Ehkä-production | New Dance and Performance

EHKÄ-PRODUCTION for new dance and performance ⭐ since 2004 Ehkä-production is a unique community, a hub of activity, and an employer formed by the long-term creative work of independent artists. Since its establishment in 2004, Ehkä has promoted non-commercial, singular and experimental art through the co-production of works in new dance and performance fields. The community also supports projects in children’s culture, sound art, music, fine art and performance art. The artist-run Ehkä curates and manages the Contemporary Art Space Kutomo in Turku, an interdisciplinary art venue and year-round residency established in 2009. Ehkä provides work opportunities for more than a hundred artists each year. Dance artist Anna Torkkel founded Ehkä-production as a frame for her own artworks together with performance artist Tashi Iwaoka in Amsterdam in 2004. The dedicated work of Ehkä members Anna Torkkel and Maija Reeta Raumanni has supported and nurtured the community's development for over 20 years. ✨ Ehkä’s personnel have three part-time employees working year-round for the community. Artistic director Anna Torkkel is in charge of the program planning and development of artistic activities, Maija Reeta Raumanni acts as a financial manager and is responsible for the facilities, and Fatima Amokrane works as the producer for publicity, coordination and communication. In addition to the office staff, Ehkä has other employees involved in productions. Dramaturg Even Minn serves as Ehkä’s house dramaturg, and journalist Heidi Horila contributes as an audience engagement person and writer. Visual artist Hertta Kiiski is responsible for photography and graphic design, and lighting designer Irene Lehtonen is the technical manager at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo. The newest addition to the team is fine art student Elli Syrjänen, who produces video and photographic content. ✨ Ehkä-production is funded by specially targeted subsidies for communities, grants from foundations, cooperative funding, and the community’s own money, which is collected from ticket sales, teaching, rental, and membership fees. 📸: Even Minn #ehkaproduction #contemporaryartspacekutomo

🩷🦋 SPRING ROLL 2026 🦋🩷 Turku-based Ehkä-production’s annual contemporary art festival Spring Roll creates a platform for dialogue between artistic disciplines, introduces participants to the spectrum of contemporary art, and offers unhurried encounters and experiences at the blossoming time of spring! Now happening for the fifth time, Spring Roll 2026 features new dance and performance pieces, concerts, discussions, open movement expression classes, and an exhibition. Check out the full program from Ehkä’s website! The Spring Roll 2026 runs from Thursday to Saturday 7.–16.5.2026, and is organized in collaboration with the Turku-based experimental music group Himera, the street dance community Pulla Collective, the contemporary dance operator Tiloissa Concept, and the visual artists’ association Arte (Titanik Gallery). The festival venues include the studios of Ehkä’s Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, the Turku City Theatre and Titanik Gallery. 🦋🩷🦋 In Spring Roll 2026, we have these wonderful artists: Maya Oliva and workgroup Atte Kantonen, Saana Volanen, and Meri craig Himera: Axel Dörner and Heu Hsu Pulla Collective: Evgeny Kostyukov, Noora Luukko, and Robert Stowe Tiloissa Concept: Amanda Vuori and Evgeny Kostyukov Anna Torkkel and workgroup Mira Kautto, Tuija Lappalainen, Marika Peura, Johanna Porola, Kristian Palmu, and Piia Rinne Patricia Carolina and Luis Fernando Amaya Niko Hallikainen 🦋🩷🦋 In addition, Ehkä’s audience engagement person and writer Heidi Horila and house dramaturg Even Minn take part into the festival as performance discussion facilitators. 🩷Spring Roll 2026 - contemporary art festival 🩷7.-16.5.2026 🩷Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku City Theatre, and Titanik Gallery Tickets and info from Ehkä’s website - link in bio! The festival follows Ehkä-production’s safer space guidelines. @horilavinkkaataidetta @kompostiprinssi @himeraturku @___tiloissa___ @tkteatteri @titanikgalleria 📷 edit: Hertta Kiiski #ehkaproduction #springrollfestival2026

