Valvojat. Raekallio Corp. 2023.
Lycan. Solo work. Premier Fall 2025.
Touch X. Kaeja d'Dance. 2020.
night train. Commissioned work for DAI. 2023.
8 Minutes 17 Seconds. Blue Ceiling Dance. 2020.
Bubble. Commissioned work for the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. 2021.
Stories from the Woods. Frog in Hand. 2019.
Mother Tongue. Solo work. 2018.
Peepshow. Co-creation with Pieter Ampe. 2016.
dead reckoning. Blue Ceiling Dance. 2016.
Backwards and in Heels. Solo work. 2013.
Half Life. Blue Ceiling Dance. 2013.
Soft Limits. Research project. 2013.
Dancer for Toronto Night Artists. 2012.
We'll Meet Again. Solo work as part of ab intra (co-creation with Kate Nankervis & Amanda Acorn). 2011.
Dancer for A Primitive Evolution (band). 2011.
For more than 36 years Elke has been training as a dancer. She has been working as a professional dance artist since 2003. Currently she is a dancer for Raekallio Corp (Helsinki), a freelance performer and choreographer, and is creating solo works for her company, par/amour.
For more details, please see her condensed CV here, or her detailed CV here.
You can see examples of her dancing improvisation here and here.
Images and video links in the gallery above are from selected performances and creations.
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Elke has worked with many international artists/companies including the following:
Raekallio Corp/Valtteri Raekallio, Susanna Leinonen Company, Blue Ceiling Dance/Lucy Rupert, Kaeja d’Dance, Frog in Hand, Jenn Goodwin, Alias Dance Project/Lauren Cook, Kate Nankervis, Amanda Acorn, Vanessa Jane Kimmons, Pieter Ampe, TNA/Emma-Kate Millar, Equity Showcase Theatre, Adelheid/Heidi Strauss, Susie Burpee, Dreamwalker Dance/Andrea Nann, Darryl C. Tracy, Catalyst Dance, Tilt Sound + Motion, Lindsay Ritter Productions, MTV Canada, A Primitive Evolution (band), Electric Circus (Much Music TV), So You Think You Can Dance Canada (TV), Phoenix Concert Theatre, Cathy Gordon, Les Imprudans, Storieboard Productions (TV), Event Horizon Dance/Miranda Abbott, Louis Laberge-Côté, Susanne Chui, Studio Festi, Rebecca Ostwald, Tiger princess dance projects/Yvonne Ng, Marie France Forcier
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In this site, there are photos by the following photographers:
Tim Bermingham, DA Hoskins, Melanie Gordon, Nettie Seip, Yoann Malnati, Drew Berry, Ray Yee, Jason Tse, Cylla von Tiedmann, Mikko Rinnevuori, Vertex Comunicacio, Ken Ewens, Omer Yukseker, Suzanne Dhaliwal
dance & art
“I am interested in viscerally impactful dance art - as a performer and a maker. I want my work to be felt in your body. I sometimes feel that dance art can be unrelatable from an audience’s perspective. As a performer, I strive to offer access to the performance from a place of the embodied human experience - can you feel what I am feeling with your hands as eyes, touch-sensing the physical work in front of you and then understanding the experience through your own physicality? As a choreographer I want to create work that is inclusive and transformative. I want to call into question the boundaries of the stage, to create recognition of our shared humanity and to then stimulate a cathartic experience. My goal is to make art that gives pleasure as an experience of deeper awareness through the connection to and reclaiming of sensuality.”
Sensuality: the condition of being pleasing or fulfilling to the senses.
Middle English, denoting the animal side of human nature.