Auraco Dance & Mime

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Auraco Dance & Mime

Auraco is a unique and visual dance and mime theatre from Helsinki, Finland. (Missä olet, Köpelösti?) (2018)
Tuntu (2017)
Travel 1:100 (Matka 1:100) (2015)
Mr.

Auraco can be found for example on theatre stages and in galleries, kindergartens, rest-homes, gardens and yards.
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Auracon näyttämöinä toimivat niin teatterit ja galleriat, päiväkodit, vanhustenkeskukset, puistot kuin puutarhatkin.
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Performances in the orders of the premiere: // Esitykset:

HELMIME Club (2020)
BFree (2018)
Whoopsy-Daisy, Where Are You? Kookaburra and Kukkaroo (Herra Kookaburra

ja Kukkaroo) (2015)
My Eyes Your Eyes (Mun silmät sun silmät) (2014)
Floating Boat (2013)
Pisaroita (2013)
Harvest Dance (Sadonkorjuutanssi) (2012)
Petit Câlin (2012)
Tutt(i)uuS (2011)
Till Sacko (2011)
Echoes (Kaikuja) (2010)
Me-Me (2009)
Colouring (Värinää) (2008)
The Moon, the Stars and the Wanderers (Kuu, tähdet ja kulkureita) (2008)
Every morning I say to my feet "let's move" (Joka aamu sanon näille jaloille, että nyt liikutaan) (2008)
The Magic on the Christmas (Joulun taika) (2007)
Impulses (Impulsseja) (2007)
Sunsand (Aurinkohiekkaa) (2007)
In This Moment (Tässä hetkessä) (2007)
Moon Maiden (Kuuneiti) (2007)

Auraco provides also custom-made performances. Auraco tekee myös tilausteoksia.

29/04/2026

Hyvää kansainvälistä tanssin päivää! Happy International Dance Day! 💕

The clip is from Dance Day at the Cable Factory in Helsinki a few years ago.

AINUT with dancer Maria Autio and saxophonist Heli Hartikainen

22/04/2026

EU Projects 4/5 🇪🇺
Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years 2014–2018

👶 Small size, Performing Arts for Early Years was a large-scale co-operation project co-financed by Creative Europe Program. The project aimed to promote the productions and visibility of performing arts for the early years in Europe and world wide. The project focused on children from 0 to 6 years old, especially on little children under 3 years old. It was a European networking project for theatres and cultural centres that produce programmes for children.

🟢 Auraco was one of the 17 partners from 15 different European countries. All the partners strongly believed that children – even the youngest ones – have the right to be viewed as valuable spectators.

🟠 The project included Wide Eyes -productions, mentoring projects with European and outer-European theatres and companies, Small Size Days, artistic directors meetings, workshops, general meetings, festivals and visits.

🎭 Auraco produced three performances:

🌺 Mr. Kookaburra and Kukkaroo in 2015, with performers Jouni Bäckström, Kati Lehtola and musician Sami Zimmermann. The performance was directed by Päivi Aura, music composed by Sami Zimmermann, costumes were by Piritta Kämi-Conway and lights by Keijo Vainio.

🧡 Tuntu in 2017, with dancers Maria Autio and Oskari Turpeinen/Kalle Lähde and musician Heli Hartikainen. The music was composed by Heli Hartikainen, Sami Zimmermann and Michael Ferrie. The performance was directed by Päivi Aura, costumes were by Piritta Kämi-Conway and lights by Pasi Pehkonen.

🔎 Whoopsy Daisy, Where Are You? in 2018, with performers Jouni Bäckström and Kati Lehtola. The direction was by Päivi Aura and Kati Lehtola, sound design by Jouni Bäckström.

👧 Our mentoring partner was Sproutheatre Project from South Korea.

🎡 During the project we collaborated with Kanneltalo, Annantalo and Bravo! Festival 2018 in Helsinki.

📷 Photos from top left:
Mr. Kookaburra and Kukkaroo by Miia Kota
Tuntu by Tuomo Härkönen and Anita Murphy
Whoopsy Daisy, Where Are You? by Juha Hilpas

01/04/2026

Tanssin ja miimin lisäksi alamme tarjota kuoppien kaivamista! Työn hintaan vaikuttavat kuopan sijainti ja koko. Lapio löytyy omasta takaa! 👍🏻

23/03/2026

EU Projects 3/5
Erasmus+ Growing up in Europe 2014–2016

This was a two-year mobility project of the Erasmus+ program. It had two interrelated activities: sharing experience about child care systems in partner countries and implementing innovative work methods in education. Auraco was invited to this project as an art education specialist. There were 12 partner organizations from four countries.

Diakonia College of Finland was Auraco’s local partner and took care of the educational exchange of the vocational students. We alos collaborated with Annantalo Art Center and Päiväkoti Kaivopuisto in Helsinki.

The project featured international meetings, organizing and hosting a 3 days art education seminar in Helsinki, activities concerning education and vocational experience and student exchange, surveys, case studies, interviews and workshops.

Two week residency in Voiron and nearby cities in France gave us a deep dive into the French child care system and vocational education of children’s caretakers.

Photos from top left:
Workshop in Voiron, photo by Tuuli Vuorinen-Oras
Tuuli’s workshop collage in Annantalo, photo by Kati Lehtola
Seminar in Helsinki, photo by Kati Lehtola
Day care center in France, photo by Kati Lehtola
Kati in France, photo by Päivi Aura
Kati and Päivi in Grenoble, photo by Harri Lehtola

22/03/2026

Happy World Mime Day! 🤗

Kati Lehtola: I Can Deny Everything
Original photo by Agnieska Sikora

06/03/2026

EU Projects 2/5 🇪🇺
Grundtvig program 2010–2012 Parenthood/education/culture/art

👧 This was a project between parents, artists, early childhood and culture professionals and college researchers. It offered a very special view into the partner countries’ early childhood state as a whole. Auraco was one of the five partners.

