How to Participate

How to participate in Zodiak courses

Zodiak offers dance courses and workshops as a way to experience the work and practice of the choreographers in their own bodies. We see this as a way to enrichen the experience of viewing the contermporary dance as well. At the moment we offer Indulge the Movement - Contempoary Dance for All -courses aimed for everyone interested, senior courses for elderly people and morning classes and workshops for professionals.

The courses and the workshops primarily take place in Zodiak's own studios at the Cable Factory. Zodiak facilities are free of obstructions and accessible by wheelchair unless otherwise indicated. Course languages in all courses are Finnish and English, and in some courses Swedish.

Zodiak’s open courses are intended for dancers of all ages – from teenagers to senior citizens. All course activities are performed taking each participant’s physical and personal capacities into account. The same course or workshop may have beginners, advanced non-professionals and professional dancers participating. If any special skill or experience is required to participate in a course, it will be stated in the course description. 

Our course instructors are artists who work actively in the Finnish and the international dance scene, and their works are often featured in Zodiak’s programme of performances. Our courses and workshops open perspectives to different practices of contemporary dance or explore the themes of an individual production.

In addition to motion-based courses, our programme often features themed course packages and courses that bring more than one art form into play. In our courses and workshops the participants are strongly present as active agents who engage in a dialogue with the instructor.

Course policies

Please arrive to the class on time. We keep the door open until 5 minutes past the official starting time. After that the door will close. This is to ensure everyone a peaceful and concentrated course atmosphere. Do not use your phone in the studio, if not advised otherwise by the instructor. You can use your phone in the lobby if needed. If you need to take a break from the class, you can sit by the wall without disturbing the others or you can use the lobby for resting. 

We practice the safer space rules in our courses. However we expect the participants can join the course independently without disturbing the others (if not advised otherwise in the course description). If the instructor notices someone disturbing the class time after time or if the safer space guidelines are not followed, the instructor has a possibility to remove a participant from the class. 

Registering on a course

Registering on a course takes place on our website through the link in the course description. Registering and payment for the course take place at the same time in the online shop. Courses can also be purchased at the Cable Factory ticket selling info desks.

You will receive a reminder two days prior to the beginning of the course. If participating a course requires any preparing in advance or special equipment, you will be informed in advance in the course description on the website and in a separate e-mail when necessary.

Payment and cancellation

In case of acute illness, please get in touch with Zodiak. Your course payment may be refunded only against a medical certificate. If there are not enough participants in a course, Zodiak will inform all participants about the cancellation by email 10 days prior to the beginning of a course or workshop and will reimburse the participation fee to the customer.

Zodiak’s courses and workshops can also be paid with SmartumPay app, ePassi and MobilePay app and with Smartum exercise and culture vouchers (only at the ticket selling info desk at the Cable Factory, Lasipiha & Kaapelitehtaan Konttori).
 

For more information, please contact: elina.tervonen@zodiak.fi

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