VISIO
ONGOING: VadQueWhat – Concept, choreography: Tanja Tuurala
Dance, development: Tina Wezelius Grebacken, Pia Pohjakallio, Tanja Tuurala
Music/sound: Produced by the dancers and audience
Costume: Maria Lundqvist
With support of KulturRådet och Stockholms Stad
In collaboration with FlamencoFredag
A conceptual flamenco piece negotiating the boundary between celebration and performance outside traditional flamenco contexts. It invites participants to engage with the communal world of flamenco, allowing the audience to influence what happens and how it sounds. Touring since 2021 in schools and performing arts venues. Upcoming school tour in Sörmland with 44 performances in 2026 as part of Scenkonst Sörmland.
ONGOING! Upptäck! (Discover!) – Concept, Choreography, Performance
Performers:Maja Asp, Ginn Karlqvist, Tanja Tuurala, Live music: Anna Ahlström, Stagedesign: Chingi Stocklassa
A sensory experience course for babies aged 4–15 months. The room is a sensory installation, with movements, sounds, and materials ready to be explored. The babies direct their attention, and the facilitators follow, creating a listening space. Spring 2025-autumn 2025, supported by Järfälla Culture School.
Dancer in De första fem by Lotta Gahrton
Production Spring 2022 & Spring 2023; Archipelago Tour Spring 2024; Mini-tour in Tensta and Öland, March 2025.
More info
Choreographer and Dancer in the film Zonen by Nina Jeppsson
Premiere September 2024 at Biograf Aspen.
A journey into inner and outer landscapes inspired by Tarkovsky’s cinematic world, exploring the unknown.
Trailer
Koreograf i Fru Sorg, bearbetning och regi Nina Jeppsson
Strindbergs Intima Teater 18 mars - 2 april 2023
In the Q(a)R(T) exhibition, participants meet dance artists from different parts of the world using their mobile phones and headphones.
24 & 25/11 Tensta dansar
Background QR performance:
For 13 months, Tanja Tuurala, Stockholm and Harpa Dögg Kjartansdóttir, Reykjavik had an online process entitled 13 Exchanges, where they used digital technology as a tool for their process. 13 Exchange's online process consisted of an exchange of movements and image and form material. The exchange was based on an openness to each other's ideas and direction.
QR performance is now in a new phase of Tanja and Harpa's process.
13 Exchange's process can be viewed here: www.eventhorizons2021.com
Click on Stockholm or Reykjavik.
Event/Horizons is initiated by Ana Sánchez-Colberg
A Loop pedal, basketball sounds and movement, a bunch of kids.
Concept, choreography, performance: Tanja Tuurala
27/8 Tensta konsthall - Block party
A party? A performance? A flamencohappening?
VadQueWhat investigates flamenco in a Stockholm sight with its corners and connections. What is its implication in a specific space and contemporarity. The audience is a cocreator, with its presence or maybe also dance!
YOU are invited.
In collaboration with FlamencoFredag
With support of KulturRådet och Stockholms Stad
Crew:
Tanja Tuurala - choreography, dance in collab. with performers
Tina Wezelius Grebacke - performer
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio - performer
Maria Lundqvist, Emelie Hult - costume
Guests: Gabriela Gutarra and Souzana Volioti
Tensta centrum 8/3 18.30 as part of Världens danskonst krokar arm organized by Lotta Gahrton Prod.
Dansens dag 29/4 Sharing work in progress and Flashmob with flamenco community Druvan, Kungsholmen
Kulturvaket, Edsbergs slott, Sollentuna 20/5, guest Gabriela Gutarra
Sprallen, Stockholm 12/6 guest Souzana Volioti
Parkleken Ådalen, Vällingby 17/6
Dancer in "De första fem"by Lotta Gahrton Prod. January - May 2022 & april 2023
Den röda stolen; The red chair
A dance happening for 3-5 year olds. Concept, choreography, music and dance: Charlotte Nyström and Tanja Tuurala.
