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Satu Tuomisto
Satu Tuomisto is a Finnish contemporary dance choreographer whose pieces since the turn of the century have been performed in Britain, Finland and internationally.
Biography.
In 2000, Tuomisto graduated as a choreographer at Middlesex University in London. She worked in the UK for a decade, mainly at The Place, and returned to Finland in 2009. In January 2008, as part of the Europalia arts festival in Brussels, Tuomisto presented "Mirjami & Mikael", a half-hour piece at the Théâtre 140 in
which Satu Elovaara and Giorgio Convertito performed a presentation which included allusions to Finnish culture, the sauna and the country's black humour.
From 2011 to 2013 Tuomisto worked as the Artistic Director of JoJo Oulu Dance Centre. She takes up experimental challenges, collaborates with pop starts and brings together unusual partners to create emotional experiences for her audiences.
Her choreography of the "Frennzy" dance show at the Oulu City Theatre was particularly successful, running for ten nights. After presentations in the Netherlands, the dance sequence was performed