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25.11.2021

Tanssin talo getting ready for the first festivals and performances

Tanssin talo, the brand new Dance House Helsinki, is preparing for the opening ceremony in February 2022. The first event open for public will be Zodiak’s international Side Step Festival.

24.11.2021

Digital Leap – Staying one step ahead of digitalisation

Dance Info Finland’s international Erasmus+ project Digital Leap strives to build up the digital competence of dance and circus artists. The objective is to inspire and increase understanding of the creative opportunities enabled by digitalisation.

23.11.2021

The Tampere Dance Current Festival in December

The Dance Current Festival offers four dance performances and two Dance Film Screenings in Tampere, December 7–12.

22.11.2021

The Fair Art Manifesto: Fair remunerations for artists!

The Fair Art Manifesto, managed by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, is a campaign that supports fair pay for artists. Visibility – that is often offered for the work – is not enough.

16.11.2021

Lonely in the Rain – Contemporary Dance Festival spreads in Joensuu, Eastern Finland

Lonely in the Rain presents a selection of new trends within the performing arts. The festival will take place in Joensuu 25–28 November.

16.11.2021

Ice Hot Nordic Dance Helsinki 2022 – Artistic programme released!

Ice Hot Nordic Dance invites to meet the selected artists and companies, and to be inspired by their art at the Helsinki platform. The full programme with schedules is released in December.

16.11.2021

Javier Torres appointed Artistic Director of the Finnish National Ballet

The Board of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet made its decision unanimously on the motion of General Director Gita Kadambi after first consulting staff groups. Torres will assume his new position in August 2022.

22.9.2021

Ice Hot Helsinki 2022 programme to be released in October

The jury and the production team are working hard to put together an artistic programme of nearly 40 Nordic artists and dance companies that will be presented on the platform in February 2022. Sustainability is an important issue today in organizing international events.

22.9.2021

On tour – finally!

It’s so good to perform live and share the experience of being physically present with audiences from Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Russia. See who is touring and where in the months to come.

22.9.2021

Strong winds, heavy rain, people retreating indoors – Moving in November draws inspiration from the month of death

For eleven days in November artists come together in the Helsinki area to share their dreams, their perspectives and analyses of our world, of the time and societies we are living in. How do we look at the full circle of life?

22.9.2021

Peeping Tom and several other international guests in Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival autumn season is being held during 9.–21. November. The festival was postponed from the summer because of Covid.

21.9.2021

New ideas spring from meeting face to face – Performing HEL offered networking and inspiring encounters 

Performing HEL showcase brought to Helsinki dozens of presenters, programmers as well as theatre and festival directors from across Europe. The aim of this event, which has been supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, is to promote exports of Finnish dance, circus and theatre.

20.9.2021

The awarded Mad House Helsinki brings performance art to the spotlight

The Mad House team consists of a big bunch of artists and art producers whose organisational culture is said to be genuinely collective. Their aim is to tear down and reshape theatrical form and experience, and to create a permanent production house and venue in Helsinki for international performance art.

20.9.2021

Alex Baczynski-Jenkins awarded at ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival

Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (Poland/UK) was announced as the 2021 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art on Saturday 18th September. Baczynski-Jenkins was revealed as the 8th winner of the prestigious prize during the ANTI Prize Party in Kuopio, Finland.

17.9.2021

“On the edge of ruin!” – Statistics from the year 2020 show a huge loss in audience numbers

The impact of the lockdown was substantial on the dance sector in Finland and hit especially freelancers whose earnings are modest even in normal conditions.

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.