Race Horse Company

Race Horse Company was born in 2008 out of Petri Tuominen’s, Rauli Kosonen’s and Kalle Lehto’s need to create uncompromising, personal and completely new kind of contemporary circus. Race Horse Company’s rough-and-ready performances are based on aesthetics of chaos, humour and surprise. The company approaches circus without questioning, leaving philosophy and thinking to the spectators. Since the very beginning, Race Horse Company has focused on touring, and their ultimate objective is no less than take over the entire world.

Race Horse Company
Race Horse Company is based in Helsinki, Finland. The company’s first production Rusty Road Circus (2009), a co-production with Circo Aereo, was performed over 40 times during summer 2009 across Finland and in Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania. Work for their next production, Petit Mal, started in summer 2008, and the performance premiered in March 2010 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Petit Mal was chosen among 151 projects to the final of Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe 2010. Since then the performance has toured actively abroad being performed over 140 times in 12 countries, and has taken the company to Europe, North America, Australia and soon to Asia. Company received in 2011 CircusInfo Finland’s yearly award “Sirkuksen Lumo” as recognition for their breakthrough and work done in the field of Finnish circus.