Tiia Kasurinen

Tiia Kasurinen (she/her) is an artist/choreographer graduated from Stockholm University of the Arts in 2017. She is interested in themes such as identity, gender, the gaze and pop culture, and explores them in her works through visual transformation and motion. In her works YouTube tutorials and somatic movement walk hand in hand, creating recognisable aesthetics.

Kasurinen’s work has been presented f.ex. in Helsinki Festival and Zodiak – Centre for New Dance, New Performance Turku Biennale, Nordic House of Faroe Islands, Reykjavik Art Festival/Gátt Hub and Kuopio City Theatre/Dance Theatre Minimi. When not working on her own projects, Tiia Kasurinen works as a dancer and a performer and collaborates with other artists. She recently worked on a nordic installation performance JÖRÐ, premiered in the Nordic House of Faroe Islands. Kasurinen is a member of Precarious Practices – a group of dance artists, whose activities are based on artistic exchange. She has been invited to join the Nordic Platform Gátt network of young artists.

In 2022, Kasurinen was awarded an international DanceWEB scholarship to the ImpulsTanz Festival in Vienna. Her newest work COURTSHIP DISPLAY (BIRDS OF PARADISE) was selected to the finale of Danse Élargie, a choreography competition co-devised by Boris Charmatz and Emmanuel Demarcy Mota. Kasurinen works with a one-year grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation 2023-2024. She was granted the state artist grant for 2021.