About Dash Che

Dash Che (they/them) is a transnational Russian American genderqueer performance maker, dancer, and a teaching artist who has been living and making artwork in Finland since 2019. They explore the questions of foreignness, alienation, desire, ways of  inclusion and exclusion through choreographing bodies and objects, working with ready-mades and installations, and facilitating workshops. A child of post-Soviet industrial town and a former undocumented immigrant in the United States, Dash plays with fictioning, overlapping temporalities, translocalities and conflicting aesthetics. Dash’s work lingers at the border of eerie, subtle, humorous, aggressive, risky, and abstract.

From 2017 to 2019, Dash organized and ran Telaboratoria, a dance improvisation program for the LGBTQ youth in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Currently Dash is exploring how to misalign patriotism and patriotic feelings through art making. Their 2021 performance-triptych called “How to Like Finland and How Finland Can Like Me (too)” and their ongoing “Patriotic Body: Training” dance solo look into how patriotic feelings are produced and how they affect our (foreigners, queers) bodies in the current state of precarious living.

During the last three and a half years Dash has been working in a duet called Mean Time Between Failures with a dance artist and archaeologist Suvi Tuominen. The duo is premiering a new dance work called FRACPTURING about dance in the time of screen culture at Zodiak Center for New Dance in Helsinki.

Dash completed MA in Live Art and Performance Studies at University of Arts of Helsinki and a 6-month professional dance program in Outokumpu, Finland.