Our Football team hits Helsinki

This weekend our long-lived success A DANCE TRIBUTE TO THE ART OF FOOTBALL will perform at Alexanterin Teatteri in Helsinki, as guests of acclaimed Tero Saarinen Company. We are happy to be invited, and ready to rock Helsinki on Friday and Saturday.

“It’s a cheeky, rumbustious celebration of the physical exuberance of football and dance.”
The Times (UK)

Can dance and football have anything in common? The answer is a roaring “yes”! A DANCE TRIBUTE TO THE ART OF FOOTBALL premiered back in 1997, as the world’s first football ballet at the time, and was remade in 2009 with a brand new cast of four young dancers. It has been on a victorious voyage all around the world, with performances for both young and grown up audiences.

Now we are excited about showing this successful production in Helsinki and it is great that it is our colleagues at Tero Saarinen Company that invites us. The production has already received a lot of attention in Helsinki, and there will be reporters from both YLE TV 1 programme Puoli Seitseman and radio present during our rehearsals before the opening show on Friday. We can’t wait to show the Helsinki dance audience our version of the sheer entertainment and the arousing physical excitement of both football and dance.

A DANCE TRIBUTE TO THE ART OF FOOTBALL deals with the phenomena of football, the greatest game on earth. The performance delves into the physical routine of the sport and elevates the aesthetic aspects of its insanity. It is likewise a political comment to the artificial conflict of choice between the “common sports” and the “eloquent arts” as well as a kick to the pride and prejudice surrounding the concept of working class football and upper class ballet.