CONTEMPORARY DANCE

Contemporary dance invites you to approach physicality, movement, mind and thinking in a new way. In the course, we travel to the connection between the subconscious and movement technology - we dive into the secrets of deep joy, intuition, silliness, wildness, transgression, liberation and fantastical whims. Just think of all things fun and extraordinary that emerge when the body comes out of the body in the most different forms, minds, aesthetics, colors, events, situations, temperaments, both as a subjective and collective experience! Through various improvisational and sustained imaginations that sensitize the anatomy and connect to physicality, we approach the remarkable psychodynamics of the body, form our own special dances and parties of physicality, alone and together. The course also uses different materials as lovers of the body and imagination.

​Elina Pirinen is an internationally working and award-winning artist who lives in Helsinki and on the shore of Lake Kalliojärvi. Her artistic practice and language are intertwined with choreography, dance, sounds, composing, experimental writing and pedagogy. At the core of the artistic vision and technique is to look for physical, vocal, linguistic and on-stage dissections and forms of apparel for precognitive moods, feminist libidinal power and intelligence through them. Her works have been performed around the world.
Pirinen regularly works as a visiting pedagogue at the Uniarts Helsinki’s Theater Academy, the Degree Programme in Theatre Arts at the University of Tampere and the Zodiak New Dance Center. Pirinen makes art rock music with her ten-member orchestra Al2Be3, and does volunteer work with animal protection.

Photo: Venla Helenius