X Dance Festival children’s program at Annantalo

Annankatu 30, 00100 Helsinki
Annantalo Arts Centre

X Dance Festival (XDF) organizes with Annantalo the children's part of the festival program.

X Dance Festival (XDF) organizes with Annantalo the children's part of the festival program.

Two performances invite and guide children and families to a multisensory engagement with their experience. Visual dance and mime theatre Auraco presents Tuntu which reveals a journey beyond seeing and Kaaos Company shares a virtual online immersion with Mirage incorporating image, text, audio description and dance.

The performances are suitable for the visually impaired community. Children and families can also participate in the Auraco workshop and join the presentation by Värisevät Varpaat – art education group at their work in the Fragile and Colourful student exhibition in Annantalo. The festival day ends with La Disco Carnival starting from the indoor and continuing to the outdoor stage.

Timetable:
10–11 Auraco: Tuntu performance (approx. 50 min) Juhlasali
11–11.15 Värisevät Varpaat – art education group at the Fragile and Colourful student exhibition
11.30–12 Auraco: TUNTU workshop - Moving landscapes, Tanssiluokka
12.15–12.45 Mirage - an online interactive performance workshop
13–13.30 La Disco Carnival, Indoors & Outside stage
14–15 Auraco: Tuntu performance (approx. 50 min) Juhlasali
The program is free of charge but we recommend booking 15.4. onwards:
Annantalo.fi

About X Dande Festival
The theme of MULTIPLICITY aims to invite curiosity of what happens when we give equal value, measure and agency to all bodies. This theme creates space for movement expression and exchange within multidimensional fields of information. In turn this ultimately affects how we perceive ourselves and each other. XDF’s unique perspective invites the dance field to grow beyond ableism in who can dance and what dance can be.

X Dance Festival is a co-operation between DanceAbility Finland ry and Kaaos Company who are dedicated to active engagement and responsiveness to conversations about inclusion and accessibility in dance through educational and artistic interventions. XDF 2023 offers performances, dance films, workshops, a panel discussion and conversations. http://danceabilityfinland.com/kaaos/?lang=fi

Plain Language Text
X Dance Festival (XDF) invites everyone who likes to dance to come to Annantalo on Tuesday 30th May. You can watch other people dancing and you can dance yourself in workshops with your family or with friends. There will be things happening from 10:00-15:00 and you can come for however long you want to.If you are blind or have low vision someone will be showing or telling you what is happening (audio described) or give you other ways to join in when people are dancing (performing).