A major international event Stretch Further will be held at Oulu as a part of OuDance Festival at 7.-13.9.2026
Tale Næss is a playwright, dramaturg, and researcher with a PhD in stage text from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She works across many disciplines and has published drama, poetry, and prose. Currently, she leads ArtLab at Davvi — Centre for Performing Arts in Tromsø.
Leena Kela is a performance artist, artistic director of the New Performance Turku Biennale, director of the Saari Residence maintained by the Kone Foundation, and a doctoral researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. Her works and research examine the interaction of corporeality and materiality in performance art. She makes performances and video works that twist and play with our relationship to everyday objects and phenomena. She has performed in numerous contexts in Finland and internationally at performance art festivals and exhibitions on all continents of the world except Antarctica. She has a PhD in Fine Arts.