2018 and 2021 Tensta dansar festival, Stockholm. Support from Stockholms stad
Preschool tour in municipality of Järfälla, autumn 2018, spring2019, autumn 2019, spring 2020, autumn 2021, spring 2022 as part of office at Järfälla Community Arts School
Dancer in Kvinnors röst by Lotta Gahrton Prod. September 2021
lottagahrtonprod.se/kvinnors-rost
Dancer, creator in Zonen, tredje muttern.
Zonen is established by stageartist Nina Jeppsson and composer, professor Kent Olofsson. Zonen is an artistic research project that takes off from the filmmaker Tarjkovskijs work. The themes are moving around time, space and hidden dimentions.
Stockholm May 2021 & performance at "Orion flyttar ut", Orionteatern 3 September.
Zonen film and live concert: 30/6 - 2/7, Ställbergs gruva
2020
Choreographer in: Till Kärlekens Antarktis
Director, actor: Nina Jeppsson
Text: Nina Jeppsson, Sara Stridsberg
Musik & Ljudscenografi: Kent Olofsson
Videoscenografi: Johannes Ferm Winkler
The Royal Dramatic Theatre "Dramaten", Stockholm September 2020
Kultaseni, min kära
Reflections and memories of Soleá Online.
Soundscape: Anu Silvennoinen, David Sorroche, Tanja Tuurala
Choreography, dance: Tanja Tuurala
1[-1]: Materiality of Exile is the next in the series of works by Ana Sánchez-Colberg using prime numbers to generate compositional rules to create new forms of collaborative and participatory contemporary performance. The works defy categorization as they bring together elements of fine and visual art, audio composition, movement, photography and film, live documentation to generate site-specific works that question the relationship between art institutions, the ‘art-object’ and the subjects involved in the creation and reception. November 2019
(About you, me and her/him)
A storytelling, voice and dance jam in a preschool context. Language: Finnish and Swedish.
Choreography and concept: Tanja Tuurala
Sound: Per Lenner, Camilla Strandberg, Tanja Tuurala
Song: camilla Strandberg
Events: Tenstadansar festival 2019
With support by: Spånga _ Tensta stadsdelsförvaltning (municipality)
June 3rd, 2019-June 30th, 2019
A TRANSNATIONAL DANCE IN A SHARED VIRTUAL SPACE
A collaboration with choreographers around the world.
www.seventotheseventh.com
This innovative week-long event is the brainchild of Athens resident choreographer Ana Sánchez-Colberg. We are connecting seven urban sites in seven different time zones through live streaming with shared audio and improvisational scores.
Tanja Tuurala is participating with a `Road trip´ which connects the mundane to the community and local and to the transnational and global participation through dance and movement, social network, sound.
Garden essay with dance and poetry
For all ages, Concept and choreography Felice Jackson Rova, poet and literary scholar and Tanja Tuurala. Part of a summer arts program in and with collaboration of Spånga – Tensta district.
Support from Stockholm stad
Dots in space - in front of, behind, beside.
Dance event aimed at 4–7 year olds.
Choreography, dance: Tanja Tuurala.
Performances:
Tensta dansar festival
November 2017
Blå Huset, Tensta
Support from Stockholm stad
December 2, 2017 Uppsala Concert & Congress
The Flamenco creature Tensta dansar festival, October 22–26, 2014
With support from Stockholms stad
Choreography, sound, dance: Tanja Tuurala
Övning I omvandling,del 2 (excercise in transformation part 2) - Salong Tensta. January 2014 - Performance and workshop with and by dance worker Tanja Tuurala, that examines the theme of resistance. What happens with art that departs from other questions that entertainment.
The interactive performance takes its starting point in the artwork Time_Space Shuttle, Apollo Pavilion by Peter Geschwind and Thomas Elovsson. The sculpture represents a place for a common history that binds us together.
Musician: Robin Spurrier.
Tensta konsthall
Salong Tensta is a jury selected presentation with Tensta as a theme. Members of jury: Maria Lantz, photogrpher and principal Konstfack; Adam Tensta, hiphopartist and Ulrika Flink, assistent curator Tensta konsthall.
Övning i omvandling (excercise in transformation part 1) - Salong TenstaA conscious questioning of the learned. An eternal practice. Maybe new knowledge? But from time to time the fall back in to the system, in thought, in mind, in will. Is it in the fall the transformation is produced?
