I want to warmly welcome You all to my blog. And from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank everyone who has helped me and been involved with setting this all up – you know who you are.

I hope this blog brings my artistic work and physical artistic deeds and observations closer to You and You closer to me. In the near future, I’ll be writing about the process of creating a new piece of work in collaboration with Jaana Klevering titled Mulla ei oo mitään päälle pantavaa (I don’t have anything to wear) which is about to premiere in Kuopio, Finland, in March. I’m also working on a solo work with a film and documentation crew and a group piece due to be premiered later in the autumn 2007. The solo work is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Finland and the group piece by the Regional Dance Center Kuopio but more production funding needs to raised. So there’s a lot of work coming up.

But before it all really goes on after the Christmas break, I’m travelling to Mikkeli on Saturday where the governor of the Province of Eastern Finland, Pirjo Ala-Kapee, is hosting a New Year’s celebration party. Time to have some fun although it feels like I don’t have anything to wear!

I’m looking forward to reading Your comments.

Johanna