Programme | Zodiak

Mikko Makkonen: Actions x Figures

What could the embodiments and agencies of a body assumed to be masculine look like in 2020? Could the definitions of masculinity be overcome or rewritten? How does a body that is assumed to be masculine look at the world, and how is it looked at?

Sat

15.8. at 15

Premiere

Sat

15.8. at 19

Sun

16.8. at 15

Sun

16.8. at 19

Mon

17.8. at 19

Zodiak Stage

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A still image from the film

Peter Humble, David Young: Deborah Hay Alignment is everywhere

Filmed in Australia on expired 16mm colour film and hand processed black-and-white, this poetic short film follows the iconic American choreographer, Deborah Hay, as she reflects on life, death and her work as an artist and human being.

Fri

21.8. at 19

Premiere

Sat

22.8. at 15

Zodiak Stage

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Dancer in a white skirt, with their back to the camera.

Photo: Elina Brotherus (2020)

Deborah Hay, Vera Nevanlinna: News

Vera Nevanlinna's solo performance News is based on American dance pioneer Deborah Hay’s choreographic script Nevanlinna has adapted Hay’s choreographic foundations into her own solo, creating with her workgroup a whole where the constituents –…

Fri

21.8. at 19

Premiere

Sat

22.8. at 15

Zodiak Stage

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Kick-off – Autumn 2020

Zodiak's rich and diverse autumn season has started with live performances, events and courses. A live performance and participation feels especially valuable during these times. It tunes our body to observe and makes our senses sharper.

Wed

26.–30.8.

Performance

Two people sitting in a field, and looking at the sunset.

Photo: Matti Kilponen

Jenni Koistinen: On the Way Home / Edöntie

On the Way Home / Edöntie is a walking performance in Isnäs, a small village in Eastern Uusimaa. The performance takes the audience through a landscape that has gone through many great beginnings, collapses and times of reconstruction during its long…

Sat

29.8. at 16

Premiere

Sun

30.8. at 16

Sat

5.9. at 16

Sun

6.9. at 16

There is a free bus transportation from Helsinki on Aug 29 & 30, and from Loviisa on Sep 5 & 6.

Kaarnaranta, Edöntie 142, Loviisa

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Photo: Katri Naukkarinen

Mikko Niemistö: Odd Meters

Odd Meters by choreographer/performer Mikko Niemistö is a frenzied dance that bounces between rhythms in an attempt to reconstruct itself from fragments of dreams, time and the body. It works with rhythms found in the moment that overlap, argue and shake…

Wed

2.9. at 19

Premiere

Thu

3.9. at 19

Sat

5.9. at 15

Sun

6.9. at 15

Tue

8.9. at 19

Wed

9.9. at 19

Fri

11.9. at 19

Sun

13.9. at 15

The performance includes loud noices.

Zodiak Stage

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A shaken photo of a person, their face partially cropped out of the picture.

Photo: Yoshi Omori

Z-free: Hanna Ahti

Z-free is Zodiak’s residency concept. Dance artist Hanna Ahti will work with her new solo project while in residence in autumn 2020. The working title of the project is Francis.

Tue

8.9. at 17 – 8.9. at 18:30

Wed

9.9. at 17 – 9.9. at 18:30

Zodiak Studio C4

Z-Free

A dancer and a performer dressed as a pig in a field.

Photo: Satbir Singh / Kylässä koillisessa – kiertomatka pihoilta poluille (HKT)

Paikallismaisemia 2020 Festival

Paikallismaisemia Festival invites you to look at everyday landscapes from a different angle.

Thu

24.9. at 15

Fri

25.9. at 16

Sat

26.9. at 16

Sun

27.9. at 14

Siltamäki ja Suutarila

Other event

A female character lying in a pink space, wearing a long blonde wig and heavy makeup

Photo: Saara Taussi

Tiia Kasurinen: I'm not entirely here (cybersad)

I'm not entirely here (cybersad) is in love with sad girl aesthetics, classic art memes and grainy zoomed images. It is a perspective into a world that plays with gender stereotypes, sexuality and pink aesthetics as instruments for becoming whole.

