The Performing Arts Research Centre Tutke and Doctoral Studies at the Theatre Academy
The internationally networked research centre promotes artistic research in performing arts and their pedagogy.

The internationally networked research centre promotes artistic research in performing arts and their pedagogy.
The Performing Arts Research Centre Tutke is responsible for doctoral education and research at Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy. It promotes artistic research on the performing arts and their pedagogy. Research through and in the arts is academic, multi-disciplinary, and community-based. Tutke is a leading centre for artistic research on the performing arts, and its research community is internationally networked.
Art offers a premise and an aim for research: a motive, a terrain, a context and a whole range of methods.
Learn more about the Theatre Academy’s research projects.
Find our Researchers, Professors and other academic staff
See a list of our Doctoral Candidates.
Learn more about the guiding principles and objectives of Performing Arts Research Centre (Tutke).
The Performing Arts Research Centre Tutke, which is part of Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy, is an active community of artist-researchers.
Deepen your expertise and become an artist-researcher at the Theatre Academy.
At Tutke, you can work as a postdoctoral researcher or, if you have external funding, as a visiting or project researcher.
Read instructions for the research funding application process
We are active participants in international research communities, especially in the Nordic countries, as well as domestic research communities. Every other year, our Carpa conference brings together artist-researchers from all over the world.
We host an international conference on artistic research every other year.
The international network organises a conference every other year.
The Acta Scenica series includes doctoral dissertations from the Performing Arts Research Centre Tutke and miscellaneous peer-reviewed research on dance and theatre.
The Nivel publication series promotes discussion related to artistic research on the performing arts.
Ruukku is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal on artistic research.
How is a dance performance created without a predetermined choreography? This is what Mikko Orpana examines in his doctoral thesis.