NEWS
17.03.2026 BIRDS OF PARADISE Premieres 06.08.2026 in Helsinki City Theatre / Stage for Contemporary Performance
After two years of waiting, we can finally announce that our performance BIRDS OF PARADISE will premiere 06.08.2026 in Helsinki City Theatre / Stage for Contemporary Performance. The long awaited performance choreographed by Tiia Kasurinen, inspired by male birds and masculine behavior of humans, will take space 06.08.-19.08.2026 in Studio Pasila. Secure your tickets to the contemporary performance and read more about the work: https://hkt.fi/esitykset/birds-of-paradise/
16.02.2026 Songbird to Solstice Festival 2026
We are happy to announce that Kasurinen’s performance Songbird, music by Keliel, will have a performance in the notorious music festival Solstice, on top of the mountains of Kuusamo during the nightless nights of Midsummer. Thank you so much for including us Solstice! Read more about the festival and the schedule: https://solsticefestival.fi/music/tiia-kasurinen-keliel-songbird
16.02.2026 Tiia Kasurinen in FOCUS Magazine 2026
Read the full magazine: https://circusdance.fi/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/FOCUS-2026-WEB.pdf
An interview and cover story of Tiia Kasurinen in the Focus Magazine of 2026. Thank you for the interview Focus and Emma Vainio! Find it online: https://circusdance.fi/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/FOCUS-2026-WEB.pdf
24.10.2025 Creative Director, Show Director and Choreographer for pop artist Evelina’s 10-year-anniversary tour
Outside of her normal work but still at her comfort zone: Kasurinen worked as a creative director, show director and choreographer for pop artist Evelina’s 10-year-anniversary tour. Since 2023, on the side of her own productions, Kasurinen has worked as a choreographer, movement director and creative for and with music artists. Honey Tour is Kasurinen’s first creative direction for a full tour. Thank you Evelina and Team Agency for the trust!
Read a review of the tour (FIN): https://www.klangi.fi/uutiset/keikka-arvostelu-evelina-honey-tour/
01.09.2025 Songbird / Music by Keliel – Asian Premiere 05.09.2026 at Dance Base Yokohama, Japan
Tiia Kasurinen: Songbird / Music by Keliel has its Asian premiere 05.09.2025 at Dance Base Yokohama, Japan. Thank you DaBY and Finstitute Japan for having us! https://dancebase.yokohama/en/event_post/tiia-kasurinen-songbird-showing-talk-networking
01.06.2025 Songbird Finnish premiere at Kiasma Museum, Helsinki
The Finnish premiere of Songbird / Music by Keliel takes place in Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art the 3th of June. The performance lasts for 50 minutes and takes place in the lobby of the space. The performance is sold out. Thank you Kiasma Museum, Kiasma Theatre and URB-festival for collaboration! https://kiasma.fi/en/performances/tiia-kasurinen-songbird/
01.04.2025 Songbird World Premiere at Intonal Festival, Sweden
The world premiere of Kasurinen’s new work Songbird / Music by Keliel will take its place at Intonal-festival in Malmรถ, Sweden. In collaboration with Inkonst, the premiere will take place at Big Stage on Saturday the 26th of April. The performance is sold out.
https://intonalfestival.com/artists-2025/tiia-kasurinen-songbird
25.03.2025 Interview with Institut Finlandais
Tiia Kasurinen sat down with Institut Finlandais while doing a residency at Atelier de Paris in France. Kasurinen talked about two upcoming works, Songbird (2025) and Courtship Display (Birds of Paradise) (2026, working title). Thank you for the interview Saija Kangasniemi! Read: https://www.institut-finlandais.fr/en/interview-with-tiia-kasurinen/
07.01.2025 Residency at Citรฉ internationale Des Arts
Kasurinen joins Citรฉ artist residency in Paris for January and February to work on two upcoming projects: Songbird (2025) and Courtship Display (Birds of Paradise) (2026, working title). The residency is supported by Citรฉ, Finnish Cultural Foundation and Kone Foundation. Thank you!
