© Dainius Putinas Digital Leap has brought the participants together in four learning modules to learn how to better navigate in digital environments and discuss with experts from other fields. The ideas and know-how emerged in the learning modules are now shared with the international performing arts community and everyone curious about the topic in the form of online learning resources – cookbooks! The Digital Leap cookbooks are digital handbooks that give food for thought and provide ingredients with which to develop your skills with digital platforms. The cookbooks cover the same topics ..read more

Antti Keinänen, Lucas Jerkander, Michal Krčmář | Val Caniparoli: Jekyll & Hyde © Mirka Kleemola Based on the well-known suspense novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and commissioned by the Finnish National Ballet, Val Caniparoli’s ballet Jekyll & Hyde had its world premiere in November 2020. Due to pandemic restrictions in place at the time, only a limited audience had the chance to see the performances. The production returned to the Finnish National Ballet’s repertoire in April 2023. A recorded performance from this spring will be released ..read more

Rail2Dance. Photo: Drago Videmsek Six dance artists from different countries travel for 40 days across Europe from Tampere, Finland, to Ljubljana, Slovenia, performing public space performances along the way. The trip is like an art laboratory, where the relationship with different spaces and audiences is explored through performances. With dance interventions in public space, Rail2Dance artists will reflect everyday practices in public spaces, and also remind us of our longing for community. In the hectic rhythm of life in cities, too often we just pass each other. With collective pop-up da ..read more

Heart Drive © Ballet BC / Michael Slobodian “It is important for the company to pave the way for a change of generation in good time, as well as bringing audiences pieces by other choreographers, alongside our own repertoire,” explains Choreographer Tero Saarinen. Tero Saarinen Company, which was founded in 1996, is expanding its operations and will be producing more pieces also by other choreographers in its portfolio. The first piece TSC commissioned from a choreographer outside the group was Johanna Nuutinen’s Hz, which premiered at Dance House Helsinki in spring 2022. “The idea of expand ..read more

The jury consisted of Finnish and international performing arts professionals: Eva Neklyaeva (Independent curator), Lotta Nevalainen & Riitta Aittokallio (Circus & Dance Info Finland) and Vigdís Jakobsdóttir (Reykjavik Arts Festival). The selected works, 10 pitches, 6 demos and 4 performances, will offer an intriguing look at the current trends and innovations of Finnish performing arts. Being held for the fourth time, Performing HEL showcase is aimed at international and Finnish programmers and theatre and festival directors to experience the latest works of Finnish circus, dance and ..read more

The fourth edition of Performing HEL showcase takes place on August 31 – September 3, at the same time as the Helsinki Festival. The showcase presents a full range of performing arts, including circus, dance, and theatre, also delivered in exciting yet difficult-to-define combinations. In four days almost 30 Finland-based artists and companies present their work through pitch, demo and performance programs. By the end of the open call, the jury received 155 applications – which is the largest number of applications in Performing HEL history! The selections are made by Eva Neklyaeva (Curator ..read more

The next Ice Hot platform will be held in Oslo February 14–18, 2024. All Nordic dance artists and companies are welcome to submit their applications for the artistic programme of Ice Hot 2024. The application period is between February 8th and March 30th 2023. The call is open for professional artists or companies living in or receiving support from one of the Nordic countries. You can also be living outside of the Nordic countries but in this case you need to have a Nordic citizenship. We are looking for a versatile program and we encourage artists from different backgrounds and approaches t ..read more

From the back left: Riitta Aittokallio, Lotta Nevalainen, Miika Sillanpää, Anita Parri, Johanna Mäkelä, Sanna Rekola, Johanna Terhemaa, Sanna Kangasluoma, Anni Leino and Emma Vainio © Alli Kangasluoma The purpose of the merger is to create a more effective and stronger organisation capable of tackling the future challenges of an evolving field. The new association, Circus & Dance Info Finland, works to promote and raise the profile of the circus and dance sectors and develop new services for professionals of both art forms. Dance Info Finland has been working to promote Finnish dance for ..read more

Jenni-Elina von Bagh: As time goes by © Katri Naukkarinen As a choreographer, Jenni-Elina von Bagh has created a language for contemporary performance, which attaches to the many practices and dramaturgical means of contemporary dance and performance. In curating, she seeks radical new thinking in forms that are also of interest outside the art community. In the latest issue of Finnish Dance in Focus magazine, von Bagh talks about posthumanist thinking on the stage. Posthumanist thinking, which spread more widely into the performing arts in the 2010s, can be seen in many ways in artists’ wor ..read more

February Sonja Jokiniemi: Öh  Norway, Sandnes, February 15 @RAS at Sandnes Kulturhus  Sonja Jokiniemi: Öh © Katri Naukkarinen March Milla Koistinen: Magenta Haze  Germany, Berlin, March 2 – 4 @Radialsystem Aurinkobaletti − AB Dance Company: Minne kutsua Liza? / Where to Invite Liza? Estonia, Tallinn, March 17 – 18 @SAKALA3 Aurinkobaletti − AB Dance Company: Minne kutsua Liza? / Where to Invite Liza? May Milla Koistinen/ Paul Valikoski/ Ladislav Zajac: Pas de deux #1 – Constructing Love  The Netherlands, Utrecht, May 19 – 21 @SPRING Performi ..read more