Corinne Mustonen (she/her) is a dancer and performer based in Helsinki.
Corinne has performed in works with and by Deborah Hay, Ian Kaler, Sara Grotenfelt, Judith-Sanchez Ruiz, Mattias Andersson and Emmi Venna among others. She holds a BA in Dance Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts. Currently she dances with Liisa Pentti + CO and studies part-time (MA Uniarts Helsinki) acting and writing.
Lately, Corinne has been busy with love letters, soccer warm-up moves, fake translation, new sincere literature, sci-fi-realist dating, musical expression, studies in decolonialization, high pitch howling and unisono. Queer, curious and quirky moves as undercurrents.
Corinne daydreams of being a virtuosic dancer and a raging activist, but often gets distracted by poems and poets (oh no) and jamming and grooving and planning gentle revolutions. Her career goals are to ghostwrite for sad boys, whisper naïve audiobooks in broken French and be a background dancer for, well, anyone.
She insists on community, accessibility, complexity, desire and hype.
She loves dancing, since, dancing (at its best) re-arranges who and what is considered worthy of attention and care.
Corinne is not interested in traditional chronological narratives, aggressive dudes on or off stage, or working alone.
See news for current & upcoming works, work for previous projects and video for shitty dance films. CV below.
Pictures on the website are taken by August Joensalo, Sofia Herelius, Vilma Rimpelä, Arnaud Beelen, Sara Grotenfelt and Cata Portin.
EXPERIENCE AS PERFORMER
EX MACHINA EETU VEKKI + CO
2023 Kuva/tila Helsinki
FRAUDULENT LIGHT AND THE EPIDEMY OF LIISA PENTTI + CO & SIRIUS TEATERN
2022 Universum Helsinki
RAKKAUS JA JÄRJESTYS PIPSA ENQVIST & TYÖRYHMÄ
2022 Helsinki Teak
ISH HERELIUS, MUSTONEN, PÄÄKKÖ
2022 Luckan Helsingfors
FRAUDULENT LIGHT LIISA PENTTI CO+
2022 Hämeentie 27 Helsinki
BETWEEN TWO, BETWEEN ALL OF US JUDITH SANCHEZ RUIZ
2022 Tictac Art Centre Brussels
CYCLE OF DEVELOPMENT HULDRA COLLECTIVE
2022 ( postponed due to covid-19 )
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO GRÉTA KRISTÍN ÓMARSDOTTIR
2021 TEAK Helsinki
I SAMMA HUDSÄCK - DEMO HERELIUS, MUSTONEN, PÄÄKKÖ
2021 Luckan Helsingfors
2022 Crude Saturdays Tictac Art Centre Brussels
HULDRA SARA GROTENFELT
2021 TEAK Helsinki
2022 VTT Helsinki
TILLKORTAKOMMANDEN CORINNE MUSTONEN
2021 Luckan Helsingfors ( performances canceled due to covid-19 )
LIM KAIKEN KESKUS
2020 Helsinki, Performances canceled due to covid-19
REF.2020 LIISA PENTTI
2020 Studio on Bulevardi
2020 Barker Turku
2021 Oodi Helsinki
2022 Tanssi Virtaa Tampereella
2022 Musiikkitalo Helsinki in collaboration with NYKY Ensemble
SOFT ENCOUNTER NICOLE NEIDERT AND LINNEA BÅGANDER
2020 Stockholm Konsthall C - Haphazard
FIGURE A SEA DEBORAH HAY
2019 Borås Stadsteatern - Cullberg
ON THE CUSP IAN KALER AND PLANNINGTOROCK
2019 Stockholm Dansens Hus
THE MENTAL STATES OF SWEDEN IN DANCE MATTIAS ANDERSSON
2019 Eskilstuna Stadsteatern - Cullberg
2019 Norsborg Riksteatern - Cullberg
VOLCANOES ARE WET HOLES: A SWELL CORINNE MUSTONEN
2019 University of the Arts Stockholm
ARRIVALS PROCRASTINATE *ECHO* KLARA UTKE ACS
2018 Nordberg - Norberg Festival
2017 Copenhagen - Made in Space Festival
D, FOR NOW CORINNE MUSTONEN
2019 Stockholm University of the Arts
2019 Climax Festival
