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Directory of Finnish Dance \ Directory of Finnish Dance P 38 FINNISH DANCE IN Focus 2014–2015 DIRECTORY OF FINNISH DANCE \ DIRECTORY OF FINNISH DANCE Norway Dance Company within Art Institution A State-Funded Dance Companies S Independent Dance Company I Production Centre P Regional Dance Centre R Festival & Event F Professional Education E Rovaniemi R S Sweden Russia I P R F E Oulu Kajaani R Kokkola F R F F Pyhäsalmi Kuopio Kaustinen F Outokumpu E Vaasa S R E I P R F I R Jyväskylä Pori I F Tampere R S E Lappeenranta F Kerava I S E G Turku I R F S Vantaa S Espoo Helsinki A S I P R F E Estonia DIRECTORY OF FINNISH DANCE FINNISH DANCE IN Focus 2014–2015 P 39 \ This directory offers an overview of the Finnish dance field. It lists dance companies, production centres and regional dance centres. It also includes festivals, venues and schools providing professional dance education. Discover more Finnish choreographers, organisations and events at www.danceinfo.fi. The biggest contemporary dance com- dance tHeater HurjaruutH pany in Finland with 12 dancers. HDC Helsinki DANCE performers are known for performing Contact: Director Arja Pettersson physically demanding contemporary www.hurjaruuth.fi dance as well as expressive dance Hurjaruuth has integrated contemporary COMPANIES theatre. HDC’s home is the Helsinki City dance with circus artists, musicians, Theatre. writers and visual artists for 30 years, Genre: Contemporary dance, dance with more than 100 productions. theatre Hurjaruuth’s annual Winter Circus thrills DANCE COMPANIES audiences with its aerial stunts, juggling WITHIN ART INSTITUTIONS \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ and eye-boggling entertainment in a STATE-FUNDED DANCE new creation every year. FinniSH national ballet Genre: Dance theatre, performances for Helsinki COMPANIES children and young audiences Contact: Artistic Administrator Sampo Kivelä ab dance company dance tHeatre md www.opera.fi Turku Tampere About 80 performances and 3–5 Contact: Contact: premieres per season. Also works by Managing Director Katja Lehmussaari Managing Director Anniina Kumpuniemi contemporary choreographers, such as www.aurinkobaletti.com www.tanssiteatterimd.fi Tero Saarinen, Jorma Elo, Jiří Kylián, John High-quality contemporary dance group Dance Theatre MD performs in Tampere Neumeier, Alexei Ratmansky and Ohad touring both in Finland and abroad. and on tour around 120 times per year. Naharin. The Ballet employs 73 dancers The repertoire includes productions The annual programme consists of 2–3 representing 19 nationalities, and 10 for both adults and children by Finnish premieres of contemporary dance cho- Youth Company dancers. Artistic Direc- and international choreographers. AB’s reographies and dance theatre pieces tor: Kenneth Greve. regular guest is Russian choreographer for children and adults. MD also organ- Genre: Contemporary dance, classical Sasha Pepelyaev. ises the annual Tampere Dance Current ballet, contemporary ballet, perfor- Genre: Contemporary dance, dance the- contemporary dance festival. mances for young audiences atre, performances for young audiences Genre: Contemporary dance, dance theatre, performances for children Tapio Vanhatalo Tapio dance tHeater eri Turku dance tHeater minimi Contact: Producer Katriina Lamberg Kuopio www.eri.fi Contact: Jupe Pohjolainen, Producer Dancer-choreographers Tiina Lindfors, www.minimi.fi Lassi Sairela and Eeva Soini founded Minimi performs both in Finland and Dance Theatre ERI in 1989. Over the past abroad: on their home stage and on 25 years, ERI has built up a repertoire tour, on traditional stages and on the that now includes more than 300 works. streets. Minimi wants to sustain and The group produces about 130 perfor- develop mobility and availability of HelSinki dance company mances every year, of which four or five dance theatre and create performances Helsinki are premieres. in which dance and theatre merge into Contact: Genre: Contemporary dance, dance one. Artistic Director Jyrki Karttunen theatre Genre: Dance theatre, physical theatre, www.hdc.fi street theatre P 40 FINNISH DANCE IN Focus 2014–2015 DIRECTORY OF FINNISH DANCE \ dance tHeater raatikko 40 countries, including at BAM and company’s philosophy. Vantaa The Joyce (NY), Chaillot and Châtelet Genre: Contemporary dance Contact: Artistic Director Marja Korhola (Paris), Southbank Centre (London), www.raatikko.fi Movimentos Festival (Germany), New arja raatikainen & co. Founded in 1972, Raatikko has its own Zealand International Arts Festival, and Helsinki venue in Vantaa and also performs on SIDance (S. Korea), and in commissions Contact: Manager Marjo Pyykönen tours. Raatikko makes dance pieces for for e.g. NDT1, Batsheva Company and www.arjaraatikainen-co.fi children, young people and adults, often Lyon Opéra Ballet. Touring in 