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Flow Productions celebrates its 20th anniversary next year! To celebrate, Flow’s entire spring 2026 program will be filled with the most beautiful, moving, amazing, strange, raw, crazy, and skillful contemporary circus and dance performances. More information about the works can be found on their respective pages. Here is the program for Flow’s anniversary spring 2026!
Oulu2026 Opening Festival 16.-18.1.2026
Flow Productions is kicking off its 20th anniversary celebrations at the opening of Oulu European Capital of Culture year. Flow has curated a series of spectacular performances for the Oulu2026 opening festival. We have a total of 15 performances over the weekend, as well as the premiere of a dance film. For our small group, it already feels like a Flow festival within the festival. Take a look at the program curated by Flow Productions and join us in the festivities!
Sivuun Ensemble & Kallo Collective (FIN): NEIGHBOUR 28.1.-1.2.2026
Combining contemporary dance, aerial acrobatics, and physical comedy, Naapuri takes a peek into the parallel lives of people living in an apartment building. The performance brings to the viewer’s doorstep a recognizable and delightful neighborhood and its lovable and tiresome residents. Through encounters between neighbors, painful perspectives on broader social issues of our time, such as hierarchies, changes in solidarity, and belonging, are revealed.
Jay Gilligan (SWE/USA): ANOTHER SUNSET 16.-20.2.2026
Another Sunset is a work that combines storytelling, juggling, and music, in which the colors and shapes of the objects are an important part of the whole. The title Another Sunset refers to the moment when you stop to enjoy all the colors of the sunset. Jay Gilligan’s performance is an invitation to his own sunset, set to music.
During his 40-year career, juggler Jay Gilligan has performed in 38 different countries, appeared in productions by some of the world’s most famous circus companies (such as Cirque du Soleil), broken world records, and won numerous gold medals.
Race Horse Company (FIN) & Big Wolf Company (EST): THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL CIRCUS CABARET WITH A TWIST 11.-12.3.2026
The Weird & Wonderful Circus Cabaret With a Twist is a spectacular journey into the fascinating and peculiar heart of circus and cabaret. It is a world where nothing is quite what it seems: traditional circus disciplines – magic, aerial acrobatics, juggling, and balancing – take on new and unexpected forms. Charismatic characters step onto the stage, leading the audience into surprising encounters. Elements of the grotesque, playful humor, and constant unpredictability keep the intensity high, creating an unforgettable experience.
Production Oulu Music Festival and Flow Productions. This performance is part of the Oulu Music Festival 2026.
People Watching (CAN): PLAY DEAD 16.5.2026
Set in a universe of domestic trappings and interlocking stories, Canadian People Watching’s creation Play Dead observes the beautiful, twisted and sometimes laughable facets of the human experience. Through its dynamic hybrid of acrobatics, movement and physical theatre, the piece puts forth a surrealist chronicle of the familiar. But far from settling into bored fatalism, this show marvels at the absurdity of the mundane and celebrates life, the same way people desperately dance to the last song before the party ends.
This currently one of the best contemporary circus shows is brought to Oulu in collaboration between Flow Productions, Oulu theatre and Cirko – Centre for New Circus.
