Programme | Zodiak

Z-Lab: Sara Kovamäki

Zodiak Laboratory is Zodiak’s residency concept. Dancer, visual artist Sara Kovamäki will work during the residency with her project In the Shadow of the Sun King (…). Open demos have been cancelled due to continued corona restrictions.

Thu

14.1. at 17

Fri

15.1. at 17

Zodiak Studio C4

Z-Free

Two people looking at the camre, both in their own picture frame

Angela Aldebs, Kati Raatikainen: Dancing with Social Distance

Dancing with Social Distance creates a space for meeting people without physical contact in this state of emergency. Taking place on the Zoom online platform, Dancing with Social Distance is an opportunity to dance together in a simple way.

Wed

3.2. at 18

Wed

3.2. at 19

Thu

4.2. at 10

Thu

4.2. at 17

Fri

5.2. at 15

Fri

5.2. at 16

Fri

5.2. at 18

Fri

5.2. at 19

Sat

6.2. at 13

Sat

6.2. at 14

Sat

6.2. at 15

Sat

6.2. at 16

Sun

7.2. at 13

Sun

7.2. at 14

Sun

7.2. at 15

Sun

7.2. at 16

Sun

7.2. at 17

Tue

9.2. at 10

Tue

9.2. at 11

Tue

9.2. at 15

Tue

9.2. at 18

Wed

10.2. at 15

Wed

10.2. at 17

Thu

11.2. at 13

Thu

11.2. at 14

Thu

11.2. at 18

Thu

11.2. at 19

Fri

12.2. at 18

Sat

13.2. at 14

Sat

13.2. at 15

Zoom

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Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

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A figure crouch on the floor in a gallery like space, which also has metallic frames in it.

Photo: Íris María / Íd, This Grace

In Residency: This Grace

The Icelandic working group Saga S.dóttir, Halla Thordardottir ja Adalheidur Halldorsdottir were supposed to travel to Helsinki in order to work in residency during the Side Step Festival. However, due to new travel restrictions, the residence will take…

Wed

3.2. at 19

Zodiak's YouTube channel

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Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

Photos: Eva Würdinger, Aki-Pekka Sinikoski

Zodiak Salon: Meg Stuart & Maija Hirvanen

Side Step Festival 2021 has invited dance artists from different backgrounds to share a conversation with each other. This artist dialogues will be published on Zodiak’s website at the beginning of the festival, and they can be viewed until one week after…

Thu

4.–21.2.

Keskustelut

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

Photos: Joma Richter, Jimi Kettunen

Zodiak Salon: Auri Ahola & Veli Lehtovaara

Thu

4.–21.2.

Keskustelut

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

Photos: Nana Simelius, Janette Mirjamo (x 2)

Zodiak Salon: Ballroom Culture – Amanda 007, Lydia Gucci & Lola Gucci

Thu

4.–21.2.

Keskustelut

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

Kuvat: Mikko Niemistö, Lau Lukkarila

Zodiak Salon: Mikko Niemistö & Lau Lukkarila

Thu

4.–21.2.

Keskustelut

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

A picture from a virtual reality world. There is one dancer visible.

Hanna Pajala-Assefa, Daniel Leggat, Janne Storm: Skeleton Conductor XR Art

Skeleton Conductor XR Art is an inclusive, individual virtual reality (VR) art experience where free bodily expression takes the user into a space of kinesthetic composition and active awareness of oneself. The user-centric multisensorial virtual…