Choreography, dance: Tanja Tuurala
Musician: Robin Spurrier, member of Jordbro stadsteater (city theatre of Jordbro)
Tensta konsthall den 20.11.2013
REHEARSAL IN RESISTANCE
Through the means of flamenco take part in illustrating experiences and affect structures.
In collaborations.
- Queerfeminist och antirasist Performance Festival, Fria Teatern, Stocksholm, April 2013. Collaborators: Indra Linderoth performance artist, Kvinnocenter (Womens centre) Tensta-Hjulsta och Libanesiska familjeföreningen (Libanes familyorganisation).
- Inauguration of Jordbro Stadsteater (Jordbro citytheatre) September 2012. Musician: Robin Spurrier, piano
- Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design September 2012. Musician: Robin Spurrier, piano
One of the artistic directors of the QueerFeminist Artist Association, TIR Performance. TIR defined itself as a feminist artist collective that consistently works with expressing stories of opposition, 2011 - 2013.
Works in selection:
2013
SIFAV + TIR Accommodation monologue Konsthall C – Feminist art gallery October 19–20
2012
TIR – Sidewalk position or Up your ass - a non fictional show International Performance Art festival, Copenhagen November 22–25, 2012 and at Jordbro stadsteater, August 28, 2012
The excursion, Barnens Ö, September 1
TIR vs Men as a group – fall on your knees my dear and kiss the earth
STOFF Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, Feminists in space festival, Copenhagen, Unga Klara bar, Stockholm
PROSODI
Musician: Anna Petry, violin
A choreographic contemplation based on the exhibition Arvet (heritage also meaning wound)
10/5 2012 Light hall, Haninge cityhall
18/8 2012 Library of Uppsala
www.arkisto.org
FLAMEN_Co 2 x 1
Two artists, Tanja Tuurala from Stockholm, Sweden and Olga Chalkidou from Athens, Greece create an artistic dialogue as part of a two-week studio based research project. The project is taking place in both countries. The dialogue focuses on their mutual interest: flamenco in dialogue with contemporary dance and the aspects of meeting. It is a dialogue between two artists with a shared interest but who bring different approaches and personal resources. 2011
ARÅ
Guest artist in the group Amaro Dzambiba/ARÅ Roma music and flamenco group based in Helsinki. 2010 - 2011. Festivals in Eskisltuna and Helsinki, Finland
TRIO ABC
A new interpretation of Yvonne Rainers legendary choreography Trio A, premiered in Judson dance theatre, New York 1966. In Trio ABC the choreography is moved in time and space to the political and social context of Tensta year 2010. With and by: Rani Alhallak and Tanja Tuurala.
Coproduction Tensta Konsthall.
Soleá Online investigated a flamenco dance, choreography and music collaboration, made possible and at the same time distanced by the internet. In the process and in the performance act. Is the human alone or together in the virtual world? The project was realized through a colaboration between flamencoartists from three countries: Finland, Sweden and Spain.
Choreography and dance: Anu Silvennoinen och Tanja Tuurala
Guitarist and composition: Erik Steen
Song and composition: David Sorroche.
Performances: Moderna dansteatern, Stockholm, XII Festival flamenco de Helsinki, Hällä scenen Tammerfors, Finland. Rörliga bilder: www.scenarkivet.se
With support by: Sisä-Suomen tanssin aluekeskus, Folkets Bildningsförbund/Finland, Tammerfors stad
Flamenco and the virtual space at The Nordic Forum for Dance research, NOFOD 2009,
in Colaboration with Anu Silvennoinen dancer, choreographer, educator, based in Tampere, Finland
Puppan: La Envoltura 2006
A reflection on the virtual space communication in its starters. Of opening and closing. Materiality of plastic and crystal, melting vax. Of plastic sounds and flamenco.
