Past productions
An intense, elemental work set to the music of one of Russia's leading contemporary composers, Airflow explores the search for light and salvation amidst an icy darkness.
A piece for two dancers and two musicians, encompassing both energetic duets and melancholy moments of solitude. In a smoky after-hours bar, nothing remains constant except the stories of love lost and found, danced to the yearning tones of the milonga.
A work integrating elements of text and movement theatre, based on the poetry of celebrated Finnish poets Eino Leino and L. Onerva.
A dynamic duet set to foot-tapping Finnish rock and pop grooves ranging from the stirring to the eccentric, North Star Boogie alternates between contemporary urban beats and echoes of Nordic melancholy from decades past.
Premiered in Amman, Jordan, in the Finnish-Jordanian collaborative project Fusion, Passageway brought together Finnish and Jordanian dancers on the stage of Amman's Royal Cultural Center.
Accompanied by Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and MC Solaar, Thomas Freundlich, in a tour de force solo set in lowlife Paris, effortlessly shifts between French music hall, hip hop and outlandish illusionary pantomime.
A dance drama set in World War 2, Missing Presumed Dead recounts the timeless story of a pilot missing in action and the impossible choice that his wife, consequently, must face.
An exuberant, energetic ensemble work that translates Frank Zappa's singular symphonic music into inventive choreographic episodes.
Written and directed by renowned mime artist and author Adam Darius, Carnival of Fear is an electrifying work of physical theatre integrating dance, text and live music.
"Powerful impact...young choreographer succeeds with his difficult theme of James Dean, icon of the rebels..." - Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki, Finland
In this intense solo work, a young woman gathers the fragments of her bombed-out life among the ruins; the flames are extinguished but the scars of war never heal. The piece was created for Barbora Kohoutková, principal ballerina of the Finnish National Ballet.
In this dance theatre piece for an actress and two dancers, the poems of Edith Södergran and the urban music of Paul Schütze provide the backdrop for three peoples' struggle against the confining boundaries of life.
The body and mind of a pointe shoe-clad dancer become a playing field of conflicting moods as the soundscape drifts between an insistent drum 'n' bass beat and echoes of Debussy's piano music.
A short film by Kazimir Kolesnik (2000)