Programme

Kulkue - Parad - Parade is a contemporary performance that combines dance, music, pre-recorded film and live projection. The piece will premiere at the newly built Dance House Helsinki in October 2022 and continue its journey at Riksscenen, Oslo, in November 2022.

Kulkue - Parad - Parade looks at the individual artistic histories of its Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian creators through an anthropological lens, with a curiosity towards what it means to inhabit and transform traditions in dance and music.

In February 2021 the working group members created a collection of “originals” - short pieces of dance, music and film - that became the source material for the nearly two-year-long process. Using different methods of passing on information - notation, translation and reconstruction, as well as improvisation, play and historical referencing - the materials have carved their way through time, place and medium to become an expression of not just their creators and carriers, but of the interwoven and layered texture of tradition itself.

This interplay between the personal and the shared situates the work as part of a larger current of intermingling and transforming traditions. The makers become informants, collectors, translators and artists all at once, curiously witnessing the leaking concepts of time, genre and authorship. Kulkue - Parad - Parade wishes to celebrate this series of transformations as the most authentic state of tradition.

The SPARKS programme is an artistic development project funded by Finnish Cultural Foundation and Dance House Helsinki to support artists in Finland who desire to create new large scale works.

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With the SPARKS PASS tickets for both Kulkue - Parad - Parade and Milla Koistinen's Magenta Haze.

Upcoming Sparks performances