about
yasmine lindskog visanko (b. 1994) is a dance artist and improviser based between brussels, belgium and the usa.
Yasmine Lindskog Visanko (b. 1994, usa) is a Swedish/Finnish/American dance artist, improviser, and choreographer currently based in Brussels, Belgium. She is fascinated by the collective energy and is often drawn to curating collective experiences in her work. Often working with instantaneous composition, she curates improvisational structures to explore the potential of physicality, presence, and interconnectivity. Much of her inspiration comes from observing the world around her through walking and hiking across places, borders, and landscapes.
Yasmine has performed in the USA, UK, Europe, Ethiopia, and China. She has performed works by Adaptations Dance Theater, Shobana Jeyasingh, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Aïda Colmenero Dïaz, Tony Adigun, Hagit Yakira Dance, FLOCK, Kaeja d'Dance, Patricia Okenwa, Robert Moses, cia Jordi L. Vidal, Alex Ketley, amongst others. Choreographic credits include commissions for Irvine Valley College (US), FLYOUT Transition Dance Company (IT), John Hopkins University's Peabody Preparatory Dance Department (US), California State University Los Angeles (US), Teatro Ermete Novelli (IT), Maui Arts & Cultural Center (US), and Resolutions Festival (UK). She collaborated with musicians: Oneohtrix Point Never (Barbican Centre), Little Grim (BFI Film Festival), Sumalgy Nuro, Platonica Erotica, and borev. From 2018-19, she was a collaborator for the London-based multimedia collective, Project Syntrex. This experience inspired her interests in interdisciplinary and immersive projects, leading her to curate and produce various immersive, pop-up art events in Southeast London and Long Beach, California. She is the co-founder of SonicMvmtScapes, a project utilizing GPS-triggering technology to create unique experiences in place merging sound and movement.
Cultural exchange and sharing the art of dance are central to Yasmine's practice. Yasmine was selected for MAISHA Dance, an Afro-European cultural experiment created by the European Union Delegation to the African Union, where she was part of a 3-week residency that culminated in a performance at the Adwa Victory Memorial in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Yasmine attended the Mugangueni International Dance Training in Mozambique, which sparked a new collaboration with Mozambican musician-dancer Sumalgy Nuro. Their project, Reunindo, a music and dance collaboration in real-time composition has been presented in Germany, Belgium, and Spain through performances and community workshops. While living on Maui, she co-directed the education and community outreach programs for Adaptations Dance Theater. She also was a teaching artist for the Maui Arts & Cultural Center through their CanDo! Days program for keiki on the island.
She has shared movement workshops in the USA, UK, Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Germany, and Portugal. She has taught workshops and classes at institutions and companies such as: SHIFT dance company (UK), Scottish School of Contemporary Dance (UK), Andover College (UK), Dance Center Prague - Conservatoire (CZ), Orange County School of the Arts (US), Renaissance High School (US), Adaptations Dance Theater (US), Seabury Hall Dance Department (US), Towards Vivencia Academy (ES), Young Choregrapher’s Project (US), TripSpace (UK), Irvine Valley College (US), Lake Studios Berlin (DE), VIVO Center Rome (IT), Lazos — Artes en Granada (ES), amongst others.
Yasmine received her BFA in Dance from California State University Long Beach and her MA in Contemporary Dance from the London Contemporary Dance School where she was part of the postgraduate company, EDge, under artistic direction of Jeanne Yasko. She also trained at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. Other professional training includes workshops with Jorge Crecis, Iñaki Azpillaga (Ultima Vez), Peeping Tom, Tijen Lawton, Olivier Dubois, and Alexander Vantournhout. Since moving to Brussels, she has spent time studying intensively with David Zambrano in his Flying Low, Passing Through, and Improvisational practices. She has also spent time studying with Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea through the FM Mentorship programme.
Yasmine is deeply inspired by art’s potential to ignite change through connection, community, and cultural exchange. She works as an independent artist; performing, collaborating, and sharing her work in Europe, the USA, and beyond.
My artistic practices and processes are enlivened by place, collective energy, ritual, the more-than-human world, and dynamic systems. I value collaboration, curiosity, taking time, dreaming, and play. I also value following curiosities and sporadically jumping between ideas and interests, falling into the rabbit hole and emerging with containers of unrelated ideas, yet here the most beautiful connections are unearthed. Giving permission to fall into the abyss of curiosities and fall out the otherside not quite remembering what pulled you there in the first place. Wavering between order and chaos, my practice and art moves between moments of structure and moments of havoc. Between these moments a process of constructing, destroying, constructing, deconstructing, rebuilding unfold. Much like my life trajectory thus far, always moving between places, cultures, and identities. Never fully belonging into one place, one culture, or one identity; always a bit of everything and nothing; feeling myself nowhere and everywhere; in this liminal space I find my sense of identity, belonging, and community. I am a movement-based artist, however my work traverses writing, film photography, field recordings, curation and many other mediums as my curiosity wanders. Movement is the lens in which I approach other mediums. My physical movement practice traverses many forms as well, from climbing, hiking, swimming, running, cycling, skiing, and more. My aim as an artist is two-fold; for one, it is to share all I love and admire about the art of dance, from the joy and aliveness of moving the body to the boundless potential of the moving collective; and two, it is to employ movement as a tool to learn, to share, to connect, and to relate more deeply with people, place, and the self.
