Tampere spring semester 2025 | Teachers and lesson descriptions

CLASS DESCRIPTIONS TAMPERE SPRING SEASON 2025

More detailed presentations by teachers and pictures at the end of the text

LIVIA AND JENNA

Jenna Rautio is a professional dancer from Helsinki. She started dancing at a young age with show classes and then moved on to street dance. In recent years, her main focus has been commercial and heels. She regularly trains with many teachers, and also goes to London to get lessons. Jenna has performed as a dancer in music videos, gigs and events, and on festival stages. She has also worked with artists such as Coldplay at their Olympic Stadium gigs, and is currently a dancer for Kiki.

Liivia is an energetic and versatile professional dancer from Helsinki with an international dance background. While spending her youth abroad, Liivia started dancing in Dubai and was able to train and perform with top professionals from a young age. Liivia actively trains with classes from many different disciplines and choreographers, but her main disciplines include various street styles, commercial and commercial heels. She has gained performance experience from festival stages, music videos and TV shows since 2021. These include the Emma gala, the laulu rakkaudelle program and numerous festival gigs with artist Tinze. Liivia has also taught dance to dancers of different ages and levels.

Liivia and Jenna's commercial dance class is an open-level dance class, suitable for both beginners and advanced dancers. The collab class consists of a joint warm-up and choreography, which combines Jenna and Liivia's styles and movement languages. The classes are choreographic-oriented, focusing on learning choreography and, above all, dancing. The goal of the classes is to enjoy dancing and challenge yourself, each in a supportive group.

JULIA

Julia has been involved in various street dance styles since she was a child. Over the years, her favorite dance styles have become twerk and dancehall. Julia has been teaching dance to people of all ages for several years. In 2015, Julia started twerking with Tinze. In the same year, she also joined the Tinze Twerkers dance group, and with the group she has gained a lot of performance and competition experience. The most important thing in Julia's dance classes is a relaxed atmosphere and an accepting atmosphere. Everyone is allowed to come to the classes as themselves, to enjoy themselves and the dance, and of course, to sweat!

The Twerk Absolute Beginners course is suitable for new dancers who do not need any previous dance experience. The course teaches different twerk techniques at a relaxed pace and creates choreography from them. Welcome to learn something new and fall in love with the sport!

Sensual Twerk Absolute Beginners is a dance class aimed at complete beginners, and no previous dance background is required. The course will create a soft movement choreography that utilizes twerk techniques, delve into the sensual atmosphere and focus on interpreting the music with different movements. It is a good idea to wear socks to the class to create a softer movement language. Exercises are done on different levels, including on the floor, so it is a good idea to bring knee pads. This is a great way to start dancing, return to a familiar sport or deepen your twerk hobby! I recommend that you also take the Twerk AB class, where you will delve more into learning twerk techniques.

The Sensual Twerk Beginners course is suitable for those who have taken the Sensual Twerk AB course or who already have the basics of twerk and want to apply them. In the course we will create a choreography that has a soft movement language. It is possible to record the choreography created in the course. The purpose of the course is to learn to enjoy your own body. You will need knee pads to bring to the course. It is recommended to wear socks or, if you wish, you can bring high heels to class.

ANNIINA

Anniina has a long background in classical dance from ballet, jazz and contemporary dance, as well as experience in show dance, street and commercial dance. However, since 2018 she has focused on teaching and training twerk. Anniina has also competed, performed and participated in the Talent Suomi program with the Tinze Twerkers group. She has also competed as an individual in the Finnish twerk championships.

Anniina is a bright, friendly and considerate teacher. Her classes have a relaxed atmosphere, where everyone is welcome to be themselves. Anniina works as a classroom teacher and a physical education teacher. Her strong pedagogical skills and many years of experience teaching dance are evident in her classes, and students have described her as a very clear teacher.

Anniina believes that anyone can learn to twerk!

The Twerk Beginners course teaches basic twerk techniques standing and on the floor. The classes include simple choreographies combining basic techniques and different styles. The class is the perfect combination for those who want to shake furiously one day and feel a more sensual movement language the next. The class is suitable for those who have taken the Twerk AB course or those with other previous dance backgrounds.

The advanced twerk course applies basic techniques standing and on the floor and teaches new techniques. The class choreographies are more diverse and challenging than at the beginner level. The style of the choreographies varies from fast to slow to feminine. The classes also practice more challenging techniques such as neck and headstands. The class is suitable for beginners who have been twerking for at least two years.

Twerk Project is a group for advanced and advanced twerkers, which, as the name suggests, focuses on various projects according to the interests of the group members. The group is suitable for motivated twerk enthusiasts who enjoy goal-oriented training and are ready to commit to common goals in the long term. The size of the group is limited so that each member receives individual instruction according to their own personal goals. In addition to the Twerk Project class, participants are required to attend at least one advanced or advanced twerk class per week. The group is led by Anniina Hietala.

