Hetki Festival will take place again on Saturday 24 May at Maunula House in Helsinki! Hetki Festival will be a one-day event, focusing on dance improvisation as a performance form. Hetki has previously been held in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2024 in different venues around Helsinki.
Hetki Festival 2025 will consist of Hetki Sessions workshops for dance professionals in the morning and Hetki Performance open to all in the afternoon.
Welcome to be enchanted and inspired by the art of the moment!
HETKI PERFORMANCE
Hetki Performance will take place on Sat 24 May at 15.00-16.00 at Maunula House, Helsinki.
Hetki Performance will feature dance improvisation by this year’s amazing performers, dance artists ERVI SIRÉN, GEORGIE GOATER and MINJA MERTANEN. They will be joined in the evening’s performance by dance artists who participated in the Hetki Sessions workshops earlier in the day, possibly a large number. The performance will consist of a structure created and rehearsed in the workshops on the same day. Hetki Performance dives into the dance art of the moment, opening up unique body-minded landscapes.
Welcome to be enchanted and inspired by the art of the moment!
ARTISTS
Ervi Sirén has worked in Finnish contemporary dance since the 1970s as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. In the 70s she worked as a dancer at the Rollo dance theatre. From 1985-89 Sirén was a lecturer in dance at the Theatre Academy and from 1997-2007 a professor of dance. She was House Choreographer at the Zodiak New Dance Centre 2009-2010. Sirén’s work has been influenced by many techniques of modern and contemporary dance and strongly influenced by body therapy bioenergetics (Alexander Lowen) and Continuum work (Emily Conrad).
Georgie Goater is a dance artist from Aotearoa who has worked in the dance field in diverse capacities since 2003. She graduated from Unitec with a BA in performing and screen arts in 2005 and has been based in Helsinki since 2016, deepening her inclusive artistic and pedagogical practice with Kaaos Company and interdisciplinary working groups across various roles. Explorations of memory, fluidity, and associative thinking have been threads tugged at throughout her collaborative works.
Minja Mertanen is a Helsinki-based dance and performance artist. She is a dance teacher, dance movement therapist, yoga instructor and somatic movement therapist by training. Mertanen has been active in the Reality Research Centre (Todellisuuden tutkimuskeskus), Höyhentämö and Other Spaces (Toisissa Tiloissa), as well as in free dance ensembles. Mertanen has specialised for 20 years in buto, which she teaches and has performed in 20 countries, in recent years in Finland and especially in Spain and France.
Maunula House is located in Metsäpurontie 4, Helsinki
All events of the festival are free and accessible to the public.
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