EXPRESSIVE CONTEMPORARY DANCE

The expressive contemporary dance course focuses on the libidinal-anatomic wonders and performatives. We explore the connections between one's subconscious milieu and given movement techniques, to be experienced and articulated outwardly by the dancing body. The course includes various exercises that sensitize the dancing anatomy, surfing the waves of deep joy, libidinal connections, intuition, magic, absurdity, wildness, self-amusement, liberation, and fantastical quirks. Dance emerges in various forms, meanings, aesthetics, qualities, events, situations, and temperaments, both as a subjective and collective force.

Elina Pirinen is the mother of daughter Ruusu and a cat named Irinja. She resides in Helsinki and by the shore of Lake Kalliojärvi and works internationally. She is an acclaimed dance artist, music creator, and lyricist. In her art, she seeks solace, hope, zest for life, creative goofiness, secret and open affective connections with others, the weirdness produced by the language of art, powerful and sensual openings of the body into nocturnal and diurnal moods, like a placenta connecting to feminist libidinal flow and intelligence through them. Pirinen's works have been performed around the world, most recently the grand piece "Mortal Tropical Dances" at the Meteor Festival in Bergen in 2023. Her international agency is Plan B.

Photo: Venla Helenius