Jorma Uotinen

Jorma Uotinen began studying dance at a very young age in Pori and went on to join the Finnish National Ballet (1970-1976). Whilst there, he created his first choreography in 1974. His meeting with Carolyn Carlson led him to the GRTOP (Paris Opera theatrical research group), where he was involved in many works and where he also created Yoyo (1979). After a short time spent at the Theatro La Fenice in Venice where he choreographed Orpheus and Eurydice (1982), he took over the helm of the Helsinki municipal theatre dance group (1982-1992), then directed the Finnish National Ballet and, concurrently, developed reference works and undertook experimental work. His own intensively visual choreographies, some of which draw their inspiration from the world of Jérôme Bosch and that of René Magritte, are generally the result of a free association of images.

Source : Bengt Häger, Dictionnaire de la danse, sous la direction de Philippe Le Moal, Larousse, 2008

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