Dance House brings top international group to Helsinki – this is what a dance piece on climate crisis and extinction looks like
Dance House brings top international group to Helsinki – this is what a dance piece on climate crisis and extinction looks like
An international dance group is visiting Helsinki, and their work asks whether we have lost touch with ourselves.
The House of Dance’s own international programming is bearing fruit: a visiting theatre dedicated to dance brought the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT1), considered one of the world’s leading contemporary dance companies, to Helsinki.
In Helsinki, the group will present a three-part stage production *Figures in Extinction*, the latest part of which had its world premiere in Manchester in February.
Thanks to the Dance House, Helsinki has become an increasingly important part of the international dance scene, and the NDT’s visit is a good example of this.
The group led by Molnar is known for its high technical level, expression and artistic ambition. According to Molnar, maintaining quality requires the entire machine to commit to the group.
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