Kuplat-Juhlat 22.7.2023 @Full Moon Dance Festival
Kuplat-Juhlat on maaginen, rituaalinomainen ja yhteisöllinen esityksen, konsertin sekä juhlien välimaastossa syntyvä monitaiteellinen tapahtuma, joka nähdään Täydenkuun Tanssit -festivaalilla Pyhäsalmen hotellissa la 22.7.2023 klo 17-21.00. Työryhmä ottaa hotellin piha-alueineen haltuunsa ja rakentaa neljätuntisen kokonaisuuden, joka yhdistää tanssia, nykysirkusta, musiikkia, radiolähetyksen, piirtämistä sekä yllätyksiä.
Bubbles is a magical, ritualistic and communal multi-art event that combines elements of performance, concert and party. Kuplat-Juhlat will be seen at the Full Moon Dance Festival Sat 22.7.2023 5pm-9pm at the Pyhäsalmi Hotel. The artistic team will take over the hotel and its surroundings to build a four hour event combining dance, contemporary circus, music, radio broadcasting, drawing and surprises.
Lisää tietoa / More info here: https://www.fullmoondance.fi/fi/ohjelma-info/kupla-juhlat-la-22-7-2023-klo-17-21-hotelli-pyhasalmi
Valokuvat/ Photos: Matti Häyrynen
Aidatut unelmat Kajaani / Fenced dreams Kajaani
Fenced Dreams Kajaani premiere is 15.8.2023, performances will be 17.-21.8.2023
Aidatut unelmat Kajaani esitys saa ensi-illan Kajaanissa 15.8.2023, esitykset 17.-21.8.2023
Voit seurata teoksen valmistumista blogista: Aidatut unelmat Kajaani blogi
Liput esitykseen: https://www.tiketti.fi/aidatut-unelmat-raatihuoneentori-kajaani-lippuja/90928
Linkkejä esityksestä tehtyihin lehtijuttuihin:
Valokuvat/ Photos: Minna Hyvönen
Welcome 2023!
Year 2023 is full of new wonderful plans:
Fenced Dreams is coming to Kajaani!
Kuplat-Juhlat will have new performance at the summer 2023.
Cherry Orchard performs until may 2023 at Kajaani City theatre. In finnish more info here.. In english more info here..
Sari Palmgren will start as artistic leader at Routa Company august 2023. More info here…
Fenced Dreams Helsinki 2017, Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Photo: Uupi Tirronen, In photo: Anne Harju, graphic design: Petra Karvonen
End of 2022!
Year 2022 has been full of work, four premiers (Bird Displays, Kuplat-Juhlat, Cherry Orchard, Kauhulinna), great co-productions and amazing opportunities working with different, wonderfull artists. Thank you all the artists and collaborators!
Bird Displays @Helsinki Dance Company, dancer: Mikko Paloniemi, photo: Kai Kuusisto
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Soidinmenot coming @Helsinki Dance Company
Kolme Teosta kontaktista: Soidinmenot: Helsinki Dance Company / Helsingin kaupunginteatteri: Studio Pasila
Studio Pasilassa ensi-iltansa saa 2.3.2022 kolmen eri tavoilla kontaktia ja fyysisyyttä käsittelevän teoksen kokonaisuus, jossa nähdään kantaesitykset Helsinki Dance Companylle Mirva Mäkiseltä ja Sari Palmgrenilta sekä Cirko – Uuden sirkuksen keskuksen kanssa yhteistyössä toteutettava duetto Saku Mäkelältä ja Riia Kivimäeltä.
Haastattelu-> Haastattelu Kolme teosta kontaktista
Photo: Kai Kuusisto, performer in the photo: Mikko Paloniemi
PERFORMING HEL: Sari Palmgren & Co: Joy Riot @ Sat. 4.8.2021, 3pm
The Showcase PERFORMING HEL on September 2-5, 2021 in Helsinki and online presents the most interesting performing arts from Finland for international and Finnish presenters and programmers. Find out more and sign up for the online event at our homepage https://www.performinghel.fi/sign-up/
Joy riot brings the joy of movement back to the stage. Sorrow and laughter exist side by side, rejoicing arises from darkness.The visually abundant piece fills the space and invites the audience to be part of the performance. The audience are invited to move in the performance space and change perspective; to feel the performance up close or from a distance.
