Dance all year long - making Odense and Kokkola dance
How would it feel if YOUR city had dance all year long? Stick around, and we will show you...
DANCE ALL YEAR LONG is a project from LOCATION X
introducing 24 different projects and professional contemporary dance artists to Odense and 12 different projects and professional contemporary dance artists to Kokkola.
DANCE ALL YEAR LONG is a project from LOCATION X
introducing 24 different projects and professional contemporary dance artists to Odense and 12 different projects and professional contemporary dance artists to Kokkola.
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DANCE ALL YEAR LONG ODENSE
Taneli Törmä - LOCATION X is the project leader and curator. Taneli selected and connected each individual guest artist with the local collaboration partner. The 24 different local collaboration partners/ venues offered free work space for the artist and organized a free work-in-progress presentation with an aftertalk led by Susanne Ravn or Camilla Damkjær, SDU Institut for Idræt og Biomekanik. During a period of 12 months, from June 2018 until June 2019, DANCE ALL YEAR LONG presented 24 different performances in 24 different venues and for different audiences. Every second weeks throughout the whole year there was a dance show or presentation taking place in Odense. DANCE ALL YEAR LONG shows the diversity of todays dance and choreography. All Odense photos by Hans Kristian Hannibal-Bach. Thanks to coordinators Andrea Albernaz and Gianluca Purzer DANCE ALL YEAR LONG made Odense dance |
DANCE ALL YEAR LONG KOKKOLA
Second edition will happen in 12 different venues for 12 different dance artists in Kokkola, Finland, between January and December 2020, the celebratory year of the city's 400th birthday. Finnish dance artists Taneli Törmä & Eleni Pierides (LOCATION X) are the project leaders and curators for Kokkola 2020 residencies. They will select and connect each individual guest artist with a local collaboration partner/venue. Project idea: During a period of 12 months, DANCE ALL YEAR LONG KOKKOLA presents versatile dance projects in different kinds of venues for different kinds of audiences. Every month through the whole year, DAYL KLA offers the local community free presentations, workshops and artist talks – thus presenting the diversity of dance & choreography today. The aim is to research through questions and try, how it would feel and what kind of impact there would be if in a city such as Kokkola there would be a professional dance environment the whole year long. Each presentation and related workshops are free of charge for the audience. |
The team
eleni@danceallyearlong.com
Eleni Pierides coordinator Kokkola + +358 407373586 |
lone@danceallyearlong.com
Lone Nyhuus pr & marketing coordinator +45 2384 2456 |
taneli@danceallyearlong.com
Taneli Törmä artistic coordinator +45 2182 9731 |
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Who is Taneli Törmä? What DANCE ALL YEAR LONG try to achieve?
Taneli Törmä - project leader and curator, is an international dance artist working in Odense. Taneli has been working and living in Odense for the past 6 years. Odense has offered Taneli a great deal of possibilities although working as an individual artist - but being based outside of Copenhagen - has also proven to be somewhat challenging at times.
Summer 2017 Taneli has therefore changed his base to Copenhagen in order to establish a stronger network in the Danish dance scene. He has chosen to do so with the desire to continue to actively participate in the development of the Odense cultural life. At the moment there are no professional dance scene in Odense that would be active full time. Taneli believes that this project would function as a big inspiration for the cultural life of Odense and the whole of Denmark!
DANCE ALL YEAR LONG also bring professional Danish dance artists and international artists to the city and to create collaborations between the local and the guest artists. Thereby expanding the possibilities for dance in Odense and offering a unique experience for all the artists involved. It will offer the audience a chance to experience how their city would look and feel like with DANCE ALL YEAR LONG.
Summer 2017 Taneli has therefore changed his base to Copenhagen in order to establish a stronger network in the Danish dance scene. He has chosen to do so with the desire to continue to actively participate in the development of the Odense cultural life. At the moment there are no professional dance scene in Odense that would be active full time. Taneli believes that this project would function as a big inspiration for the cultural life of Odense and the whole of Denmark!
DANCE ALL YEAR LONG also bring professional Danish dance artists and international artists to the city and to create collaborations between the local and the guest artists. Thereby expanding the possibilities for dance in Odense and offering a unique experience for all the artists involved. It will offer the audience a chance to experience how their city would look and feel like with DANCE ALL YEAR LONG.