HOPE is Heidi Miikki’s vertical dance work, exploring the power of hope, activism and community through gravity-defying movement.

Heidi Miikki’s vertical dance piece HOPE is about radical and active hope and the courage to dream. What would happen if we all wished for something at the same time? Through movement and text, the themes of action, hope and hopelessness, activism, and the power of community and the individual are explored. Combining circus and dance, the acrobatic vertical dance defies gravity and takes the dance to the walls and into the air, combined with text and honest presence.

Performer, director, producer: Heidi Miikki  
Sound designer, composer:Ilmari Tiitinen  
Directorial help, vertical dance mentor: Lindsey Butcher  
Light designer, video projections, technical producer: June Horton-White  
Circus rigging, stage technic & set: Hedda Liukkala  
Supported by: NEMO – Nordisk Kulturfond, Arts Promotion Centre, Finnish-icelandic Cultural Foundation, Nordic Culture Point. 
Demo performance has been supported by UrbanApa and Stoa Cultural Centre.
Co-operating partners: Cirko – center for new circus, Irish Aerial Creation Center, ArtsIceland
Duration: 50 min.

Heidi Miikki is a dance and circus artist who works with vertical dance, site-specific art, tightrope dance and contemporary dance. She combines nature conservation and performing arts in her work, and is actively involved in the core group of the contemporary circus group Acting for Climate, working in performance, production and artistic direction.