volga", in Yaroslavl, Russia, August 2000 · the IVth Lublin International Dance Theatre Festival, Poland, November 2000. Slow O, 2000, Kiasma Theatre - Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki Iho - Skinless, 2001, Turbiinisali, Kaapelitehdas (Cable Factory), Helsinki · the Vth International Lublin Dance Theatre Festival, Poland, November 2001 · Institut Finlandais, Paris, France, November 2001 · New Baltic Dance ´02 -festival in Vilna, Lithuania April 2002 · Global Dance 2002 / Internationale Tanzmesse NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 2002 · International Platform for Choreographers, Almada, Portugal, October 2002 · Les Plateaux de la Biennale 2005, France, September 2005 Uhri - Sacre, 2001, Turbiinisali, Kaapelitehdas (Cable Factory), Helsinki · Dance Explosions Festival in Gdansk, Poland, February 2002. VERSO - Two Versions of Transientness, 2002, Turbiinisali, Kaapelitehdas (Cable Factory), Helsinki · TanzTranzit -festival in Kaliningrad, Russia April 2002. BODY - Fragments of the Human Body, 2002, Cable Factory, Helsinki · Dance Theatre ERI, Turku, Finland, May 2003 · X Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival, Bytom, Poland, June 2003 · Tanztendenzen -festival, Greifswald, Germany, June 2003 · VII International Lublin Dance Theatre Festival, Lublin, Poland, November 2003 Proposal for a Duet for Two Men (new version, orig. 1993) / Women's Duet, 2003, Cable Factory, Helsinki · Dance Arena Festival, November 2003 MIELI - MIND, 2004, Zodiak - Center for new dance, Cable Factory, Helsinki Requiem (new version, orig. 1996), 2004 Commissioned by Theatre Academy, thesis for graduate students Persoona - Person, Reflections of Mind, 2004, Cable Factory, Helsinki · Manifest festival Turku, Finland 2000 · VIII International Dance Theatre Festival, Lublin, Poland, November 2004. TEO, 2004, Kiasma Theatre - Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki todellisuus reality and Uhri II Sacre, 2005, Cable Factory, Helsinki CREATURE and Unidentified dancer, 2006, STOA, Helsinki Afternoon of a Faun and La Petrushka, 2006, Cable Factory, Helsinki · Afternoon of a Faun: Mobile Dance -programme / IETM Helsinki 9.-12.11.2006 · X International Dance Theatres Festival, Lublin, Poland, November 2006. Puna-Red-Rouge, 2007, Kiasma Theatre - Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki PÄÄ-HEAD, 2008, K&C Space VIDEO WORK Crickets, dir. Marikki Hakola, 1987 Santa-Maria Furiosa, dir. Teemu Mäki, 1991 Requiem, dir. Marikki Hakola, 1996 Continuum, dir. Marikki Hakola, 1999 TEACHING Periodically in different dance-schools and workshops around Finland and internationally: technique and choreography, physical expression. Conservatory of Music, Helsinki 1983 Academy of Applied Arts, Helsinki 1984 Theatre Academy of Finland, Dance department, -93 onwards periodically.