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Welcome to Tanka – the Finnish Dance Database
Tanka database is no longer being updated.
Theatre Museum, Theatre Info Finland TINFO, the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Circus & Dance Finland, and the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland have joined forces to develop a new performing arts database.
Essi–the Finnish Performing Arts Database—brings together and replaces the existing Ilona, Encore, Tanka, Sirkka, and Daniel databases. Once the database is complete, information on works and productions in Finnish theater, opera, dance, circus, and performance art will be available in a single service and accessible online to anyone interested.
Essi will be launched to the public in the spring of 2027.
Tanka dance database contains information about Finnish
Tanka has been updated since the year 2000 and it contains thousands of entries. Tanka is updated regurlarly. We welcome all comments and feedback! Please contact us at tanssi(at)danceinfo.fi.
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The search term can be e.g. the name of a work, the name of an artist or the name of a company. The search engine looks for the search term by default only in the title fields.
It is also possible to choose to make a search in all data fields. In this case e.g. the search Performances + search term island will list all the performances were the word island is mentioned somewhere in the work's data.
The search results are listed and showed alphabetically, showing first the entries under the first relevant letter. The other results can be seen by clicking the letters in the menu. Letters containing search results will show up as purple.
If no search term is entered, the search result is all the possible data in the chosen category, ie. all the companies or all the performances.