💚SPRING ROLL 2026 💚 Festival program: Thu 7.5. ⏰at 19:00 Contemporary Art Space Kutomo | Maya Oliva: In perpetual blooming, despite the gods Sat 9.5. ⏰at 18:00 Contemporary Art Space Kutomo | Himera presents: Axel Dörner and Heu Hsu Thu 14.5. ⏰at 17:00 Contemporary Art Space Kutomo | Pulla Collective: Hip-hop sessions ⏰at 18:30 Contemporary Art Space Kutomo | Tiloissa Concept: Treenitila Fri 15.5. ⏰at 18:30 Turku City Theatre | Anna Torkkel and working group: Bliss ⏰at 19:30 Turku City Theatre | Even Minn and Heidi Horila: Post-performance discussion – Bliss Sat 16.5. ⏰at 13:30 Turku City Theatre | Anna Torkkel and working group: Bliss ⏰at 16:00 Titanik Gallery | Patricia Carolina and Luis Fernando Amaya: corre el agua y no se ve [water runs and cannot be seen] ⏰at 19:00 Contemporary Art Space Kutomo | Niko Hallikainen: Prima Materia Tickets for Maya Oliva’s and Niko Hallikainen’s performances: 25/15 € Tickets for Himera’s concert: 10/5 € Tickets for Anna Torkkel’s performances: 36/26/20 € The events by Pulla Collective, Tiloissa Concept, and Titanik Gallery: free entry 💚Spring Roll 2026 - contemporary art festival 💚7.-16.5.2026 💚Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku City Theatre, and Titanik Gallery Tickets and info from Ehkä’s website - link in bio! 📸: Hertta Kiiski #ehkaproduction #contemporaryartspacekutomo #springrollfestival2026

SPRING ROLL 2026: NIKO HALLIKAINEN: PRIMA MATERIA Only show today! Performance at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo as part of the Spring Roll 2026 festival Sat 16.5.2026 at 19 Tickets: 25/15 €, from Ehkä’s Holvi-shop This is sort of a magic show – a tender look into a powerful undercurrent that operates reality from behind. It asks of us: when’s the last time you were overwhelmed by two big ideas at once? Prima Materia is a mystical book written to be performed by a bard. The bard travels around the world, citing otherworldly messages that were channeled through the bard’s voice, a caved throat transformed into a shifty horn. Purple curtains, hung by organized crime, move in the warming winds, backlit by moonlighting. 🩷Spring Roll 2026 - contemporary art festival 🩷7.-16.5.2026 🩷Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku City Theatre, and Titanik Gallery Tickets and info from Ehkä’s website - link in bio! 📷: 1. Maarten Nauw, 2. Hertta Kiiski #ehkaproduction #contemporaryartspacekutomo #springrollfestival2026

SPRING ROLL 2026: TITANIK GALLERY: PATRICIA CAROLINA: PÚA AND LUIS FERNANDO AMAYA: CORRE EL AGUA Y NO SE VE The event today! Event at Titanik Gallery as part of the Spring Roll 2026 festival program Sat 16.5. at 16–17 Free entry! For the Spring Roll 2026, Titanik Gallery hosts a conversation and concert around Patricia Carolina’s exhibition: Púa. The event starts with a conversation with Patricia Carolina, where we take a deeper look into the exhibition’s world. Púa explores family bonds, industrial histories, and displacement crossed by the loss of a river. After the conversation, we hear a concert arranged and performed by Luis Fernando Amaya, corre el agua y no se ve [water runs and cannot be seen], that offers glimpses into the intricate relationships between different voices—human and nonhuman—in a changing landscape. The performance mediates themes from the exhibition, blending storytelling, traditional music, and experimental live electronics. The concert departs from the methods in Canto Cardenche, an a cappella singing tradition from the mining region of La Laguna in northern México. The genre takes its name from the cardenche cactus, whose spines cause pain when they pierce the skin—but hurt even more when they are removed. 🩷Spring Roll 2026 - contemporary art festival 🩷7.-16.5.2026 🩷Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku City Theatre, and Titanik Gallery Tickets and info from Ehkä’s website - link in bio! 📷: 1.-2. Patricia Carolina, 3. Hertta Kiiski #ehkaproduction #springrollfestival2026