Read more: https://www.performinghel.fi/production/joy-riot/
Video: Ari Kauppila
2020!
Welcome 2020! At october 2020 we will have Joy Riot premiere at zodiak Center for New Dance!
Choreography: Sari Palmgren & team
Performers: Krista-Julia Arppo, Oskari Turpeinen, Minna Karttunen & Kaisa Niemi
Light design: Heikki Paasonen
Sound design: Joonas Pehrsson
Costume design: Kay Wong
Production: Zodiak Center for New Dance & Sari Palmgren
Photo: Uupi Tirronen, in photo: dancer Krista-Julia Arppo
End of 2019!
Autumn 2019 I was working with Fenced dreams performance at Hyvinkää / Finland and Lapualaisooppera at Seinäjoki city theatre.
Here is one participants text about Fences dreams (in Finnish only:) https://www.zodiak.fi/paivakirja/2019-11/housekoreografin-kuulumisia-marraskuu-2019
Photo: Matti Kilponen, in photo: dancer Pekka Louhio
First half of the year as Zodiak Center for New Dance in-house choreographer
It has been rewarding first half of the year as in-house choreographer at Zodiak. it has included Lame Tamer residence and performances, workshops, organizing events and preparing Fenced dreams performance to Hyvinkää.
More info (in Finnish only:) https://www.zodiak.fi/paivakirja/2019-05/housekoreografin-kuulumisia
Lame Tamer workshop, Photo: Matti Kilponen
Performing HEL @Helsinki 29.8-1.9.2019
Sari Palmgren & Co is part of the Performing HEL Showcase.
With performances, demos and production pitches, the event will showcase the finest work from Finland right now. Performing HEL will encompass the full range of performing arts, including circus, dance and theatre, also delivered in exciting yet difficult-to-define combinations. The showcase happens at the same time with Helsinki Festival – the largest arts festival in Finland.
More info here: https://www.danceinfo.fi/en/projects/performing-hel-showcase/
Strech 2019 Turku/Finland!
keđja presents: Stretch 2019 Turku is held on 17–20.10.2019 in Turku, Finland.
The theme for this international encounter for dance professionals is Expanding Professionalism. It addresses professional practices of dance artists now and in the future, international work and sustainability, the possibilities of residences ja the relationship between art and the societal context. You can register until 12th august: https://ssl.tapahtumakone.fi/stretch2019
Palmgren is part of the Working sustainably as an artist-session and Working internationally in the age of ecological crisis- panel discussion. Welcome to Turku!
Coming 2019 Lame Tamer!
Kajaani: Routa Company 20.2-24.2.2019, Helsinki: Zodiak – Center for new dance 10.-11.4.2019
Team: Sari Palmgren, Katri Soini, Jukka Peltola, Pekka Louhio, Kaisa Niemi, Tuomas Norvio, Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila, Pietu Pietiäinen and Kimmo Pohjonen.
Photo: Uupi Tirronen
Tanzmesse 2018!
If you'd like to meet during the Tanzmesse week, you can find Sari Palmgren at Dance info Finland booth: 69 or contact sari.palmgren(at)gmail.com for meeting. Happy hour thu 30.8 13.30, See you there!
Fenced dreams 18.8-26.8.2018
Fenced dreams performances coming again! Welcome to immersive experience, more info here: https://www.zodiak.fi/en/calendar/fenced-dreams
Photo: Matti Kilponen
Kuplat-Juhlat 26.8.2018 Hangon kaupungintalolla!
Kuplat-Juhlat is combination of concert, dance and visual firework, warmly welcome to this special event!
