

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 14th SKIING ON SKIN FESTIVAL - FINLAND
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 07 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Dear fellow CI dancers,

A huge welcome to the 14th Skiing on Skin – Contact Improvisation Festival!

We are a group of 13 Finnish CI dancers and teachers. Many of us are also dear friends and colleagues for well over 20 years.

We were really happy last year to get back into creating this beautiful festival again in these new inspiring surroundings that we are eager to keep on going.

There is much love and curiosity for the exploration and research of this form, and for the warm wintery family-like togetherness – surrounded by fresh, pure, silently magical Finnish nature – that we really wish to share all of this with you once again.

The spirit of the festival is as follows: We aim to offer our freshest findings of what we feel passionate about in our own explorations with CI.

Some of us are drawn to study anatomical details or the precision in weight sharing. Some focus more on the somatics and deep listening through touch. Some love to play and improvise. For some it’s about the nourishing quality of human connection and also learning about life and its mysteries through dancing together. Some are lively lovers of dynamic flying, jumping and bumping. And some seem more like eternal explorers of hyper-slow and meditative micro-movements. Some are going for the unknown, and some just love to repeat the same same in different ways. 

No matter what is each one’s calling and personal interest, together we are creating and enjoying a rich offering of a variety of perspectives towards our common love, the ever-present creative meeting point, the dance of Contact Improvisation.

So, we would like to invite you to dance and be with us!

Please come and share your dance and contribute to the co-creation of a fulfilling festival atmosphere through your way of being, moving and dancing.

Let’s share the deep and mysterious meaning of dancing together in these unprecedented and apocalyptic times.

With all this we like to say that we would be very happy to see you again! ..or to see you for the first time! ..or, why not, to see us all like for the first time ever, like never before : )

Some practicalities which are good to know:

The festival is created in a non-profit spirit.

Basically we create it just out of love for the CI, for each other, and for the evolving community. Our shared dance is the thing which makes us rich. This is how many of us choose to continue to believe : ) All the money you pay for participating goes in its totality to cover the basic necessities of the festival.

Since last year our new home for SOS is a fantastic sports center Vierumäki located 1,5 hours from Helsinki, with great facilities for dancing and winter sports, such as skiing, and also for dipping in the ice-cold lake, swimming in an indoor pool and having a sauna. You can read more about the center here: https://vierumaki.fi/en

If you have any questions please reach out: https://www.contactfestival.fi/ota-yhteytta/ 

We are looking forward to seeing you and to dancing with you!

*******

Registration IS OPEN!

The price for the whole festival is 520€ until the end of the year 2025 and 560€ from the beginning of the year 2026. 

The price consists of:

366€: for your food and accommodation in really nice rooms and beds
Around 70€ for all the other spaces like dance spaces, sauna and hang around spaces
Around 70€ for the accommodation of the 13 organizers
Around 14€ for all the other expenses (for instance jam snacks, web page and other marketing, plus small traveling support for the organizers)

AND TO BE EXPLICIT: THE ORGANIZERS ARE NOT GETTING ANY MONEY FOR THE ORGANIZING OR FOR THE TEACHING. We only try to make it possible for us to be able to participate our own festival with not too many expenses;)

The 154€/194€ deposit to us is not returnable. The 366€ payment for Vierumäki is returnable if participation cancelled 14 days before the beginning of the festival.

If you are coming or thinking of coming with children, the prices for children in Vierumäki are as follows:

0-3 years 60euros
4 years: 159euros
5-11 years: 219€
11-14 years: 258,60€
Over 15years adult price

Warm wishes from the SOS 2026 team : Annukka, Iiris, Ilona, Kaisa, Katri, Linda, Mirva, Otto, Panu, Petri, Terhi, Ulla, Ville.

Picture by: Jan Friedrich, www.janfriedrich.be
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/heinola/14th-skiing-on-skin-festival-finland/200029163836203
- **Event Categories**: festivals, sports, meetups
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 213

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029163836203?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=heinola-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Heinola
- **state**: ES
- **country**: Finland
- **location**: Vierumäki
- **lat**: 61.107410319205
- **long**: 26.00558387018
- **full address**: Vierumäki, Urheiluopistontie 400, FI-19120 Heinola, Suomi, Heinola, Finland

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Skiing On Skin (https://allevents.in/org/skiing-on-skin/25065205)

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 07 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Vierumäki, Urheiluopistontie 400, FI-19120 Heinola, Suomi, Heinola, Finland
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Skiing On Skin
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** festivals, sports, meetups
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about 14th SKIING ON SKIN FESTIVAL - FINLAND ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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