My desire is to share the beauty and potential of movement. What it is to feel one’s full potential, feel one’s body, one’s bones, one’s breath completely alive, to feel what it feels like to oscillate with the collective pulse, to feel togetherness and a shared presence that transcends bodily boundaries; to feel all, to feel it all. Alive, awake, sensing all.
Yasmine has performed in the USA, UK, Europe, Ethiopia, and China. She has performed works by Adaptations Dance Theater, Shobana Jeyasingh, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Aïda Colmenero Dïaz, Tony Adigun, Hagit Yakira Dance, FLOCK, Kaeja d'Dance, Patricia Okenwa, Robert Moses, cia Jordi L. Vidal, Alex Ketley, amongst others. Choreographic credits include commissions for Irvine Valley College (US), FLYOUT Transition Dance Company (IT), John Hopkins University's Peabody Preparatory Dance Department (US), California State University Los Angeles (US), Teatro Ermete Novelli (IT), Maui Arts & Cultural Center (US), and Resolutions Festival (UK). She collaborated with musicians: Oneohtrix Point Never (Barbican Centre), Little Grim (BFI Film Festival), Sumalgy Nuro, Platonica Erotica, and borev. From 2018-19, she was a collaborator for the London-based multimedia collective, Project Syntrex. This experience inspired her interests in interdisciplinary and immersive projects, leading her to curate and produce various immersive, pop-up art events in Southeast London and Long Beach, California. She is the co-founder of SonicMvmtScapes, a project utilizing GPS-triggering technology to create unique experiences in place merging sound and movement.
Cultural exchange and sharing the art of dance are central to Yasmine's practice. Yasmine was selected for MAISHA Dance, an Afro-European cultural experiment created by the European Union Delegation to the African Union, where she was part of a 3-week residency that culminated in a performance at the Adwa Victory Memorial in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Yasmine attended the Mugangueni International Dance Training in Mozambique, which sparked a new collaboration with Mozambican musician-dancer Sumalgy Nuro. Their project, Reunindo, a music and dance collaboration in real-time composition has been presented in Germany, Belgium, and Spain through performances and community workshops. While living on Maui, she co-directed the education and community outreach programs for Adaptations Dance Theater. She also was a teaching artist for the Maui Arts & Cultural Center through their CanDo! Days program for keiki on the island.
She has shared movement workshops in the USA, UK, Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Germany, and Portugal. She has taught workshops and classes at institutions and companies such as: SHIFT dance company (UK), Scottish School of Contemporary Dance (UK), Andover College (UK), Dance Center Prague - Conservatoire (CZ), Orange County School of the Arts (US), Renaissance High School (US), Adaptations Dance Theater (US), Seabury Hall Dance Department (US), Towards Vivencia Academy (ES), Young Choregrapher’s Project (US), TripSpace (UK), Irvine Valley College (US), Lake Studios Berlin (DE), VIVO Center Rome (IT), Lazos — Artes en Granada (ES), amongst others.
Yasmine received her BFA in Dance from California State University Long Beach and her MA in Contemporary Dance from the London Contemporary Dance School where she was part of the postgraduate company, EDge, under artistic direction of Jeanne Yasko. She also trained at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. Other professional training includes workshops with Jorge Crecis, Iñaki Azpillaga (Ultima Vez), Peeping Tom, Tijen Lawton, Olivier Dubois, and Alexander Vantournhout. Since moving to Brussels, she has spent time studying intensively with David Zambrano in his Flying Low, Passing Through, and Improvisational practices. She has also spent time studying with Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea through the FM Mentorship programme.
Yasmine is deeply inspired by art’s potential to ignite change through connection, community, and cultural exchange. She works as an independent artist; performing, collaborating, and sharing her work in Europe, the USA, and beyond.
My artistic practices and processes are enlivened by place, collective energy, ritual, the more-than-human world, and dynamic systems. I value collaboration, curiosity, taking time, dreaming, and play. I also value following curiosities and sporadically jumping between ideas and interests, falling into the rabbit hole and emerging with containers of unrelated ideas, yet here the most beautiful connections are unearthed. Giving permission to fall into the abyss of curiosities and fall out the otherside not quite remembering what pulled you there in the first place. Wavering between order and chaos, my practice and art moves between moments of structure and moments of havoc. Between these moments a process of constructing, destroying, constructing, deconstructing, rebuilding unfold. Much like my life trajectory thus far, always moving between places, cultures, and identities. Never fully belonging into one place, one culture, or one identity; always a bit of everything and nothing; feeling myself nowhere and everywhere; in this liminal space I find my sense of identity, belonging, and community. I am a movement-based artist, however my work traverses writing, film photography, field recordings, curation and many other mediums as my curiosity wanders. Movement is the lens in which I approach other mediums. My physical movement practice traverses many forms as well, from climbing, hiking, swimming, running, cycling, skiing, and more. My aim as an artist is two-fold; for one, it is to share all I love and admire about the art of dance, from the joy and aliveness of moving the body to the boundless potential of the moving collective; and two, it is to employ movement as a tool to learn, to share, to connect, and to relate more deeply with people, place, and the self.
My desire is to share the beauty and potential of movement. What it is to feel one’s full potential, feel one’s body, one’s bones, one’s breath completely alive, to feel what it feels like to oscillate with the collective pulse, to feel togetherness and a shared presence that transcends bodily boundaries; to feel all, to feel it all. Alive, awake, sensing all.