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 the tension and co-dependent relationship between a nation-state and a queer body in a series of solo works using an oversized bear costume.
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.
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.
Photo by Tuulia Kivisto. Massia art residency, Estonia. 2023