Programme Spring 2023

Zodiak Laboratory: Teo Ala-Ruona

Zodiak Laboratory is Zodiak's residency concept. In January 2023 the Z-Lab residency artist are Teo Ala-Ruona and their working group.

Fri

20.1. at 17

Zodiak Studio C4

Z-Lab

Photo: Katri Naukkarinen

Jenni-Elina von Bagh: As time goes by

The starting point of the performance As time goes by, by choreographer Jenni-Elina von Bagh, is dense and philosophic, but the artistic outcome gives value to lightness and play. It sticks and stays with a sensation of troubled times and extrudes a…

Thu

2.2. at 19

Premiere

Fri

3.2. at 19

Sat

4.2. at 15

Zodiak Stage

Performance

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

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Exhibition poster

Choy Ka Fai: The Wanderer: Metal, Water, Earth (2021-2022)

During Side Step Festival 2023, the MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre at the Cable Factory is presenting The Wanderer: Metal, Water, Earth (2021-2022), by choreographer Choy Ka Fai. Open from Feb 4 until Feb 12.

Fri

3.2. at 17

Venue: MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre

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Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

Choy Ka Fai: Yishun is Burning / Photo: Dajana Lothert

Discussion | Choy Ka Fai & Virve Sutinen

On Sat, Feb 4, contrary to earlier information, choreographer and artist Choy Ka Fai will meet in dialogue with curator Virve Sutinen.

Sat

4.2. at 17 – 19

Venue: Cable Factory's Konttori café

Discussions

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

Navy Blue Faces, Screenshot from a video.

Navy Blue Faces

A video installion by Oona Doherty & Luca Truffarelli. The installation will be seen as a loop at Dance House Helsinki, before the festival performances taking place there.

Sat

4.2. at 19

Wed

8.2. at 18

Fri

10.2. at 18

Sat

11.2. at 16

Venue: Dance House Helsinki, basement foyer

Other event

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

Photo: Dajana Lothert

Choy Ka Fai: Yishun Is Burning

Shamanism meets Voguing meets Yishun. For Yishun is Burning, choreographer Choy Ka Fai adapts Singaporean ritual dances for a transcendent, queer solo on a multimedia stage.

Sat

4.2. at 20

Tanssin talo, Pannuhalli

Performance

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

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Photo: Timo Wright / Side Step Festival 2020

Side Step Saturday Parties

On both Saturday's of Side Step Festival 2023 the evening continues after the last performance at Cable Factory's Konttori.

Sat

4.2. at 21

Sat

11.2. at 21

Venue: Cable Factory's Konttori café

Other event

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

Screen shot from the film.

Andrea Zanoli: OVERTOUR

Andrea Zanoli's documentary that follows choreographer Silvia Gribaudi's work with women over 60.

Tue

7.2. at 18

Venue: Cable Factory's Konttori café

Other event

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

Screen shot from the film.

Oona Doherty & Luca Truffarelli: Hope Hunt filmed

A film by Oona Doherty and Luca Truffarelli.

Tue

7.2. at 19:30

Venue: Cable Factory's Konttori café

Other event

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

Photo: Sinje Hasheider

Oona Doherty: Navy Blue

Using her distinctive and visceral choreographic style, award-winning choreographer Oona Doherty creates an unsettling atmosphere for her first work for the big stage, Navy Blue.

Wed

8.2. at 19

Tanssin talo, Erkko-sali

Performance

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

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Photo: Tjumur Dance Theater. In the photo Doctor Dance.

Eleanor Bauer, Chris Peck: BAUER HOUR & A PECK SEC

BAUER HOUR & A PECK SEC (feat. Doctor Dance and Professor Peck) is a talk show, variety show, shit show, parlor show, all or none of the above and also an experiment.

Wed

8.2. at 20:30

Thu

9.2. at 20:30

Fri

10.2. at 20:30

Kaapelitehtaan Konttori

Performance

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

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Photo: Julie Hrnčířová

Harald Beharie: Batty Bwoy

Harald Beharie’s Batty Bwoy is a dance solo which doesn’t start with a question, or a critique, but from a place of play and desire, entangled in violence and charming cruelty. Batty Bwoy is a corporal fiction, inseparable from queer blackness.

Thu

9.2. at 19

Sat

11.2. at 15

The performance includes nakedness.

Zodiak Stage

Performance

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

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Photo: Fabio Sau. In the photo: Kuvassa: Andrea Rampazzo, Siro Guglielmi, Silvia Gribaudi & Matteo Marchesi.

Silvia Gribaudi: Graces

Graces, by Italian choreographer Silvia Gribaudi, is a sculptural, pop piece that investigates the various shades of a concrete and insolent beauty, one that can overturn all beauty standards. Graces shines with virtuosity and humor, the joy of the…

Fri

10.2. at 19

Sat

11.2. at 17

Tanssin talo, Pannuhalli

Performance

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

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Photo: Urban Jörén. In the photo: Marco da Silva Ferreira.

