Dash Che (they/them) is a transnational Russian American performance maker, dancer, and a teaching artist. They have been living and making artwork in Finland since 2019. Dash explores the questions of belonging, foreignness, alienation, desire and nationalism through a genderqueer post-Soviet perspective. Their work methods include humor, 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, ridiculous, 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 diving deeper into a multidisciplinary project called How to Like Finland and How Finland Can Like Me (too) that researches tension between a nation-state and a queer body.
During the last five years Dash has been working in a duet called Mean Time Between Failures with a dance artist and archaeologist Suvi Tuominen often collaborating with a sound artist Oula Rytkönen.
Dash completed BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in Field (major) and Performance Studies in Dance (minor) at UC Berkeley, USA, MA in Live Art and Performance Studies at University of Arts of Helsinki, FI and a 6-month professional dance program in Outokumpu, FI.
Photo by Darina Rodionova. 2025