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Photo: Pekka Kurtz
Freundlich, Thomas
| Profession |
Dancer Choreographer |
| Country | Finland |
| info@freundlich.org | |
| Training | Ballet School of Finnish National Opera, professional education programme 2001. Dance studies in New York and Boston. |
| Choreographed |
Flux (18.5.2001) James Dean (10.11.2001) Maa jota ei ole (18.5.2001) Napalm (18.5.2001) Zappa Variations (18.5.2001) Carnival of Fear (16.4.2003) Missing Presumed Dead (16.4.2003) Passageway (27.9.2003) Place Pigalle (16.4.2003) Kuilu ja tähdet (2.7.2004) North Star Boogie (30.6.2004) Airflow (6.11.2005) Dreamcatcher (Freundlich) (17.3.2005) Les Enfants Terribles (24.9.2005) Sleepless (6.11.2005) Actuator (14.5.2008) Futureproof (13.3.2009) Waterline (2011) Human Interface (2012) Night Shift (2012) Closing Time (2013) With or Without You (2014) Symposion (2015) Transit (Freudlich) (2015) Immigrant (2016) (2016) Mamba Samba (2016) Untouchable (2016) (2016) You and Me 1.0 (2016) |
| Work as a dancer |
James Dean (2001) Maa jota ei ole (2001) Zappa Variations (2001) Carnival of Fear (2003) Missing Presumed Dead: Pilot (2003) Passageway (2003) Place Pigalle (2003) Kuilu ja tähdet (2004) North Star Boogie (2004) Airflow (2005) Les Enfants Terribles (2005) Sleepless (2005) Actuator (2008) Futureproof (2009) Theses of the Deed (22.9.2011) Waterline (2011) Human Interface (2012) Night Shift (2012) With or Without You (2014) Symposion (2015) Untouchable (2016) (2016) |
| Other artistic work |
Choreographies for contemporary operas, speech- and musical plays. Dancevideos, for ex. North Horizon (www.north-horizon.fi, with Valtteri Raekallio) |
| Grants and awards |
Award for merit, Noor Al-Hussein Foundation 2001; two awards for the choreography Dreamcatcher, Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival, Stuttgart 2005. Some 40 grants from Finnish and foreign Arts Councils, foundations and festivals since 2001. |
| Literature and articles | Articles published since 2004 in Tanssi-magazine, Meteli-magazine, ePublication Liikekieli.com and Koreografin jalanjäljissa -book (Ed. Hannele Jyrkkä, Like 2011) |
| Other Information |
One of Dance Film Festival Loikka's artistic directors since 2012–2014. Founding member of the web dance magazine Liikekieli.com (www.liikekieli.com), editorial coordinator of Liikekieli.com 2004–2011. |