Emmi Väisänen

Emmi Väisänen (FI/BE) is a contemporary dancer based in Brussels, Belgium. Trained at Turku Conservatory (Finland) and S.E.A.D (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Austria), she has collaborated with choreographers like Alexandra Waierstall, Julia Schwarzbach, Kinga Jaczewska and Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx.  Notably, Emmi has worked extensively with ECCE/Claire Croizé & Etienne Guilloteau and Not Standing/Alexander Vantournhout for whom she’s been involved both as a performer and research collaborator for multiple creations such as SCREWS, Through the Grapevine, Snakearms, Contre-jour, VanThorhout, Foreshadow, every_body and Frames.

Emmi has shared her expertise through working as an outside eye and teaching dance and repertory workshops in different organisations and theaters in Europe.

She has also been teaching partnering workshops together with Alexander Vantournhout at P.A.R.T.S/Belgium, Tanzwerkstatt/Germany, Deltebre danza/Spain, Summer Intensive/ Lithuania and Impulstanz/Austria.