Eeva Juutinen
CHOREOGRAPHIES
Duo for empty and silent environment
Duo for empty and silent environment explores problems and poetics of emerging of bodily character. It asks how we keep continuously forming in time through relationality, affects, imagination, bodies, environments and their surfaces. The work researched gaze, perception and attention and by directing them in various ways aims to create contrasts, meanings and something-like-poetry. It is a hypnotic and ritualistic dive into wild of subconscious. With ceramics and fabrics, the work aims to create intimacy and sensibility between human and non-human. It aims to show how feelings are created through attributes of time and creates space in which notions of shared and divided alter.
Choreography & ceramic costumes: Eeva Juutinen
Dancers: Maria Mäkelä & Terhi Hartikainen
Costume design: Jenni Räsänen
Composition of the song (sung by dancers): Aino Juutilainen
Supported by: Ehkä Productions & Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Duration: 40 minutes
Photos: Katri Naukkarinen (red and blue ones)
Early version of this work was performed in Contemporary Art Space Kutomo in May 2023
Upcoming performances: 28th&29th of February 2024, in MAA tila gallery Helsinki
This is a further development of work done in spring 2023, with a new name. That time part of the working group were also Oskari Kaarne, Helka Saariniemi.
olO
explores poem through intensity and intimacy in touch, body, breath, performativity and theatre space and as an event. Poem exists in and between mundane and illusionary bodily perceptions and realities; using doubling and fragmentation in order to explore relationality and in-betweenness. olO moves between liveliness and mortality of bodies. Text is approached as playful and amateur like and body as detailed and virtuosic. olO is interested in temporalities and rhythms of being in the richness and overload of information. Feelings of tension, boredom and eruption change and overlap. One of its aim is to create possibilities for both comedy and drama through investigating cuts. olO is interested in transference and wants you to create your own connections, meanings, definitions and relations about itself.
The process of this work started already in January 2020 when I started to dry plants and flowers in my home. The long term drying process lasted until the premiere of the work, for one year and 8 months.
Premiere: 27.08.2021, Theatre Academy Helsinki
Duration: 1 hour
Choreography: Eeva Juutinen
Dancers: Maria Mäkelä and Terhi Hartikainen
Scenography and costume design: Helka Saariniemi
Sound design: Tony Sikström
Lighting design: Vilma Vantola
Perfume: Ayin De Sela
Mentor: Elina Pirinen
Photos: Katri Naukkarinen
Touring:
Studio Pasila, Helsinki City Theatre, 27.5 & 28.5.22 at 7pm
Tongue Grows out of the eyes
Choreography, performance, text/poem, making of clothes: Eeva Juutinen
Performed in Taidehalli Helsinki, in the context of Tarja Pitkänen-Walters exhibition Painterly meditation, 18-20.02.2022
Photos: Vesa-Pekka Grönfors
The work explores intimacy, imaginativiness and affectivity in relation to Tarjas works by investigating surfaces, layers, gaze, weight and poetry.
Readymade For Capitalism
Choreography, performing, texts, sound, light: Eeva Juutinen
Help in technical side of design: Demian Skogr
Duration: 40 minutes
Developing of this performance started in PARTS Research Studios in 2017-2018
Residencies: School Van Gaasbeek, Chateau Du Monthelon, Routa Kajaani, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Zsenne Art Lab, workspacebrussels
Financially supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation Mobility grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland Corona working grant
Performances: September Festival 2019 in De School Van Gaasbeek in Lennik BE in 07.09.2019
& Zsenne Art Lab in Brussels BE in 17.12.2021
Starting point for the creation of this work has been the question of how public spaces such as streets and shops affect our bodies. What are the mechanics and structures of automised affects and how do they relate to power and perception? How can body appear as both subject and object or mover and moved at the same time through movement? In the work movement and ways of writing text connect body to imagination and invisible, using breathing and text as sound scapes and compositional elements alongside movement. The work is aware of its context as a solo choreography that is made and performed by the same artist. It tries to play with what expression signifies in solo performance, using and creating different kinds and levels of intensities that relate to different notions of expression.