SPRING ROLL 2026: ANNA TORKKEL AND WORKGROUP: BLISS The last show today! Performances at Turku City Theatre’s Little stage as part of the Spring Roll 2026 festival Fri 15.5.2026 at 18:30 + discussion with Heidi Horila and Even Minn Sat 16.5. at 13:30 Tickets: 36/26/20 €, from TCT’s ticket sale 20 € tickets for theatre professionals must be reserved separately by email, instructions on Ehkä’s website. Bliss is a performance in which dance, music, material, and light merge into one. In Bliss, dancing to music and the dialogue between different elements proposed by Anna Torkkel’s practice evolve into group choreography. Torkkel’s choreographic practice draws from focusing on the present moment and from dancing to music. She has developed a practice that enables and supports the dancer to surrender to the music and disregard evaluating themselves and the movement that emerges. In her practice, dance does not arise from the dancer’s subjective choices, reasoning, or pursuit of excellence, but rather through remaining sensitive and letting go. In the process of Bliss, the practice expands to include working with touch and voice. Bliss focuses on recalling life’s wonder. On Ehkä’s website, you can find links to five different texts written about Bliss! Choreography: Anna Torkkel Dance: Mira Kautto, Tuija Lappalainen, and Marika Peura Sound design: Johanna Porola Lighting design and scenography: Kristian Palmu Costume design and scenography: Piia Rinne Ehkä-production’s house dramaturg: Even Minn Supporters: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, TOP Foundation Premiere: 29.10.2025 Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki Duration: 55 min 🩷Spring Roll 2026 - contemporary art festival 🩷7.-16.5.2026 🩷Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku City Theatre, and Titanik Gallery Tickets and info from Ehkä’s website - link in bio! 📷: 1.-4. Eva-Liisa Orupõld, 5. Hertta Kiiski #ehkaproduction #springrollfestival2026

SPRING ROLL 2026: HEIDI HORILA AND EVEN MINN: POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION – BLISS Discussion today! Post-performance discussion at Turku City Theatre’s Little stage as part of the Spring Roll 2026 festival Fri 15.5.2026 at 19:30 (performance at 18:30) Tickets to the performance: 36/26/20 €, from TCT’s ticket sale The 20 € tickets for theatre professionals must be reserved separately by email, instructions on Ehkä’s website. In the post-performance discussion at Spring Roll 2026 festival, Ehkä-production’s audience engagement person and writer Heidi Horila and house dramaturg Even Minn, will discuss with Anna Torkkel and the working group about the performance Bliss. The discussion is held at the Turku City Theatre’s Little stage on Friday, May 15, at 19:30, after the performance, and the duration is max 30 min. The discussion is open to everyone and will be held in Finnish. During the discussion, the audience has the opportunity to ask questions to the working group. 🩷Spring Roll 2026 - contemporary art festival 🩷7.-16.5.2026 🩷Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku City Theatre, and Titanik Gallery Tickets and info from Ehkä’s website - link in bio! 📷: 1.-2. Eva-Liisa Orupõld, 3. Hertta Kiiski #ehkaproduction #springrollfestival2026

