Workshops

The course is aimed at children of primary school age and their close adults. The course focuses on creative movement and dance through play and interaction.  

In the senior course of Tiia Kasurinen, we enjoy music, work with exercises ranging from soft to dynamic, shake up the body, and experiment different layers – from each participant’s starting point.    

In the Indulge the Movement course by Marlon Moilanen, the body is allowed to vibrate, rumble, and dance to its poetry, reaching for alternative artistic landscapes.

During the course led by Outi Markkula, we tune rhythmically, experimentally, and socially into the feeling of dance.

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…

During the course led by Anna Mustonen, we dance by listening closely to our bodies. Through bodily exercises, we surrender to the feeling of dance, let loose and soften our bodies, and allow our perception to become more focused.

The Indulge the Movement course led by Johannes Purovaara explores warming up as an artistic question through easy movement and togetherness, in the midst of the slowly brightening winter.

RelaxtoErupt is a physically demanding movement methodology designed to encourage, inspire & build confidence in the constant search for movement created by Lewis Cooke.

Tuomo Railo's senior course is about moulding the form, bending the body and will, trusting the memory, knowing the rhythm, and opening the sources of joy.    

The course led by Minna Karttunen explores the kinesthetic toolbox and encourages the body to dance the dance of unlimited possibilities.

The course led by Meri Pajunpää focuses on listening to the body through breathing, with the help of movement coordinations that gently open the body. Gradually, we progress towards more active movement exercises, and as if by accident, we find ourselves…

During this workshop, Caroline Eckly will share some of the themes and tasks that inspired her during recent collaborations with Elina Pirinen, Marcelo Evelin and Eszter Salamon. In the spring 2023, she will join the creation of Mortal Tropical Dances by…