SIDE PROGRAM
DANCE + CITY
Tue 20.5. at 6.30pm & Wed 21.5. at 6.30pm | Hällä Stage, small stage
“Dance Plus City” is a cycle of short dance video clips created in the impressive architectural objects of Lithuanian cities, dedicated to contemporary dance and its synergy with architecture and video art.
The total duration of the film screening is 10’45.
The film screening is included in the admission price.
- Lithuanian Composers’ Union House (1’30, LI, 2021)
- The Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania (1’30, LI, 2021)
- Vilnius | MKIC (1’30)
- Visaginas | Miestas miške (1’30)
- Nida | Prieplauka (1’15)
- Sea Fragment / Seawater swimming pool (Saint-Quay-Portrieux, France) (3’33, FR, 2024)
Picture from the movie: Lithuanian Composers’ Union House 1’30
Dreamwork
Wed 21.5. at 5 pm & Sun 25.5. at 2 pm| Arthouse Cinema Niagara
Please notice that the tickets to the film are sold seperately
Art film / Experimental feature film. 62 min. Directed and written by Anna-Maria Lipponen (FIN). Produced by Studio Total Helsinki.
Human masses work on multiple floors. Humans artificially grow another human inside themselves. Meanwhile, the last wild escapes.
Dreamwork is a visual poem about the human body, it’s a state of mind. Utopias have gained a new foothold in the world. The question for humanity is whether we should stop the progress of utopias.
Luckily even civilised predators know how to dream about good.
”Luckily even civilised predators know how to dream about good. Therefore, there is still hope in the world.”
© Petri Tuhkanen
How to Write Dance? -talk
Fri 23.5.2025 at 5.30-6.15 pm | Hällä Stage, small stage
The talk is in Finnish
The discussion is between choreographer and artist Anne Naukkarinen and dance artist Leevi Rauhalahti.
A Book of Dances is a collection of written choreographies by Finnish-based artists Anne Naukkarinen, Laura Cemin, Mikko Niemistö, and Marika Peura, and Swedish-based artists BamBam Frost, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, and Pontus Pettersson. It’s edited by Anne Naukkarinen.
Book explores language as a writing-based approach to choreographic practice. It brings attention to the contradictions, translations, and intimate relationships between dance and language.In A Book of Dances, multiple languages are intertwined with the situated knowledge and histories of the participating artists, each embedded within specific social contexts.
The book’s aim is not to define choreographic practices as such, but to create a space for writing that engages with and embodies diverse perspectives on world-making. Thus, the process of meaning-making becomes situated, relational, and unstable—it shifts constantly.
More about the book
© Aino Nieminen