SPRING ROLL 2026: ANNA TORKKEL AND WORKGROUP: BLISS The first show today! Performances at Turku City Theatre’s Little stage as part of the Spring Roll 2026 festival Fri 15.5.2026 at 18:30 + discussion with Heidi Horila and Even Minn Sat 16.5. at 13:30 Tickets: 36/26/20 €, from TCT’s ticket sale 20 € tickets for theatre professionals must be reserved separately by email, instructions on Ehkä’s website. Bliss anchors itself in existence in its multiplicity and illuminations from dawn to nightfall. It focuses on recalling life’s wonder. The performance highlights the playful essence of dance and its fearless, illogical nature, allowing it to shimmer. In it, dance is a pathway to a profoundly experienced being and its enchantment. The piece weaves together birth, growth, transitions, and fading, bringing forth both dance’s capacity to express continuous change and the dancer’s skill in navigating between these states. On Ehkä’s website, you can find links to five different texts written about Bliss! Choreography: Anna Torkkel Dance: Mira Kautto, Tuija Lappalainen, and Marika Peura Sound design: Johanna Porola Lighting design and scenography: Kristian Palmu Costume design and scenography: Piia Rinne Ehkä-production’s house dramaturg: Even Minn Supporters: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, TOP Foundation Premiere: 29.10.2025 Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki Duration: 55 min 🩷Spring Roll 2026 - contemporary art festival 🩷7.-16.5.2026 🩷Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku City Theatre, and Titanik Gallery Tickets and info from Ehkä’s website - link in bio! 📷: 1.-4. Eva-Liisa Orupõld, 5.-6. Hertta Kiiski #ehkaproduction #springrollfestival2026

SPRING ROLL 2026: TILOISSA CONCEPT: TREENITILA Free class today! Treenitila at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo as part of the Spring Roll 2026 festival program Thu 14.5. at 18:30–20 Free entry! Tiloissa Concepts Treenitila is an open, regular, and facilitated laboratory-like space for dance improvisation. It is facilitated by Välissä group’s dance artists Evgeny “Evi” Kostyukov and Amanda Vuori. Treenitila is for anyone interested in movement, and it is suitable for both beginners and more experienced dance practitioners. Treenitila begins with an opening circle where participants can express their individual needs or wishes regarding movement. The dancing is divided into two parts: the first half is guided by a facilitator, and the second half moves into free improvisation. At the end of the session, there is an opportunity to gather together or stay for a cool-down or stretch. Communication happens both in Finnish and English. After the Spring Roll festival, Treenitila will be held once more at the Contemporary Art Space Kutomo during the spring season: Thursday, 28.5. at 18:30–20. Entry to Treenitila is always free! 🩷Spring Roll 2026 - contemporary art festival 🩷7.-16.5.2026 🩷Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku City Theatre, and Titanik Gallery Tickets and info from Ehkä’s website - link in bio! 📷: 1. Hertta Kiiski, 2. Tiloissa Concept #ehkaproduction #contemporaryartspacekutomo #springrollfestival2026

SPRING ROLL 2026: PULLA COLLECTIVE: HIP-HOP SESSIONS Free class today! Hip-hop sessions at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo as part of the Spring Roll 2026 festival program Thu 14.5. at 17–18:30 Free entry! Pulla Collective’s Evgeny “Evi” Kostyukov, Noora Luukko, and Robert Stowe’s weekly Hip-hop sessions welcome everyone interested in street dance, at all skill levels, to train together. The sessions serve as a space for self-directed group training, and beginners are warmly welcome. There is no formal teaching; instead, the focus is on developing one’s own street dance-based improvisation. However, the members of the Pulla Collective who are present are happy to offer tips and advice regarding the training. At the sessions, the street dance culture locally and as a part of the larger hip-hop culture around the globe is shared and maintained together. Communication happens both in Finnish and English. Please, wear indoor shoes with light-colored soles that do not leave marks on the wooden floor. After the Spring Roll festival, the weekly Hip-hop sessions will be held twice more at the Contemporary Art Space Kutomo during the spring season: Thursdays, 21.5. and 28.5. at 17-18:30. Entry to the Hip-hop sessions is always free! 🩷Spring Roll 2026 - contemporary art festival 🩷7.-16.5.2026 🩷Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku City Theatre, and Titanik Gallery Tickets and info from Ehkä’s website - link in bio! 📷: 1. Hertta Kiiski, 2. Pulla collective #ehkaproduction #contemporaryartspacekutomo #springrollfestival2026