Choreography and dance: Tanja Tuurala
Song and compositions: Angeles Gómez
Glass and vax installation and projection: Christer Chytraeus
Performances: Moderna dansteatern Underground meets Overground festival, Konstfack Stockholm, TenstaBo06, on net www.arkisto.org Galleri Moi
With support by: Kulturförvaltningen (Managment of culture) Stockholm, Spånga-Tensta och Katarina-Sofia stadsdelsförvaltning (municipality), Sensus studieförbund and Assyriska Föreningen
Möteskraft på gränsen.UNLIMITED
Community dance, a meeting project between people from different socioeconomical contexts in the city of Stockholm, Katarina – Sofia district and Spånga – Tensta district. In collaboration with dancer, choreograper Karolina Jackson.
Stockholm tour 2006.
Support by: Konstfack, Spånga-Tensta and Katarina-Sofia district administrations.
Spreading out roses, roses from my fingers
Choreography: Tanja Tuurala
Dance: Karolina Jackson, Lilia Riggio, Tanja Tuurala.
Perfromances: Tensta Kulturkafé och Mäster Olofsgården (cultural centre), Stortorget Gamla Stan, Stockholm.
Support by: Tensta kulturkommitté (culturecommity), 2005
Tjuren, månen och klädnypan (The bull, the moon and the clothespin)
Choreography and dance: Tanja Tuurala.
Performances:Dansens Hus i Stockholm, konference Partnerskap för multietnisk integration, Happening Återkomsten and Hagfors Week of Arts for children, 2003
KOSMONAUTERNA 1999 - 2000
Choreographer, Communitydance company. Performing locally and internorth.
Vikigingos
Videodance and liveperformance
With support by: Spånga-Tensta stadsdelsförvaltning, Mångfaldens Museum
Selected participator to Le Concours Media Danse International Grand Prix Carina Ari i Paris 2000.
In collaborations with musicians: Erik Steen, Soma Catomeris, Ellen Pontara, Angeles Gómez.
Colaboration with artist Carme Malaret (Barcelona) “Empremtes de desig”, Part of touring exhibition “Flamenc XXI Expressions“ , 2000
Dancer in:
DEAR F
Choreography Anu Silvennoinen
Helsinki: Taideyliopisto
23.4.2016, 3.3.2016 - 5.3.2016
23.4.2016 & 24.4.2016
IMPROV THE MOVE House of culture, Kulturhuset Lakeside in Haninge, Initiated by Emelie Empo Enlund, 23.4.2016 & 24.4.2016, juni 2013.
Kultur i vården (Arts in healthcare programme) Cia Danza Flamenca 2013
Rörelser a café programme, concept by Angeles Gómez. År 2006-2007
Fascinadas Cia Danza Flamenca, choreographer Kaari Martin,
Underground meets overground festival, MDT 2007.
Flamenco Jukebox choreographer Kaari Martin,
Moderna dansteatern, April 2006
Nya vindar, choreographer Kaari Martin
Performance in Umeå 2006
Cia En Aguas production Per Una Dona, Choreographer Lourdes Culebras
Cornella de llobregat, Barcelona, 2000.
Acting and Other:
The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria) by Magnus Bärtås, artist, filmmaker and writer
Acting/ reading.
The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria) is a wayward description of how the Virgin Mary appeared in Tensta summer of 2012. Part of the research – based project The New Model. An enquiry initiated by Maria Lind and Lars Bang Larsen in 2011.
11.6-28.9 2014 Tensta konsthall.
9.5-22.11 2015 Biennale di Venezia
Eight acts of politics of listening, Tensta konsthall
Inauguration piece. 31 oktober 2013. Project was initiated by Petra Bauer, artist, filmmaker and researcher and Sofia Wiberg. In collaboration inbetween Sarah Degerhammar, Tanja Tuurala och Kvinnocenter i Tensta-Hjulsta.
Actor in: Tänä iltana Aleksis Kivi (Tonight Aleksis Kivi)
Uusi teatteri/Nya teatern, August – December 2002.
Director: Tapio Aarre-Ahtio. Dramaturg: Anna-Maria Ingerö.
Performers: Kaija Kiiski, Tanja Tuurala, Tapio Aarre-Ahtio, Seppo Lintunen, Heikki Oranen ja Pablo Seppä
Premiered Oktober 2002 Stockholm toured in Sweden.