SPLENDOUR STINA NYBERG
2018 Stockholm DOCH
BORROWED LANDSCAPE HEINE AVDAL AND YOKIKO SHINOZAKI
2018 Stockholm DOCH - in Supermarket ICA Lindhagen
SHANE ET AL. ELLEN SÖDERHULT
2017 Stockholm MDT
2017 Uppsala Köttinspek
OUROBORACULAR ELEANOR BAUER
2017 Stockholm DOCH
THE MOTIONAL PARAMETERS OLLI LAUTIOLA
2017 Stockholm DOCH
NEVERLAND EMMI VENNA AND OSSI KOSKELAINEN
2015 Helsinki Kiasma - The URB Festival
BLISS KATJA-MARIA TAAVITSAINEN
2014 Helsinki Aleksanterin Teatteri
SINK LEO KIRJONEN
2014 Frankfurt - Museums Ufer Fest
2014 Kuopio - Tanssii ja Soi Festival
EDUCATION
September 2015 - June 2016
1-YEAR PROFESSIONAL PRE-EDUCATION PROGRAMME
COPENHAGEN CONTEMPORARY DANCE SCHOOL
June 2018 - August 2018
METHODS AND FORMS OF WRITING IN RELATION TO ARTISTIC PRACTICES
DOCH UNIARTS STOCKHOLM
August 2016 - June 2019
BA DANCE PERFORMANCE
DOCH UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS STOCKHOLM
August 2021 -
MA ACTING AND PERFORMANCE
TEAK UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS HELSINKI
RESIDENCIES
2021 LUCKAN HELSINGFORS
2021 ROUTA COMPANY, KAJAANI
2019 C.OFF - SITE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY CHOREOGRAPHIES
SCHOLARSHIPS AND APPRENTICESHIPS
2023 TICTAC ART CENTRE WORK EXCHANGE
2021 DANCEWEB SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME - IMPULSTANZ
2019 C.CAP INVITED ARTIST
2018-2019 CULLBERG APPRENTICE
TEACHING
2022 HEITTÄYDY LIIKKEESEEN WORKSHOP, ZODIAK HELSINKI
2022 CO-DANCER AT LIISA PENTTI +CO DANCE GROUP FOR YOUNG ADULTS ON THE SPECTURM OF AUTISM
2021 HEITTÄYDY LIIKKEESEEN WORKSHOP, ZODIAK HELSINKI
2021 SUMMER DANCES WORKSHOP, PRANAMA HELSINKI
2020 ARBIS HELSINGFORS OPEN WORKSHOPS
2019 KULTURSKOLAN STOCKHOLMS STAD
2015 FOOTLIGHT HELSINKI
PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS (SELECTED)
Judith Sanchez Ruiz (Tictac Art Centre), Jolie Ngemi (Tictac Art Centre), Lily Kiara (Tictac Art Centre), Maija Hirvanen (Zodiak), Alleyne Dance (Impulstanz), Idio Chichava (Impulstanz), Stephane Peeps Moun (Impulstanz), Raja Feather Kelly (Impulstanz), Veli Lehtovaara (Tanssivintti), Mikko Niemistö (Zodiak), Hagar Malins Hellqvist Selen (Danscentrum), Heidi Vierthaaler (Dansalliansen), Katja-Maria Taavitsainen (Studio Indictus), Elina Pirinen & Heidi Väätänen (Zodiak), Benoit Lachambre (Dansalliansen, c.cap), Anne Jurén (c.off Delta), Björn Säfsten (Aliasteatern), Chrysa Parkinson (Danscentrum), Tillman O’donnel (Cullberg) , Shannon Cooney (Cullberg), Deborah Hay (Cullberg), Martin Sonderkamp (Cullberg), Alma Söderberg (Cullberg), Paul Pui Wo Lee (Feldenkreis, Dansalliansen), Halla Olafsdottir (Cullberg), Libby Farr (Cullberg), Sigal Zouk (Danscentrum),
Antonia Baehr (DOCH) Sandra Noeth, Sharon Smith, Juliette Mapp, Becky Hilton, Theo Clinkard, Bronwyn Bailey Charteris, Josefine Wikström, Noora Hannula (Mutecomp. Intensive), Frederic Gies (Dance is Ancient), Heini Tuoresmäki (Lespace)
FESTIVALS
Deltebre Dansa 2022
Danceweb Scholarship Programme Impulstanz 2021
Sukset Ristiin Susirajalla – Festival 2018
PAF Summer University 2017
The Carrierbag Festival, Danseatelier 2017
Made in Space Festival – Copenhagen 2017
BOARDS ETC.
2021-2022 FEMINISTISKA TIDSKRIFTEN ASTRA BOARD MEMBER
2020 INSISTERSPACE BOARD MEMBER AND RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLABORATION WITH WITHIN PRACTICE