Companies and choreographers
Here you can get to know dance companies and choreographers based in Finland. For more information please visit the artists’ websites and social media – the links can be found in the contact cards.
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- Young Audiences
- Ethnic & Folk Dance
- Contemporary Dance
- Dance Theatre
- Community Dance
- Show & Street Dance
- Ballet
Circles (kor. Urmas Poolamets) © Seilo Ristimäki
AB Dance Company
Dance Theatre|Young Audiences|Contemporary Dance
Aurinkobaletti (AB Dance Company) is known as a constantly evolving, high-quality contemporary dance group, which is not afraid to venture over the limits of its own genre. AB’s repertoire includes productions for both adults and children.
Deep © Pekka Mäkinen
Alpo Aaltokoski Company
Contemporary Dance|Community Dance
Alpo Aaltokoski’s aspiration is to understand human beings and their personal relations, never forgetting the comic side of things. Holistic visual insight is characteristic to Aaltokoski’s artistic work. AAC has toured in nearly 30 countries worldwide.
Break the Fight - I was here! © Laura Oja
Arja Tiili Dance Company
Contemporary Dance|Show & Street Dance|Young Audiences
Arja Tiili Dance Company produces high quality, fearless, funny, energetic and bizarre stage creations where different dance styles from breakdance to contemporary dance, theater and other art forms are combined in a boisterous mix.
Mr Kookaburra & Kukkaroo © Miia Kota
Auraco
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Young Audiences
Auraco is a unique and visual dance and mime theatre that produces both stage and site specific works for all audiences. Auraco is one of the most international Finnish dance companies.
Seitsemän © Grisha Olizeg
Ballet Finland
Contemporary Dance|Young Audiences|Ballet
Ballet Finland is a modern ballet company that performs new inspiring pieces based on the classical ballet technique. The company brings classical ballet on stage with a new point of view, refreshing the movement language.
© Yoshi Omori
Carl Knif Company
Contemporary Dance
Dancer and choreographer Carl Knif formed Carl Knif Company in 2012 as a base for new productions as well as repertoire. With pieces such Hologram Walls and Claude glass audiences have learned to know the surrealistic, dreamlike, humoristic qualities of Knif’s works.
KILL Carmen © Janne Mikkilä
Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Young Audiences
Internationally awarded Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin open-mindedly renews flamenco by combining flamenco technique to the freedom of contemporary dance creating a seamless wholeness of music and dance.
© Matti Häyrynen
Dance Company Off/Balance
Contemporary Dance
Off/Balance – a contemporary dance company located in Jyväskylä – is the brainchild of two dance-artists and lifelong friends. Thanks to the fresh and versatile repertoire the Off/Balance is now the biggest dance company in Central Finland.
ILTA © Matti Kivekäs
Dance Theater ERI
Dance Theatre
Dance Theatre ERI was founded in 1989 by the well-known Finnish dancer-choreographers Tiina Lindfors, Lassi Sairela and Eeva Soini. The group is known for their original and impressive dance performances, both in Finland and abroad.
Talvisirkus Muisti © Joona Pettersson
Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth
Young Audiences|Dance Theatre
Hurjaruuth is a dynamic dance theatre company, founded in 1981. The productions combine contemporary dance with e.g. visual arts, circus and music. Hurjaruuth has become familiar with a large audience thanks to its spectacular Winter Circus.
Myrsky-Storm © Harri Hinkka
Dance Theatre MD
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Young Audiences
Ranging from dazzling dynamics to warmhearted comedy, Dance Theatre MD has become known from 1997 for its high-class choreography and versatile performers. The broad repertoire features shows from classic fairy tales for children to contemporary dance pieces for adults.
Dance Theatre Minimi
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Young Audiences
Dance Theatre Minimi is a multi-disciplinary performing arts community, that produces physical performances challenging genre borders and searching for new ways to push ideas in motion.
Hui Kauhistus © Matti Rajala
Dance Theatre Raatikko
Dance Theatre|Young Audiences
Dance Theatre Raatikko makes dance theatre for young audiences. Raatikko´s performances are often interactive and comic, mixing dance and theatre. Raatikko has about 30 000 spectators per year in its own theatre and on tours.
Leiblied © Kari Vainio
Dance Theatre Rimpparemmi
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Ethnic & Folk Dance
Finland’s northernmost professional dance theatre, Rimpparemmi, offers a unique mix of Finnish folk dance and contemporary dance. The group produces dance theatre pieces for all ages and performs on tour regularly.