🔸 This project had artist residencies, a great variety of events, workshops and performances for children, parents and educators. All this was followed by a researcher from the University of Lyon.

🎭 Auraco’s project production Petit Câlin (2012) was a co-production with Kanneltalo, Helsinki. The idea and the name of the work were based on the French phrase “petit câlin”, which means embracing a newborn baby, its first hug. Movement in a tightly controlled space, the human voice, and lighting transported the audience from one state of emotion to the next. Performers were dancer Takako Matsuda and musician Philippe-Marcel iung, lighting by Keijo Vainio.

🌴 The project took us to an unforgettable visit in Martinique (overseas France), where we had a great opportunity to get acquainted with this Caribbean island’s art, culture and education.

📷 From top left:
Workshop photo by Agnes Desfosses
Petit Câlin photo by Rene Korpela
Martinique photos by Kati Lehtola and Harri Lehtola

21/02/2026

EU Projects 1/5 🇪🇺
A big part of our international work has been several EU co-funded projects. We’ll start our 20th anniversary memory lane with the five EU projects that we have been part of.

🔵 First the first: EU Culture-program, Small Size, Big Citizens 2009-2014. The project’s aim was to support the rights of young children to enjoy the arts, to be part of artistic processes fostering their emotional intelligence and helping them to develop their sensibility skills. The project had 11 partners.

🍁 In Small Size, Big Citizens Auraco was Annantalo Art Centre’s local partner in Helsinki. Our main contribution to the project was a performance called Echoes, which was produced together with Auraco, Annantalo, Ateneum Art Museum and Theatre de La Guimbarde (BE). It was performed in Ateneum’s hall in October 2010.
Echoes was an interactive dance performance for babies from 0 to 3 years old. Dance, music and visual arts had dialogue together and with the audience. Fragments from several art works from Ateneum’s collection were reflected on the back drops.
Echoes’ performers were dancers Päivi Aura, Kati Lehtola, Lieve Hermans / Raisa Vennamo / Annika Sarvela, and musician Philippe-Marcel Iung. The visual realisation was by Ateneum hall and Annantalo Arts Centre.

🎨 Additionally, we held workshops in Finland, Belgium and France, had presentations of the work in museums with little children, and participated in meetings of the international Echoes museum project.

🎭 Finally, Päivi had a pop up solo performance called Avec Renoir in the closing event of the museum project in Limoges, France in April 2014.

Photos on top: Avec Renoir, photos by Javier Abad
Below: Echoes, photos by Kia Oramo

Annantalo Ateneum Théâtre de la Guimbarde

02/02/2026

🥳 Auraco turns 20 years old this year! What a journey these past 20 years have been! We’ll be walking down the memory lane throughout the whole year 2026 on our social media channels.

And wait, we’ll have something special coming up later this year – stay tuned! 🤫

Pictured in this photo collage, from top left:
🟢 Impulses II (2006) with Kati Lehtola, Päivi Aura and Eero Vuorinen, photo by Tuuli Vuorinen-Oras
🟠 Tutt(i)uuS (2012) with Minni Ilmonen, Kati Lehtola and Päivi Aura, photo by Tuuli Vuorinen-Oras
🟠 Harvest Dance (2012) with Minni Ilmonen, Kati Lehtola and Päivi Aura, photo by Jorma Airola
🔵 Moon Maiden (2007) with Takako Matsuda, photo by Patrick Oras
🟢 Mr. Kookaburra and Kukkaroo (2015) with Kati Lehtola, Jouni Bäckström and Sami Zimmermann, photo by Miia Kota
🟣 Witch’s Shop (2022) with Tomas Kasprzyk, Eliska Kasprzyk and Kati Lehtola, photo by Minna Hatinen
🔴 In This Moment (2007) with Minni Ilmonen, Raisa Vennamo, Kati Lehtola, Päivi Aura, Pietari Padilla and inhabitants of Riistavuori elderly centre, photo by Piia Veikkanen
🔵 Me-Me (2009) with Kati Lehtola, Päivi Aura, Lieve Hermans and Philippe-Marcel Iung, photo by Winter Chiang
🟠 Embrace (2024) with Heidi Tiainen and Veera Katila, photo by Minna Hatinen
🟠 Tuntu (2017) with Oskari Turpeinen, Maria Autio and Heli Hartikainen, photo by Anita Murphy
🟤 Travel 1:100 (2015) with Kati Lehtola, photo by Ronald Spratte
🔵 Whoopsie-Daisy, Where Are You? (2018) with Jouni Bäckström and Kati Lehtola, photo by Juha Hilpas

14/01/2026

Mekin osallistuimme Suomen Assitej'n 50-vuotisjuhlajulkaisuun kirjoittamalla kokemuksiamme vauvoille esiintymisestä Me-Me-esityksen kontekstissa. Julkaisu löytyy myös netistä, käykää lukemassa! Ja edelleen onnea 50-vuotiaalle Suomen Assitej ry:lle! 🤩

22/12/2025

Hyvää joulua - Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays! 🎄

Original photo from Kati Lehtola's Oh, the Cat! by Minna Hatinen

18/11/2025

Throwback time! HELMIME Club 2022 was exactly three years ago and we are still excited about it! Were you there, too? 🤩

HELMIME Club with mime and music: Kati Lehtola, Anetta Anisimova, Tomaš Kasprzyk, Valéria Daňhová, Eliška Kasprzyk and Heli Hartikainen.

Awesome photos by Minna Hatinen

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Bulevardi 23-27
Helsinki

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http://helmime.fi/, http://auraco.fi/

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