Applying for a group:

The application process for the group is a two-step process, consisting of an application letter that focuses on the applicant's motivation and goals, and an application session that focuses on the applicant's technical skills. Those who submit an application letter will be sent separate instructions for participating in the application session. Feel free to apply!

More information for the spring application coming soon!

YES

Joa is a professional dancer originally from Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi, but later moved to Helsinki. Joa has over 15 years of dance experience and has covered everything from ballet to commercial. She has sought to learn from domestic and foreign teachers in the capital region, and in 2020-2022 Joa lived in Barcelona working as a dancer and visiting classes with various choreographers to learn new things. Joa has worked as a commercial dancer in Spain and Finland and her latest domestic credits include Jenni Vartiainen, Antti Tuisku, BESS, OLGA, Emma Gaala, Masked Singer Suomi, Elämäni biisi, Uuden Musiikin Pilau, Finnish National Opera and numerous other artists and productions.

The main goal of Joan's classes is to have fun, feel the music, learn new things and make the movement feel good and organic to you. We strive to develop together and find our own unique style. Welcome!

In the commercial dance beginners class you will learn the techniques, movement sequences and new amazing choreographies of the genre, come and join us! A dance class that combines the teacher's own style, techniques from different genres and a luminous attitude. In addition to technique, the class will practice the right kind of throwing, performing and dancing the choreography. In the class you will get to dance in a positive and encouraging spirit. Be fierce! Be fabulous! Start commercial dance now with Joan!

Commercial Heels incorporates the same principles as a commercial class, but with the added spice of high heels that add their own element to the movement qualities. The movement can be both sensual and powerful depending on the choreography being done. The class includes a warm-up, stretching, muscle conditioning, cross-floor exercises and choreography. At the beginning, the body and especially the legs are warmed up so that it is safe to perform the movements with heels.

The Commercial Dance advanced level class is for those who have been dancing for a longer time and we aim to progress faster than usual, while taking into account the level of the entire group. The class offers a good challenge for performing, grabbing the material and finding your own dancer. The class structure includes warm-ups, stretching, possibly exercises across the floor and choreography. The choreography will change every 2-4 weeks and the teacher will always inform you before the start of a new choreography if the upcoming combo will be danced in heels, for example. We will take dancing together to a new level and we will get to dance to the best songs that will make every dance foot shake.

Commercial Intensive

Training is taken to a new level and you learn incredible choreographies combined with camera work and working with others.

In the group you will also get information on how to possibly work in the dance industry and everything that goes into it, including auditions, social media presence and numerous other topics that you may not have thought of.

The teacher is Joa, who studied abroad and works with Finland's leading artists and TV productions. You will receive professional and high-quality guidance, invaluable information and goal-oriented training in this group.

If you have a burning desire to learn more, develop yourself week after week with an amazing group, and receive personal feedback from your teacher, apply!

So please bring an open mind, a water bottle and sturdy sneakers to class so we can get up to speed together. Welcome!

MILE

Milja started dancing with commercials in 2018 and switched to twerking in 2020. Twerking felt wonderfully challenging and her interest in it grew as she learned more. Milja also started incorporating tricks into twerking right from the start because of their showiness and challenge.

Milja has a lot of performance and competition experience. She initially gained her performance experience competing with a comedy and twerk group, but currently she is doing more gigs as a solo artist. Milja has performed as a background and front dancer, and has danced in music videos and on festival stages. In addition, Milja has won the Finnish twerk championships in 2024 and represented Finland at the World Championships.

As a teacher, Milja is energetic, encouraging, efficient and takes the dancers as individuals very seriously. The most important thing in Milja's classes is the encouraging atmosphere, allowing the dancers to develop at their own pace and having fun!

Twerk AB – Twerk Absolute Beginners is a twerk class aimed at beginner dancers. We start from the basics, so no prior dance experience is required!

Twerk is a dance style that focuses on hip movement, where the butt is moved in different positions using different techniques to the beat of the music. During the class we will go through different twerk techniques and learn easy choreography. I strive to create a happy and encouraging atmosphere in the classes, I want us to have fun together! <3

Twerk Show is a completely new class concept. During the classes we go through different themes that make twerking more spectacular and bring the show to a new level. This class is definitely for you if you would like to start doing dance shows at some point!

The class is not a choreography class, but instead we focus on different themes such as performance, empathy, tricks, musicality and freestyle. Some of these areas may be practiced in the form of choreography, but the main focus is not on choreography like other classes.