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14.9.2021

Pia Andell’s dance film rewarded in New York

Pia Andell’s dance film Rekonstruktio was selected as the best Nordic short film at Nordic International Film Festival, New York.

9.6.2021

International training programme Digital Leap starts in spring 2022

Digital Leap is an international two-year project that offers dance and circus professionals learning opportunities for deepening their understanding of digital environments and their possibilities in performing arts.

8.6.2021

The Finnish National Opera and Ballet plans to make elephants fly – Open call for performance concepts using augmented reality

The Finnish National Opera and Ballet and the digital culture festival Assembly are calling teams to propose creative technological concepts that take live performance into new heights. The final result will be premiered on FNOB’s main stage in Autumn 2022.

8.6.2021

Challenging the image of a dancer – Quartet, a work for disabled dancers raises questions about inclusion

In this dance piece, even those who are often seen only as the passive objects of activities and actions become visible, independent subjects who tell their own stories. Quartet is programmed live & stream at Zodiak in June and at the Tampere Theatre Festival in August.

8.6.2021

Choreographer Jaakko Toivonen to lead the Finnish Dance Theatre Raatikko

To make sure that there’ll be interesting dance pieces for young audiences also in the future, we need to get young dance artists more interested in this target group.

2.6.2021

The connection between the body and nature vibrates through Tero Saarinen’s new piece

Tero Saarinen’s new large scale creation Transit will have its Finnish Premiere at the Helsinki Festival 2021 opening weekend in August. Finnish Dance in Focus magazine interviewed Saarinen just before the world premiere in Sweden last October.

2.6.2021

Surrender to art: Helsinki Festival will take place (live!) at the turn of August/September

Helsinki Festival is the largest multi-art festival in the Nordic countries and is held each year at the turn of August/September. The purpose of the Festival Week is to provide unique art experiences to the home and international audience. The plentiful, multidisciplinary program also includes both international and Finnish dance.

31.5.2021

Sign up for Performing HEL! Additions made to the online programme

While September is starting to look more promising what comes to hosting live events, Performing HEL decided to add a few full-length works to the event’s online program. By signing up, you can experience the program in Helsinki, online or both.

18.5.2021

Finnish dance films deliver a strong festival year in 2020 despite the pandemic

Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Raekallio’s films Fram and Cold Storage were among the most widely screened Finnish short films at festivals worldwide in 2020. The documentary Fram reached the shared #1 spot in the number of festival screenings for Finnish documentary films.

12.5.2021

The Finnish National Ballet celebrates its centenary in 2022

Next spring will be a tribute to glorious Finland-themed premieres and meaningful classics. In summer 2022, the company will get a new artistic director, as Madeleine Onne will be leaving her post, after a four-year period.

3.5.2021

#StopHatredNow 2021 – The programme is out

The intercultural and anti-racist platform #StopHatredNow is back. This year the platform is arranged virtually in mid-May. The event creates new discourse on diversity, inclusivity, power structures and intersectionally feminist strategies. This year’s theme is Reshaping Horizons of Hope.

7.4.2021

Full Moon Dance Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary

Full Moon Dance Festival in Pyhäjärvi, Finland is approaching and the programme for summer 2021 will be out shortly. The festival will be arranged Covid-19 safely in July.

7.4.2021

Ice Hot Helsinki 2022 strives for a soft footprint and a strong handprint

The next Ice Hot Nordic Dance platform takes place February 9–13, 2022 in Helsinki with Dance Info Finland as the main organizer. The platform is organized with sustainability as a guiding framework.

7.4.2021

Finns at TPAM 2021 – pitch videos now available!

Dance Info Finland and a group of Finnish dance professionals attended the TPAM Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan, online on 9-14 February.

6.4.2021

New BAD HOUSE festival stretches the limits in virtual and physical reality

BAD HOUSE is a new, lively art festival in Finland. It is produced by Mad House Helsinki, an association that promotes and produces live art and other experimental performing arts in Helsinki.

6.4.2021

COVID-19 cancelled performances and moved them online – restrictions continue widely until mid-April

As in many countries worldwide, also Finnish field of dance is fighting to survive COVID-19 impact. The challenging times have forced many artists and companies to stream their performances online – and find new audiences in alternative ways.

30.3.2021

The new Festival Director of Kuopio Dance Festival is Johanna Rajamäki

The personnel change will take place in August 2021 when Anna Pitkänen, Festival Director since 1996, leaves the Festival. But who is our new Festival Director and how do we look to the future?

23.3.2021

Performing HEL 2021 programme released

In September 2021, the Performing HEL showcase, a joint effort between eight operators in the Finnish performing arts sector, will present an enthralling array of performances representing current circus, dance and theatre in Finland. The newly published programme features 27 Finnish artists and groups. Due to the exceptional circumstances this year, part of the programme will take place online.

3.2.2021

Zodiak’s Side Step Festival 2021 goes online and virtual

Steps and traces in exceptional times – this is the subtitle of the Side Step Festival 2021 organized by Zodiak. The festival takes place mainly online, from 3–21 February.

3.2.2021

Performing HEL 2021 programme will be released in March

Performing HEL showcase presents the most interesting Finnish performing arts for international and Finnish presenters and programmers. For this year the showcase received almost 140 applications from Finnish artists.