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Tero Saarinen
Dancer-choreographer Tero Saarinen (born 1964) began his career as a dancer at the Finnish National Ballet in 1985, where he soon attracted attention as a soloist. Despite his success, he left the ballet in 1992 to seek new influences in contemporary dance from Western Europe and Japan, where he studied traditional Japanese dance and Butoh from 1992 to 1993. Even though Saarinen's work displays features of classical ballet, Butoh and Western contemporary dance, he has managed to create a unique style of his own. In his work, sensitivity of thought is combined with a refined grotesqueness of movement and clarity of texture.
Saarinen founded his own group in 1996 as a canvas for his own choreographic work. Apart from his works for Tero Saarinen Company and his teaching of his movement technique, his handiwork can also be seen in the premieres commissioned by several other prominent dance groups. NDT 1 (Nederlands Dans Theater, Denmark), the Batsheva Dance Company (Israel), Ballet Gullbenkian (Portugal), the Lyon Opéra Ballet (France), the Gothenburg Opera Ballet (Sweden), Ballet National de Marseille (France), Ballet de Lorraine (France) and the Finnish National Ballet and others either have or have previously had Saarinen's works in their repertoire.
Tero Saarinen career highlights 1985-1992 Performer for the Finnish National Ballet 1996 Foundation of Tero Saarinen Company 1998 Creation of UN/DO for Batsheva Dance Company 1999 Gaspard for Lyon Opera-Ballet 2002 Creation of Hunt 2004 Creation of Borrowed lights with The Boston Camerata 2006 Creation of Frail line for Nederland Dans Teater Photos
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