PREMIERE´27

What is PREMIERE?

Launched in 2009, PREMIERE is an international program for a choreographic debut, offering a professional platform for young choreographers to introduce their artistic vision at their very first movement based dance performance. The aim of the program is to introduce dance artists and choreographers who are starting their independent careers and bring their artistic work to local and international audiences.

As part of PREMIERE’27, we are presenting dance productions by emerging choreographers Evelin Uue and Kärt Kokkota, premiering in February 2027.

Additionally, the PREMIERE programme will feature two performances of “Us who glow in the dark” by Finnish dance artist Sointu Saraste, made possible through a collaboration with the Finnish arts centre EHKÄ and their “Young Makers” programme.

Evelin Uus (b. 1993) is a Berlin-based artist working at the intersection of choreography, visual art, and text. Their current research focuses on the creation of fantasy worlds through an exploration of practices involving synthetic intimacy and simulated affection within the erotic industry. Uus’s work is grounded in the principles of intersectional queer feminism, and they aim to transform marginalizing narratives through the lenses of beauty and politics.

Kärt Kokkota (b. 2002) is a graduate of the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, where she studied choreography. As a student, she created stage productions, performance art pieces, and a short film, while also performing as an actor and dancer in various stage productions and feature films. She is interested in space and similar structures that inevitably surround the (human) body and establish predetermined situations. She is also fascinated by the relationship between fiction and reality in the contexts of both theatre and everyday life.

Sointu Saraste is a dance artist and performer, currently interested in ‘corporal fantasy’, meaning the simultaneous happening of imagination and dance. She is developing her dance practice, “Cuteness and monstrosity”. Saraste holds a BA (Hons) degree in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban, London, and an MA in Dance Performance from Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy.