Eeva Juutinen and working group: EMO

Choreographer Eeva Juutinen and the working group’s performance EMO is a character and entity reflecting, fragmenting and living its own character which is inspired of intensity and intimacy in emptiness and silence in time, performativity and theatre space. EMO’s receptivity, gaze, breath, poetry and materials create feelings through sensibility and opposites such as continuity and change, form and experience, shared and divided, splendor and creepiness.

EMO mixes expressionism and minimalism. The work moves between expressionism’s expansion and richness and minimalism’s detail and condensation. It researches on how expression and being constructs and materializes through these two extreme and opposite ways of relating to the inner world and to the existence of it, and mixes them. Through working with them the work is interested in the problematics, defined and undefined of construction of bodily identities.

An ability to control ones own feelings, which in one way can be very desirable, can from another point of view be a very questionable achievement, because it can take away variability, color and warmth from peoples mutual interactions.
– Carl Jung

EMO creates composition inspired by surrealism, subconscious and symbols in which control and uncontrollability vary. It makes space for incomprehensibility and escapes readymade logics, definitions and expectations by mixing sensibility and difference. For EMO non-life doesn’t mean death but through it it can return to different and deeper intimacy, erotic and sharing of attention with environments, itself, other people and things.

I take the flowers to the forest
Anger saves me
I only drink my own blood
I am super creep
Butterfly’s wing cast in petrol
Licks the flame
Life!!
Words press onto skin
Like eye to the surface of water
Closer

Performances at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo
Thu 4.5.2023 at 19 premiere
Sat 6.5. at 19
Sun 7.5. at 17
Wed 10.5. at 19

Tickets: 20/10€
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There is a small amount of “pay what you can” tickets available for each performance taking place at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo. These tickets can be purchased at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo’s ticket desk 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Choreography, ceramics and weaving: Eeva Juutinen
Dance: Terhi Hartikainen and Maria Mäkelä
Scenography: Helka Saariniemi
Lighting design: Oskari Kaarne
Costume design: Helka Saariniemi and Eeva Juutinen
Production: Ehkä-production and Eeva Juutinen
Residency: Ehkä-production/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo (Turku)
Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Premiere: 4.5.2023 Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku

Eeva Juutinen and working group: EMO