Il Freddo dell' Acqua

"Nina Hyvärinen is a brilliant soloist with a strong charisma. She is a prima ballerina in the Finnish National Ballet but obviously a very talented - to be said -a fantastic contemporary dancer. Yes, her technique is so extraordinary that you nearly forgot you were watching a performance."

Dagens Nyheter, 9th December, 2000
Örjan Abrahamsson

Serpents
 
“Hyvärinen’s choreography was a forceful esthetic experience. Like a beautiful ornament without deeper allegorical meaning.” 

Helsingin Sanomat, 19th September, 2008 
Jussi Tossavainen 


The Dying Swan

“The most I liked Nina Hyvärinen’s The Dying Swan which was influenced by the butoh dance during her staying in Japan. Hyvärinen’s choreography for hands was light and graceful like a bird.” 

Helsingin Sanomat, 1st May, 2007 
Auli Räsänen

The Dying Swan

"Outshining all the rest was Finland's own Nina Hyvärinen, an aspiring young ballerina of the Finnish National Ballet in Helsinki. Hyvärinen appeared in full luster in Michel Fokine's The Dying Swan, her soulful elegance rendering this well-known concert piece the tenderest of elegies."

Dance Magazine, October, 1993
Robert Johnson

Kitchen

 “Dancers from Gruppen Fyra know how to rev. And Hyvärinen knows how to use their talent. -- To be entertaining doesn’t mean to be excluded from the multilayered of content or aiming the artistic level high. And Kitchen was this - all about.” 

Demari, 12 th June, 2007
Annikki Alku
 


 

Ballet Pathétique - Blue Ballerina

"Nina Hyvärinen brought the harmony - so much waited. And the rest of an elegiac death in a swirling blue. Pretty, delicate, expressive. She offered finally the emotion and the lyricism which is appropriate to the beautiful music of Tchaikovsky."

Danse Conservatoire, December, 1998
Sylvia Chaban

Along the Way (Matka)

"Evenings spiritual culmination was definitely Nina Hyvärinen’s Matka. Her movements are so poetical and strong itself that she barely needs to do anything on the stage. - - Audience was like mesmerized and it was clear that this performance created real interest. So strong was the interpretation." 

Huvudstadsbladet, 17th October, 2007
Tove Djupsjöbacka

Onto The Same Wavelength

"Nina Hyvärinen is so expressive and charismatic that the performance created at times images of solo dance with assistant than actually a duet. Her comeback after long leave of absence became evenings ´clou´."

Huvudstadsblade7, 30th January, 2000
Jan-Peter Kaiku

Serpentes

 “Hyvärinen’s choreography was a forceful esthetic experience. Like a beautiful ornament without deeper allegorical meaning.”

Helsingin Sanomat, 19th September, 2008 
Jussi Tossavainen 

The Dying Swan

“The most I liked Nina Hyvärinen’s The Dying Swan which was influenced by the butoh dance during her staying in Japan. Hyvärinen’s choreography for hands was light and graceful like a bird.” 

Helsingin Sanomat, 1st May, 2007 
Auli Räsänen

 

Ballet Pathétique - Blue Ballerina

"And the last movement, with the enigmatic Nina Hyvärinen in her blue gauze and high powdered wig, it begins - when one believed performance was very finished - with the image from the symphony!"

Le Figaro, October, 1998
René Sirvin

Baldur

"Ethereal Hyvärinen is sovereign in high liftings. She makes herself at home in the air starting from the very entry when male group of Islands Dance Theatre dancers carry her to Baldur without her legs never touch the ground. Hyvärinen combines movements and gestures to be natural expressions. She definitely creates an enchanting figure."

Helsingin Sanomat, 22th August, 2000
Auli Räsänen

Swan Lake

"Boldness, ability to take risks and personal beaming culminated in Nina Hyvärinen's enchanting Odette-Odile. 22-years old dancer, the youngest Queen of Swan in the Finnish history of dance, created her double role the most individual interpretation I have ever seen in domestic performances."

Helsingin Sanomat, 3rd December, 1993
Auli Räsänen

Il Freddo dell' Acqua

"Nina Hyvärinen tackles contrasts between
pantomime expression and precise dancing
with unconstrained charisma and plasticity."

Huvudstads bladet, 8th December, 2000
Anna Ångström

The Rite

"Nina Hyvärinen surprised by her sensual solo The Rite in which her emphatic body bent to the choreography showing the influence of the African. Supple pelvis, shigering muscles and breathing dance - all were enjoyable to see.

Hyvärinen walks her own ways and it feels now that she has taken off her uniform of the ballerina. I hope that she keeps her career as a wide contemporary dancer - in a field which she is ideal for herself."

Helsingin Sanomat, 20th December, 2002
Auli Räsänen