We wanted to form a lasting and fruitful companionship with another dance school in a foreign country. Also we wanted to offer our teachers the possibility to learn from and with their international colleagues. Furthermore we wanted to provide our students an experience to dance in an international environment resembling the multicultural scene of professional dance world.
Dance is an international language, but we felt we lacked the possibilities to collaborate with our European fellow institutes. Many of the further dancers we train will eventually work on an international field, but there are few possibilities for them to rehearse this during their training. The Finnish dance education has an impressive and extensive history, but we felt it could also limit us and therefore wanted to see how dance is taught in another country.