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25.11.2025
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25.11.2025
Eero Tahkola
HEREish performance was part of the ARToulu art area in 2026. Thank you to the audience and to everyone who took part in the experience!
HEREish is a dance-based, comical, slightly awkward, interactive solo performance. The material for the work stems from an exploration of the performers’ personal experiences of social situations, which can reach an amusing level of difficulties, and the ways of dealing with the feelings that arise in them.
HEREish is a work in which the performer uses movement, a soundscape created in the moment, and interaction to construct an entire world. The viewer can easily control the level of participation. The passerby can simply observe the performance for as long as they wish, or actively participate in the dialogue, or both. It invites viewers into lighthearted conversations where the connection is intermittent but never broken. The work oscillates between a strong social presence and contact and a palpable absence at its core, utilizing the entire spectrum. The fumbling search for human connection evokes empathy, confusion, joy, and questions that each viewer answers through their own experiences.
HEREish was performed in Oulu city center on 30.7. and 1.8.2026.
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Artist:
Eero Tahkola
Eero Tahkola is a professional dancer and performer based in Helsinki. In his artistic practice he uses playfulness, curiosity and continuous learning as the base for his performances. Tahkola received his dancer qualification from the Riviera dance program in 2024. He is currently deepening his studies in the dance program at the University of Arts in Helsinki. His recent works have been inspired by public spaces and close interaction with the public and co-dancers. His performances also draw inspiration from the surrounding environment and architecture.
