Dansbana! Amos Rex

12 June – 4 October 2026 Lasipalatsi Square

Dansbana! Amos Rex is a public installation and an open invitation to dance. Through the artwork’s Bluetooth connection, anyone can play their own music and dance. The dance floor can be used spontaneously or reserved in advance through the booking calendar.

Created by three Swedish architects, Anna Fridolin, Anna Pang, and Teres Selberg, Dansbana! reimagines the traditional dance pavilion. A dance floor with large-scale plant sculptures, together with the mounds of Amos Rex, forms a site-specific artwork open to anyone who wants to dance, practice, or perform.

During the summer, the dance floor will also host 11 dance performances, and Dance House Helsinki will organize three traditional summer dances open to everyone. All events are free.

Dansbana! is an organization founded by the Swedish architects Anna Fridolin, Anna Pang, and Teres Selberg, dedicated to designing public spaces for dance and movement where everyone feels welcome. They believe that every city and neighbourhood needs its own open dance floor.

We started our practice as a response to inequalities in the use of public spaces, with the ambition of creating joyful, site-specific works, some of them permanent, together with young girls and dancers. The world is divided; dance has the power to bring people together.

Fridolin, Pang and Selberg work in architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, and dance. Through Dansbana, they have created dance spaces in Sweden, Turkey, and the United States, with several projects receiving awards and nominations in architecture and design. In 2025, the Dansbana installation in Malmö was awarded the Skåne Architecture Prize. Dansbana! Amos Rex is their first work in Finland.

The floor is a professional dance surface made of reinforced PVC. Read the Dansbana exhibition guide here.

Book a spot at Dansbana! for free using this calendar.

The Dansbana sound system is available daily from 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM, with a few exceptions.