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
Premiere
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Zodiak Stage
Performance
Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023
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
Venue: MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre
Other event
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
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
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Sat
Venue: Dance House Helsinki, basement foyer
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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
Tanssin talo, Pannuhalli
Performance
Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023
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
Sat
Venue: Cable Factory's Konttori café
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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
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
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
Tanssin talo, Erkko-sali
Performance
Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023
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
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Kaapelitehtaan Konttori
Performance
Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023
Photo: Mariangela Pluchino, Moving in November, Stoa, Helsinki, 2019
CANCELLED Conversations / Eleanor Bauer
What do we need to talk about now, and how do we do it? Conversations is a performative format of gathering around collective matters of concern.
Before arriving in Helsinki for the Side Step festival, Eleanor Bauer will lead Conversations workshop…
Thu
Fri
Zodiak Studio C4
Course
Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023
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
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The performance includes nakedness.
Zodiak Stage
Performance
Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023
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
Sat
Tanssin talo, Pannuhalli
Performance
Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023
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
Theatre haze is used in the performance. The performance includes loud noises.
Tanssin talo, Erkko-sali
Performance
Sivuaskel-festivaali 2023