Tatiana Urteva

Dancer

”If you compare the language of Susanna’s movement with painting, she draws with a pencil. Her paintings are very clear, concrete, sharp and characteristically expressed. There is no abstraction, but there is a lot of subtext, information between the lines, but also some straightforwardness, which draws from the desire to show reality. Susanna’s movement language has clear geometry, there are both circles and triangles in it. As a creator, Susanna sees a specific image, but her eyes are always open to everything. That is something I really appreciate. When she is in search, she does not look inwards, but rather always interacts with the worlds and is always open to the new.” – Tatiana Urteva

Tatiana Urteva graduated as a choreography teacher from the Kirov Regional College of Culture in 2007. Tatiana continued her choreography studies at the St. Petersburg College of Art and Culture, where she graduated in 2012. Tatiana has competed both as a dancer and as a choreographer. She has won e.g. national competitions “Young talents of Russia” and “Salvic Cup” with the best choreography of the competition. Tatiana has an extensive international career behind her. She has worked at the Kannon Dance Company in Russia under the leadership of Natalia Kasparova and Svetlana Vakulenko, in Germany at the Landesbühne Sachsen Theater, and as an intern at the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance company in Israel. In addition, she has worked with various choreographers such as John Allen, Bob Boross, Pedro Gomez, Renana Raz, Billy Cowie, Graham Adey.

Tatiana joined the Susanna Leinonen Company as a dancer in 2019, where she currently works as a dancer and choreographer’s assistant.