2025
22-23/8/2025 ‘Sublime Escapades‘. The spirit of the performers is to collaborate and enjoy unpredictability, and to welcome publics, with all their senses and histories and opinions, to engage. Expect playfulness, diversity, experimentation and risk. About 15 performing artists gathered together to show their collaborative work at the end of Summer Course by Katie Duck / OT301 Ventilator Cinema and Bar, Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam.
21/6/2025 Summer Insomnia Songs, an improvised performance of music, movement, and midsummer mood. The shortest night of the year became a stage for dreams, restlessness, and release. A one-night-only encounter of live music and dance, where performers moved through the in-between — between sleep and wake, heat and stillness, impulse and intuition.
Lineup: Maria Luisa Pizzighella – percussion, Jonathan Nagel – double bass, Camille Verhaak – clarinet, Annarita Ricciardi, Merig Çukurova, Dany Kirilov, Manuela Lucia Tessi, T. Veneranta – movement / Grasweg 41R, 1031 HW Amsterdam
21/2/2025 Encuentros: Open Doors was a day of workshops, performances and an installation by the current Encuentros Platform members / TreehouseNDSM, Amsterdam
Details:
Workshop 1: ‘The Color of Void’ by Kalliopi Ioumpa based on the themes of loss and grief.
Workshop 2: Encuentros demo workshop for artists to share their work and exchange feedback. I presented ‘My skin the city‘.
Evening programme: ‘The Color of Void’ installation by Kalliopi Ioumpa, ‘Unfolding’ by Antti Uimonen (dance), ‘Opus 23’ by Paolo Gorini (music), ‘The Red Thread’ by Adrián Moncada (music).
15/2/2025 T.n.[X]. returned with ‘T.n.I.: (Un)Expected (Ex)Change’ (dance and text), with Isabel Pacewicz, in a double bill with Dom Shemesh (Manuela Lucia Tessi – dance, Omer Sigler – electric guitar) / 4Bid Gallery, OT301, Amsterdam.
2024
23/11/2024 ‘The Wisdom of the Body’s Whispers‘ plenary workshop with Dr. Rosemarie Samaritter, Louise Klaverweide and Fernanda Silva on a community dance therapy programme for adults with persistent physical symptoms at the Dutch dance/movement therapy symposium / Codarts, Rotterdam
10/10/2024 ‘My skin the city‘ (pilot) as part of Highs&Lows programme / 4Bid Gallery at OT301, Amsterdam
16-17/8/2024 ‘Sublime Escapades‘, two nights of multidisciplinary improvisation. The spirit of the performers is to collaborate and enjoy unpredictability, and to welcome publics, with all their senses and histories and opinions, to engage with playfulness, diversity, experimentation, risk. About 20 performing artists gathered together to show their collaborative work at the end of Summer Course by Katie Duck / OT301 Ventilator Cinema and Bar, Amsterdam
25/3/2024 ‘Are you ready to fail?’ A collection of Amsterdam-based makers gathered to share their new material. A night full of body-based performances, sharing versus showing, encouraging and celebrating the processes of making, creating and “failing”. I shared ‘Kick me deeper into secrecy’ with Jonathan Nagel and an improvisation from BodyWeather residency with Astarti Athanasiadou / 4Bid Gallery at OT301, Amsterdam
19/1/2024: Graduating from Master of Arts Therapies: dance therapy / Codarts, Rotterdam
2023
13–19/11/2023 ‘presence (Un) presence‘ by Martijn Tellinga. Four performers (Astarti Athanasiadou, Antti Uimonen, Amit Palgi, T. Veneranta) silently scanned our fundamental postures —standing, walking, sitting, lying down— as the means to negotiate a heavily medialised installation environment / V2 – Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
6–8/10/2023: Volunteering at International Dance Therapy Symposium and General Assembly of The European Association of Dance Movement Therapy / Lapinlahti Oasis, Helsinki
2/9/2023: Open Fields – Art and Architecture (Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Steiermarkt), a two-week BodyWeather residency followed by a public sharing. Project by Museum Joanneum, BodyWeather lab by Astarti Athanasiadou and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, with Antti Uimonen, Sophie Krier, and Nicolas Gabriel / Bio-bauernhof Liebchen, Neurmarkt in Steiermark