29.11.2024 SURFACE at Inkonst, Sweden
Kasurinenโs choreographic work SURFACE (2022) was a part of the curatorial program of Inkonst, Malmรถ. The performance took place Friday 29th of November of 2024 at the Black Box and had the warmest welcome from the local audience. Thank you Inkonst!
03.11.2024 Demo performance at Dance Base Yokohama in Japan
The demo performance of Songbird took place at Dance Base Yokohama in Japan, after a two-week artist residency in the studio, for local audiences.
“Songbird is a performance combining elements of contemporary choreography, music-making practice, and drag. Inspired by philosopher and poet Anne Carsonโs essay โThe Gender of Sound,โ the piece explores vocal identity and choreography, together with the symbiosis of femininity and vulnerability.
In the final performance, premiering in April 2025, โSongbirdโ โ a body with exaggerated feminine appearance โ will confront her audience through dance, vocal cords, songs and costumes. How does the body move? How do the extensive costumes affect the movement? How will the choreography of the vocal cords spread in space? What do the different pitches, frequencies, and modes of expression evoke in the audience? How do musical performance and physicality meet?
Songbird is Kasurinenโs 6th performance working with the elements of drag, costuming and femininity. Since 2023, she has been integrating music into her craft.”
The warmest thank you to the production and curatorial team at DaBY and the audiences present!
04.10.2024 Video portrait of Tiia Kasurinen by Silja Minkkinen
“Iโm forever fascinated in what it means to be a femme, in different contexts. In the world – what is allowed, and what is seen as grotesque.” An intimate portrait of artist & performer Tiia Kasurinen, commisioned by Zodiak – The Centre for New Dance / Loisto.
29.04.2024 Finalist of Danse รlargie with COURTSHIP DISPLAY (BIRDS OF PARADISE)
Kasurinen’s upcoming choreographic work COURTSHIP DISPLAY (BIRDS OF PARADISE) has been selected to the Finale of International competition Danse รlargie. The working group will present the 10-minute-version on June 15th at Theatre De La Ville; full length piece is planned to premiere in 2026. http://www.danse-elargie.com/e
More about the project: https://tiiakasurinen.com/coming-up-courtship-display-birds-of-paradise-2026/
15.04.2024 Resident Artist announcement, Dance Base Yokohama, Japan
Kasurinen has been selected to be one of the resident artists of Dance Base Yokohama for season of 2024-2025 with her upcoming solo project “Songbird”. She will present her work publicly in the studio on Sunday 03.11.2024. https://dancebase.yokohama/creator_profile/tiia-kasurinen
18.03.2024 ONSTAGE – The Concert to One Dance-festival in Bulgaria
Kasurinen’s stage work ONSTAGE – The Concert is part of One Dance-festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria! The performance will take place 18.05.2024 at Boris Hristov House of Culture. https://onedance-festival.com/en/2024/program/tiia-kasurinen-onstage-the-concert
01.02.2024 ONSTAGE – The Concert Part of Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform
Kasurinen is part of the More More More-program at Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform 14.02.-18.02.2024 in Oslo, Norway. She will present her project ONSTAGE – The Concert on Saturday at Vega Scene. https://www.icehotnordicdance.com/event/tiia-kasurinen/
07.10.2023 Premiere of JรRร at Nordic House of Faroe Islands, Torshavn
โCaptivating avantgarde in the middle of Tรณrshavn. Astonishing โ
Installation performance JรRร premiered on Friday 06.10. co-produced by Nordic House of Faroe Islands. The artistic team includes film director Maria Tรณrgarรฐ (FO), composer Lil Lacy (DK), choreographers and performing artists Louise Pousette (SE), Tiia Kasurinen (FI) and Vรกr รrting (FO). https://www.nlh.fo/en/events/past-events?event=9921/jord
01.09.2023 Premiere of ONSTAGE – The Concert with amazing reviews
Kasurinen’s new choreographic work ONSTAGE – The Concert had its premiere with great reception and reviews at Helsinki Festival, co-produced by Zodiak – Centre for New Dance. Performances 31.08.-12.09.2023.
