Emma Lewis-Jones was one of the amazing artists taking part in the most recent Warjakka Art Residency – part of the CROWD International Dance Exchange programme developed by Goethe Institute and supported by TaikaBox and colleagues from across Europe.  This TaikaTalk happened on Varjakka, the beautiful ghost island with a […]

Kristiina Valtanen has been the growing guru for Warjakka Community Gardens and, over the last two years, has blessed us with her wisdom. She has also advised us as part of the Keho On Dacha / Body Is Dacha art project which connects Varjakka with Kalinushka through a range of […]

One of the reasons TaikaBox is particularly excited about this TaikaTalk is that collaboration with Niklas Zidarov has been our dream for a while, and this conversation happened – unlike most of previous TaikaTalks – before we have actually met and worked together. Niklas has been our inspiration for a […]

Toni Alatalo is a chief technology officer and cofounder of Oulu-based technology company Playsign Ltd and TaikaBox’ partner in developing the Warjakka Augmented Reality app. This app restores the houses that existed around a century ago in the village of Varjakka. It offers users the chance to explore the buildings […]

Dance artist Silja Tuovinen has been a regular guest in this Summer’s Warjakka Art Lab where she has been conducting research, particularly on grief.  Silja is doing a Masters Programme in Choreography at Stockholm University of Arts. She has a Bachelor degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Malmö University, […]

Elena Gutkina is a Moscow-based filmmaker currently researching community-based dance and site-specific performance. The artists of TaikaBox have been lucky to collaborate with her on the ”Keho On Dacha / Body Is Dacha” project. It unites artists in the North of Finland and Russia in a long-term research on reviving […]

TaikaBox has been lucky to have had multiple fruitful collaborations with Oulu-based musician and DJ Jussi Alaraasakka. Jussi has provided soundtrack mentoring for numerous Oulu Dance Hacks and performed with us for some of our favourite shows, workshops and improvised gigs.  This TaikaTalk took place in Rapumaja – a creative […]

Oulu wouldn’t be Oulu without musician and producer Jarkko Halunen – the leader of both the band Neondad and LUMO – the light art festival which unites artists from around the globe in their joint creative boost transforming the whole city into one big multimedia installation each year. TaikaBox has […]

Warjakka Art Path – an urban street art installed into the forest and adapted to its aesthetics – has officially opened and will run until the end of August. You are welcome to explore and contribute to it – Warjakka Art Path encourages its visitors to create art pieces, celebrating […]

Near Real Ltd is an Oulu-based tech company and TaikaBox’s partner within the TechArt project (funded by the Council of Oulu Region). Together we combine art and technology finding new ways to innovate performance. We have been lucky to create a digital/live hybrid system to produce and perform Føddur Gamal […]

Antti Kaarlela, Aleksi Puranen and Antti Kairakari write stories and put them to life in movies and multimedia artwork. Their movies and documentaries combine the personal and the political, interlacing the saddest and the hardest topics with the vibes that make you laugh so much you cry – only to […]

Føddur Gamal – the Faroese version of TaikaBox’s dance, digital art and storytelling performance ”BORN OLD” based on the Finnish epic poetry of Kalevala – premiered in May 2021 for the children of The Faroe Islands. Faroese singer and actress Eyð Berghamar Jacobsen was the one who delivered the old […]

Today we are lucky to share the interview with the musician, one half of ISAN, and mastering engineer: Antony Ryan. TaikaBox and Antony have a long history of collaboration. Antony has made soundtracks for a number of TaikaBox performances – sometimes playing live – and has contributed audio elements to […]

Dance artist Annika Sillander is our partner in crime of making BORN OLD multilingual and international. Annika translated BORN OLD into Swedish and as we streamed the show to schools in Sweden and Western Finland, she performed alongside Marjo Kiukaanniemi, telling the story of the ecological and creative hero Väinämöinen […]

Kat and Jared van Earle, 32 and 31, are dance artists from Oulu, Finland and Temora, Australia, based in Oulu. They have been bringing contemporary dance into the modern circus scene, contributing to the evolution of circus performance in general and partner acrobatics in particular. Their latest partner acrodance ”Shapes […]