performances

Magician Marko from Tampere has performed countless times for children and family audiences at a wide variety of events, from birthday parties to corporate parties and from Pikku Kakkonen to shopping malls and cruise ships, and has taught magic, juggling and performance skills at several circus schools and various camps and courses.

A graduate of Stockholm University of the Arts, Onni is a master of the classic juggling objects as well as an innovator in the research and creation of new objects. His close collaboration with contemporary dancers has influenced his fluid, movement oriented juggling style that has been seen by audiences in 15 different countries since his graduation in 2016. Onni has performed at many prestigious venues such as Cirque de Demain and Chamäleon Theater, and worked with Company Nuua, Circo Aereo and Kinetic Orchestra among others. In 2024, he founded Armour Circus Works with Konsta Leinonen and is fully focused on bringing his own visions for juggling into fruition.

Finnish musician fusing his experience working with film, recording studios and multiple performing arts to find new ways to bring his perception of (post-)modern life into sound and music. Merging live instrumentation with highly dynamic hands-on electronics and fascination for new technological frontiers via generative AI music & multimedia. At the moment working mainly in the contemporary circus field, Konsta enjoys working closely with artists to reach a consistent, shared artistic vision.

Leevi Rauhalahti (they/them) is a 24-year-old aspiring dance artist from Kuhmalahti. After graduating from the Iceland University of the Arts (BA in Contemporary Dance Practices) in spring 2024, they have worked as a freelancer in the Nordic and Baltic countries, as a dancer in other productions, and touring with their own solos.

In their art, Rauhalahti's primary tool is the body, and through it they deal with themes such as gender identity, physical boundaries, the countryside, and references to popular culture. 

Rauhalahti is fascinated by the idea of ​​the dancer's body as a storyteller, whose message the audience primarily feels in their own bodies.

Saana Leppänen is a circus artist specializing in aerial acrobatics, working with vertical rope, pair acrobatics and hair hanging. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Circus Arts from the Stockholm University of Dance and Circus in 2018.

She has founded the contemporary circus group Circus Sabok and created several works, two of which were selected for the international Circus Next program. Her works have toured extensively in Europe.

In addition to her own artistic work, Leppänen has worked for Tampereen Teatteri, Tanssiteattieri Minimi, Wired Studio and Cirkus Cirkör, as well as Circus I love you.

In June 2026, her solo work Kahlekuningatar (chain queen) will premiere.

Ilona Jäntti is a circus artist and choreographer specializing in aerial acrobatics, who has spent over two decades studying the tools, conventions and use of space of her discipline.

Originally from Oulu, Ilona is one of the founding members of the Ilmatila group. She often works spatially and approaches aerial acrobatics through movement and visuals. In 2019, she was awarded the Finland Prize by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Patrik Riipinen

Dance artist Patrik Riipinen graduated from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance

(SEAD) in Austria. He previously studied at the Tampere

Conservatory. Riipinen currently works as the artistic director of Duckstep Company

and as a freelance dance artist.

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Tsumi Dance Theatre

The work is produced by the Helsinki-based Tsuumi Dance Theatre. Tsuumi Dance Theatre is a dance theatre strongly rooted in

folk tradition, loving rawness and humanity. Tsuumi Dance Theatre

creates diverse performing arts, with a main focus on the synthesis of dance and music, movement

and rhythm.

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Photo: Soile Syrjä