https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000009807058.html https://www.teatteritanssi.fi/2023/10/onstage-kuumanhaikea-tahteys/
18.03.2023 Upcoming work “ONSTAGE – The Concert” is a part of Helsinki Festival and Performing HEL
Kasurinen’s upcoming premiere “ONSTAGE – The Concert” is a part of Helsinki Festival and Performing HEL 2023.
https://helsinkifestival.fi/en/event/tiia-kasurinen-onstage-the-concert-2/
https://www.performinghel.fi/production/on-stage/
23.11.2022 New Stage work “SURFACE” Premieres in Kuopio City theatre
Kasurinen’s stage work SURFACE premieres 24.11.2022 at Kopio City Theatre, co-produced by Dance Theatre Minimi. The piece has a performance period in Caisa, Helsinki 15.-17.12.2022.
10.06.2022 Live Stream in Iceland @ Reykjavik Art Festival
Live Stream takes place in Reykjavik Art Festival 10.6.2022, in festival Hub @ Iรฐnรณ. The work will be in a form of an installation for the whole day as well as a part of Art Cinema 19:00, together with an artist talk. Special thank you to Platgorm Gรกtt!
9.5.2022 One Dance Week and Antistatic Festival with Big Pulse Dance Alliance @ Sofia & Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Kasurinen took part in Visiting Artists Programme of Big Pulse Dance Alliance In Bulgaria 9.5.-16.5.
“The Big Pulse Visiting Artist programme invites artists to visit partner festivals, stimulating artistic development, creative exchange and valuable networking.
Selected artists will have the opportunity to visit diverse festivals, meet local artists, attend performances and gain inspiration and expertise as they progress in their work. It will also offer artists the chance to engage with presenters and promoters, providing essential networking opportunities.”
Huge thank you to Big Pulse Dance Alliance, Zodiak – Centre for New Dance, One Dance Week, Antistatic Festival as well as EDN for the experience!
1.5. JรRร – First Working period @ Faroe Islands
First working period of the project JรRร took place in Faroe Islands 23.4.-1.5.2022. The video installation premieres 11.11.2022 @ KoncertKirken, Copenhagen, Denmark.
This project has been supported by: Nordisk Kulturfond, Mentanargrunnur Landsins, Tรณrshavnar Kommunu, Mobility Funding og Norรฐurlandahรบsiรฐ รญ Fรธroyum
06.04.2022 SURFACE premieres 24.11. @ Kuopio City Theatre
Kasurinen’s new stage work “SURFACE” Premieres 24.11.2022 at Kuopio City Theatre through Dance Theatre Minimi. The tickets are now out at lippu.fi: https://www.lippu.fi/artist/tanssiteatteri-minimi/surface-3106938/
” SURFACE is a dance performance, a crooked fairytale and an antithesis for childrenโs stories; a humoristic, yet harrowing perspective on existing under the gaze. โ
More information about the performance: https://tiiakasurinen.com/coming-up-surface-2022/
https://minimi.fi/ohjelmisto/surface/
16.11.2021 Platform Gรกtt in Reykjavik, Iceland
Kasurinen took part in the Platform GรTT event in Reykjavik 15.11.2021-21.11.2021 together with 30 young artists from the Nordic Countries. http://platformgatt.net/
“Platform GรTT is a Nordic Council of Ministersโ project led by Reykjavรญk Arts Festival during 2019-2021. The Icelandic word ‘gรกtt’ derives from old Norse and means doorway. The main aim of the project is to โopen up doorsโ for young artists into the festival arena in the Nordic region.
