Spring Break Festival 2024 – Turku Youth Company & Laajasalo Folk High School’s dance programme

Spring Break is a small one-week festival that centers around movement. The festival also features a co-evening of two pieces from Youth Company and Laajasalo Folk High School’s dance programme.

Turku Youth Company (TYC) is a contemporary dance group from Turku aiming to bridge the gaps between dancing recreationally, in professional studies, and professionally. TYC’s goal is to give a dancer stepping into professional education and field an understanding of how the dance world operates nationally and internationally.

On Thin Ice is a bodily voyage to the edges of exhaustion. How does life feel when the road is too heavy, but the wheels keep rolling and everyone else takes it on too? When the world roars and societal structures wobble, can we still trust someone to pull us up if we fall?

Choreography: Suvi Nieminen
Dance: Turku Youth Company / Sini Ahonen, Ina Haavisto, Hilppa Huusman, Anna Hynninen, Frida Jäntti, Vilja Kari, Milla Kaunisto, Inkeri Kiiskinen, Elisa Nummela, Nea Mustonen, Elina Palken, Thea Pitkänen, Nelli Pylväs, Viktoria Radin, Senni Saarikko, Hanna Södergård, Isabella Thorn, Emma Vairio

Music: Rival Consoles – 3 Cords, Haunt, Recovery, Persona

Laajasalo Folk High School’s dance program was initiated this year in collaboration with Kinetic Orchestra dance company. The program’s studies take a year with an aim to support the student’s personal development as a dancer, to enhance their relationship with dance and to prepare those interested in more dance studies.

The piece part of this co-evening will be made as a part of Dancer’s work in a production course, during which students will experience working as a dancer in practice. The students exercise working as a group and principles of responsibility and professionality within an artistic process. The course gives a glimpse of working as a dancer, challenging oneself in a safe environment. The piece will be choreographed by Sanni Giordani and Mia Jaatinen during the spring season.

Information about the piece will be published later.