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Unknown for talking bodies
Residencies
- 17.06 > 22.06.2024
In a world where hating your body, emotions and self, addictions, ignorance, judgementality, bad-mouthing and even violence have become a norm, we research on how to create different and new narratives within the body and between bodies.
Unknown is a connecting element in pleasure, poetry, birth and bodies. Using poetics and ecstatic birth practices as the main references we explore on how pleasure can be a responsible action towards the environment.
We also research affective bodily practice which includes intensities such as comfortability and uncomfortability, talking and moving, encounter and performance, multitasking and high states of presence. The aim of the practice is that the performer feels to be a powerful and autonomous subject in the moment of performing, but the shadow side of power is the will to destroy. How to be powerful without destroying other people, ourselves, environments and the planet?
The aim of the work is to develop performative and choreographic strategies on how to bring the attention of the spectator also towards their own bodies. What happens when we bring our attention to our own bodies?
On Friday 21 June, Eeva concludes her residency at Kunstenwerkplaats with a public try-out.
At 17u at Pianofabriek (Elsenor). The show will last about 30min with a short discussion afterwards.
Welcome!
Choreographer: Eeva Juutinen I Performers: Astrid Stenberg, Taru Aho I Sound desing: Satu Kankkonen I Lighting design: Julia Jäntti I Dramaturg: Hanna-Kaisa Tiainen I Production: Arts management Helsinki/Outi Järvinen I Co-production: planned for 2026 with Zodiak – Center for New Dance I Supported by: TelepART, Kunstenwerkplaats
© Eeva Juutinen