NEWS PRODUCTIONS TEAM STUFF HISTORY LINKS   Suomeksi In English	01.02.2012: (re)use   We have already started the run-throughs of our new production (re)use.   We have some new dances and new stuff in the box, as well as old stuff in new shapes and forms. Extra new costum... ▶   26.01.2012: JYRKI KARTTUNEN TO START AS HELSINKI DANCE COMPANY’S NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR   Helsinki Dance Company, Helsinki City Theatre’s dance group, is getting a new artistic director. At the start of 2013, the position will be adopted by dancer/choreographer Jyrki Karttunen.... ▶   24.01.2012: HEL YES! Stockholm   A culinary cultural evening HEL YES! lands in Stockholm February 7th – 11th 2012   The experimental social gathering HEL YES! open-mindedly combines gastronomy, design and dance in... ▶   11.01.2012: 2012   Welcome to 2012.   HDC is busy working on the new production called (re)use. Today Antto visited the rehearsals, as we are also preparing for HELYES Stockholm in February. More about tha... ▶   17.12.2011: Season's Greetings   Season's greetings and all the best for the new year  ... ▶   02.12.2011: Back to where it all began   Today we are back in Umeå, north of Sweden. We will premiere (play) at NorrlandsOperan, where it all began 1,5 years ago. Then as an idea, now as a full production with live music and a lo... ▶   26.11.2011: Lets play (play) one more time   In the premiere we had 701 people watching.   Friday's performance was one to remember of different reasons. Valtteri almost cought fire, because of a fatal combination of dress material... ▶   24.11.2011: (play)   So... (play) should be ready by now... Now = almost one hour before the premiere.   The musicians started their rehearsal, the dancers have done the warm-up class. The light is fixe... ▶   18.11.2011: Stage rehearsal   Today was the first day that we all entered the stage. After four days in the studio it was time to try our wings on stage, with some light ideas but more figuring out the spacing and how t... ▶   17.11.2011: live music   It's such a treat to dance to live music... after three days of rehearsals with the orchestra we are more than happy... It's is so amazing to see how the different parts get together and we have... ▶   12.11.2011: Goldbergvariations and Tanssii tähtien kanssa   We had some technical problems. Nothing serious... and I was writing about HDC participating in the program "Tanssii tähtien kanssa" last Sunday November 13th.  ... ▶   07.11.2011: (play) things in the studio   This week, that we call the final clean-up week, is my last chance to make big changes...   I've been wondering about the order of the different sections, do they work? Maybe I should tr... ▶   02.11.2011: Choreography   Today I can say that I'm more or less ready with the first section/part: that is the choreography for (play).   Now we just have to put the different sections together, find the right wa... ▶   19.10.2011: YOUMAKEME   This Wednesday one more YOUMAKEME and more to go on Thursday and Friday. Welcome!  ... ▶   12.10.2011: YOUMAKEME   This week three performances of YOUMAKEME starting on Thursday.   Next week three more performances of the same work, starting on Wednesday.   Be there or be square.  ... ▶   05.10.2011: start (play)   This week we officially started the rehearsals of our next premiere called (play) Seven dancers, three fashion designers and six muscians and a lot of more people are involved in getting the prod... ▶   21.09.2011: Choreography school   If you wonder about what to do when you do your moves in the sauna, in the park, on stage or in rehearsals. Going to the gym, the kitchen dance is also good and where else...? Anyway we give you... ▶   05.09.2011: More or less   This week we have four more performances of More or less love songs by Liisa Risu.  ... ▶   01.09.2011: Birds with skymirrors   Lemi Ponifaso & MAU will perform the piece Birds with skymirrors during Friday and Saturday. Place: Helinki City Theatre / Big Stage. 7 PM.  ... ▶   24.08.2011: More or less love songs   Tonight is the night when the love songs will be danced for the first time...   