12.11.2026 15.00

Venue
Teatterisali, Taideyliopiston Teatterikorkeakoulu, Haapaniemenkatu 6, 00530 Helsinki

Tickets: Free admission

Duration: 1,5h

Somewhere between rehearsal and a fragmented stage show: A group of dancers try to remember what still lingers as a vague memory of glorious dance scenes and songs, recapturing and holding onto a Broadway musical that may have never existed at all.

At Open Studio, the Theatre Academy Dance Collective—TADaC—presents early fragments from their new performance with choreographer Hannah Krebs. The event invites the audience to witness the artistic process behind the final artistic work of the artists-students in the MA in Dance Performance program at Theater Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.

In the curriculum of the MA studies, TADaC provides an artistic learning environment where artists-students can collaborate with choreographers and makers from various cultural backgrounds and locations, including Finland. This artistic work is not only a collective learning process about artistic production but also offers artists-students the opportunity to tour their work across various venues. By doing so, they can share the work with diverse audiences and familiarize themselves with professional platforms for potential future collaborations. The Open Studio, realized in collaboration with Moving in November, marks a meaningful step towards opening this kind of possibilities for the dance artists in this MA program.

Hannah Krebs (she/they) approaches choreography from the perspective of a dancer, creating performances that move between entertainment and melancholy. Working with fictional worlds, unstable memories and collective imagination, Hannah often uses entertainment as a critical tool rather than an escape from reality. Through choreography, storytelling and serious playfulness, she creates performance worlds where spectacle, laughter and vulnerability unfold simultaneously.

Hannah holds a BA in Dance from University of Music and Dance Cologne and an MA in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts and also studied at EXERCE in Montpellier. Her works have been presented at venues and festivals including OUTNOW! Festival (DE), Tanzhaus NRW (DE), MDT Stockholm and Weld Stockholm. Alongside her own work, she has been a dancer for Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Lisen Pousette, Ellen Söderhult and Judit Förster.