Mission – touching with stories

The aim of tanssiARTesaani dance group is to bring contemporary dance and performative arts to a wider audience and stimulate them with interactions and active reactions. 

The artistic goal is to tell stories through artistic projects that combine different media and the collaboration with different artists, able to touch the sensitivity of the spectators. 

The association is supporting each production ensuring the collaborations with other organizations and professional artists and helping to create projects for and with novice artists and amateurs.

Vision – multi-language projects

Contemporary dance, unfortunately, has a marginal role among the arts field, as it is considered too elitist and not understandable. 

TanssiARTesaani wants to bring back the audience to enjoy and to comprehend dance performances and to get involved from the related stories.

To accomplish this vision, tanssiARTesaani wants to merge in its projects contemporary dance techniques with more approachable languages from films, theatre and even culinary.

Values

• To express personal feelings
• Learning together
• Commitment in the projects
• To listen and giving feedback
• Safe space for any gender, origin, age, and faith

Collaborations

Stödföreningen för Lovisa konst rf. with whom we collaborated already for 2 years in curating the art residency “Art in Lov” bringing international dance artists in Loviisa. With them also we collaborate in curating the residency and producing performative events with the resident artists;

– The City of Loviisa for whom we created workshops for schools during the Youth Culture Weeks program;

– Loviisan Sibeliuspäivät Festival has accepted the collaboration including our performance “NoCore: Strömfors” in the program of the festival 2023;

– Strömfors Factory has been supporting our project NoCore giving us the free us of their premises;

– Loviisan Contemporary ry. with whom we have created a performative path and interactive performances during the “Kucku Eläinten Asumismessut” Festival;

– Loviisan Tanssiopisto, who has supported many of our projects giving the free access in their premises, and with whom collaborated in creating dance workshops for their students and people interested in movements based disciplines;

– Kino Marilyn Cultural Center for hosting the main events of Talvitanssit / Vinterdanser / Winterdances Festival;

– The local dance artist Leo Teräva, who has been involved in the production of “In Flesh and Blood” as a dancer. The collaboration will continue during the next edition of Vinterdanser Festival, this time as choreographer bringing his own dance performance;

– Sabina Moe and Luís Nuñes have been dancing in our performance “In Flesh and Blood”.