It's the premiere night for Liisa Risu in co-operation with Helsinki Festival, together with Helsinki Danc... ▶   09.06.2011: Summer 2011   Last week of rehearsals and then the company is off for some well deserved summer break.   We managed to sqeeze in two performances in Cyprus a couple of days ago... Now we just have to ... ▶   04.05.2011: More or less love songs   HDC started the rehearsals with a new production: More or less lovesongs by choreographer Liisa Risu.   Premiere 24.08.2011 during Helsinki Festival.     The Helsinki Festiv... ▶   28.04.2011: YOUMAKEME in STHLM   This week YOUMAKEME is visiting Stockholm and Dansens Hus. Two performances: Thursday and Friday.  ... ▶   31.03.2011: HDC on tour   We are touring...   Here are the dates, the productions and the places:   03.04. XPSD: Backnang, Germany   06.04. XPSD: Linz, Austria   08.04. XPSD: Villach, Aust... ▶   20.03.2011: YOUMAKEME   So the premiere went well and so did the shows after that... then influenza arrived and made some problems.   Last week of YOUMAKEME is coming up. Check the ticket office for the latest ... ▶   28.02.2011: Final week   So   Monday we start with some sound recordings and checking out the transitions. Tuesday we are taking the pictures, Wednesday we should be ready as we are inviting a small audience and... ▶   15.02.2011: Over and over again...   We are now working the last week in the studio. Next week we are going into a new space: the theatre. We will see if the different solutions, the set design and other things are working out, lik... ▶   23.01.2011: Run runing...   Last week we did the first run through of all the material we have. If you think of quantity we are on the better side (47 minutes). The truth is that quality is more important, so we just have ... ▶   19.01.2011: YOUMAKEME   We are getting closer to the premiere of YOUMAKEME.   Tomorrow we have some students from Södra Latin (Stockholm) watching the rehearsals. In the afternoon we make the first run thr... ▶   30.12.2010: 2010/2011   This autumn we had 37 performances and 10.741 people watching (and some dogs and two cats). We also did schoolperformances and had some talks with the audience before and after the show.   ... ▶   21.12.2010: Season greetings   Thank you for a memorable autumn and have a good one!  ... ▶   14.12.2010: YOUMAKEME   This week we started the rehearsals of the new piece: YOUMAKEME.    On day two we already have over five minutes of dancing. Is it good or bad? We just have to wait and see, if it w... ▶   08.12.2010: Last DS ll   Today and tomorrow last shows of Destruction Song ll. Also last performances for this season. Put your snowshoes on and get to Studio Elsa in time. The show starts at 7.  ... ▶   26.11.2010: Pieksamäki   HDC is performing XPSD in Pieksamäki in Finland, Friday November 26th. Poleni is the place to be if you want to catch some dancing.  ... ▶   23.11.2010: DS ll November 23 & 24   Today's and tomorrow's version will be for 4,5 dancers. Sofia Karlsson will dance the last duet with Janne Marja-aho. Valtteri Raekallio, Kenneth Bruun Carslon and Jenni-Elina Lehto will also bo... ▶   20.11.2010: Premiere Destruction Song ll   First it was a version for six dancers, then for a long time we worked with five dancers, then suddenly yesterday we showed a version for four and today on the premiere we will make a new versio... ▶   12.11.2010: Destruction Song ll   Rehearsals of Destruction Song ll started last week. Today and tomorrow we have Cilla Olsen in the house, coaching the dancers. Cilla, Janne and Sofia are the original cast and they have all bee... ▶   31.10.2010: Last XPSD at MDT   Today's schedule:   09.00  Wake-up and breakfast   11.30  Costume fittings with Helena Hörstedt for Destruction Song ll   12.30  Some food   1... ▶   24.10.2010: Thank you Riksteatern!   Yesterday we finished our tour with Riksteatern. The performance of XPSD was followed by a loud and long clapping session at Norrlandsoperan in Umeå. Seventeen performances all around Swed... ▶   10.10.2010: Destruction Song ll   We are back in Helsinki for a week.   On Monday we will start rehearsing a new version of Destruction Song. Originally it was a trio and we are now trying to figure it out for six dancer... ▶   29.09.2010: On the better side...   