4X − touring dance event to be held at AB Dance Company in Turku 23.5.2025
4X is a unique touring dance event that brings together four dance theatres from different parts of Finland. This event offers viewers the opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of diverse dance art in one evening, when the Dance Theatres AB Dance Company, Minimi, Rimpparemmi and Raatikko take turns to perform their own performances on stage.
4X = A Four Show Night, is aimed especially at young people and adults, inviting participants to experience the different tones and styles of dance in one event. In the spring of 2025, 4X will arrive in Kuopio, Rovaniemi, Vantaa and Turku. In each city, audiences will be able to see a performance by one of the four theatres in one evening.
There are approximately 20-minute intermissions between the performances, during which the audience has the opportunity to participate in discussions about the works. The total duration of the evening’s program is approximately 3.5 hours
More details on the event can be found on the websites of the main organizers of each city.
Dance Theatre Rimpparemmi, Sari Palmgren: Kielletyt liikkeet
Kielletyt liikkeet (forbidden movements) is a thought-provoking and absurdly humorous performance about the limits of the body, movement, mind, and memory. What moves us? What stops us?
“You mustn’t leave mushrooms in the forest. You mustn’t stomp. Don’t be like your mother. You mustn’t ski without a hat. You mustn’t stare. You mustn’t sit with your legs too far apart. You mustn’t be too much.”
We are guided by rules we did not create ourselves. Whose voice repeats warnings, old truths, and inherited fears in our heads? In the shadows of the mind sit those who know better. Those who whisper warnings before we even step across the line. But who drew the line?
This performance delves into the prohibitions we have been given – and those we have made our own. What happens when the body does what it is not supposed to? When movement becomes inappropriate, strange, playful? When the mind moves? When memories move us?
Stored in the mind’s archive are the schoolyard. Grandpa’s rubber boots. An unresolved argument. Sauna soda. The cry of longing. The threat of violence. A bucket of cloudberries. Forbidden gestures, words, thoughts – all that has been suppressed, and Macarena.
You must not do it. You must not see it. You must not remember it. But if you forget, someone will remind you.
Crew
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION Sari Palmgren | DANCE Helmi Järvensivu, Laura Kallas and Kaisa Ristiluoma | MUSIC Kaisa Ristiluoma | SOUND DESIGN Lauri Uusitalo | COSTUME DESIGN Mirkka Nyrhinen | LIGHT DESING Janne Teivainen | PRODUCTION Dance Theatre Rimpparemmi and Routa Company
Lenght: Around 40 min.
AB Dance Company, Urmas Poolamets: Tee
Tee
Tee1 (road, platform, track way, means, by).
Tee2 (tea beverage, tea plant).
Tee is Urmas Poolamets’ first solo piece that he created for himself. Read more about Tee.
Crew
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY Urmas Poolamets | DANCER Urmas Poolamets| VISUALISATION Urmas Poolamets and Magnús Sigurðarson | VIDEOS Marju Lepp, Manfred Vainokivi and Magnús Sigurðarson | VIDEO EDITING Mikael Holsti and Urmas Poolamets | LIGHTING AND STAGING Magnús Sigurðarson | MUSIC / SOUNDSCAPE Ofelia Adrastea | PHOTOGRAPHY AND GRAPHIC DESIGN Jussi Virkkumaa | PRODUCTION AB Dance Company
Premiere: 14 Feb 2025 | AB Dance Company, Turku
Lenght: Around 35 min.
Dance Theatre Minimi, Taneli Törmä: Vapaa Pudotus
Vapaa Pudotus (free fall) is a dance piece about the dialogue between control and surrender.
The performance depicts the moment before the fall – an accelerating and stretching time in which the experience of falling is heightened. In free fall, movement detaches itself from balance – from falling and the feeling it brings. In this piece, maintaining balance and letting go of it alternate, both on the level of movement and meaning.
What does it truly mean to take a leap into the unknown? Can the great turning points in life be predicted? What does uncertainty and trust in the face of the unknown look like?
The piece is created by Taneli Törmä, the artistic director of Tanssiteatteri Minimi, together with dancer Katja Mustonen, sound designer Sasu Ripatti, and lighting designer Ruben Rissanen.
Crew
CHOREOGRAPHY Taneli Törmä | DANCE Katja Mustonen | SOUND DESIGN Sasu Ripatti | LIGHT DESING Ruben Rissanen | PHOTOGRAPHY Petra Kuha | PRODUCTION Dance Theatre Minimi
Premiere: 5 May 2025 | Kuopio city theatre, Maria scene
Lenght: Around 30 min.
Dance Theatre Raatikko, Jaakko Toivonen: Kukkia kotiovelle
Scenes from the symbiotic phase of a relationship to a lifelong unbreakable bond.
Kukkia kotiovelle (flowers to the door) is a reinterpretation of a dance piece originally created by Jaakko Toivonen in the Netherlands in 2010. In this duet, which portrays the different stages of a relationship, flowers serve as powerful messengers.
Crew
CHOREOGRAPHY Jaakko Toivonen | DANCE Taru Koski ja Jaakko Toivonen | PRODUCTION Dance Theatre Raatikko
Lenght: Around 30 min.
Tickets
31 € single ticket
28 € pensioners
15 € students, children (under 18 years), unemployed persons, and persons in civil service or in the army
12 € members of Teme, Finnish Actors Union and Taku, persons having the Theatre Card of The Association of Finnish Theatres, dance and theatre students (vocational) and persons with press card
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Other performances
16.5.2024 Dance Theatre Rimpparemmi, Rovaniemi, www.rimpparemmi.fi
9.5.2024 Dance Theatre Minimi, Kuopion kaupunginteatteri, www.minimi.fi
28.5.2024 Dance Theatre Raatikko, Vantaa, www.raatikko.fi