Residencies

TSC Studio Residency is particularly suited for the creation and rehearsal of stage works as well as the development of new choreographic material. The summer 2026 Studio Residency’s two week working period is 6–19 July 2026.

TSC Studio is located at the Cable Factory in Helsinki, Finland. The selected artist or working group can use the studio free of charge. The studio is available for use both on weekdays and weekends and you are free to work there according to your own schedule. You can read more about TSC Studio here. The studio's immersive multi-channel audio system will not be at the studio residency’s use. It is also not possible to rig anything in the studio.

TSC staff will provide orientation to the practicalities of the residency. Residency artists also have the opportunity to receive mentoring from TSC’s artistic and production staff, when agreed upon seperately.

Please note that TSC Residencies do not include travel assistance, accommodation nor salaries or fees. Artists need to cover these and other related expenses by their own means.

You can apply to the TSC Studio Residency as an individual artist or as a group or collective. To apply for the summer 2026 studio residency, fill in the form here. Please carefully read the details of residency schedule, other terms, and application instructions before submitting your application.

The deadline for residency applications is Tuesday 28 April at 16:00 (4pm, Finnish time GMT +2). Make sure you have submitted the form before the deadline.

Decisions regarding the residency artists will be made by group comprised of TSC’s artistic and production staff. We will take diversity and equity into account in the decision-making process and want to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply to the residencies.

All applications will be treated confidentially and any information about either the applicants or the content of applications will not be shared with third parties.

The selection criteria for applications are:
● Original artistic thinking
● Objectives for working
● Feasibility of the project
● New propositions for physical expression

We also highlight orientation towards creating large-scale works and an interest in multi-disciplinary work.

We will individually notify all applicants about the selections by the end of May 2026.
For further information on the residency programme, applications and TSC Studio, please contact Head of Production Carita Weissenfelt: [email protected].

We're looking forward to hearing from you and your project soon!

We invited multidisciplinary arts collective WAUHAUS to TSC Sound Residency 2025, where they worked on their new stage production PETER LIVED IN A HOUSE – a dolphin from dot to dot. The piece, based on playwright Pipsa Lonka’s play of the same name, ruminates on one of the most bizarre experiments in scientific history, where a dolphin named Peter is taught English. At the heart of the work lies the paradox of love in the relationship of humans and animals. The ultimate protagonist is language, including the power entangled in the fables of our culture.

As an aim to create a performance that shakes up all the senses, the working group wanted to use sound design as a scenographic element. At TSC Sound Residency WAUHAUS explored how the studio’s immersive sound system could support experiences of a space, from vast to claustrophobic. The collective also worked with the spatial arrangement of the music within the sound system, sparking inspiration for the ongoing composition work of the performance.

In 2024 Summer Sound Residency, the moving body acts as an instrument for music and composition. Charo Calvo, composer of electroacoustic music and former dancer, has just finished a research of two years about physical movement and sound spatial movement. At TSC Studio, Calvo is joined by sound designer Christophe Albertini and choreographer-dancer Bahar Temiz. The sound material generated by the movement will create a multi-channel composition incorporating acoustic and electronic materials.

Musician-composers Maija Kauhanen and Hugh Sheehan form an artistic duo that uses the Finnish traditional instrument kantele together with electronics, home-made instruments, and human-computer interfaces. Their work explores the internal characteristics of sound, and experimental improvisation and performance processes. During their Sound Residency in summer 2023, Kauhanen and Sheehan conducted experiments in both the audience’s, and performers’ position, movement and gesture. Utilising TSC Studio’s immersive audio system, they explored the characteristics of spatial audio as thematic and motivic origin. Their aim was to devise material as a basis for future performances and recordings.

In summer 2022, choreographer Suvi Kemppainen, composer Walter Sallinen and dramaturg Klaus Maunuksela worked towards their new stage work From a great height: a choreographic sonic ceremony that examines subsidence, transgression and love for grief. It is an eerie invitation into an underwater world of the hidden depths and transgressing powers, playing with the emancipatory potentials of lamentation.

In the second sound residency in July 2022, the multi-disciplinary Yumi Collective (Sebastian Kurten, Simeoni Juoperi, Antti Uimonen andHamis Zzy) worked on their first staged work at TSC Studio. Inspired by the ‘Gömböc’ shape, their creation will examine balance and its reciprocative nature through sound and movement.

During its residency at TSC Studio, MP Collective will work on the third part of its Framing series, where dance, video, film, and sound art create immersive worlds. The group deepens its exploration of physical, sonic, and video artistry. They examine the interplay of movement, live projection, and video mapping, as well as the role of sound design as an interactive and participatory element in room.

The working group consists of Miikkael Kukkula, Olli Lautiola, Suvi Nieminen, and Ilona Salonen. Aimed at children and families, the piece will premiere in 2026 in Turku.

Project Afterlife by Jenni Kivelä & Kiltit ihmiset seeks ways to connect with the dead and asks whether it is possible to find a space where one can still be in contact with a late someone.

In addition to choreographer Jenni Kivelä, the creative team also includes dance artists Ninu Lindfors and Linda Holma, lighting and video designer Teo Lanerva, costume designer Liisa Pesonen, producer Inari Pesonen and sound designer Joonas Outakoski.

In January 2023 Dennis Nylund, Antti Uimonen and Anniina Tikka worked on their new project Post Breakers’ Revenge. During their Studio Residency they initiated their movement-based research to study the identity and movement language of aging breakdancers. Within the research group, they wanted to create more space in the breaking culture for people whose interests and values might vary through aging and changing life conditions.

In January 2022 artist and choreographer Tiia Kasurinen worked on a new staged work SURFACE, together with a team. Kasurinen’s dance performance is a crooked fairytale and an antithesis for children’s stories; a humoristic, yet harrowing perspective on existing under the gaze. SURFACE will premiered in Kuopio City Theatre on 24 November, 2022.

In April 2022 contemporary circus artist and founder of Nuua Company, Olli Vuorinen, was developing an upcoming solo piece Blueberry Burdock, directed by Thomas Monckton. With the “curiosity of a juggler”, Vuorinen’s aim was to study new means of object manipulation and expressions of bodily movement.

TSC began a new collaboration with Kiasma Theatre’s annual street art and culture festival URB, and Nordic Hiphop to the Stage, an international project funded by Nordisk kulturfund and Nordisk kulturkontakt, that aims to build an institutionally backed network for collaborations in the sphere of street culture and performance arts. In March TSC provided an artistic residency at TSC Studio for dancers Hamis Zzy and Siiri Korkeamäki. During their two-week residency, Hamis and Siiri created movement material for their new solos that are part of URB’s EU funded Be Part project. Their works are to be seen on 7–9 June at URB’s programme at Stoa Helsinki, as a part of a full evening performance, created by the French Art Move Concept and Nordic Hiphop to the Stage. Photo: Kansallisgalleria / Petri Virtanen