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Välke Ruusunen


Välke Ruusunen (Verena Götsch) is a dance artist exploring and wondering the world through dance, butoh and improvisation. They are interested in sensations, bodily knowledge, softness, rituals and sensuality. Their favourite tools in their practise are improvisation,TRE  and  touch explorations. In the centre of their work and method is sensitising to the environment and sensations. Their aim is to dismantle the at the moment dominating state of collective dissociation in the society.

WORKS

2024 Travelling Fabric, dancer and co-choreographer, project by Art for All ry, Viikki, Helsinki

2024 Deep Tinge, solo, Maa -tila gallery, Helsinki

2024 Filum Rubrum, in collaboration with Walter Götsch, Aoi Yoshizawa, Maunula talo, Helsinki

2023 Lush Death, solo, the Attic, Helsinki

2023 Have you ever read Anais Nin, solo, Tanssivintti Spring Performance, Zodiak

2023 Dramaattinen teos, dancer, by choreographer Samuli Emery, Tanssivintti Spring

         Performance, Zodiak

2023 Listening to Fragile Streams, in collaboration with Miio Holopainen, Maa-tila gallery,

          Helsinki

2023 Nothing but Impro, solo, Performance Soiree, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki

2022 Circular Ritual, collaboration with Hessu Wennerstrand, as part of exhibition: Dance!

         Movement in the Visual Arts 1880-2020, HAM-museum, Helsinki 2022

2022 If you have a problem, let yourself be eaten by the problem, solo, Norpas X, Kemiönsaari               and Kotofest, Janakkala

2022 Playing between Fissures, collaboration with Miio Holopainen, Helsinki Butoh Festival and

         Butoh Festival Reloaded, Helsinki

2022 Dancing with Patti Smith, solo, Tanssivintti Spring Performance, Zodiak, Helsinki

2022 Current, collaboration with Minerva Juolahti, Vapaan Taiteen tila, Helsinki

2021 Oscillations, collaboration with Minerva Juolahti, Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki

2019 Alma Negra-festival, group work, Espacio en Blanco, Madrid, 2019

2019 Blood of Dance, solo, Loukko cafe, Helsinki

2017–2018 solo and group works, Himalaya Butoh Festival, McLeod Ganj

 

 

EDUCATION

2023–2024 Laajasalo Folk High School, Helsinki

2021–2023 Tanssivintti dance school, intensive group, Helsinki

2020–2021 Kälviä Arts, performing arts program, Kälviä Folk High School, Kokkola

2019–2020 Aula Nostra, Butoh Dance Program, Madrid, 2019–2020

2017 and 2018 Himalaya Subbody Butoh school, McLeod Ganj

2017 Political Science, Bachelor in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Helsinki University

2016–2017 Dance Pedagogy, basic studies, Open University of Arts, Helsinki

2007–2008 Chado, The Way of Tea, Urasenke School, Kyoto

 

COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

2023 Dance Lab North, Dotra Art Center, Umeå

2019 The Moonwalk Project, one month Butoh Hike, Pyrenees

2019 Work for Work, butoh workshop by Imre Thormann, Nîmes

2018–2019 Sampoorna Yoga, 200 hours Flow Yoga Teacher training, Agonda

 

 

VOLUNTARY WORK AND ACTIVISM

2011–> Rhytms of Recistance, grass roots activist band, playing in demonstrations, organising

            events and camps, Helsinki

2022–> Organising and cordinating different performance events in Helsinki

2015–2017 Organising self defence workshops for PRO-tukipiste, Helsinki

2012-2013 Protest camp against coal mine, Hambach forest, Cologne

 

GRANTS

2024 Helsinki city project grant for Filum Rubrum, collaboration with Walter Götsch and

         Aoi Yoshizawa

 

MEMBERSHIPS

Tanssille ry (Dancer Association Helsinki), Yö Gallery, The Regional Dance Centre of Ostrobothnia

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