Helsinki Circus Festival (HCF)

HOPE

Heidi Miikki’s vertical dance piece HOPE is about radical and active hope and the courage to dream. What would happen if we all wished for something at the same time? Through movement and text, the themes of action, hope and hopelessness, activism, and the power of community and the individual are explored. Combining circus and dance, the acrobatic vertical dance defies gravity and takes the dance to the walls and into the air, combined with text and honest presence.

Cirko sat 12.9. & sun 13.9.

Performer, director, producer: Heidi Miikki

Sound designer, composer: Ilmari Tiitinen

Directorial help, vertical dance mentor: Lindsey Butcher

Light designer, video projections, technical producer: June Horton-White

Circus rigging, stage technic & set: Hedda Liukkala

Supported by: NEMO - Nordisk Kulturfond, Arts Promotion Centre, Finnish-icelandic Cultural Foundation, Nordic Culture Point.

Demo performance has been supported by UrbanApa and Stoa Cultural Centre.

Co-operating partners: Cirko - center for new circus, Irish Aerial Creation Center, ArtsIceland

Duration: 50 min.

Heidi Miikki is a dance and circus artist who works with vertical dance, site-specific art, tightrope dance and contemporary dance. She combines nature conservation and performing arts in her work, and is actively involved in the core group of the contemporary circus group Acting for Climate, working in performance, production and artistic direction.