We are delighted to support Finnish choreographer and performer Eeva Juutinen during her third residency (18.–29.8.2025) at Kunstenwerkplaats vzw (KWP) in Brussels. KWP is an experimental platform for artistic research, hosted by community centres Pianofabriek and Elzenhof. Juutinen presents two performances at Pianofabriek on 27 and 28 August.
Unknown for talking bodies
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
– Jimi Hendrix
Unknown for talking bodies asks how pleasure can be an ethical and responsible action towards the environment and everything that lives and is. By using ecstatic birthing practices as a main reference, it wants to find out how birth could be seen as a possibility and potential for empowerment.
The work aims to bring the attention of the spectator also towards their own bodies. It wants to stop in the middle and inside of the doing to sense and observe what is (happening) and the being of the happening.
Credits:
Choreography, performance, costumes, sound design: Eeva Juutinen
Producer: Hilla Huuhka
Artistic dialogue: Mikko Hyvönen
Residencies: KWP Kunstenwerkplaats, Zodiak Center for New Dance, Vitlycke Center for Performing Arts
Supporters: Finnish Cultural Institute of Benelux, TelepART Mobility Support Platform, Finnish Cultural Foundation Mobility grant, Zodiak
Music in the performance: Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyrias.
Performances at Pianofabriek
Unknown for talking bodies
Wednesday, 27.8. at 16.00 CET
Thursday 28.8. at 15:00 CET
The performance lasts approximately 40 minutes. There will be a possibility to stay for a conversation after the performance.
The event is free of charge, simply show up and enjoy the performance.
The performance takes places in the Elsenor dance studio on the 4th floor of Pianofabriek. The studio is accessible via stairs or lift.
Gemeenschapscentrum Pianofabriek
rue du Fortstraat 35, 1060 St-Gillis
info@pianofabriek.be
02 541 01 70
In Stockholm? Catch the upcoming performance at Weld, 25.9. at 20:00.
Eeva Juutinen
Eeva Juutinen (Finland) is a choreographer and performer who studied dance, performance and choreography at Trinity Laban (BA) and at The Place (Post-Graduate Diploma) in London as well as in the Research Studios in P.A.R.T.S. (PARTS Research Diploma) in Brussels. Her work has been shown in Belgium, Finland, France and England; and supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation. She has been/will be working in Kunstencentrum Buda, Vitlycke Centre for Performing Arts, Chateau De Monthelon, Routa, De School Van Gaasbeek, workspacebrussels and Zsenne artlab.
In her work she looks for meaningful questions that activate the body and relate to the world in different ways. Since the beginning of 2019 all her work is based on the question: How do we receive information through our bodies and get affected by it in our bodies? She looks at this question from various perspectives and in different spaces and times in order to find other concepts and more specific questions and approaches for different processes.
In June 2024, the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, through its TelepART Mobility Support Platform, provided funding for the performance Unknown for talking bodies by choreographer Eeva Juutinen and performers Astrid Stenberg and Taru Aho at Pianofabriek in Brussels.
Cover photo: Mikko Hyvönen.