Celebration

Premiere 29.8.2026 | other performances 2.9.–4.12.2026.

Inspired by Violeta Parra’s music, Celebration is a hypnotic and meditative two-act piece that combines contemporary dance, live music, visuality and myths.

“Celebration brings together the last twenty years of my 40-year career as a dance artist and the important fellow artists with whom I have shared this journey.

I spent my early youth in the 1970s. My most vivid memory from that time is the military coup in Chile in 1973 and the massive solidarity movement that followed, the experience of solidarity and community, and the songs of Violeta Parra, which have resonated in my heart ever since.

That entire decade later took shape as dance. Into small, somewhat rough images and dance pieces that resemble myself.

Violeta Parra’s songs are the spark for the work Celebration, in which lived life is transformed into dance, movement, and a series of dreamlike, surreal scenes. Into a colorful stream of images. Into a celebration.” – choreographer Ari Numminen

An early kickoff premiere to the 30th anniversary 2027

Audience Outreach

AUDIENCE DISCUSSION
Wed 9.9. approx. 7.30 p.m.

Relaxed artist meeting right after the performance. The creators and performers share their thoughts about making the performance. Feel free to ask and share your experience as an audience member.

HEHKUMAHKU CHILD CARE *
Hällä Stage, Studio
Sat 12.9. at 2 – approx. 3.30 p.m.
Sat 28.11. at 2 – approx. 3.30 p.m.

HehkuMahku’s child care (in Finnish lapsiparkki) enables parents to participate in the MD performances. The child care takes place during the performance in the Studio of Hällä Stage and is aimed at children aged 3-10.

Experienced art educators from the Community Art School Hehkumahku act as instructors.

Lapsiparkki must be registered in advance by e-mail. The message must include the names and ages of the children participating in the child care, as well as any special considerations and the parents’ phone number. At the same time, you can reserve seats for the performance in question.

The child care is free for visitors to the show.
Register in advance at liput (a) tanssiteatterimd.fi

PRE-SHOW INTRODUCTION & ARTIST INTERVIEW
Tue 2.12. at 5-6 p.m. before the performance & approx. at 7.30 p.m. after the performance

Before the performance you will hear details about the creation from the artistic group of Celebration. Choreographer Ari Numminen is interviewed about the artistic background and the creative process of Celebration also after the performance.

Working group

Choreography Ari Numminen
Performers Suvi Eloranta, Anniina Kumpuniemi, Samuli Roininen, Mari Rosendahl, Minja Koski, Tuomas Luukkonen, Petri Tiainen

Music Violeta Parra, Minja Koski, Tuomas Luukkonen, Petri Tiainen

Costume design Tiina Helin
Light design Sari Mayer
Sound design Henri Puolitaival

Photos Harri Hinkka