Performances
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AB Dance Company − Collectif ÈS: Stayin’ Alive
Performance
With Stayin’ Alive, Aurinkobaletti − AB Dance Company and the Collectif ÈS want to dig further into group dynamics and collectives starting from the idea of anthems.
Aurinkobaletti − AB Dance Company, Manilla Theatre, Turku

Auraco: HELMIME Library Tour
Performance|Family friendly
The non-verbal and free-of-charge performances reach all audiences no matter their language skills. The performers are professional mime artists with experience from all over the world.
Helsinki libraries, Helsinki

Carl Knif Company & Oulu Theatre: Death in Venice
Performance
Death in Venice is a dance theatre performance based on Thomas Mann’s novella. It is a story about the power of suppressed emotions.
Oulu Theatre, Oulu

Catarina Neves Ricci & group: TAKAISIN
Performance|Film/video
A construction of Finnish geography and the human body is explored. With original soundtrack by Mika Vainio.
Kalliosali, Helsinki

Eeva Juutinen and working group: EMO
Performance
Choreographer Eeva Juutinen and the working group’s performance EMO moves between expressionism’s expansion and richness and minimalism’s detail and condensation.
Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku

Elina Pirinen: Mortal Tropical Dances
Performance
How to share the earth-shattering power of life? Award-winning dance artist and music maker Elina Pirinen’s long-awaited new symphonic creation Mortal Tropical Dances will fill the large stage of Dance House Helsinki with special dances arising from our inner tropics, wild live music, mesmerising colours and scents.
Dance House Helsinki, Erkko Hall, Helsinki

Höglund, Kahrola, Karhulahti, Kuronen, Tapio: Bypassed – Moving Pictures of Trafficking in Human Beings
Performance
Bypassed - Moving Pictures of Trafficking in Human Beings is an artistic work where visual and dance arts, movement and still objects, human body and lifeless material - engage in a dialogue. Light and sound design complement the whole to transform it into a living exhibition.
Kuopio Museum, Kantti, Kuopio

Höglund, Kahrola, Karhulahti, Kuronen, Tapio: Bypassed – Moving Pictures of Trafficking in Human Beings
Performance
Bypassed - Moving Pictures of Trafficking in Human Beings is an artistic work where visual and dance arts, movement and still objects, human body and lifeless material - engage in a dialogue. Light and sound design complement the whole to transform it into a living exhibition.
Black Wall Galleria, Vaasa

Imperfecto Collective: Fragmentos
Performance
The Fragmentos show reflects the diversity of flamenco dance with the power of nine wonderful dancers and choreography. The music is provided by a live band. The evening is illustrated by Christian Robinson’s video art.
Kanneltalo, Helsinki

Jenni Kivelä ja Kiltit ihmiset: Strange & Special
Performance
Strange & Special is a performance that moves between dance and physical theatre. What happens when two different species of plant characters encounter each other?
Hurjaruuth Stage, Cable Factory, Helsinki

Käärmeenpääntallaajat
Performance
Käärmeenpääntallaajat (Treading on snakes’ heads) is an ecstatic and intriguing dive into the past, full of frantic exploration and jolts of joy.
Espoo City Theatre, Revontuli Hall, Espoo

Kaisa Nieminen & Marika Peura: down below things shudder
Performance
Premiering in April at Dance House Helsinki: down below things shudder
Dance House Helsinki, Pannu Hall, Helsinki

Kuopio Dance Festival | Alexander Vantournhout & Not Standing: Through the Grapevine
Performance
Through the Grapevine is a quirky pas de deux between two men. Performers Alexander Vantournhout and Axel Guérin show their bodies, stripped of all frills.
Lumit stage, Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival | Bruno Beltrão & Grupo de Rua: New Creation
Performance
Internationally recognized as a refreshing innovator of hip hop, Bruno Beltrão has revolutionized the genre, deconstructing the dance form as he grapples with the changing politics of his native Brazil.
Kuopio City Theatre, Minna -stage, Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival | Children’s Gala
Performance|Family friendly
It's about time the children had a gala of their very own during Kuopio Dance Festival!
Kulttuuriareena 44, Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival | Compagnie Mouvements perpétuels & Cie Salia Sanou: D’un Rêve
Performance
D’un Rêve is a musical which sings and dances a hymn to life and creates an epic tale about the history of the black body.
Kuopio Music Centre, concert hall, Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival | Cristiana Morganti: Behind the Light
Performance
Cristiana Morganti returns to Kuopio with her new work Behind the Light – an ironic and light catharsis of a choreographer and dancer overcoming an existential and artistic crisis during and after the pandemic.
Kuopio City Theatre, Maria -stage, Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival | Genelec-Gala
Performance|Event
The gala lifts the festival spirits through the roof!
Kuopio Music Centre, (Kuopion musiikkikeskus), Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival | Helsinki Dance Company & Anton Lachky: Special Night
Performance
Helsinki Dance Company is known for its work with many renowned artists, and the group has significantly influenced the development of contemporary dance in Finland.
Kuopio City Theatre, Minna -stage, Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival | Kammerballetten
Performance
Chamber music meets contemporary ballet!
Kuopio Music Centre, concert hall, Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival | Prototype Status & Cie Jasmine Morand: Lumen
Performance|Event
LUMEN immerses spectators in an introspective and visual experience where darkness gradually fades to become white, blinding light.
Kuopio City Theatre, Minna -stage, Kuopio

Kuopio Dance Festival: Dance Schools on Stage 1-3
Performance|Event|Family friendly
Dance Schools On Stage -concept has been a part of Kuopio Dance Festival’s programme since 2011.
Kulttuuriareena 44, Kuopio

Lyon Opera Ballet: Forsythe I Pontvianne
Performance
A rare visit to Finland by a renowned French contemporary dance and ballet company.
Dance House Helsinki, Erkko Hall, Helsinki

Mia Jaatinen & working group: RIEHA
Performance
RIEHA is a bodily celebration of collective boisterousness. The performance rumbles, roars, and guides the group of performers towards an ecstatic state of embodiment.
Zodiak Stage, Helsinki

Milla Koistinen & Paul Valikoski & Ladislav Zajac: Pas de deux #1 – Constructing Love
Performance
In Pas de deux #1 – Constructing Love, two people are led through a passage of encounter, separation, unification and exit. Objects and sound invite interaction from the pair, which generates a distinctive choreography, and allows for individual reflection and shared moments.
SPRING Utrecht, Theater Kikker Kleine Zaal, Utrecht

Pirkanmaa Dance Centre – Ceci n’est pas moi
Performance
Ceci n’est pas moi is a sincere and intimate dance monologue about responsibility, the pursuit of freedom and how these two shape identity. The dance monologue reflects on past and brings forward a self portrait of Generation-Y.
Liikelaituri, Tampere