DANCE THEATRE HURJARUUTH

CONTACTS

Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth
Kaapelitehdas (Cable Factory)
Tallberginkatu 1 / 117
00180 HELSINKI

Visiting address:

Cable Factory, A-staircase, the second floor (the stage and the lobby)
and the fifth floor (the office and the Elf School)

The Winter Circus performances are held in Pannuhalli, Cable Factory, inner court, street level.

Here is a link to the theatre’s own webpage: www.hurjaruuth.fi

HOW TO GET THERE

By metro: Ruoholahti station;
By tram number 8;

By HSL’s buses 65A, 66A, 20 and 21V and by Espoo’s buses.

THEATRE

Hurjaruuth is a dynamic dance theatre which has become known to the masses through its Winter Circuses. Hurjaruuth produces two or three premieres every year, and altogether there are over a hundred performances yearly. The theatre’s permanent premises are situated in the Cable Factory, but Hurjaruuth is also a touring company visiting festivals, schools and events around Finland and also abroad.

STARTING YEAR

1981

AUDITORIUM / STAGE

The auditorium of the studio:
in its normal state the auditorium has 124 seats, but the number of seats can vary from 20 to 150, whatever suits the purposes of each production.

Pannuhalli in Cable Factory:

384 seats (Winter Circus)

STAFF

Theatre director:

Arja Pettersson

Theatre manager:
Päivi Wieser

Theatre producer:

Kaisa Karkkonen

PR manager:
Pisko Aunola
Scenographer:
Kirsi Manninen
Light designer and photographer:

Riku Virtanen

Stage supervisor:

Rima Ralli

The theatre also employs some 100 people per year including freelance performers, technicians, dressmakers as well as employees needed in ticket sales, in the cafeteria and elsewhere.

RESTAURANT / CAFÉ

We have a buffet during the performances serving e.g. fair-trade coffee and freshly baked buns.

An anecdote

There is a book called ”Rotta vai tarua – Tanssiteatteri Hurjaruuth”, which tells the history of Hurjaruuth (published by Like). In the book, theatre director Arja Petterson tells that people often ask about the name of the theatre and its origins, but that there really is no good answer to the question. “Names have always been difficult for me, and also this time we spent a great amount of time trying to find a good one. We liked the fact that the name has a fierce feel to it and includes a girl name. The theatre is, after all, founded by women,” Petterson says. The past years have seen several versions of the name varying from Hurja Rooth to Hurjaruut. In the early years the theatre even received mail addressed to “Dance Theatre Kurjat Luut” (“Lousy Bones”), and later to “Transsiteatteri Hurjaruutana” (“Trans Theatre Fierce Carp”). Once there was a phonecall asking: “So this is Dance Theatre Hurja Putin?”