Five high profile multi-disciplinary arts festivals and establishments in the Nordic countries come together in Platform GรTT to highlight and support young emerging professional artists from the region through a series of events. The participating institutions and festivals are: Reykjavรญk Arts Festival, Bergen International Festival, Nuuk Nordic Culture festival, Helsinki Festival and The Nordic House in the Faroe Islands.”
16.11.2021 TSC Residency for new work “SURFACE” in Spring 2022
Kasurinen’s new work SURFACE is chosen for TSC Residency in December 2021-January 2022.
“TSC Residencies objective is to serve as a platform for multidisciplinary experiments and to support especially freelance-based artists and collectives, and hence aiming for the development of the dance field as a whole.
In January artist and choreographer Tiia Kasurinen will be working on a new staged work SURFACE, together with a team. The dance performance, set to premiere in 2022, is a crooked fairytale and an antithesis for childrenโs stories; a humoristic, yet harrowing perspective on existing under the gaze.” https://terosaarinen.com/en/residencies/
14.10.2021 Review of “I’m not entirely here (cybersad)” in Turku Newspaper
A review of I’m not entirely here (cybersad) in Turun Sanomat, 14.10.2021.
“Tiia Kasurinen was responsible for Wednesday’s highlight with her solo work I’m not entirely here (cybersad). Inspired by social media posing culture and identity shaping, the dance piece was hypnotic to watch from start to finish. The phrase โhopefully one day you will find a way to be yourselfโ, heard in the performance few times, gets stuck in the head.
The unnaturally modified character of the work has something interesting in a similar way as a doll on stage. As the character begins to move, at first very surreptitiously and slowly and then bigger and faster, it feels both dead and alive at the same time. Like the doll, the character also has a certain sadness and vulnerability. Secondary motion material speaks of compulsion and stuck in something coming from the outside.
And yet, in all his discipline, Kasurinen’s work also has a sense of freedom and defiance. While the character dances mostly expressionlessly like in his own world, she occasionally makes eye contact with the audience rather than asking “why are you staring”? At one point, loud music and flickering strobe lights becomes almost violent to the viewer. The lightness but also the layering associated with posing is brought to the work by a series of Instagram images and portraits taken from art history, on the faces of which the eyes of the character of Kasurinen’s work have been implanted.”
12.10.2021 Interview at Turun Sanomat / Turku Newspaper
Irmeli Haapanen interviewed Kasurinen about her artistic work and the latest piece I’m not entirely here (cybersad) for Turun Sanomat. https://www.ts.fi/kulttuuri/5448197/
20.09.2021 “I’m not entirely here (cybersad)” at FINFRINGE, Turku 13.10.2021-14.10.2021
I’m not entirely here (cybersad) goes to Turku! Two performances at FINFRINGE-festival 13-14.10.2021 at ร bo Svenska Teatern. Tickets and more information below:
https://finfringe.fi/ohjelmisto?show=4574
09.09.2021 Review of “I’m not entirely here (cybersad)” at ISCENE.dk
Review of “I’m not entirely here (cybersad)” in the Danish culture magazine ISCENE.
“The highlight of the festival, however, was unconditionally Tiia Kasurinen’s picturesque and almost transcendent social media dance performance โIโm not entirely here (cybersad)โ. Modern in its expression and theme. Furiously refined in its choreographic formatting of the social media channels. Instagram is square; Tik-Tok as well – a separate dance language arises in the frame adopted from the screens of reality and young dancers.
Perhaps the strongest grip of the piece is the performer herself. Tiia Kasurinen grew up with social media. She embraces cyber identities and expands their understanding by mixing the digital universes with related analog gender-playful subcultures like the drag show. The performance is constructed of images of sadness, but exudes an intoxicating, playful curiosity that constantly twists perception. Fantastic performance, terrific grip, refreshing perspective. We would also like to see it in Denmark!”
