Joonas Tikkanen
Scenographer
Joonas Tikkanen has studied Light and Video design at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences, graduating in 2012. He has worked in the performing arts field since 2005 and designed his first works in 2008. Tikkanen has worked as a designer in various productions in dance, theatre, music, sircus and installation art.
His latest works have been presented in Aniara, a co-production by Klockriketeater and The Crossing Choi; in the third stage version of dance opera Gandar by indonesian composer Tony Prabow, as well as Skapelsen and Tolvskillingsoperan by the Swedish Opera House Folkoperan, located in Stockholm. Johanna Nuutinen‘s choreogrpaphy Hz (2022) is Tikkanen’s first collaboration with Tero Saarinen Company. Tikkanen is also the set, lighting and projection designer in Tero Saarinen‘s Wedge, set to premiere at the Finnish National Ballet and Opera in Spring 2022.
