Side Step Festival 2020

(Image:: Sanna Kaesmae)

Side Step Festival 2020, one of Finland’s main contemporary dance festivals, takes place on January 31 – February 8. The annual festival is organised by the Helsinki based Zodiac – Centre for New Dance.

The festival is being held at the Cable Factory in Ruoholahti and also at Culture Centre Stoa in Itäkeskus.

Side Step 2020 embraces a variety of performances that defy categorisation but deliver on high energy, extravagance and diverse artistic vision. Only two performances on the programme are viewed in the the traditional auditorium format.

The remaining performances on the programme blur the line between the audience and the performers. Side Step Festival 2020 is intended to be “a celebration of multiple ways of inviting the audience to the worlds of the performances“.

Guest artists for 2020 are Nora Chipaumire, Michiel Vandevelde, Ivo Dimchev, artist collective Berstad/Helgebostad/Brun, Matilda Aaltonen & Joel Teixeira Neves and Sorour Darabi.

Phantasmagoric – Feb 6 at Valssaamo, the Cable Factory
(Image: Berstad / Helgebostad / Brun)

Side Step Festival Programme

FRI 31.01

18:00 | Stoanora chipaumire#PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA

20:00 | Zodiak Stage
Michiel Vandevelde: Andrade

SAT 01.02.

15:00 | Stoanora chipaumire#PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA

20:00 | Zodiak Stage
Michiel Vandevelde: Andrade

22:00 | Valssaamo
Opening club – hosted by #HCPSPIRIT x HOD
Marika Peura: Sirkka Rukoilija (22:30)
Elements Mini Ball
House of Disappointments
Club la Persé

SUN 02.02.

15:00 | Stoanora chipaumire#PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA

TUE 04.02.

19:00 | Stoa
Ivo Dimchev: A Selfie Concert

WED 05.02.

19:00 | Valssaamo
Berstad/Helgebostad/Brun: Phantasmagoric

21:00 | Foyer V
F-club – hosted by #HCPSPIRIT
Kovaa rasvaa
Feminist Swearing Soiree | Rosa Meriläinen, Saara Särmä, Johanna Vehkoo

 

THU 06.02.

19:00 | Valssaamo
Berstad/Helgebostad/Brun: Phantasmagoric

FRI 07.02.

18:00 | Zodiak Stage
Matilda Aaltonen – Joel Teixeira Neves: Voyeur

20:00 | Zodiak Stage
Matilda Aaltonen – Joel Teixeira Neves: Voyeur

SAT 08.02.

15:00 | Stoa
Sorour Darabi: Savušun

18:00 | Zodiak Stage
Matilda Aaltonen – Joel Teixeira Neves: Voyeur

20:00 | Zodiak Stage
Matilda Aaltonen – Joel Teixeira Neves: Voyeur

21:30 | Foyer V
Closing party – hosted by #HCPSPIRIT
Pimeä hedelmä (22:00)
DJ Wekesa

Information about tickets can be found here.

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