STREET DANCE / FREESTYLE

In these classes, we groove to bass-heavy music, dance, sweat together, and delve into our own ways of moving, feeling the dance, and the music. The classes are based on freestyle hip-hop dance, covering the history of hip-hop dance, party dance steps, and grooves. Additionally, the classes also cover the basic techniques and history of waacking/punking dance. The main emphasis is on collaboration, experience, and enjoyment.

Kaisa Nieminen is a dancer, choreographer, and rap artist. Her dance background is in street dance, mainly in hip-hop and waacking/punking. This background is evident in her artistic work and her relationship with movement. She graduated with a Master's degree in Choreography from the Inter-University for Dance Berlin (HZT) in 2019. Kaisa is a member of the rap group called Pimeä Hedelmä (Dark Fruit).

Her recent artistic works include pieces such as "Pimeä Hedelmä x Amanda & Lydia - the weight of being sexy," "Kaisa Nieminen & Marika Peura - down below things shudder," "Kemppainen, Nieminen, Peura - and then they left" (2021), "Rutimo Collective - Lemons" (2021), and "a dark post-midsummer night’s dream" (2021) in collaboration with the Pimeä Hedelmä band and the queer art duo Amanda & Lydia. As part of her artistic practice, Nieminen aims to reflect on her position, privileges, and responsibilities both within the hip-hop culture and as a white dance artist working in the field of contemporary dance.