Tulevan näyttämö 2021–2024

The Coming Stage project aimed to develop a socially sustainable model for emerging artists to create performances using the festival's existing structures. The project focused on enhancing cultural diversity, with each of the three groups representing a different approach. In 2021, the project began with Undertone, a group led by Geoffrey Erista and Eric Barco. Their team created a grandiose club performance focusing on electronic music subculture and the Ballroom tradition, highlighting their historical significance as creators of safer spaces. In 2022, Undertone continued with a performance titled "Traces of Imminence", focusing on surveillance culture and totalitarianism sustained by man-made infrastructure. In the same year, a group of crip artists led by Isa Hukka organized a mini-festival of performances "Inviting precarious perspectives", exploring access, care, and autonomy, which received the Theatre Act of the Year award. In 2023, Rampa Productions collaborated with Iiris Centre to create a performance titled "Rampa Landscape – Lazy, Late, Absent". It explored how to experience a performance without leaving your bodymind at the cloakroom. Raoni Munzo Saleh facilitated a "Moaning Choir Workshop" in collaboration with Mad House. Participants focused on the moan as data, expressing loss, belonging, and being together through moaning composition. In the last year of 2024, Teo Ala-Ruona and his co-creators worked on "Parachorale" in collaboration with the Museum of Technology. Parachorale challenges the othering gaze that views transcorporeality as exceptional in society. The performances of Coming Stage challenged the often closed field of performing arts in Finland, focusing on diversity and sustainability while exploring found spaces and venues. The two-year-long working process provided the opportunity to develop the groups' concepts and ways of working together, allowing them to polish and deepen their topics in a socially sustainable way.