TSC Triple Bill: Wild is the Wind
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5 performances
22.9-26.9.2026
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Duration
2 h 30 min (incl. intermission)
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Venue
Erkko Hall
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Tickets
65–16 €
Show times
Tue 22.9. at 19:00 | Premiere I, TSC 30 years anniversary performance, audience discussion after the show.
Wed 23.9. at 19:00 | Premiere II
Thu 24.9. at 19:00, audience discussion after the show.
Fri 25.9. at 19:00
Sat 26.9. at 14:00
Introduction
In September 2026, Tero Saarinen Company celebrates its 30th anniversary with a triple bill that reflects on dance’s relationship to tradition and renewal. The evening brings together works by choreographers from three generations: Carolyn Carlson’s solo Room 7, Tero Saarinen’s duet Garden, and Sonya Lindfors’ group work Wild Is the Wind, which will have its world premiere during the season. Despite the choreographers’ differing aesthetics, the works are united by a reflection on humanity and by strong performers shaped by distinct individual voices.
Tero Saarinen returns to the stage in Room 7, a new solo created for him by Carolyn Carlson. Having built a significant international career as a solo dancer, Saarinen dives into archetypes of the mind through the absurd and Carlson’s signature poetic expression. Since the 1970s, Carlson has been one of the leading figures of European modern dance, with a significant influence also on Finnish dance. Room 7 is a tribute to the long-standing and fruitful collaboration between these two artists.
In Saarinen’s new duet Garden, two people construct their shared way of being in a world where the connection to nature has become blurred. In the piece, the garden appears as a metaphorical space in which the audience observes, with a sense of wonder, the human relationship to environment, form, and time. Movement emerges, transforms, and finds new shapes, and might something new also begin to grow from it?
The evening’s premiere piece is a commission piece by Sonya Lindfors. Wild Is the Wind, which lends its name to the triple bill, is Lindfors’ major scale work featuring TSC dancers alongside dancers Akim Bakhtaoui, Marlon Moilanen, Axelle Munezero, and Maele Sabuni – all of whom have previously worked with Lindfors – as well as live trumpeter Devina Boughton. The piece draws on the Black performance tradition and explores the power of art and dance as catalysts for change.
“Sonya Lindfors is one of the most compelling and distinctive contemporary choreographers in Northern Europe. We are delighted to produce and support her first large-scale group work for a major stage as part of TSC’s anniversary programme.” –Tero Saarinen
Organizer: Tero Saarinen Company
Credits
Room 7
Choreography: Carolyn CarlsonDance: Tero Saarinen
Lighting Design: Guillaume Bonneau
Costume Design: Carolyn Carlson, Erika Turunen
Choreographer’s Assistant: Colette Malye
Music: Compilation (René Aubry, Aleksi Aubry-Carlson)
Duration: 30 minutes
Premiere: 4 July 2024, Teatro Rossini, Civitanova Danza, Italy
Production: Tero Saarinen Company In collaboration with: Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape (France), Atelier de Paris (France), Civitanova Danza (Italy), Carolyn Carlson Company (France)
Garden
Choreography: Tero Saarinen
Light and set design: Mikki Kunttu
Music: Marko Nyberg
Costume design: Samu-Jussi Koski
Choreographer's assistants: Satu Halttunen, Henrikki Heikkilä
Dance: David Scarantino, Mikko Lampinen
Duration: 35 minutes
Premiere: 23 April 2026, Teatro della Tosse, Genoa, Italy
Production: Tero Saarinen Company
Wild Is the Wind
Choreography and direction: Sonya Lindfors
Music and sound design: Jussi Matikainen and Tiikka Drama (UTT ry)
Light design: Teo Lanerva
Costume design: Sanna Levo
Choreographer’s assistant: Emmi Max Pennanen
Set design: Aino Koski
Dance: Akim Bakhtaoui, Elina Häyrynen, Oskari Kymäläinen, Natasha Lommi, Marlon Moilanen, Axelle Munezero, Maele Sabuni, Mikko Lampinen (understudy)
Live music: Devina Boughton (trumpet)
Outside eye: Erno Aaltonen (UTT ry)
Duration: approx. 40 minutes
Premiere: 22 September 2026, Dance House Helsinki
Production: Tero Saarinen Company in collaboration with UTT ry
Ticket information
Early Bird Ticket | A 61 € / B 47 € / C 31 €
Discount Ticket | B 24 € / C 16 € Under 25s, students, unemployed, civil and military service personnel.
Pensioners | A 65 € / B 49 € / C 31 €
Group Ticket | A 65 € / B 49 € / C 31 €
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