Side Step Festival's additional programme gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the works and the artists' work. The Side Programme, which is framing the preformance works in the programme, will be hosted by festival curators Jenni-Elina von Bagh and Peter Mills.
Schedule and content
Sat 3.2. at 14-14:30 CATALYSTS – Somatic Resonance / exhibition opening
- Discussion with Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and Susan Kozel
- @ MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre
- Host: Peter Mills
Sat 3.2. at 15 Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir: Boundless Ominous Fields
Side Programme after the performance around 16:00
- Automatic drawing + Q&A
- bring something you can draw with
- @ Zodiak Stage
- Host: Jenni-Elina von Bagh & Peter Mills
Sat 3.2. 19.30 Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira: Repertório N.2
Side Programme after the performance around 20:10
- Speed dating where we reflect the perfomance in pairs + Q&A
- @ Kaapelitehtaan Konttori
- Host: Peter Mills
After the activitity: Festival Club with DJ Keïdas.
Sun 4.2. 18:00 Silvia Gribaudi: GRAND JETÉ
Side Programme after the performance around 19:10
- Love letters to Silvia + Q&A
- bring your own pen and a beautiful letter paper, if you wish
- @ Glass Court Yard
- Host: Peter Mills
Tue 6.2. at 19:00 Agata Siniarska: null&void
Side Programme after the performance around 20:00.
- Creative crafting with fingers and teeth + Q&A
- @ Zodiak Stage
- Host: Peter Mills & Jenni-Elina von Bagh
Wed 7.2. at 19.:0 Florentina Holzinger: TANZ
Side Programme after the performance around 22:00.
- Instructed meditation + Q&A
- @ Glass Court Yard
- Host: Peter Mills & Jenni-Elina von Bagh
Fri 9.2. at 19:00 Cullberg / Halla Ólafsdóttir: Sylph
Side Programme after the performance around 20:00.
- Questions for your subconscious + Q&A
- @ Kaapelitehtaan Konttori
- Host: Peter Mills
PETER is a choreographer, a dance maker, a dance dance dance… PETER aka Peter Mills works with the slow influence of choreography and its ethical implications. And believes the experience of working with dance is a great privilege and wishes to promote greater access to dance as a form of creative expression. Peter works with Riksteatern, MDT, and Weld in Sweden and is an assistant professor of choreography with a specialization in improvisation at Stockholm university of the arts.