OuDance Festival | PERFORMANCE ON THU 14.9.
Gravity is a 50-minute long, high-paced, physically stunning movement piece with eight dancers on the stage. The piece produced in collaboration with Helsinki Dance Company and Kinetic Orchestra follows the continuum of choreographer Jarkko Mandelin’s extremely physical and movement-focused dance works. The visit is produced in collaboration with Oulu Theatre.

PERFORMANCE on 1.4. at 16
Join us on an adventure that will create shivers of excitement and joyful laughter!

Dance Theatre Raatikko’s Paavo Virtanen and darkness brings to the stage Anneli Kanto’s lovely Virtanen brothers.

The performance is part of the Oulu Theatre’s Oulu Children’s and Youth Theatre Festival programme.

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PREMIERE ON 27.4.
GÄNG GÄNG Company’s WOLF is a merger between a wolf and a young person at risk of social exclusion. Choreography Liisa Heikkinen.

PERFORMANCES ON 26. & 27.1.
JoJo’s spring program opens up with DANCE PROHIBITION, a co-production of Dance Theatres Minimi and Tsuumi. It’s a manifesto on the right of the people to dance free when, where and how hey want.

JoJo calls for applications for production 2024 until 26.2.2023.

Calls for guest performances in 2024 and OuDance Festival in 2023 are closed.

PREMIERE ON FRI 4.11.
A meditative and timeless dance, a large living statue of people in motion placed in a empty room, an abstract and ritual act and a tribute to all those who are experienced as – and experience themselves as – ALIEN. Taneli Törmä/ Location X: ALIEN is performed by 8 dancers related to the city of Oulu.

lihadisko JoJo’s audience work is made for you! The purpose of the audience work is to bring opportunities to deepen the viewer´s experience from the content of the work and

PREMIERE ON 31.8.
A dystopic playing depiction, The Last Sapiens by Elssa Antikainen and Hanna Poikela, takes the audience as a member of an expedition to observe a ruined world that becomes the scene of power games of a small community. Behind it all is Jarkko Martikainen’s singing and guitar as the soundtrack of destruction played with the musicians of Haaga Folk Machine.

PERFORMANCE ON SUN 18.9.
Lame Tamer is a performance combining dance and theater. It is a performance about wildness and taming, about subjugation and the animal side of humanity.