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About

I am a choreographer and a performance artist from Helsinki, Finland with a professional background in various styles of movement and contemporary performance practices. I create my own work and work in different collaborations as a co-creator and performer.

In my work I explore the formulation of the self through silent knowledge and accumulations of bodily memories. My interests lie in the shattered realities of contemporary culture and things that linger in the background, like noise and the flow of consciousness. I’m currently focusing on the shadow zones of everyday reality, like dreaming, protesting and the supernatural.

I work in Finland and internationally. I completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Choreography at the New Performative Practices -program of DOCH – Dans och Circushögskolan, Stockholm in 2017. My works have been shown at e.g. Zodiak - Center for New Dance (Finland), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Finland), Inkonst (Sweden), far° festival (Switzerland), CCN de Caen (France) and ImPulsTanz festival (Austria), where my solo work Odd Meters received the jury’s special mention in the [8:tension] Young Choreographer’s Series in 2022.

CONTACT

+358 50 3659 038
niemisto.mikko@gmail.com