Last evening HDC performed in Jönköping. We are now on the better half of the tour, as it was the 10th performance on the road. Still 8 more to go. XPSD is getting better and better. &... ▶   22.09.2010: Kenneth Bruun Carlson is blogging on Facebook   I asked Kenneth, the newest dancer in the company to write about his impressions when we are on our zigzag tour of Sweden. Read on Facebook what he thinks about the first week.  ... ▶   14.09.2010: Swedish tour starts now, here are the dates   14.09 Lunds Stadsteater   16.09 Gävle Teater   17.09 Ljusdal Slottegymnasiets aula   19.09 Kungsbacka Teater   20.09 Kungsbacka Teater   23.09 Gö... ▶   04.09.2010: TANZtheaterINTERNATIONAL   So now we have officially started our two month tour.   We decided to go for the big bang as we were invited by TANZtheaterINTERNATIONAL in Hannover, Germany to open their 25th festival.... ▶   29.08.2010: Ready to go   Last Friday we made some special showings during "Taiteiden Yö" (Helsinki Festival). 120 people were "allowed" to see some of the sections from XPSD. This was made in our newly renovated st... ▶   15.08.2010: Parkteatern/Stockholm/Sweden   Yesterday we had aprox. 3.000 people watching our moves of XPSD.   It was the premiere for Laura, Janne and Kenneth. Everybody (including Kaj, Sofia and Valtteri) did a really great job ... ▶   10.08.2010: Back in business   So... the vacation is over and we are back in the studio working. We are now in our second week and we will be celebrating it by performing in Stockholm during the week-end. Parts of XPSD and so... ▶   24.05.2010: New commission work for Helsinki Festival 2011.       What would you like to do with Helsinki Festival and Helsinki Dance Company?   Helsinki Festival in co-production with Helsinki City Theatre is commissioning a new dance... ▶   26.04.2010: 15 XPSD:s in the box   Last Saturday HDC did the last performance of XPSD (for this season). The crowd was pleased and the theatre was packed.   The choreographer would like to thank everyone for their hard wo... ▶   19.04.2010: Four more to go!   This week is the last week of XPSD in Helsinki. We will start on Tuesday, April 20th and end on Saturday, April 24th.   This is the last opportunity to see HDC perform in Helsinki for a ... ▶   15.04.2010: HDC in Mission for Finland program   HDC was the only guest artist in the tv-program Tehtävä Suomelle (Mission for Finland).  HDC performed two extracts of the piece XPSD by Kenneth Kvarnström as outstanding exa... ▶   07.04.2010: Three weeks of dancing   We are back in business again. In front of us we have three weeks of dancing. XPSD is finding its shape and the dancers are getting more or less used to the demands of the choreography. Finding ... ▶   27.03.2010: Time for a short vacation.   After five performances of XPSD, we are ready for a short break. Easter holiday is coming up and the whole theatre is closed for one week. So time for us to cool down, take care of our bodies, f... ▶   22.03.2010: New XPSD video   New video of XPSD by Antti Pirskanen. Antti got free hands and a piece of music from the composer Jukka Rintamäki. Mission: to make a compilation of the filmed material and also to make his ow... ▶   18.03.2010: Time for step 2!   Step one is almost ready and done: the rehearsals Step two is soon to take place: the performances In between these two steps there are different things happening with/for ”the crew”. So... ▶   04.03.2010: It's getting closer...   The premiere of XPSD is getting closer. On Thursday, Jukka Rintamäki (the composer) is back in the town, working with us live. On Friday we start the build-up in the theatre, so Vesa Ellillä is pu... ▶   23.02.2010: New web page   Welcome to the new web page for the three year project with K. Kvarnström & Co and Helsinki Dance Company (HDC). The next production will be XPSD and the premiere date is March 20th, 2010. Right n... ▶   17.02.2010: Our first minitour to Sweden   The dancers Sofia Karlsson and Kai Lähdesmäki will perform a duet work from XPSD in Stockholm. February 19 is the reopening of Moderna Dansteatern at Skeppsholmen in the center of Stockholm. The ... ▶