Panopticon © Pekka Mäkinen
Flow Productions
Contemporary Dance|Young Audiences
Flow Productions is a dynamic multidiciplinary company based in Oulu. The heart and soul of the production company is artist professor Pirjo Yli-Maunula, a contemporary dance choreographer and performer, who is creating both stage and site specific works.
© Miika Karttunen
FlowWowProductions
Dance Theatre|Contemporary Dance
Nadja Pärssinen is a choreographer and performer based in Finland. In her project there has been strong focus in music, language and interactions between interdisciplinary art forms. Since. 2018 Pärssinen has been the initiator of FlowWowProductions.
© Johanna Rontu
Fokus Dance Company
Contemporary Dance|Show & Street Dance|Ballet
Focus Dance Company consists of six dance professionals who are passionate about performing arts. Our goal is to bring professional dance to everyone to see. We offer dance from individual performances to full night works.
Omnipotens @ Ilpo Vainionpää
Glims & Gloms Dance Theatre
Young Audiences|Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre
Glims & Gloms fascinates its audience with mythical, symbolic and fantastic subjects. Its works are characterised by stylish and inventive visuals, multi-layered themes, and visual harmony. The theatre directs its performances to a wide public – from children to adults.
Divine © Katri Naukkarinen
Go Go Dance Group Kuumat Putket
Contemporary Dance
Kuumat Putket is a wannabe-go-go-dance group formed by eleven artists, who work with contemporary dance. The group creates performances and happenings that engage in dialogue with various phenomena of popular culture.
© Heikki Tuuli
Gruppen Fyra
Contemporary Dance
Gruppen Fyra is a Finnish contemporary dance group established in 1998. The company’s programme consists of tour performances, commissioned and upcoming works. Their accessible and humorous style with a high standard of movement has been received with great enthusiasm.
Pieniä pääosia © Marko Mäkinen
Helsinki Dance Company
Dance Theatre
Helsinki Dance Company was founded in Helsinki City Theatre in 1973. Half of the group perform only in HDC’s touring repertoire while the other half perform in the City Theatre’s other productions too. The artistic director of the company is Jyrki Karttunen.
Tango Noir © Martin Heslop
Improtango Company
Dance Theatre|Contemporary Dance
The company is driven by the desire to explore new horizons in kinesthetic technology and emotional communication. It has pushed the boundaries between the personal and the shared, between the lived experience and audio visual representation in performance and education.
Anamorphic Variations © Sakari Viika
Ismo Dance Company
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Community Dance
Ismo-Pekka Heikinheimo blends art and dance with new concepts. His agenda touches on body politics and the aesthetics of movement. He explores the spectrum of visual culture. For him, dance is a way to perceive, describe, and be within the world.
Dinosaur © James Medcraft
Janina Rajakangas Projekti
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Community Dance
Janina Rajakangas Project is an always renewing group of artists called to complete each project.
Jotakin kuin Grey Gardens © Aino Kannisto
Jenni Kivelä & Kind People
Dance Theatre|Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Young Audiences
Since 2002 this company creates dance performances that combine features from dance and theatre, which moves between the conceptual and the concrete. Jenni Kivelä has a strong and recognisable choreographic style.
Diva Vulva © Lilja Lehmuskallio
K&C Kekäläinen & Company
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre
The mission of K&C is to promote dance as an intellectual art form with political and poetic potential. Artistic director, choreographer-dancer Sanna Kekäläinen’s works combine conceptual thinking with highly original movement language.
La Máscara © Mervi Van Veldhoven
Katja Lundén Company
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre
Katja Lundén Company, a leading Nordic flamenco group, has introduced numerous barrier-breaking dance performances, including Edvard Munch – The Dance Of Life, La Máscara, La vida de Una Elefante, Shadowplay, Machina Flamenco and AfterMachine.
Pekka Pitkänen
Katve [blind spot]
Young Audiences|Contemporary Dance
KATVE [blind spot] produces fresh and versatile contemporary dance works. Their work is visual, physical and imaginative. The artistic director of the group is Heidi Masalin.
Wolfpack © Aino Huovio
Kinetic Orchestra
Contemporary Dance
Kinetic Orchestra is a Helsinki based contemporary dance company established in 2009. The artistic director of the company is dancer/choreographer Jarkko Mandelin. Kinetic Orchestra’s pieces combine breathtaking physicality with various dance styles.
Fanni Tutek Hajnal
Klever Dance
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Ballet
Klever Dance is a new Finnish production based dance company, featuring the work of award winning choreographer Kristian Lever.
