TAMPERE DANCE CURRENT DANCE ARTIST
JUKKA TARVAINEN
The Tampere Dance Current Dance Artist is dancer-choreographer Jukka Tarvainen. The festival’s dance artist’s task is to bring dance to the streets, to people’s everyday lives, during the festival week.
The Dance Artists and his teams work and performance schedule will be published in April.
Jukka Tarvainen is a dance artist and a choreographer who has performed in a wide variety of works by numerous choreographers and directors. He also works as a choreographer himself. Tarvainen has been an accomplished practitioner of acrobatics and parkour since 2003. Performances staged in settings outside the theatre and movement in public spaces are among his special areas of interest.
Cover photo: Tanssiteatteri MD: Aukio, Tanssivirtaa Tampereella 2023 © Heikki Järvinen
Picture of Jukka Tarvainen © Matti Häyrynen