Sat

6.2. at 12

Premiere

Sat

6.2. at 12:15

Sat

6.2. at 12:30

Sat

6.2. at 12:45

Sat

6.2. at 13

Sat

6.2. at 13:15

Sat

6.2. at 14

Sat

6.2. at 14:15

Sat

6.2. at 14:30

Sat

6.2. at 14:45

Sat

6.2. at 15

Sat

6.2. at 15:15

Sat

6.2. at 16

Sat

6.2. at 16:15

Sat

6.2. at 16:30

Sat

6.2. at 16:45

Sat

6.2. at 17

Sat

6.2. at 17:15

Sun

7.2. at 12

Sun

7.2. at 12:15

Sun

7.2. at 12:30

Sun

7.2. at 12:45

Sun

7.2. at 13

Sun

7.2. at 13:15

Sun

7.2. at 14

Sun

7.2. at 14:15

Sun

7.2. at 14:30

Sun

7.2. at 14:45

Sun

7.2. at 15

Sun

7.2. at 15:15

Sun

7.2. at 16

Sun

7.2. at 16:15

Sun

7.2. at 16:30

Sun

7.2. at 16:45

Sun

7.2. at 17

Sun

7.2. at 17:15

Helsinki XR Center, Hämeentie 135 A, 4th floor

Performance

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

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Two assumed women, sitting with blocks of wood in their lap and around them.

Kuva: Soili Huhtakallio

Elsa Heikkilä, Laura Lehtinen: Sketches on Class III

Sketches on Class III is the third public showing in the initiative Working Class Background Embodied. The live-streamed performance sketch marks the end of the working group’s residency period at the cultural centre Stoa as part of Side Step Festival…

Wed

10.2. at 19

Zodiak's YouTube channel

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Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

A figure, wearing floaty clothes, on a beach

åstra [Astrotrilogy 3] / Work in Progress

Simo Kellokumpu will be working in residency during Side Step Festival 2021, on the performance-installation åstra. The residency will end with an open studio.

Thu

11.2. at 16 – 11.2. at 20

Fri

12.2. at 16 – 12.2. at 20

Sat

13.2. at 13 – 13.2. at 18

Zodiak Stage

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Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

A person wearing headphones, is watching some people, who are wearing red.

Photo: Jouni Ihalainen (2017)

Fenced Dreams Take Away

Fenced Dreams Take Away is a radio play walk, a hike to accept diversity. It is based on the walking performance Fenced Dreams, carried out in 2017–2019.

Sat

13.2. at 13

Volitional location & SoundCloud

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Sivuaskel-festivaali 2021

Photo: Sari Antikainen

Liisa Pentti: Four x duet + 1

Four x duet + 1, a dance piece directed by choreographer Liisa Pentti, makes room for all that is special and different as well as for a dialogue that enables a diverse connection and community in a world where barriers seem to become higher and the space…

Fri

26.2. at 19

Premiere

Sat

27.2.

Sun

28.2.

Mon

1.3.

Tue

2.3.

Wed

3.3.

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4.3.

Fri

5.3.

Due to corona restrictions, the live performances of the work are cancelled. The work will premiere as a live stream on Zodiak's YouTube channel.

Zodiak Stage

Performance

Several people standing and forming a circle.

Photo: Sari Antikainen

Creating space for creativity – collaborative processes with special needs groups

In this seminar, four dance artists and pedagogues tell about their work with people with special needs and especially with people on the autism spectrum and with learning disabilities.

Sat

27.2. at 15:30 – 27.2. at 18

Zoom

Luennot

One person sitting on a chair, three other dancing around them.

Photo: Uupi Tirronen

Sari Palmgren: Utopia (on empathy)

Utopia (on empathy) is a multidisciplinary performance where a better and more empathic future is created. The work combines dance, movement, singing, music, and discussions on future visions and the role of empathy in the vision work.

Thu

4.3. at 18

Canceled

Thu

4.3. at 21

Canceled

Sat

6.3. at 18

Canceled

Sat

6.3. at 21

Canceled

Sun

7.3. at 18

Canceled

Sun

7.3. at 21

Canceled

The performances on MArch 2021 are cancelled. We are currently looking for replacement dates from autumn 2021.

There is a possibility to enjoy a dinner before the performances in Hotel Katajanokka’s Linnankellari restaurant. The dinner hours are 16:30 and 19:00. Dinner tickets from Tiketti.

