Dance artist and choreographer Sari Palmgren took up her post as the artistic director of the Kajaani-based Routa Company in August 2023.
Palmgren is the successor of Jouni Järvenpää, whose three-year term as artistic director ended in the summer.
“I am excited to start as artistic director of Routa! I’ve lived in Kajaani for a few years and worked here since 2014, so Kajaani already feels quite familiar,” Palmgren says in a Routa Company press release.
“I’ve been working with nature and animal themes for a long time and I will continue to work with them alongside local topics at Routa Company. I have worked in a variety of spaces, collaborating with artists from different disciplines. I am interested in artistic audience development, activating and meeting audiences in many different ways. Routa Company is an influential and respected dance company in Kainuu region, Finland and internationally. Routa Company will continue to make diverse dance art for a wide audience locally and internationally,” Palmgren continues.
Routa Company is a contemporary dance production centre in Kainuu region, northern Finland, with a mission is to produce, develop and enable diverse and distinctive dance art. The upcoming programme and other activities for season 2023-24 can be found on the Routa Company website.
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