Cullberg, Jefta van Dinther: On Earth I'm Done: Mountains

Mountains is the first part of the archaic-futuristic diptych On Earth I’m Done by Jefta van Dinther for the Swedish dance company Cullberg. In Mountains, Van Dinther tackles the question of how to be and stay in love with our ever-changing world.

Sat

11.2. at 19

Theatre haze is used in the performance. The performance includes loud noises.

Tanssin talo, Erkko-sali

Performance

Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023

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Photo: Jussi Ulkuniemi

Sanna Blennow, Mikko Niemistö: SOMETHING AND NOTHING ABOUT DARKNESS

The collaboration between Sanna Blennow and Mikko Niemistö is a dream about leaving the mundane repetition of everyday life, a proposal to merge and to get lost in the limbo. It embraces nothingness and the animal inside of us, venturing to the dark side.

Thu

23.2. at 19

Premiere

Sat

25.2. at 15

Mon

27.2. at 19

Tue

28.2. at 19

Wed

1.3. at 19

Fri

3.3. at 19

Sat

4.3. at 15

Mon

6.3. at 19

Tue

7.3. at 19

Theater haze is used in the performance. The performance includes loud noises and strong light effects. There is a moment of controlled blackout in the performance.

There is a small amount of so called "pay what you can" tickets available for each performance date. The PWYC tickets can be bought in advance via this link.

With this gesture we wish to guarentee that no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Zodiak Stage

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Photo: Jussi Ulkuniemi

Mia Jaatinen, working group: RIEHA

RIEHA is a bodily celebration of collective boisterousness. The performance rumbles, roars, and guides the group of performers towards a ecstatic state of embodiment.

Wed

22.3. at 19

Premiere

Fri

24.3. at 19

Sat

25.3. at 15

Tue

28.3. at 19

Thu

30.3. at 19

Fri

31.3. at 19

Sat

1.4. at 15

Mon

3.4. at 19

Tue

4.4. at 19

Loud noises occur in the performance.

There is a small amount of so called "pay what you can" tickets available for each performance date. The PWYC tickets can be bought in advance via this link.

With this gesture we wish to guarentee that no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Zodiak Stage

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Photo: Venla Helenius

Elina Pirinen: Mortal Tropical Dances

How to share the earth-shattering power of life? Award-winning dance artist and music maker Elina Pirinen’s long-awaited new symphonic creation Mortal Tropical Dances will fill the large stage of Dance House Helsinki with special dances arising from our…

Fri

5.5. at 19

Premiere

Tue

9.5. at 19

Wed

10.5. at 19

Fri

12.5. at 19

Sat

13.5. at 19

Sun

14.5. at 15

There is a small amount of so called "pay what you can" tickets available for each performance date. The PWYC tickets can be bought in advance via this link.

With this gesture we wish to guarentee that no one is turned away for lack of funds.

The performances utilizes theatre haze, loud noises and scents.

Tanssin talo, Erkko-sali

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Photo: Tuukka Ervasti

Sonya Lindfors: ONE DROP

ONE DROP is a speculative summoning, a decolonial dream, an autopsy of the Western stage and an operetta. It continues Sonya Lindfors’ series of works dealing with power, representation and Black body politics.

Sat

6.5. at 20

Premiere

Tue

9.5. at 20

Wed

10.5. at 14

Wed

10.5. at 20

Fri

12.5. at 20

Sat

13.5. at 17

Sun

14.5. at 17

Tue

16.5. at 14

Tue

16.5. at 20

Tanssin talo, Pannuhalli

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Photo: Katri Naukkarinen

Jenni-Elina von Bagh: As time goes by

Thu

11.5. at 19

Sat

13.5. at 13

Sun

14.5. at 13

Wed

17.5. at 19

Mon

22.5. at 19

Tue

23.5. at 19

Wed

24.5. at 19

There is a small amount of so called "pay what you can" tickets available for the performances. The PWYC tickets can be bought in advance via this link.

With this gesture we wish to guarentee that no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Zodiak Stage

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Photo: Soili Huhtakallio

Zodiak Laboratory: Soili Huhtakallio and working group

Zodiak Laboratory is Zodiak's recidency concept. In May 2023 the Z-Lab artists are Soili Huhtakallio with their working group.

Fri

12.5. at 17

Sat

13.5. at 15

Zodiak Studio C4

Z-Lab

Photo: Saara Taussi

Tiia Kasurinen: ONSTAGE – The Concert

ONSTAGE – The Concert, by Tiia Kasurinen, draws inspiration from pop stars, club concerts and stage alter egos - and especially from the femmes of the music industry who have harnessed the audience’s gaze.

Thu

31.8. at 19

Premiere

Fri

1.9. at 19

Sat

2.9. at 19

Sun

3.9. at 15

The performances on 31.8.–3.9. in Pannu Hall are a part of the Helsinki Festival 2023.
The work continues in Zodiak's season programme at Zodiak Stage on 6.–12.9. The tickets for the Zodiak Stage performances come available in the beginning of June.

Tanssin talo, Pannuhalli

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