Arja Tiili

Choreographer, who leads the team to common trust and joy

gsm +358 (0)50 375 67 28 (Helsinki, Finland)

Arja is a dance artist and a choreographer who inspires teams to discover their positive and underlying creative resources. A group learns together how to see its members in a new light.

In her training Arja uses e.g. Pilates visualisation and movement and mind improvisation exercises. She believes that, by working together we learn to perceive our team members in surprisingly new ways - not forgetting humour as an icebreaker. Together we can find the "inner loser" and laugh about it without being embarrassed.

Arja's working methods are based on her artistic work with her company's dancers and her artistic team. She studied choreography in a Master of Arts program at the Theatre Academy of Finland. She also has a further vocational qualification for entrepreneurship, Creada, entrepreneurship coaching for creative fields program at Adulta in 2009. She is also an Artistic Director of dance groups Pain Productions and United Snakes, and a chairperson of Eager Minds Association (Intomieliset ry.) Additionally to her artistic work, repertory and choreography workshops, Arja instructs "Dansa med mig!" Swedish language courses where you can learn Swedish through kinetic methods, like dance and movement.

Arja's artistic works usually dive into the complexity of the human mind through black humour and absurd observations of everyday life. Arja is also a Pilates and a yoga instructor. She believes in the healing power between the mind and the body.

Arja works in Finnish, Swedish and English. She might drop in few words of Spanish, too, like "Que rico!"or "Nos vemos amigas!"

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