EHKÄ-PUHETTA PODCAST, EPISODE 2: Makkaritansseja ja kanssaelämistä katsomoissa 💫🩷The second episode of Ehkä’s own podcast is out now!🩷💫 Ehkä-puhetta podcast 2026: 1. episode (1/4) 18.3.2026 Keijupölyä ja flirttailua yleisön kanssa 2. episode (2/4) 12.5.2026 Makkaritansseja ja kanssaelämistä katsomoissa Available for free on Spotify (other platforms will be added later) You can find the podcast on Spotify under the name Ehkä-puhetta - go follow! The podcast is in Finnish. 💫🩷💫 Heidi and Even discuss the relationship between dance and the audience, and the experience of being immersed in the performance. Is it acceptable for the performing arts—and for art in general—to display and express emotions? The discussion is inspired by the work Bliss by Anna Torkkel and the working group. In Ehkä-puhetta (Ehkä-talk) podcast, Ehkä-production's audience engagement person and writer Heidi Horila and house dramaturg Even Minn discuss dance, performances, and current themes inspired by them. During the year 2026, there will be four podcast episodes, and the episodes will be released around Ehkä’s premieres and festivals throughout the year. 💫🩷💫 Bliss at Turku City Theatre’s Little stage as part of the Spring Roll 2026 festival Fri 15.5.2026 at 18:30 + discussion with Heidi and Even Sat 16.5. at 13:30 Tickets: 36/26/20 €, from TCT’s ticket sale 20 € tickets for theatre professionals must be reserved separately by email, instructions on Ehkä’s website. 📷: Elli Syrjänen, graphic design Even Minn, 2.-4. Eva-Liisa Orupõld, 5. Hertta Kiiski #ehkaproduction #contemporaryartspacekutomo #ehkapuhettapodcast #springrollfestival2026

✨ Koreografi Anna Torkkelin ja työryhmän tanssiesitys Bliss muotoutuu Turun Kaupunginteatterin Pienellä näyttämöllä. Teoksesta on vain kaksi esitystä: pe 15.5. klo 18:30 ja la 16.5. klo 13:30. Lippuja on jäljellä molemmille päiville, nappaa omasi 👉 tkteatteri.fi/bliss BLISS Koreografia: Anna Torkkel Tanssi: Mira Kautto, Tuija Lappalainen ja Marika Peura Äänisuunnittelu: Johanna Porola Valosuunnittelu ja skenografia: Kristian Palmu Pukusuunnittelu ja skenografia: Piia Rinne Ehkä-tuotannon kotidramaturgi: Even Minn Tuotanto: Kiasma-teatteri, Ehkä-tuotanto, rendezvous ja Anna Torkkel Yhteistyössä: Läntinen tanssin aluekeskus ja Turun Kaupunginteatteri Tukijat: Taiteen edistämiskeskus ja TOP-Säätiö Ensi-ilta: 29.10.2025 Kiasma-teatteri, Helsinki Kesto: 55 min Vierailuesitykset ovat osa turkulaisen Ehkä-tuotannon Spring Roll -festivaalin ohjelmistoa. 📹 Videot harjoituksista: Elli Syrjänen Ehkä-tuotanto IG: @ehkaproduction Kiasma-teatteri IG: @kiasmatheatre rendezvous IG: @rendezvous____________ Läntinen tanssin aluekeskus IG: @lantinentanssinaluekeskus Anna Torkkel @annatorkkel Mira Kautto #mirakautto Tuija Lappalainen @tuija_lappalainen Marika Peura @marikapeura Kristian Palmu @kristianpalmu Johanna Porola @johannaporola Piia Rinne @rinnepiia Elli Syrjänen @ellisyrjanen