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“What resulted was a dramatically intense
and increasingly erotic battle of wills.”
New York Times, USA
FROM LAKES TO CITYSCAPES
Virpi Pahkinen, one of Scandinavia’s most successful solo dancers, studied classical music and figure skating before concentrating on dance. As a teenager growing up in Jyväskylä, in central Finland, she practiced figure skating on a nearby lake. “When the lake was free of snow, I could dance at night alone under the full moon… The lake was black and shiny. It was freezing cold, but magical, like one was at home in the universe.”
During a typical day of Virpi’s Stockholm life, you might find her in the studio, rehearsing with 25 dancers, sitting at a bohemian café discussing literature, or possibly she has just disappeared to a nearby forest looking for mushrooms.
When asked about her hairstyle – a monk-like shaved head, bare, expect for a few long braids, Virpi often tells a story about a young hip-hopper who upon seeing her, broke his bouncing stride and approached her after a performance in Houston, Texas. Taking off his headphones, looking perplexed, the stranger asks: “Are you from the future?”
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