Moving in November

Moving in November is a contemporary dance festival organised yearly in the Helsinki area in Finnland.

This is their website.

Moving in November is involved in the following Life Long Burning activities:
Life Long Burning Partner Meeting 2024 in Zagreb © Sindri Uču
These are the Creative Crossroads artists of cycle 2

During ChoreoCon 2024 we introduced the artist of the second cycle – her's a sneak peek, more details will follow next year.

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
Suvi Tuominen, Dash Che & Oula Rytkoenen © Hrafnkell Birgisson
Mean Time Between Failures at STUK

Mean Time Between Failures, the Helsinki-based experimental dance and performance art collective of Dash Che and Suvi Tuominen. During their Artistic Exchange Residency at STUK, MTBF will work with sound designer Oula Rytkönen, who is a long-term collaborator of the collective. They will focus on dramaturgical and choreographic development of a new dance piece called DOWN BEAT.

19.11.2024 - 01.12.2024 @ Stuk Leuven
© Kerstin Schroth
Soup Talks

Moving in November released its programme for the festival from 7–17 November in Helsinki! One format we are involved in and highly recommend: The Soup Talks, where informal conversations raise between audience and artists mingling around a hot pot full of soup.

07.11.2024 - 17.11.2024 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
Costas Kekis © Evandro Pedroni
Costas Kekis at Moving in November

In the frame of our programme Capacity Grid, Vienna based choreographer Costas Kekis is visiting Helsinkis international dance Festival Moving in November.

07.11.2024 - 17.11.2024 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
Eliza Trefas © Christophe Berlet
Eliza Trefas at Moving in November

Eliza Trefas is visiting our Finnish network partner Moving in November for an Artistic Exchange Residency in Helsinki.

04.11.2024 - 17.11.2024 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
Cécile Le Claire © Lilya Kaski
Cécile Le Claire is On the Outset at Moving in November

The project manager, artistic mediator and facilitator from France recently moved to Finnland and is now involved in the production of the contemporary dance festival, which takes place from 7–17 November this year.

01.10.2024 - 31.12.2024 @ Moving in November Helsinki
© Jussi Virkkumaa
Tuuli Vahtola
10.07.2024 - 14.08.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
© Joeri Thiry
OPEN CALL | Artistic Exchange Residency

Our Finnish network partner Moving in November is currently looking for artists who are eager to visit STUK Leuven in November for an Artistic Exchange Residency. 

Applications are open until 28 June!

13.06.2024 - 28.06.2024 @ STUK Leuven
© Nemo Hinders Stocklassa
Open Call | Cats & Poetry workshop

Moving in November is inviting to participate in a two-day workshop lead by Swedish choreographer Pontus Pettersson. Over these two days, Pontus will open up his practice to host the different methods and practices that are part of the work Pancor Poetics (which will be shown in this year’s Moving in November Festival), including one of his seminal pieces The Cat Practice. As simple as it sounds, it involves practicing being a cat. Applications are open until 27 June!

13.06.2024 - 27.06.2024 @ Moving in November
Partner Meeting during Festival Commun in Lausanne 2024 © Almud Krejza
Network Meeting at Festival Programme Commun

This weekend Festival Programme Commun is kicking off in Lausanne! Apart from a vivid performance programme Arsenic invited to a Life Long Burning meeting, which includes a three days watch-and-talk programme for our Creative Crossroads artists, led by Ysaline Rochat.

14.03.2024 - 17.03.2024 @ Lausanne
danceWEB 2024

Sometimes you get a second chance. Or, some of you do. If you are a dancer and/or choreographer with decidedly professional ambitions, either based in Rumania or in Finland you get a second chance to apply for danceWEB 2024! Because two of our Life Long Burning partner – 4Culture and Moving in November – are each covering the fee for and nominating one participant for this year’s scholarship programme.

19.01.2024 - 09.02.2024
Lin Da © Jussi Ulkuniemi
Open House with Lin Da in Helsinki

Finnish artist, choreographer and performer Lin Da was on an Artistic Exchange Residency at Uferstudios Berlin this summer. On 20 December they share their experience, research and insights regarding the residency, in the frame of an Open House shaped as a Soup Talk. Like the other Soup Talks of Moving in November Festival it will start midday, Laura Pietiläinen will be the host.

20.12.2023 @ Eläintarhan huvila, Helsinki
Cherish Menzo gives workshop for Black diaspora

Cherish Menzo will show DARKMATTER at the Moving in November festival in Helsinki. The Distorted Rap Choir was founded for and is expanded with every showing of this performance. Therefore Cherish Menzo is giving a choir workshop in Helsinki, inviting people from the African diaspora to take part in the workshop and possibly also in the performance.

08.11.2023 - 12.11.2023 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
© Kerstin Schroth
Soup Talks at Moving in November

At Moving in November festival visitors and artists can mingle daily over a bowl of hot soup. The Soup Talks are a series of informal conversations with the artists presenting their work during the festival. Everybody is invited to join in, to listen, to pose questions and to take part in the discussions. Each of the talks is hosted by an artist based in the Helsinki area.

04.11.2023 - 13.11.2023 @ Caisa, Helsinki
Angelina Georgieva © Teodora Simova
Angelina Georgieva at Moving in November

Our Bulgarian network partner Brain Store Project nominated Angelina Georgieva to visit Moving in November in Helsinki.

02.11.2023 - 12.11.2023 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
© Joana Lucas
Dominique Tegho at Moving in November

Dominique Tegho is selected by Moving in November Festival for an Artistic Exchange Research Residency. She works in the studio of choreographer Liisa Pentti + Co and experiences the whole festival in Helsinki.

31.10.2023 - 13.11.2023 @ Moving in November Helsinki
© Elisa Huttu
Katharina George

Katharina George started working at Moving in November Festival in Helsinki in the frame of On The Outset.

21.08.2023 - 30.11.2023 @ Moving in November
Lin Da © Jussi Ulkuniemi
Lin Da on residency at Uferstudios in Berlin

The Finnish non-binary artist, choregrapher and performer is also holding a workshop lab within the frame of their 2-week Artistic Exchange Residency at Uferstudios.

24.07.2023 - 07.08.2023 @ Uferstudios Berlin
Mikko Hyvönen at Without Distance Platform

The Antistatic Festival welcomes Mikko Hyvönen, within the frame of the Life Long Burning Capacity Grid. He has been selected to participate in the educational platform Without Distance. His participation takes place as an exchange between Brain Store Project and the contemporary dance festival Moving in November, Helsinki.

09.05.2023 - 19.05.2023 @ Without Distance Platform
Artistic Exchange Residencies, Co-Productions, Creative Crossroads  
Capacity Grid, On The Outset, Outsetters Abroad  
Performance Situation Rooms, Choreographic Conventions