5th residence @ Hong Kong!
Sari Palmgren made short video in the 5th Creative meeting point -residence at Hong Kong.
“Creative Meeting Point: Hong Kong x Finland” is a three-year residency programme initiated by West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong and Dance Info Finland, Zodiak – Centre for New Dance, and Dance House Helsinki in Finland including six reciprocal residency exchanges between 2016 and 2019. The residencies allow the artists to participate in artistic exchange and research, and collaborate to explore and realise possible co-productions between the two regions.
Participating Artists from Hong Kong:
Li Sze-yeung Justyne
Poon Wai-shun Wayson
Tsui Yik-chit Ivy
Participating Artists from Finland:
Carl Knif
Linda Martikainen
Sari Palmgren
Filmmaking & Editing:
Sari Palmgren
Presenters:
West Kowloon, Dance info Finland, Zodiak – Center for new dance
Acknowledgement:
CCDC Dance Centre
V54
Cable Factory
HIAP Residence
2018!
2018 is the year for recycle performances and concepts for touring and finding new forms:
Fenced dreams (Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Kanneltalo & Helsinki Festivals 2017) performance has new performances in august 2018 at Kannelmäki area. Connective patterns and Tourist films will be touring in different dance film festivals. Kuplat-juhlat will come again this year in Hanko/Finland at august 2018. Sari Palmgren & Co will be also working for new performance Lame Tamer, that will premiere 2019 in Routa dance company at Kajaani/Finland.
Photo: Uupi Tirronen
2017!
It has been fruitfull year, full of different performances, residencies and projects:
The Earth song, Licking things, Utopian empathy- performances, Connective patterns and Tourist-film was touring in Finland and abroad. Seven series Talk video-project was completed at february. The White Reindeer -play was touring in Russia (Dir. Hanna Kirjavainen), Energy Sounscape -innovation performance had its first performance at march with Kimmo Pohjonen, Tuomas Norvio, Janne Käpylehto, Satu Rekola & Johanna Ikola. Big scale walking performance Fenced dreams had premiere and succesfull performances in august at Zodiak – Center for new dance, Kanneltalo & Helsinki Festival.
I had two residencies in Hongkong (Cretive meeting point Honkong x Finland 2016-2018) and one residence in Portugal (espaço do tempo residence at Montemor-o-Novo). I had also pleasure to study in Sicilia one month (Passing through only) with David Zambrano and 40 different dancers around the world.
I was teaching choreography, improvisation and contemporary dance at Länsi-Suomen opisto, Jyväskylä university and Hongkong Arts academy. There was also annual dance film workshop: Repeat-pause-edit workshop in june and work at Tanssille ry as organizer for professional morning classes and workshops.
Thank you collaborators and all the wonderful artists that I have pleasure to work and pass through this year! See you next year! –Sari
Photo: Uupi Tirronen, Licking things (Zodiak – Center for New Dance).
Hongkong-Finland residence project: Creative meeting point 2016-2018
Sari Palmgren is one chosen choreographer in the Creative meeting point 2016-2018 between West Kowloon cultural district, Dance Info Finland, Dance House Finland and Zodiak – Center for New Dance. Creative meeting point residencies has been in Finland: december 2016 & july 2017, and in Hongkong: march 2017 & november-december 2017. Future residencies will be in april-may 2018 in Hongkong and december 2018 in Finland.
“Through this programme we hope to foster the creativity and vision of local artists, and promote the creation of original works with an international perspective. The programme will also enable us to take Hong Kong dance to an international stage in anticipation of future collaborations between the West Kowloon Dancehouse in the Lyric Theatre Complex and our dance counterparts in other regions,” Anna CY Chan, Head of Dance, Performing Arts, West Kowloon
Artists in the project from left seated: Carl Knif, Ivy Tsui, Wayson Poon, Justyne Li, Sari Palmgren, Linda Martikainen.
Photo provided by WKCDA.