2014/15: Arja Raatikainen has produced an combining dance, theatre and circus. Morphed (premiere), Borrowed Light impressive and varied body of work. Her Raatikko has over 300 performances w/ Boston Camerata, Gaspard, solo Vox work includes pieces commissioned for per year, 2–4 premieres, 150 audience Balaenae w/ EIC. Finnish dance festivals, Helsinki Dance events and over 30,000 spectators. Genres: Contemporary dance, contem- Company and the Finnish National Genre: Dance theatre, performances for porary ballet, community dance, live Ballet. Raatikainen’s path has embraced young audiences music performance, dance films the treatment of completely new elements and the search for a balance dance tHeatre rimpparemmi \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ between disparate elements. Rovaniemi Genre: Contemporary dance Contact: Artistic Director Matti Paloniemi INDEPEND- Maria Baranova www.rimpparemmi.fi Finland's northernmost professional ENT DANCE dance theatre offers a unique mix of Finnish folk dance and contemporary dance. They give about 150 perfor- COMPANIES mances each year and have toured in more than 20 countries. Also a reper- aHo & lundén company toire of first-class folk dance and music Helsinki performances. Contact: Artistic Directors Emilia Aho Genre: Dance theatre, folk dance, con- and Katja Lundén temporary dance www.almaflamenca.net Aho & Lundén Company is a contempo- glimS & glomS dance tHeatre rary flamenco group combining Finnish Espoo and Spanish culture as well as different Contact: art forms in interesting outcomes. The General Manager Riitta Aittokallio group has adapted flamenco to other www.glimsgloms.com music genres, e.g. to accompany Finnish Glims & Gloms dance company was folk poetry. founded in 1999 by Simo Heiskanen and Genre: Contemporary flamenco, live Tuomo Railo. G&G’s works are charac- music performance arja tiili & co terised by stylish and inventive visuals Helsinki and multi-layered themes. alpo aaltokoSki company Contact: [email protected] Genre: Contemporary dance, dance the- Helsinki www.arjatiili.fi atre, performances for young audiences Contact: Manager Helmi Saksala Arja Tiili’s works baffle, frighten, thrill www.aaltokoskicompany.fi and make people laugh. The perfor- tero Saarinen company Moving explorations at the core of mances lie on the borderline between Helsinki human life, complete visual insights, dance, performance art and theatre, Contact: Managing Director Iiris Autio flashes of the Finnish mindscape in bravely mixing styles from breakdance Head of International Sales Johanna modern dress and winding paths to contemporary dance and video art. Rajamäki towards peace of mind. Solidarity and Her latest work is inspired by Günter www.terosaarinen.com joint responsibility are recurring themes Grass’s novel The Tin Drum. Tero Saarinen’s works have capti- in choreographer Alpo Aaltoko- Genre: Contemporary dance, dance vated audiences and critics in nearly ski’s works and are at the core of the theatre, young audiences DIRECTORY OF FINNISH DANCE FINNISH DANCE IN Focus 2014–2015 P 4 1 \ Matti Häyrynen Matti As2wriStS dance company Helsinki Contact: Choreographer Minna Tuovinen www.as2wrists.fi Their unique style blends Argentine tango with a contemporary vocabulary. In recent years the company has toured extensively in South America, most notably in Argentina and Brazil. The company is diverse, working in dance film, organising international develop- ment projects and teaching workshops in dance and camerawork. Genre: Contemporary dance canela Helsinki Contact: Anna Palmio and tHe compañía kaari & roni dance company gruppen Fyra Annatuuli Saine martin (g4) www.canela.fi Helsinki Helsinki Canela’s repertoire consists of flamenco Contact: Contact: Pia Liski and works that combine contemporary Producers Joonas Antikainen and www.gruppenfyra.com dance and other art forms. Their works Nea Granlund Contemporary dance combined with include solo pieces by the group’s mem- www.compania.fi intelligent humour. Dance theatre and bers, as well as commissioned pieces by This company’s primary focus is to improvisation-based pieces in places top new flamenco and contemporary incorporate flamenco and its Nordic like parks, streets and trams. Touring dance choreographers from Spain and dimension into the field of international 2014/15 with pieces Nagru, Reino and Finland. contemporary dance, art and music. In Aino, and Mama!. Genre: Contemporary dance, flamenco, December 2012 their work The Raven Genre: Contemporary dance, dance performance/live art, performances for won first prize in three categories in the theatre young audiences prestigious Certamen de Coreografia de Flamenco y Danza Española choreogra- dance company oFF/balance carl kniF company phy competition. Jyväskylä Helsinki Genre: Dance theatre, flamenco, Contact:
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