Hotel Katajanokka, Kirkkosali

Performance

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

5.3. at 19

Canceled

Sat

6.3. at 19

Canceled

Sun

7.3. at 15

Canceled

Tue

9.3. at 19

Canceled

Wed

10.3. at 19

Canceled

Fri

12.3. at 19

Canceled

Sat

13.3. at 15

Canceled

Sun

14.3. at 15

Canceled

The performances on March 2021 have been cancelled. We are currently looking for replacement dates from autumn 2021.

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Zodiak Stage

Performance

The person in the picture is moving their head, which leaves ghost images in the air.

Photo: Jonas Lundqvist

Johanna Nuutinen: OPIA

How do environmental stimuli guide our gaze and spatial orientation? In what ways do we exercise power through the gaze? Why do we build meanings through our gaze where there previously were none?

Tue

23.3. at 19

Premiere

Thu

25.3. at 19

Sat

27.3. at 15

Sun

28.3. at 15

Tue

30.3. at 19

Wed

31.3. at 19

Thu

1.4. at 19

Strobe light is used in the performance.

Zodiak Stage

Performance

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Photo: Tuukka Ervasti

Sonya Lindfors: camouflage

camouflage, by choreographer Sonya Lindfors and working group, examines the act of looking and the politics of the gaze.

Thu

15.4. at 19

Premiere

Sat

17.4. at 19

Sun

18.4. at 15

Tue

20.4. at 19

Wed

21.4. at 15

Fri

23.4. at 21

Sat

24.4. at 19

Sun

25.4. at 15

Stoa

Performance

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Photo: Friederike Meese

School performances: Marc Philipp Gabriel – Maija Karhunen: AJIMA

Zodiak and Ruutia! Festival will organize in collaboration in April two free performances of AJIMA, a piece by Maija Karhunen and Marc Philipp Gabriel. The performances are directed for upper comprehensive schools, vocational schools and high schools.

Thu

22.4. at 14

Fri

23.4. at 14

Zodiak Stage

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Black space, three light figures moving fast

Photo: Katri Naukkarinen

Ahti Kuningas Lommi Nenonen Salo Soidinsalo: Svett

Svett is a performance that discloses corporeality through motifs of pleasure, emancipation and the act of letting go.

Tue

18.5. at 19

Premiere

Thu

20.5. at 19

Fri

21.5. at 19

Sat

22.5. at 19

Tue

25.5. at 19

Wed

26.5. at 19

Thu

27.5. at 19

Sat

29.5. at 19

Sun

30.5. at 15

Teater Viirus (Välimerenkatu 14, Helsinki)

Performance

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Two children wearing Marimekko. One of them is holding a sheaf of wheat, the other one a riffle

Photo: Valtteri Raekallio

Valtteri Raekallio: Uraanilamppu

– There is no spectator, they melted away by staring at the fireplace video too close for too long.

Wed

19.5. at 19

Premiere

Thu

20.5. at 19

Fri

21.5. at 19

Sat

22.5. at 13

Sat

22.5. at 17

Sun

23.5. at 13

Sun

23.5. at 17

Wed

26.5. at 19

Thu

27.5. at 19

Fri

28.5. at 19

Sat

29.5. at 13

Sat

29.5. at 17

Sun

30.5. at 13

Sun

30.5. at 17

Oil Silo 468, Kruunuvuorenranta

Performance

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A strongly edited photo that shows a face in a whirl of oil.

Photo: Gianpaolo Basilicò & Karoliina Loimaala

Z-Lab: Karoliina Loimaala & working group

Zodiak Laboratory is Zodiak’s residency concept. Choreographer Karoliina Loimaala, together with her working group, will work during the residency with their new work Oilscapes.

Thu

20.5. at 17

Fri

21.5. at 17

Zodiak Studio C4

Z-Free

Dancer in a blue shirt, standing with arms streched out

Photo: Ulla Nikula

Kati Raatikainen: Quartetto

In Quartetto, four individuals who perceive and interact with the world slightly differently meet on stage to dance together and alone, to surrender to motion that arises from their own uniqueness, from their own longing and love.

Wed

9.6. at 19

Premiere

Thu

10.6. at 19

Zodiak Stage

Performance

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