18–19/8/2023: Wild and reckless multidisciplinary real-time performances, over 20 performing artists gathered together to show their collaborative work at the end of Summer Course by Katie Duck / OT301 Ventilator Cinema and Bar, Amsterdam
2022
24/11/2022: Urban Traditions, curated by Vincent Verburg (Movementalist), with Jonathan Nagel, Heiko Dijker, Dj Lovesupreme, Petyr Veenstra, Nestor Matytchak, Kaide Gonzalez, Jasmin Rituper, Maria Mavridou, Cherif Zaouali, Vincent Verburg / CC Amstel, Amsterdam
15–16/10/2022: ‘Peace to be‘ premiere at Queer Festival by Stichting Queer Art Productions / Theater Het Pakhuis, Hoorn
13/5/2022: ‘Sprünge der Zeit‘ at Composers’ Festival / Het Orgelpar, Amsterdam
7/5/2022: Multidisciplinary improvisation performance curated by Manuela Tessi, with various artists / Roze Tanker, Amsterdam
2021
8/12/2021: ‘Angels, upside down‘ at the sixth group program of the Autumn Fallouts Series, curated by Lee Ellickson / The Warp, Amsterdam
21/11/2021: ‘Angels, upside down‘ at ReMo studio performance evening / Amsterdam
24/10/2021: Duo T.N.T. at Attic Space performance series, by Katie Duck / Amsterdam
1/10/2021: Multidisciplinary improvisation performance, with Katie Duck, Maria Mavridou, Jonathan Nagel, Thalia Laric, Manuela Tessi, Camille Verhaak, Tristan Honsinger, Johannes Karst, at Attic Space performance series, by Katie Duck / Amsterdam
5/6/2021: ‘Angels, upside down‘ at Encuentro I by Irene Sorozábal / Amsterdam
2020
09/2020-2024: Master of Arts Therapies: dance therapy / Codarts, Rotterdam
2019
8/2019: Multidisciplinary improvisation performances with various artists at Freakatoni Witchy Weekends, curated by Katie Duck / OT301, Amsterdam
2018-2019
Movin’ with Tiia – contemporary dance classes and Dance of Life® classes / Lisbon
2016
09/2016: Making of ‘Vigília‘
08/2016: ‘The Real Health Center‘ / Helsinki, FIN
07/2016: ‘Lugarillo’, final performance at FAICC with Amanda Amaral / Teatro Campo Alegro, Porto
04-06/2016: Co-teaching an inclusive dance group with Filipa Duarte / Espaço T, Porto
02-07/2016: Formação Avançada em Interpretação e Criação Coreográfica (FAICC), organised by Companhia Instável / Teatro Campo Alegre, Porto
2015
07/2015: Movement improvisation responding to an exhibition, project by Ellie Swingler / The Sketch House, Penzance
07/2015: Performing with (((echoes dance co))) and Shallal Dance Theatre / Cornwall
07/2015->: Life modelling
05/2015: ‘Kissing Our Heart’, an audio-visual installation with Annabie Daly and Ellie Swingler / The Performance Centre, Falmouth University
27/5/2015: ‘We Here Now – in wonderful wackiness‘, BA(Hons) Choreography graduation performance / The Performance Centre, Falmouth University
4/5/2015: ‘Here – Not Here – Where?‘, performance between the Royal College of Music, Contact Theatre Manchester and Falmouth University, by Studio Biscoe
… and before
05/2014: Making of ‘Sonichor‘ and ‘Suddenly so sud den‘
2014-2015: Photography collaboration with Tapio Leppänen and Pierre Mohammed / Pori, FIN and Falmouth, UK
2012-2015: BA(Hons) Choreography / Falmouth University
2011, 2012: ‘Time trip’, a participatory solo performance in residential care homes / Pori, FIN
2011: Poetry-dance performance at Runokulma series / Kulttuurikulma, Pori, FIN
2010-2011: Education in Dance and Somatics / ISLO, Joensuu, FIN
2010: ‘Pyörteissä’, a site-specific group dance performance / Lautta, Pori, FIN
2009-2010: Pedagogy of teaching social dances, teacher Veli-Matti Keikkala / Tanssikoulu Vietävän hyvää, Rauma, FIN
2004-2014: Performing and training with Tikki Folk Ensemble, teacher and director Jutta Wrangén
2002-2004, 2010-2011: Teaching children and adult+child dance groups / Pori, Joensuu, FIN
Volunteering with Finnish Dance Therapy Association, Kneehigh theatre company, Pori Folk Festival, Contact Festival Dartington, Fascinate Falmouth Conference, Pori Jazz festival, Alone in the rain? Festival, Lainsuojattomat Theatre Festival, European Voluntary Service.