DIRECTORY OF FINNISH DANCE
dancers are available for touring. The company has toured in over 20 coun tries in major festivals and venues such as Julidans, The Place and Dance Bien nale Tokyo. Genre: Contemporary dance SIVUUN ENSEMBLE
Helsinki Contact: Ninni Perko, artistic director and choreographer www.sivuun.net A multidisciplinary collective whose performances are intensive conversa tions between different art forms. Motion, music, image and text entwine into a collage of entities, opening semi nal interpretations to current issues. Genres: Dance theatre, multidisciplinary productions, community dance TAIKABOX
Oulu Contact: Tanja Råman, artistic director www.taikabox.com TaikaBox creates works for stage, screen and specific sites, using innovative digital techniques to enhance our ex perience of the moving body. TaikaBox is based in Northern Finland and Wales and supports artistic exchange between the two countries. Genres: Contemporary dance, dance/ technology THE TEMPEST GROUP
Helsinki Contact: Mervi Leivo www.myrskyryhma.info Founded in 2002. Their work is based on the urge to take dance among people, in the centre of their natural environment – in places where dance performances are not a familiar sight. Genres: Contemporary dance, dance theatre, dance film, performances for senior audiences
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TSUUMI DANCE THEATRE
ZODIAK – CENTER FOR NEW DANCE
Helsinki Contact: Salla Korja-Paloniemi, managing director www.tsuumi.com Tsuumi Dance Theatre draws strength from archaic rootstock and gets inspi ration from the surrounding world. It creates diverse performing arts focus ing on the synthesis of movement and rhythm. Tsuumi’s speciality has always been a strong co-operation with musi cians of modern folk music. Genres: Dance theatre, folk dance, live music performance, contemporary dance
Helsinki Contact: Harri Kuorelahti, artistic director www.zodiak.fi Zodiak – Center for New Dance is a progressive dance organisation and the main venue for freelance contemporary dance in Finland. Zodiak co-produces and hosts 15–20 new dance productions each year. Zodiak is a member of several international networks and works with international partners in production, teacher and artist exchange, and tour ing.
WILLMAN DANCE COMPANY
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Helsinki Contact: Marjaterttu Willman, artistic director www.willmandancecompany.fi Willman Dance Company brings togeth er artists who share a passion for dance and stage art. The goal of the company is to create original contemporary dance pieces that focus on the central questions of humanity. Genre: contemporary dance
REGIONAL CENTRES FOR DANCE
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PRODUCTION CENTRES JOJO – OULU DANCE CENTRE
Oulu Contact: Jarkko Lehmus, artistic director www.jojo.fi JoJo – Oulu Dance Centre is a dance pro duction house in Northern Finland. JoJo runs an annual international OuDance Festival in September and a year-round dance programme consisting of its own productions and guest performances. JoJo also hosts an Artists’ Residency with an active international exchange programme. JoJo is one of the four organisations that form the Regional Dance Centre of Northern Finland.
PIRKANMAA AND HÄME CENTRE
Tampere Contact: Piia Kulin, managing director www.sisasuomentanssi.fi/english/ KESKI-SUOMI CENTRE
Jyväskylä Contact: Mari Hautala, managing director tanssinkeskus.fi The aim of the regional centres is to improve the availability of dance art, to support its development, to promote collaboration, and to enhance profes sional opportunities in Central Finland. Specialising in community dance, out reach and service production, the centre also runs the Liikelaituri venue in Tam pere.