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Virpi Pahkinen - Finnish choreographer and solo dancer. Site contains biography, lists repertory and commisioned works, information about touring schedule and contact information.

Ballet and Dance in Finland - An illustrated article.

The Finnish Dance Server - Directory of dancing houses, pavilions, groups and schools. Search for upcoming events by date, band or artist.

Finnish Dance Information Centre - Dance companies, organizations, events and statistics. Excerpts from the latest issues of the annual magazine "Finnish Dance in Focus."

Western Dancers - A group dancing line dances and couples dances in today's country style.

Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Dance Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Dance We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Dance It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Dance "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Dance If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Dance "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Dance If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Dance Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Dance "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Dance "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Dance Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Dance In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Dance "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Dance The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Dance When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson Dance We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Dance I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Dance The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Dance I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Dance Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Dance God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Dance
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