Other Nature
Choreography: Eeva Juutinen
Dancers: Iiris Hilden, Linda Holma, Jussi Ulkuniemi
Light design: Lauri Hietala
Sound design: Jouni Tapio
Scenography: Helka Saariniemi
Costume design: Iida Ukkola
Photos: Sanni Siira
Performed: in November 2020 in Theatre Academy Helsinki, studio 4
Duration: 30 minutes
Other Nature explores natural forces (gravity, electromagnetic force, strong and weak nuclear force) as forces that move equally all matter, human and non-human. The work looks into corporeality and materiality through intimacy, performativity and intentionality of conversation by using the method of ’doing/being in other way’. Interaction happens always as encounters between all existences and qualitative beings. How to create different and divergent corporeal, affective and material conditions for conversation? In the performance the audience is seated in three separate audience places and can respond and talk back to the performers if they want.
Five Poems in an Art Institution
Choreography and performance: Eeva Juutinen
Lights: Anna Rouhu
Producing: Salli Berghall
Mentoring: Kirsi Monni, Liisa Pentti
Photos: Katri Naukkarinen
Performed: Theatre Academy Helsinki, in 28.11, 29.11, 30.11, 2.12.2019
This work is an investigation into bodily intensities and poetic language. How do the connections between these two create events ?
’How does the body receive information within an art institution?’ is an open question in the background creating non-narrative affects to the decision making and dramaturgy. I am interested in how much we can or we should let the conditions and environments of where we work affect the work itself.
(Self Contained)
Choreography: Eeva Juutinen
Dance: Mikko Hyvönen and Eeva Juutinen
Music and composition: Clara Levy
Composition that was used and manipulated was Franz Biber - Passacaglia
Created with support of: PARTS Research Studios in Brussels 2017-2018, Vitlycke Centre of Performing Arts, Kunstencentrum BUDA Kortrijk
Financially supported by: PARTS DNA Departures and Arrivals, Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Performed in Rosas Performance Space in Brussels in 30.09.2018
The word container in this work relates to the body and its movement and ability to create a clear architectural structure in itself and through organising bodies in time and space. This work sees writing as a phenomena that has many forms and meanings and that is omnipresent. Therefore movement can be written in text or text in movement creating overlap of writings within one body. The aim of the work is to create space for listening, sensing and observations of communication.
PRIVATE ILLUSIONS
Choreography, performing, texts, video recording and editing, sound recording and editing: Eeva Juutinen
Technical help: Demian Skogr
Created and performed in The Crypt Gallery in London during residency in October 2016
Inspired by the quote: 'You believe in an image of you, an image based on many things that aren't true'. This quote is from the book 'The Toltec Art of Life and Death' by D. M. Ruiz. How can we as humans put ourselves above or below each other? What arguments can justify this? How do we shape opinions and create and justify hierarchy and belief systems? What are the connections and differences between thoughts, images, ideas, identities and actions?
LIQUID LIQUID
Choreography, video recording and editing, texts, sound recording and editing: Eeva Juutinen
Dancers: Elinor Lewis and Tiffany Desplanques
Performer in the video: Tara Silverthorn
Created and performer in The Place in London during August-November 2015
Looking into the materiality, different forms and reactions of water to its environment and temperature and translating these findings to perceptions, thoughts, feelings, movements, actions and bodily existences between two performers, sound, video and audience.
NO EXCUSES
Choreography: Eeva Juutinen
Dancers: Louis Barreau and Eeva Juutinen
Created and performer in Laban Centre London
July 2014
'It feels right and wrong at the same time.'
'It feels good and bad at the same time.'
Exploration of space/time, movement/stillness, meanings and realities of love by creating a duet where two bodies produce cycle of movements.
LOSERS ARE WINNERS ARE LOSERS ARE
Choreography: Eeva Juutinen
Dancers: Louis Barreau, Emma Houston, Marta Ammendola
Performed in Bonnie Bird Theatre London
2013 February
Looking into the positions and titles of 'winner' and 'loser' from the perspective that they include each other instead of being separate. Every winning contains little bit losing and every losing little bit of winning. Seeing both things as movement in nature without specific values attached to them.
HANDSFREE
First choreographic work
Choreography: Eeva Juutinen
Dancers: Karoliina Korvuo, Arttu Wäänänen and Eeva Juutinen
Performed in various venues in Finland and won a cash price of 200€ in Oulu Finland
2008-2009
Using hands and movement as a metaphor and communicator of the roles we maintain, create and play for ourselves and each other in life.