9.6.2021
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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 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
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
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.
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.
Dance Info Finland together with a bunch of Finnish dance professionals will attend TPAM Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan – this time online. Besides Manager of International Affairs Katarina Lindholm from Dance Info Finland,…
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