Suomalainen, Helsingissä syntynyt katutanssilaji, kuka olisi ikinä kuvitellut että pienestä jutusta kiinnostuu näin valtava määrä ihmisiä? Ehkäpä suuri syy tähän on se, että tämä tanssi ei ole niin vakavaa, siinä on lupa hassutella ja jokainen oppii sitä tanssimaan, tanssitaustasta riippumatta. Sellaista tanssin ehkä pitäisikin olla. Jotain rentoa ja luonnollista, jossa ei tarvitsisi koko ajan murehtia miltä itse tanssiessa näyttää, eikä tarvitsisi jatkuvasti miettiä mitä muut sinusta ajattelvat.

Tänä vuonna artikkeleita on ollut jos missäkin mediassa ja Hip Hop Renessanssi -kiertueen myötä Siéva-tanssia on opetettu kymmenessä eri kaupungissa. Siévan opettajakoulutuksen on käynyt yli kymmeniä ammattitanssijoita ja tanssi menee hurjaa vauhtia eteenpäin. Finaalitapahtuma, eli Hip Hop Renessanssi oli suuri menestys. Vuoden päättää Katukulttuurimessut Helsingin Gloriassa 6.12, jolloin myös tanssiopetusta sekä esityksiä. Tässä vielä uusin video sekä koko alkuvuoden throwback

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Lehtijuttuja on ollut paljon, mutta ehkä paras artikkeli oli hienosti kirjoitetussa HBL:n jutussa. Tässä nopea google-translate tekstistä.

From Kallio with love

Soft, quiet, long movements, and above all relaxed. Very organic and
natural, you might say.
So describes Topi Tateishi, the unique indigenous streetdance style Sieva that spreads among dancers in Finland and worldwide.

Hand movements are smooth and the head moves in time with the music as pounds out of the speakers at the Lucky Bar in Kallio . Topi took his first dance steps as twelve years old. First it was breakdance in force, later other street dances. He was talented but his way of moving did not fit.
Streetdance is energetic and aggressive, it’ll be tricks and cool movements which did not suit me, so I started designing my own style to the quiet beautiful music I prefer to listen to. After some time I decided to gather the basic elements of my dance and define the style, he says.
It was filed many years before they presented Sieva. Name is from the Finnish word for PRETTY or sweet, Sievä, and from the old Finnish female name Sieva.

The best thing since the Moomin Valley

New dance styles are a rarity, and before Sieva launched had streetdance circuits not seen the new styles in many years. Dance major problem is that the elite control and there is little room for new ideas. We dancers are taught to do as everyone else and to be held in the box. This leads that new dance styles does not occur.
According Topi should dance be taken for what it is, that is something that is born of people who get together and do the movements together.

Dance to grow and change with time and with the people. That’s how he looks at his Sieva.

”To be honest I do not want to advertise it too much. I am not the type of person who licenses and sells my dance to mass. But I want to be understood that it is disseminated.”

Here to stay

Finnish Street Dance Championships placed Sieva Group fourth with paragraph ” Parasta sitten Muumilaakson”, in Swedish the best since the Moomin Valley. It was not at all clear that we possibly could participate, dance competitions stays within certain limits and conventions and one can not
participate with anything for numbers.
But according Tateishi is Sievä not intended for competition.
Man sells a portion of his soul to make the audience and the judges happy.
The creativity is lost. Our philosophy is not compatible with
competition dance values.

Siévas home is in Kallio on Dance.fi dance studio at Aleksis Kivi street where dancers glide around in woolen socks, the streets of Sörnäinen and Hagnäs, and at clubs like Kuudes Linja and Kaiku.

Dance in the margin

Finnish dance world is a hard world, especially street- branches are struggling at support and appreciation. The state thinks that art should be supported and sports will be supported, but what happens with the dance? Dancing is neither sport or art. We know we need to lobby more for support and appreciation, and it looks brighter. My generation has done very well for the dance in Finland said Tateishi.

But there is still much to do and besides lack of money and status struggling dance scene with internal power struggles.
Often we talk about the hundred richest in the world can save all the hungry in the world and stopping climate change. In the dance world, it just equal. Those who have the most power could work together and find the amazing solutions, but they do not.

Learning with age

Topi has added competition career behind and takes no longer dance on too seriously .
I dance certainly not every day, and if I go out to clubs I preferably sit in a corner and talk to my friends. His dance school Dance.fi and teaching others is still something he takes very seriously.
The most important thing is to believe in yourself. When I was younger I danced together with my friends Dan and Kimmo. Kimmo had an idea to do rap music in Finnish, but no one believed him. He took loans, built a studio and trained as hell. It’s fine for Kimmo now. He calls himself Elastinen.
And it’s never too late to learn new things. Topi is now learning singing, rapping, beatbox in latin hip hop band and building a summer cottage.

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