Dance Artist based in Helsinki, Finland
Heini Tuoresmäki is a dance artist based in Helsinki. She’s working in the field of dance in multiple ways and likes to combine dance with different arts. Heini is interested in the being and embodiment of a psychophysical human.
In addition to dance, Heini actively creates new and easily approachable culture in the city by organizing events and creating spaces for art.
Director: Heini Tuoresmäki
Performers: Giorgio Convertito, Minttu-Maaria Makkonen & Anne Rönkkö
Cinematographer: Pietari Peltola
Editor: Markus Leppälä
Sound Designer: Timo Tikka
WASTE OF MIND is a film about body memories. Body memories have an effect on how we move and carry ourselves. There is no escape from body memories floating through you.
Director: Anna Paavilainen
Producer: Kaisla Viitala /Komeettafilmi
Choreographer: Heini Tuoresmäki (one scene for children)
Premiere in October 2022.
Story of the artist Kikka, who grew from an unknown suburban girl to one of Finland’s best-known pop stars in the 90’s and the collapse of her career in the mix of publicity pressures, substance abuse problems and the ever changing music world.
Director: Anna Paavilainen
Producer: Kaisla Viitala /Komeettafilmi
Choreographer: Heini Tuoresmäki (Season 1, Episode 9 & 10)
When life is an endless continuation of awkward sitations.
YLE serie for youth audiences. https://areena.yle.fi/1-50426368
Director & Choreographer: Heini Tuoresmäki
Mentor: Leena Nordberg
Performers: Aino, Anniina, Emma, Henna, Heta, Jenna, Laura, Lili, Ninja, Peppi, Ronja & Sini
Performed in Taideyliopisto 11/12 December 2019.
FAVOURITE PARTS is a performance about finding your own place in life and in performance. It searches for and finds our favourite parts of our bodies, the space around us and our relationships with others.
Director & Choreographer: Heini Tuoresmäki
Sound Designer & Composer: Jyri Pirinen
Costume Designer: Reeta Tuoresmäki
Assistant of director: Pippa Jämsén
Performers: Aili, Annikki, Astrid, Frida, Kerttu, Leimu, Olavi, Olga, Ruut ja Sonja
Performances in Kanneltalo 14/15 of September 2018
THEY BUILD GREAT CASTLES is a performance where children are the artists.
The work is a praise for curiosity, enthusiasm and free movement. It also speaks for perseverance and common agreements.
This dance piece brings them to the stage, whose movement is naturally free and organic. They who are spontaneous and honest to their feelings. They who learn rules designed to create a common good.
Through this work we regard the meaning of limits and agreements and give children the freedom to implement their own logic and imagination. Children have been involved in the planning of this piece and it’s characters.
Concept: Meri-Tuuli Risberg
Performers: Pippa Jämsén, Hanna Kahrola, Heini Tuoresmäki
Choreographers: Pippa Jämsén, Hanna Kahrola, Emmi Myrskog, Meri-Tuuli Risberg & Heini Tuoresmäki
Photos: Kari Kuitunen
OF THE ESSENCE is a performance about being a human in different state of mind. It is a sequel for the dance piece ESSENTIAL from 2010. The same working group came together and observed what has changed in the past eight years in life, movement and our selves or are we still the same.
OF THE ESSENCE is a collection of scenes about womanhood. It’s about being and not being from the aspect of five women, five different personalities and life situations. The working method has been work-in-process so the group is constantly open to change.
Performances : Fringe Festival 1.9. 2018 & Lokatanssit 6.10.2018
Choreographer & Dancer: Heini Tuoresmäki
Director & Editor: Markus Leppälä
Cinematographer: Aarne Tapola
Sound Designer: Jyri Pirinen
Costume Designer: Teemu Muurimäki
Special Effects: Esa Mäkitalo
Producer: Michael Cordey
I WISH I WAS A MAN is screened in Loikka Dance Film Festival 2018, Loikka on Tour: Tanssivirtaa Festival, Kotka, Loviisa, Pori, Turku, Italy, Vaasa and Mexico 2018 & InShadow Festival Portugal 2018.
