Kirsi Törmi

Finland °1970
affiliation: Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
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I am a PhD in dance studies, and in my dissertation “Choreographic Process as Interaction” (2016) I outlined an interactive choreographic process, and also reflected the responsibilities and ethical questions of an artist. I am working as a project researcher at Cupore’s ArtsEqual research project, group Socially Responsible Arts Institutions and Artists. As an artist-researcher I am interested in interaction, encounter, ethics of participation, and especially in embodiment in the middle of all the above-mentioned.

 

I have been working widely among the field of dance as a dancer, choreographer and producer. At the moment I'm affiliate researcher at Uniarts Helsinki, Theatre Academy. I am enthusiastic about artistic research in projects that concern the interfaces between art and welfare. I also work as a Clinical Gestalt psychotherapist and as a supervisor. I live in Kajaani.

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  • TAHTO (last edited: 2019) author(s): Annette Arlander, Esa Kirkkopelto, Tero Nauha, Elina Lifländer, Pasi Lyytikäinen, Julius Elo, Henna-Riikka Halonen, Kirsi Törmi connected to: University of the Arts Helsinki This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    This is an exposition of the living archive of Tahto doctoral programme of artistic research
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  • Choreographic Process as Interaction (last edited: 2022) author(s): Kirsi Törmi This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    My artistic doctoral research consists of two pre-examined artistic parts, three different experimental practical applications, and the written part at hand. The process descriptions and the findings of the pre-examined artistic parts AmazinGRace- (2010) and Kierto (2012) that had premiers in Kajaani are discussed in the chapters under these titles respectively. During the research project, I realised three experimental practical applications: the workshops Tunto (2012–2013) and Vertaislaboratorio- (2013) and Piileskelevä liike (2014). The title of my written part is Koreografinen prosessi vuorovaikutuksena [Choreographic Process as Interaction]. Participatory and process oriented practices of dance have taken an increasing role in dance during the last few years. In my research I try to understand the phenomenon and aim at forming new knowledge and new methods for this widening field in dance. The starting point in my research was the frustration and the dissatisfaction I felt at the time towards my choreographic practice. With my research I outline an interactive choreographic process that corresponds with my understanding of that which appears to me as meningful when I encounter people in artistic processes. Making room for feelings and sensations in a choreographic process is a central element in my research. The research has taken shape without a specific hypothesis. Instead of a hypothesis, the research has been driven by my critical and reflective agency, based on which I have developed visions and practices. Theory has not been leading action in this research process, whereas the applicable theoretical framework has adjusted itself to the existing artistic activity. The theoretical reference points in my research are found in the Pedagogy of the Oppressed and the Radical Upbringing, the Discipline of Authentic Movement, the Body Psychotherapeutic Approach and the thinking of neurologist Antonio Damasio.
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