Thu

24.9. at 19

Premiere

Sat

26.9. at 15

Sun

27.9. at 15

Tue

29.9. at 19

Wed

30.9. at 19

Fri

2.10. at 19

Sat

3.10. at 15

Sun

4.10. at 15

Zodiak Stage

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Kuva: Annika Miettinen

Angela al Debs – Kati Raatikainen: A being in view

Dance artists Angela al Debs and Kati Raatikainen have been working on the performance A being in a view taking into account the existing social constraints at the time of the coronavirus. The performance takes place in different places around Northeast…

Tue

12.5. at 13 – 26.5. at 14:30

Fri

25.9. at 16 – 25.9. at 17:30

Other event

Photo: Vesa-Pekka Grönfors

Z-free: Iina Taijonlahti

Z-free is Zodiak’s residency concept. Choreographer Iina Taijonlahti and her working group will work on their project Human Robot. Moving Robot while in residence in autumn 2020.

Tue

29.9. at 17 – 29.9. at 18:30

Wed

30.9. at 17 – 30.9. at 18:30

Zodiak Studio C4

Z-Free

Four dancers under a brigde. They are holding smoke cartridges

Photo: Uupi Tirronen

Sari Palmgren: Joy Riot

How to riot through joy in the artistic process, in the performance and while performing? Joy Riot, by Zodiak’s house choreographer Sari Palmgren, focuses on the revolutionary qualities of joy from different perspectives and explores a type of movement…

Wed

7.10. at 19

Premiere

Fri

9.10. at 19

Sun

11.10. at 15

Tue

13.10. at 19

Thu

15.10. at 19

Fri

16.10. at 19

Sun

18.10. at 15

See here how to find Stoa.

Theatre haze is used in the performance.

Stoa

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Three dancers seem to be hangin from a wall

Photo: Sanna Lehto

Georgie Goater, Maikki Palm, Gesa Piper: Memory Matter

In Memory Matter, by Gesa Piper, Maikki Palm and Georgie Goater, embodied ancestral lineages are explored and reimagined through herstorical perspectives, colliding and intertwining corporeal auto-narratives, and the immanent grandbodies in each of us.

Wed

21.10. at 19

Premiere

Fri

23.10. at 19

Sat

24.10. at 15

Sun

25.10. at 15

Tue

27.10. at 19

Wed

28.10. at 19

Zodiak Stage

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A person is partly laying under fallen chairs, holding on to them

Photo: Pedro Hurpia

Z-free: Heli Keskikallio

Z-free is Zodiak's residency concept. Choreographer Heli Keskikallio will focus, together with her working group, on their upcoming work Wild Thing.

Tue

27.10. at 17 – 27.10. at 18:30

Wed

28.10. at 17 – 28.10. at 18:30

Zodiak Studio C4

Z-Free

A drawing in black and white, with yellow details. Human figures.

Drawing: Sonja Jokiniemi

Sonja Jokiniemi: ÖH

In her new group performance ÖH Sonja Jokiniemi creates a multisensorial textile environment using handmade rugs as well as knotting and sewing techniques, in order to bind together a sensorial logic as a choreographic proposition. Here colours narrate…

Tue

10.11. at 19

Premiere

Wed

11.11. at 19

Fri

13.11. at 20

Sat

14.11. at 15

Tue

17.11. at 19

Wed

18.11. at 19

Fri

20.11. at 19

Sat

21.11. at 19

Mon

23.11. at 19

Tue

24.11. at 19

Zodiak Stage

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Three presumed females in colourful clothing, in a formation resembling a baroque painting

Photo: Venla Helenius

Kemppainen, Nieminen, Peura: and then they left

and then they left is a puddle and an ocean of lies, liquids and truths. It is a watery yet dry magic trick that wants to fall towards an uncategorised space and pleasure.

Fri

4.12. at 19

Premiere

Tue

8.12. at 19

Wed

9.12. at 19

Fri

11.12. at 19

Sat

12.12. at 15

Tue

15.12. at 19

Wed

16.12. at 19

Thu

17.12. at 19

Zodiak Stage

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A red space, featuring a person holding a digital screen, showing their face, in front of their face,

Photo: Rafael Mentges

Z-free: Lindon Shimizu & Dasha Lavrennikov

Z-free is Zodiak’s residency concept. Lindon Shimizu and Dasha Lavrennikov will work with their new project Project M while in residence in autumn 2020.

Tue

8.12. at 17 – 8.12. at 18:30

Wed

9.12. at 17 – 9.12. at 18:30

Zodiak Studio C4

Z-Free