Ko-kollektiivi
Contemporary Dance
Ko-kollektiivi, founded by choreographer Satu Tuomisto, combines artistic reverie with academic research and produces creative, utopian and natural solutions. The group’s activities revolve around collaboration with a passion for group creativity.
©Jetro Stavén
Lappeenranta Dance Theater
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre
Lappeenranta Dance Theater includes a group of professional artists in dance, theater and music. Lappeenranta Dance theater was founded in January 2017. There was no professional dance theater activity in South Karelia before this. Also it started from passion.
The Space. Kuva: Kansallisgalleria / Pirje Mykkänen
Liisa Pentti +Co
Contemporary Dance|Community Dance
A Helsinki-based dance company with a distinctive, uncompromising artistic style. Artistic profile of the group, formed in 2000, is situated in the landscape of dance, performing arts and contemporary theatre, and its work is characterized by experimentation.
Acts of Clothing @ Pekka Mäkinen
Live Umbrella
Contemporary Dance
Live Umbrella manages the artistic work of choreographer and curator Johanna Tuukkanen. Embracing the collaborative and multidisciplinary, Live Umbrella produces works for stages, galleries and various sites within live, performing and contemporary arts.
LOCATION X / Taneli Törmä
Contemporary Dance
The LOCATION X, created by Taneli Törmä in 2011, produces international contemporary dance, dance film and multidisciplinary collaboration works for stage and site-specific locations. Every new and old location is a source of inspiration.
BabySauna © Dorit Salutskij
Loiske Ensemble
Dance Theatre|Community Dance|Young Audiences
Loiske Ensemble creates dance productions for small children. Loiske Ensemble was established in 2006 from the need to give the under 3-year-old viewers experiences through the art of dance.
Hiljaisuus © Eetu Sillanpää
Malviniemi Company
Contemporary Dance
Malviniemi Company is contemporary dance company and it was founded at 2011. Companys artistic director is dance artist Mia Malviniemi. Company’s repertuar consist of stage works, site specifc works and improvisation performances.
© Pekka Kuismanen da Silva
Mamia Company
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre
Mamia Company´s performances communicate through contemporary topics, human condition and society. Company works with a wide array of genres in the field of performing arts with no barriers. Languages: english, swedish and finnish.
© Patrik Rastenberger, Roberto Pugliese ja Mikko Kallinen
Mikko Kallinen & The Company
Young Audiences|Contemporary Dance
Mikko Kallinen & The Company is a production company of artists from various disciplines. New creations are mainly audiovisual choreographic works such as video dance films, animation and interactive works.
BODY NOTES © Kai Kuusisto
MimoArt Company
Contemporary Dance
MimoArt Company produces the artistic and pedagogical work of Mimosa Lindahl and Arto-Oskar Reunanen. Physicality and visuality are the core elements in the works that combine traditions not only from dance but also from theatre and circus.
Nexus Extreme
Contemporary Dance|Show & Street Dance|Ballet
Nexus Extreme is a performing art group specialized in fire and air acrobacy and special dance performances.
Anthem © Mika Haaranen
NOM KOLLEKTIV
Contemporary Dance
Nom Kollektiv is a Helsinki-based contemporary dance company. It was founded in 2008 by dancer-choreographer Jaakko Nieminen. The company makes cooperation with different artists in diverse projects such as group pieces and solos, installations and films.
The Stop – Dark Matter of Art © Pasi Orrensalo
Petri Kekoni Company
Contemporary Dance
Choreographer Petri Kekoni’s works are like sculptures moving through time and space. The underlying principle of contemporary dance for him is the positioning and alignment of dancer in space. Helsinki based company celebrates 10 year anniversary in 2017.
Havaintoja Maasta © Esa Kyyrö
Pori Dance Company
Contemporary Dance|Community Dance|Young Audiences
Among the closest values to our hearts is to advance tolerance and humane values through dance – and its various forms, endless possibilities and deep roots.
Raisa Punkki © Pak Han
punkkiCo
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre
punkkiCo Dance Company seeks to create artistically rewarding and inspiring performances through collaboration with artists from different disciplines in order to transform emotion into motion.
Raekallio Corp.
Contemporary Dance
Raekallio Corp. is an independent dance company presenting the work of choreographer Valtteri Raekallio. The company produces unique multidisciplinary, immersive site-specific works, stage works for international touring and dance films.
