{"id":150,"date":"2021-05-19T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:10:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:72px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div style=\"height:64px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-normal-font-size\"><strong>Vilja Mihalovsky<\/strong> (1994, FI) is a choreographer, performer and creative writer living in Berlin.<br><br>She studied contemporary dance, improvisation and performance research in North Karelia College Outokumpu, graduating in 2017. In July 2019 she finished her studies at the Hochschul\u00fcbergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) with a B.A. in Dance, Context, Choreography. She holds an M.A. both in Culture and Media Management (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, 2022) and Live art Forms (AdBK N\u00fcrnberg, 2024). In 2018 she was selected as a grant recipient by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.<br><br>She has (both in- and outside the university) been working with and performing for choreographers such as Kareth Schaffer, Nikima Jagudajev, Tomi Paasonen, Sheena McGrandles and Marjo Kuusela and has been performing and working actively in Germany and Finland. She has been a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kramppi.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dance Theater Kramppi<\/a> (FI) since 2011 and was a board member during the years 2019 and 2020.<br><br>Her interest lies in the conversation between language and movement: different narratives of different bodies \u2013the female body, the somatic body, the wise body\u2013 what is getting lost and found in translation between movement and text. \u00a0Her own recent works include a duet <a href=\"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/index.php\/nelja-laulua-naisista\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/index.php\/nelja-laulua-naisista\/\">Nelj\u00e4 laulua naisista<\/a> (2024) with <em>Ninni Tuovila<\/em> the solos <a href=\"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/index.php\/pattern-no-54\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"963\">Pattern no. 54<\/a> (2024), <a href=\"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/index.php\/the-truth-other-stories\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"262\">the truth &amp; other stories<\/a> (2019) and two theatrical hybrid pieces about Minna Canth (2025, 2019) together with <em>Laura Lehtinen<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"222\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Header-4-scaled-e1624978564978-683x1024-2-e1627569027790.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-638\" style=\"width:227px;height:673px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Header-4-scaled-e1624978564978-683x1024-2-e1627569027790.jpg 222w, https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Header-4-scaled-e1624978564978-683x1024-2-e1627569027790-91x300.jpg 91w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity alignwide is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:53px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/42940020-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-700\" style=\"width:687px;height:455px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/42940020-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/42940020-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/42940020-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/42940020-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/viljamihalovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/42940020.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\">She is a <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\">Taurus, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\">Cancer ascendant, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\">a procrastibaker <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\">and a knitting addict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vilja Mihalovsky (1994, FI) is a choreographer, performer and creative writer living in Berlin. She studied contemporary dance, improvisation and performance research in North Karelia College Outokumpu, graduating in 2017. In July 2019 she finished her studies at the Hochschul\u00fcbergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) with a B.A. in Dance, Context, Choreography. 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