“Festivalens hรธjdepunkt var dog ubetinget Tiia Kasurinens billedskรธnne og nรฆsten transcenderende SoMe-danseperformance Iโm not entirely here (cybersad). Moderne i sit udtryk og tema. Rasende raffineret i sin koreografiske formatering af kanalerne. Instagram er kvadratisk. Tik-Tok ligesรฅ. Et eget dansesprog opstรฅr i rammen adopteret fra virkelighedens skรฆrme og unge dansere.
Det stรฆrkeste greb er mรฅske performeren selv. Tiia Kasurinen er opvokset med sociale medier. Hun omfavner cyber-identiteter og udvider forstรฅelsen af dem ved at mixe de digitale universer med relaterede analoge kรธnslegende subkulturer som dragshowet. Forestillingen er konstrueret af billeder af tristhed, men udstrรฅler en berusende, legesyg nysgerrighed, der konstant twister perceptionen. Fantastisk forestilling, forrygende greb, forfriskende perspektiv. Den vil vi ogsรฅ gerne se i Danmark!”
02.09.2021 Collaboration with the visual artist Johanna Naukkarinen – “Anatomical Venus” – exhibition open at Yรถ-Galleria 2.-19.09.2021
Kasurinen collaborated with the visual artist Johanna Naukkarinen in her exhibition Anatomical Venus, presented in Yรถ Galleria 2.-19.9.2021.
Body Worlds: The Anatomical Venus (with Tiia Kasurinen), 2021
“The series re-imagines the anatomical Venus, an 18th century wax figure, into a Bodyworlds exhibition in active positions.
The anatomical Venus wax figures were first made in Italy during the 18th century. These figures were used for teaching anatomy to the general public and were moulded into the form inspired by the portrayal of Venus in the visual arts. They were beautiful, passive and placed to lie on silk. Their beauty was meant to distract people from thinking about death while learning anatomy.
The series created together with dance artist Tiia Kasurinen imitates the positions of bodies assigned as male presented in the images of the history of art and medicine. As the female characters in the historical images were placed to lie as passive objects, male characters were allowed to represent strength and humanity.
In the series the anatomical Venus performed by Tiia Kasurinen holds her signature embellishments like silk, pearls and long hair, but is also allowed to represent human body and it’s strength.”
https://www.yory.fi/fi/yo-galleria/johanna-naukkarinen-anatomical-venus https://cargocollective.com/johannanaukkarinen
23.08.2021 Short film “Live Stream” (2021) at New Performance Turku -Festival
Kasurinen’s new work, short film Live Stream premieres at New Performance Turku, September 3.-5.9.2021. The work is made in collaboration with the artist Johanna Naukkarinen.
About the artists: http://www.newperformance.fi/taiteilijat/tiia-kasurinen-fi-johanna-naukkarinen-fi/
10.06.2021 I’m not entirely here (cybersad) as a part of Performing HEL
“I’m not entirely here (cybersad)” is a part of Performing HEL, the showcase for Finnish performing arts.
“With performances, demos and production pitches, Performing HEL showcases the finest work from Finland. The showcase presents the full range of performing arts, including circus, dance and theatre, also delivered in exciting yet difficult-to-define combinations. Performing HEL takes place in August-September at the same
time with the Helsinki Festival โ the largest arts festival in Finland. “
More about the Performance: https://www.performinghel.fi/production/im-not-entirely-here
07.06.2021 “I’m not entirely here (cybersad)” at Helsinki Festival
“I’m not entirely here (cybersad)” is a part of Helsinki Festival.
More about the Performance: https://helsinkifestival.fi/en/event/tiia-kasurinen-im-not-entirely-here-cybersad-2/
Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.fi/artist/helsingin-juhlaviikot-tiia-kasurinen-lippuja/1065192
27.09.2020 Interview at Helsingin Sanomat / Helsinki Newspaper
Eleonoora Riihinen interviewed Kasurinen about her artistic work and her latest performance “I’m not entirely here (cybersad)” for Helsingin Sanomat. Read the full article here: https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000006649375.html
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