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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Zodiak Salon: Auri Ahola & Veli Lehtovaara
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…
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Zodiak Salon: Ballroom Culture – Amanda 007, Lydia Gucci & Lola Gucci
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…
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Zodiak Salon: Mikko Niemistö & Lau Lukkarila
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…
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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…
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Helsinki XR Center, Hämeentie 135 A, 4th floor
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Volitional location & SoundCloud
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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The performances on March 2021 have been cancelled. We are currently looking for replacement dates from autumn 2021.
See here how to find your way to Zodiak.
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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?
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Strobe light is used in the performance.
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Sonya Lindfors: camouflage
camouflage, by choreographer Sonya Lindfors and working group, examines the act of looking and the politics of the gaze.
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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.
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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.
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Teater Viirus (Välimerenkatu 14, Helsinki)
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Valtteri Raekallio: Uraanilamppu
– There is no spectator, they melted away by staring at the fireplace video too close for too long.
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Oil Silo 468, Kruunuvuorenranta
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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.
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Zodiak Studio C4
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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.
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