Bio

Taneli Törmä - LOCATION X is an award-winning choreographer and performing artist, with international and interdisciplinary experience. As a teacher, performer, fundraiser, idea maker and curator he focuses on developing the performing arts towards a more diverse, intercultural, multi-perspectial and innovative form.

With „Classical beauty“ (2017), for example, he created a communal ballet performance from a contemporary perspective, involving local kids to dance together with him. And with „Effect“ (2019), a multidisciplinary work for Art Galleries, he choreographs a group of human bodies based on daily movements - involving the pedestrian into the white cube.

Taneli Törmä's/LOCATION X's works have been shown in more than 20 countries. They have been selected twice for the Aerowaves - Dance Across Europe. Alongside his own work, LOCATION X has also initiated the program DANCE ALL YEAR LONG, a mobile customized dance platform offered for different cities. Together with these municipalities, it supports other dance artists with residencies and gives an opportunity to present their work.

The goal of LOCATION X is to create new bridges for contemporary dance and to find new audiences and collaboration partners for it - a platform for curating new perspectives and views about dance. Taneli Törmä’s works are often immersive. He is driven by the interest to create situations and experiences, that will carry a specific feeling and movement towards the public - always moved by the question on who is dancing and how and where we can dance today in our everyday lifes?