VillerValla © Tatu Kantomaa
Rasa Collective
Contemporary Dance|Community Dance|Young Audiences
Rasa Collective produces high-quality dance works especially in North-Finland and the whole Barents Region. The works are high artistic quality, ambitious and original.
GLG © Kai Kuusisto
RISA
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre
RISA (Riia Kivimäki & Saku Mäkelä) creates distinctive works that cross genres and are open to everyone. Unexpected paths are discovered when dance reaches towards new dimensions and meets acrobatics, creating a unique seamless weave.
Spoon River antologia @ Minna Hyvönen
Routa Company
Contemporary Dance|Community Dance
Routa Company is a professional dance production company in Kajaani. Our mission is to produce, develop and enable multi-faceted and personal dance art.
Rule of Capture 2 Fallen © Jefunne Gimpel
Saine Ensemble
Dance Theatre|Community Dance|Contemporary Dance
Produces 2-4 creations and concepts per year in collaboration with artists from different art genres. Works are multidisciplinary including dance, music, visual arts and dance films. Artistic Director is Annatuuli Saine.
Love for the tree © Kirsi MacKenzie
Sanna Karlsson-Sutisna Company (SKSCOMPANY)
Dance Theatre|Young Audiences|Ethnic & Folk Dance
SKS Company provides freshly innovative art with strong visual performance: combining interaction, dance&visual arts, with deep connection to nature&world culture. It brings solos and group choreographies to everyday situations, as well as, to big stages.
Vieraskirja © Anna Fioretti
Sivuun Ensemble
Dance Theatre|Community Dance
Sivuun Ensemble is a multidisciplinary collective. Ensemble’s performances are intensive conversations between different art forms, opening seminal interpretations to current issues, significant for individuals and communities alike.
SEE | OBEY © Heikki Tuuli
Susanna Leinonen Company
Contemporary Dance
Susanna Leinonen Company’s works have been seen in over 20 countries. The captivating movement language of the choreographer Susanna combined with eye-pleasing visuals and distinctive soundscape make the Company’s works overall experiences.
Beyond the Body © Michal Iwanowski
TaikaBox
Contemporary Dance|Community Dance|Young Audiences
TaikaBox, created by choreographer/dancer Tanja Råman and digital artist/designer John Collingswood, is a non-profit dance and digital art organisation registered in Wales and in Finland. TaikaBox creates new ways for people to experience dance.
Kahdeksasta neljään (c) Philippe Luickx
Tanssiteatteri Liikeri
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Young Audiences
Dance Theatre Liikeri is a contemporary dance company from Tampere, Finland. We want to share dance experiences filled with movement and playfullness. We produce 1-2 new productions each year and perform also outside of traditional theatre spaces.
Third Practice © Kai Kuusisto
Tero Saarinen Company
Contemporary Dance|Ballet
TSC creates, performs, presents and teaches powerful, multisensory engaging dance at the highest level of artistic excellence. Tero Saarinen Company (est. 1996) has toured at leading venues in 40 countries on all continents. TSC hosts triyearly performance seasons at Dance House Helsinki.
© Harri Tahvanainen
The Tempest Group
Contemporary Dance|Community Dance
The Tempest Group, founded by dancer Elli Isokoski and choreographer Pauliina Laukkanen. The group’s work is based on the urge to take dance among people, in places where dance performances are not necessarily a familiar sight.
Kake - Tiellä tähtiin © Mikko Mäntyniemi
Tsuumi Dance Theatre
Contemporary Dance|Dance Theatre|Ethnic & Folk Dance
Tsuumi Dance Theatre in Helsinki, draws strength from archaic rootstock and gets inspiration from the surrounding world. It creates diverse performing arts focusing on the synthesis of movement and rhythm.
Trinomia © Vili Vornanen
VäkeväKollektiivi
Contemporary Dance|Ethnic & Folk Dance
VäkeväCollective is an art platform for dancers, musicians and stage designers, sharing a common interest in the possibilities of Finnish folklore. Tradition is approached with contemporary stage expressions and new concepts.
VAPAAkollektiivi
Contemporary Dance
FREEcollective is a unique collective of independent contemporary dance artist working both locally and internationally. The collective creates diverse works by inviting artists from different art fields into collaboration. FREEcollective is based in Tampere.
Old people, odd people. Kuva: Stanislav Belyaevsky
Willman Dance Company
Contemporary Dance
Willman Dance Company creates contemporary dance pieces in which the central focus is on the movement. Around the movement of dance the personality of each dancer, power of the music, individuality of the costume design and the atmosphere of the lighting shape each piece.
