Ella Effendy is a Finnish-Indonesian freelancer working with dance, performance and choreography. She is currently researching what she calls: ”the underlying physical movement awareness that is present in all human bodies”.
Her background is in a long line of training with various styles. She studied street dance in one of Europe’s most appreciated street schools, Åsa folkhögskola in Sweden and acquired a diploma in contemporary dance and performance from North Karelia college in Finland.
Effendy makes it a practice to actively expand her perspective by taking part in creative processes all over the world. Her network reaches from the nordics to Germany, USA, Southeast Asia and further.
She has performed and her choreographic work has been shown in contemporary art and dance festivals like Paikallisliike, ANTI-festival, Oderton festival and UrbanApa. She is also a co-founder of contemporary performance collective Vähäkämä and Auttamo HKI, a space for arts and activity.
In the fall 2023 she started Choreomundus -International master in Dance knowledge, practice and heritage program.
The programme investigates dance and other movement systems (ritual practices, martial arts, games and physical theatre) as Intangible Cultural Heritage within the broader contexts of Ethnochoreology, the Anthropology of Dance, Dance Studies, and Heritage Studies.
Work Experience
Her background is in a long line of training with various styles. She studied street dance in one of Europe’s most appreciated street schools, Åsa folkhögskola in Sweden and acquired a diploma in contemporary dance and performance from North Karelia college in Finland.
Effendy makes it a practice to actively expand her perspective by taking part in creative processes all over the world. Her network reaches from the nordics to Germany, USA, Southeast Asia and further.
She has performed and her choreographic work has been shown in contemporary art and dance festivals like Paikallisliike, ANTI-festival, Oderton festival and UrbanApa. She is also a co-founder of contemporary performance collective Vähäkämä and Auttamo HKI, a space for arts and activity.
In the fall 2023 she started Choreomundus -International master in Dance knowledge, practice and heritage program.
The programme investigates dance and other movement systems (ritual practices, martial arts, games and physical theatre) as Intangible Cultural Heritage within the broader contexts of Ethnochoreology, the Anthropology of Dance, Dance Studies, and Heritage Studies.
Work Experience