VOYEUR
"I am looking at you looking at me looking at you looking at..."
In this wordless performance the performers negotiate a permission to watch, seducing the viewer into another world. But who is looking at whom?
"Where does your gaze end at and mine begin? A gaze belongs to no one but is an act to take part at."
Voyeur explores the dynamics of the gaze through bodily communication. It makes the power of the gaze visible, revealing its potential for love. Voyeur is a space where the audience can safely explore emotions and experiences of looking and being seen. What does it feel like to be seen? Where can you feel it? How do our eyes meet? When do I turn my eyes away? What is communication without words.
The working group is led by director-choreographers Matilda Aaltonen and Joel Teixeira Neves. Aaltonen's and Neves' artistic research related to Voyeur started already in 2017 in the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. In 2019, Voyeur was staged in collaboration with the Riveria Vocational Institute in Outokumpu, Finland. In 2020, Voyeur was one of the headline productions of Reality Research Center's seasonal program that focuses on the body and the notion of embodiment.
Premiere:
Friday 7th of February 2020
Zodiak Stage, Sidestep-festival
Pictures: Sanni Siira
Working group:
Matilda Aaltonen
Taru Aho
Wilhelm Blomberg
Kira Heinonen
Mia Jalerva
Justus Kantakoski
Susanna Kinnunen
Viki Kontopoulou
Vilma Lehtovaara
Janna Loukas
Teo Mattila
Marlon Moilanen
Maija Mustonen
Joel Teixeira Neves
Paula Nousiainen
Mitja Nylund
Ronja Syvälahti
Shall we have a drink before I start to cry?
A drop falls when it is ready.
The performance is a homage,
desire and a permission to surrender into emotional,
sentimental and melodramatic spheres.
Premiere:
Saturday 25th of January 2020
Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
Teatterisali
Pictures: Sanni Siira
Working group:
Eric Barco
Ella Effendy
Johanna Karlberg
Leissi
Janna Loukas
Virpi Nieminen
Alina Pajula
Marika Peura
f-ART House: BODYCTRL
BODYCTRL is a piece of contemporary dance art which releases the body from the assumptions and imageries which limit it. Through BODYCTRL, the f-ART House group challenges the viewer to ask questions and recognise the imageries through which a female body is viewed in our society.
Working group:
Suvi Kelloniemi
Siiri Kortelainen
Iiris Laakso
Verna Nordlund
Ellen Virman
Premiere:
Thursday 15th of August 2019
Cultural Centre Caisa, Helsinki
Pictures: Silva Riukula
HUKASSA
murskaa ja jauhaa
kuolaa pitkin kaulaa
Working group:
Julia Jäntti
Antero Kemppi
Tarleena Laakko
Janna Loukas
Virpi Nieminen
Premiere:
Tuesday 28th of May 2019
Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
Studio 1
Pictures: Karoliina Niemenkari
Their Limbs Their Lungs Their Legs
In a gloomy space with a fantastic variety of green colors, nine performers explore and reconsider modes of bodily existence. A biotope where the boundaries of limbs, lungs and legs blur in complete symbiosis with the organism they inhabit.
Their Limbs Their Lungs Their Legs is the final piece of TADaC's dance company in the Master's program in Dance Performance at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts in Helsinki. Performance was made in collaboration with Swiss choreographer Lea Moro.
Premiere:
Friday 18th of January 2019
Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
Teatterisali
Pictures: Katri Naukkarinen
Working group:
Matilda Aaltonen
Taru Aho
Per Ehrnström
Corinna Helenelund
Anni Kaila
Ella-Noora Koikkalainen
Riikka Laurilehto
Janna Loukas
Lea Moro
Joonas Pernilä
Aino Purhonen
Jani-Matti Salo
Ilona Salonen
Jussi Suomalainen
Voyeur
I look at you looking at me looking at you looking at me. Where does your gaze end and where does mine begin?
The gaze is not something one has, it is the relationship into which someone enters.
Voyeur is a performance on looking, bodily presence, the act of looking.
Voyeur blurs the distinctions between performer and spectator opening up a space for encounters.
Premiere:
Friday 22nd of September 2017
Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
Studio 1
Pictures: Sanni Siira
Working group:
Matilda Aaltonen
Riikka Karjalainen
Heta Keskinarkaus
Tuija Lappalainen
Heidi Lehtoranta
Iisa Lepistö
Anders Lillhonga
Janna Loukas
Teo Mattila
Klaus Maunuksela
Elina Minn
Joel Neves
Ilana Palmgren
Joonas Pernilä
Milla Piiroinen
Pinja Poropudas
Judith Regwan
Aura Savolainen
Pauliina Sjöberg
Ronja Syvälahti
f-ART House: 10tytöt
10tytöt on liikettä, tekstiä ja audiovisuaalisuutta yhdistävä nykytanssiteos sekä kympin tyttöjen ruumiillinen esiin tuleminen.
10tytöt on f-ART House -kollaboraation debyyttiteos, joka tekee henkilökohtaisen kokemuksen rinnalla näkyväksi, miten kympin tytöistä puhutaan mediassa ja muussa yhteiskunnallisessa keskustelussa. Kympin tyttö on rooli, jollaiseksi yksilö tulee määritellyksi ja jota tämä alkaa myös itse toteuttaa.
Suomalainen koulutusjärjestelmä suosii tietynlaisia persoonia ja oppijoita. Kympin tyttö oppii pelaamaan korttinsa "oikein" järjestelmässä, mutta samalla päätyy suorituskeskeisyyden kierteeseen. Milloin ja miten kympin tyttöön kohdistuneet ja hänen itselleen omaksumat vaatimukset kääntyvät häntä vastaan? Miksi menestyjän kuori alkaa säröillä?
Working group:
Suvi Kelloniemi
Siiri Kortelainen
Iiris Laakso
Janna Loukas
Verna Nordlund
Ellen Virman
Premiere:
Saturday 22nd of July 2017
Vapaan Taiteen Tila Helsinki
Pictures: Silva Riukula