Sonja Karoliina Aaltonen

(they/she) is a dance maker, dancer/performer, facilitator and dance teacher currently based in Helsinki, Finland. They work as an international dance artist in various positions and organisms. They move towards more reaffirmative, communal and response-able ways of artmaking, while acknowledging these as worlding practices. Lately as a maker, Sonja has been moved by touch and togetherness by questioning norms and patterns in the performative. As a teacher, Sonja has been working with enjoyment, embodied intelligence and active curiosity in a dancer’s practice aligned with feminist and queer theories.

Sonja holds MA degree from dance performance programme at Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki (2023). Before, they graduated from the BA programme in dance performance at Stockholm University of the Arts (2021), and as professional dancer from Tampere Conservatoire (2019). They have further educated themselves on the areas of arts management and pedagogy.