This month Jarkko blogs about a big change in what he does...
Author - Jarkko Lehmus
Now freelance and based in Finland he has worked with Tero Saarinen Company, Susanna Leinonen Company, Finnish National Ballet, David Hughes Dance Company, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, Arc Dance Company among others. In his own artistic work Jarkko concentrates on spatial imagination, the physicality of emotions and kinesthetic empathy. He is on Twitter @LehmusWorks and his home on the web is: www.lehmus.works.
This month Jarkko blogs on the OuDance Festival and taking dance out and across the whole city. Good stuff and much learned...
This month Jarkko blogs on being out of his depth and seeing dance for the experience - not to pass judgement. Possibly. Plus more on this years OuDance Festival...
This month Jarkko blogs candid views on ballet and contemporary dance plus talks about all the projects he has coming up, not least the next OuDance Festival...
Like so many other artistic organisations we currently have a yearly cycle of funding. In addition to that some parts of the funding are only secured during the season. A bit like juggling a chainsaw.
This month Jarkko blogs on himself, trust in the arts, pays homage to Tero Saarinen and talks about his OuDance Festival, which runs from 10-14 September 2014...
This month he talks about Japan, nude dancing and invites applications for JoJo - Oulu Dance Centre's co-productions for 2015.
Jarkko has just taken over as Artistic Director of the JoJo - Oulu Dance Centre based in Northern Finland. This month he starts to explain what his directorship is about...
So what’s new under the sun? It’s only been a couple of weeks since the least posting, so you’d think there’s not much to report. A bit of this a bit of that...
"Today I’d like to talk, rather than whinge, about responsibility and communication..."
There is joy in repetition. Repetition that goes beyond my perceived limits. Repetition that on paper sounds like something that would not be possible for the person I think I am.
"It's all so ridiculous. This dancing thing." The great Jarkko Lehmus has a new blog with us and he's just as outspoken as ever...