The film looks at the essence of a man by the means of dance and body art.
Stylewise, the film makes use of preaching of propaganda as it praises being a man. It romanticises and salutes the man. The content is built around four different male characters, played in the film by one female dancer. For who else could do it as impartially as a woman?
Director & Choreographer: Heini Tuoresmäki
Dancers: Kati Korosuo and Nina Mamia
Cinematographer: Pietari Peltola
Editor: Markus Leppälä
Sound Designer: Marc Melià
The work relies on bodily experience, hidden habits, packed and forgotten emotions, hanging limbs, self-contained body parts and others hanging around the neck. The work is layered, squeezed and tends to be released.
Screenwriter: Emmi Kahilainen
Concept and Choreographers: Pippa Jämsén, Emmi Kahilainen, Meri-Tuuli Risberg, Heini Tuoresmäki
Dancers: Pippa Jämsén, Emmi Kahilainen, Meri-Tuuli Risberg, Heini Tuoresmäki
Music: Syntikkapop-trio VOLA (Olli Aarni, Juho Aittokallio, Mikael Myrskog
(https://soundcloud.com/volavola)
Olijos rap: Emmi Kahilainen, Heini Tuoresmäki
Costumes: Työryhmä / Workgroup
Light designer: Arto Vuorinen
Once Upon a Time There Was Olijo, a Caribbean frog. After his childhood Olijo had been afraight of water. One night Olijo sees a wonderful dream, in which he sleeps with nice and wavy water. After this dream he decides to begin and like water, but turns out that it’s not easy for him; water drops are pranksters, Banana Leaf is a faithful umbrella-friend and sun shine is so sweet. But Olijo is determined, and soon he gets help from Ahti the expert of all the waters and Ahvenais the water lady.
Olijos story is told colourfully in the ways of dance and music. This story takes children and other viewers all the way from dream world into carnival atmosphere.
Length: 30min
Premiere: Lahden Lasten Talvikarnevaalit, Pikkuteatteri 29.1.2015
Choreographer: Meri-Tuuli Risberg, Heini Tuoresmäki
Dancers: Emmi Kahilainen, Meri-Tuuli Risberg, Heini Tuoresmäki
Light designer: Arto Vuorinen
Photos: Heidi Kotilainen
Loneland is gradually completed series of many dance pieces.
Premiere: LOKATANSSIT, Lahden Pikkuteatteri 10/2014
Concept & Choreographer: Heini Tuoresmäki
Performers: Nina Mamia, Kati Korosuo, Nico Vehmas, Marika Laurén
Technical Designer: Esa Mäkitalo
Sound Designer: Christian Sjöholm
Excess material is a layered piece about body mapping. It builds upon solo & duet works by various artists and draws inspiration from coding, technology, voice, and therapy. Every performance gathers and stores data and information from the previous one. A dancer outlines their body map, a picture of which is saved for the viewer. A grand scheme is forming.
Concept: Meri-Tuuli Risberg
Dance: Emmi Kahilainen, Meri-Tuuli Risberg, Heini Tuoresmäki
Pig in the Bag is a constantly changing improvised piece. It is an outcome of many different parts: the dancers, passers-by, the space and the audience. It gives a voice for opinion pieces and makes a statement when everything feels annoying and wrong. The three little pigs can be anywhere where you are or least expect it. The piece can be performed every time in a different public space.
Concept: Heini Tuoresmäki
Dance: Emmi Kahilainen, Emma Ronkainen ja Pippa Jämsén
Music: Sagolik (Stina Koistinen ja Juho Kanervo)
LIVING ROOM examines limited, private and common surroundings around city milieu. In this piece layers, restrictions and freedom are surveyed. Living room creates tempting space for audience and passers-by to stay for a while or longer and enjoy dance, music and warm mood.
Premiere: Narinkkatori, Helsinki 8/2012