14 November 2026 at 7:00–9:00 p.m.

Tickets: netticket.fi/tanssin-juhlaa-far-jag-lov-gaala

The City of Karjaa’s anniversary year reaches its grand finale through dance. Canela Dance Company celebrates its journey through the steps of flamenco. For the gala, the company brings two works from CANELA’S SPANISH SERIES: SOLA (2004), choreographed by Rafaela Carrasco, and 4 JINETES (2003) by Israel Galván, presented in reworked and updated interpretations. The works feature dance artists Erika Alajärvi, Anna Palmio, Annatuuli Saine and Milena Urmas.

The evening will also feature Alajärvi’s and Palmio’s solo dance works MISTÄ ON SINUN ESPANJASI TEHTY (2019) and NADA (premiering at the gala), as well as VAELTAJA – VAGABOND (2024), a stage work written by Saine. In addition to Saine, the work features Aura Peltoniemi and Reettaleena Rauhala.

The gala evening concludes on a note of joy and friendship as the dance work ANATOMY OF JOY receives its premiere. The work explores the social dimension of joy: how joy spreads, the experience of shared joy, and the trust and sense of safety required to experience joy.

The idea for the work originated from a reflection: why does joy seem to be such a fleeting emotional state, while sorrow can be so difficult to let go of? The work aims to offer both its creators and the audience an opportunity to spend time with joy – together, among friends.

The event has been supported by:
Karjaan-Pohjan Säästöpankkisäätiö - Karis-Pojo Sparbanksstiftelsen
Bergsrådinnan Sophie von Julins Stiftelse
Raseborg stad - Raaseporin kaupunki
SE kannatus ry

Tuesday 6 October 2026 at 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Pehkusuo wetland, Hyytiälä Forest Station, Korkeakoski

Detail of After the Rain artwork by Juhani Pallasmaa. Photo Ulla Taipale, 2025

Dance Annatuuli Saine / Environmental art installation Juhani Pallasmaa

Dance is a way of sketching and observing the landscape through movement. Movement marks and verifies a place and its environment. In the work Contours and Interfaces, movements are drawn as lines and surfaces across the wetland landscape. The dancer observes the world with her entire being. The work explores the interaction between the inner and outer worlds and the experiential quality of empty space.

The dance work is in dialogue with Juhani Pallasmaa’s environmental artwork After the Rain.

Pallasmaa says that the world is multisensory, and that the most important of our senses is the existential sense—the sense through which we experience our own existence and the place where we are. It is connected to sound and touch. Touch is the most important. We sense the world through our skin and through our very existence. Everything in our world is a perfect wonder. We take these things for granted, even though they are anything but ordinary.

The performance will take place outdoors, on a wetland. The audience is asked to dress appropriately.

After the performance, the audience will walk to the Hyytiälä Forest Station, where Juhani Pallasmaa and dancer-choreographer Annatuuli Saine will discuss art, wetlands and how we perceive them. The discussion will be moderated by curator Ulla Taipale (INAR/University of Helsinki).

Biographies

Annatuuli Saine is a dancer-choreographer, performance artist, scriptwriter, producer and artistic director of the Saine Ensemble. In her view, the greatest significance lies in small gestures and genuine encounters, within states of constant movement and change. Her guiding principles are social, ethical and ecologically sustainable working practices, and she uses art and science, amongst other things, as her tools. Together with dramaturg Seppo Parkkinen, she is organising the Dancing Meteorite forum. Saine is also a dancer and founding member of the Canela Dance Company, a pioneer of Finnish contemporary flamenco. She is currently studying the practice of philosophy at the Critical University in Helsinki.

Juhani Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect renowned as a thinker and writer, whose career encompasses significant buildings but, above all, a vast body of work comprising books, essays and guest lectures around the world that bring together philosophy, architecture and art. He has also served as Professor of Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and as Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture. Pallasmaa’s multisensory environmental art installation After the Rain (2023) is situated in Pehkusuo, in the vicinity of the Hyytiälä Forest Station.

Ulla Taipale is a Finnish art curator, affiliated at INAR (Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research), University of Helsinki since 2013. Her professional activity builds bridges between art and science communities, enhancing and facilitating dialogue between artists, creatives, scientists, and the public. She has curated numerous art exhibitions and art&science programs in Finland and abroad. She also curated the Periferia – Forest Art Lab art exhibition, located at Hyytiälä Forest Station.