Tue 13 Oct 2026 at 7 pm
Tero Saarinen Company: Triple Bill – Wild Is the Wind
Carlson | Saarinen | Lindfors
Main Auditorium, Tampere Hall
Tickets €65/55, seniors €55/50, students, children and youth (up to 16 years) €28
Tero Saarinen Company brings three contemporary dance works to Tampere Hall
Tero Saarinen Company celebrates its 30th anniversary with a triple bill that reflects on dance’s relationship to tradition and renewal. The programme, which will be presented at Dance House Helsinki in September, will visit Tampere on Tuesday, 13 October 2026.
The evening brings together works by choreographers from three generations: Carolyn Carlson’s (b. 1943) solo Room 7, Tero Saarinen’s (b. 1964) duet Garden, and Sonya Lindfors’ (b. 1985) group work Wild Is the Wind, which will have its world premiere during the season. Despite the choreographers’ differing aesthetics, the works are united by a reflection on humanity and by strong performances shaped by distinct individual voices.
“Sonya Lindfors is one of the most compelling and distinctive contemporary choreographers in Northern Europe. We are delighted to produce and support her first large-scale group work for a major stage as part of TSC’s anniversary programme”, Tero Saarinen says.
About the creations
Tero Saarinen returns to the stage in Room 7, a new solo created for him by Carolyn Carlson. Having built a significant international career as a solo dancer, Saarinen dives into archetypes of the mind through the absurd and Carlson’s signature poetic expression. Room 7 is a tribute to the long-standing and fruitful collaboration between these two artists.
In Saarinen’s new duet Garden, two people construct their shared way of being in a world where the connection to nature has become blurred. In the piece, the garden appears as a metaphorical space in which the audience observes, with a sense of wonder, the human relationship to environment, form, and time. Movement emerges, transforms, and finds new shapes, and becomes the soil for something new.
Wild Is the Wind, which lends its name to the triple bill, is Sonya Lindfors’ major scale work featuring TSC dancers alongside dancers Akim Bakhtaoui, Marlon Moilanen, Axelle Munezero, and Maele Cheza Sabuni – all of whom have previously worked with Lindfors – as well as live trumpeter Devina Boughton. The piece draws on the Black performance tradition and explores the power of art and dance as catalysts for change.
The total running time is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.
Programme is subject to change.
Produced by: Tampere Hall and Tero Saarinen Company
