BIO

Nadja Pärssinen is a Queer and works as a choreographer, dancer and teacher. Nadja´s works emphasize a strong physical thinking of visuality and live sound/music, the potential of choreography in the now moment, through somatic work and feminist and philosophical questions. The lastest interdisciplinary dance piece Let the wandering talk on it´s own behalf has been performed at, among others at the Tampere Tanssivirtaa contemporary dance festival in Tampere and at the Tanssin Aika festival in Jyväskylä, in Dansverstaedid theatre in Reykjavik/Iceland, in Lake Studio residence in Berlin/Germany, as well in the Sanna Kekäläinen Company performance stage in Helsinki in 2023-2025. Collaboration with video artist Hannu Karjalainen has resulted in the projects Sketches of North at MUU – Art Center Galleria in 2023/2024 and If A Tree Falls at the Odysseus Festival in Helsinki in 2025. Pärssinen´s latest Traversees – Ylityksiä, an interdisciplinary and partly audience-participatory solo work, was well received at the Maunula Theatre in Helsinki in spring 2026.

In addition, Pärssinen draws inspiration for his dance work and choreographic thinking from his collaboration with Australian choreographer Rosalind Crisp through the dance works, such as ANMASS, THAT, EMERGENCY at the Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Maijan Hall in Oodi, Maunula House and KOKO Theatre in Helsinki in 2021-2024. Pärssinen is a initiator of a platform FlowWowProductions since 2018.

Nadja has been working as a choreographer and dancer for many years in Improvisation group Flesh in the Space and with following choreographers who´s choreographic thinking drives inspiration from instant composition, visual art and poetic physicality: Maya M. Carroll, Madeline Hollander, Rosalind Crisp, Sanna Myllylahti, Vera Lapitskaya (Notabene Art Group Company) Iiris Raipala and Katriina Kantola. In Nadja´s latest works she has been collaborating with visual artistis Jeroen Sebrechts, Virpi Velin, Roberto Fusco, Alisa Javits, Sari Antikainen, Hannu Karjalainen and with following sound designers Moritz Cartheuser, Ari Salonen, Amanda Blomqvist, Marie-Claire Schlameus and Ruby Louise Rose (Former Stephen Stamper). Currently Nadja is practicing energetic work of Qigon/Taiji, Yoga, wandering & climbing in nature.

She has been teaching in Helsinki Dance Company and giving profitraining in various places in Finland such as University of Arts theatre department (Swedish) in Helsinki, RIVERIA dance department in North Karelia, Regional Dance Centre of Pohjanmaa in Vaasa and in following associations Tanssille Ry in Helsinki, DansArt Ry in Turku and TREenit Ry in Tampere.

• Since 2019 has been active board member of association Catalysti Tanscultural Artist in Finland.
• Since 2023  has her own working space in Pikku-Virgiinia community and performance space in Alppila region, Helsinki.