Zodiak Laboratory is Zodiak's recidency concept. In October 2022 the Z-Lab recidency artists are Eeva Juutinen & working group.
Conversations with female bodies
Conversations with female bodies researches combining the contexts of performance and encounter. One of source materials has been researching ecstatic birthing practises and through that especially using oxytocin hormone in creating choreography and as part of work of the performer. Questions about gender have been part of our working and conversations in an open way.
In the residency we will work by having conversations and by doing a personal practise developed by Eeva. The practise is based on performativitys comfortability and uncomfortability, simultaneous speaking and moving, gaze and on researching the relationship between spectator and performer.
The aim is to create set choreography from a practise that is partly based on improvisation by researching affects. We have been researching on how affects and emotions appear and can be created in the audience-performer relations. Zodiaks residency is the first working period of the creation.
As part of constructing the performance we explore the pracise of making clothes. Designing and making the performance clothes yourself as a choreographer is part of interest in non- human materials sensibility, intimacy and indirect touch. We will also work with nudity.
In choreography we will focus on how things are done and expressed more than what they are. I believe that through this we can create possibilities for stratification and differents kinds of expressions, beings and meanings.
Working group: Eeva Juutinen – choreographer and performer, Louna-Tuuli Luukka – performance dramaturgist and performer, Taru Aho – dance artist and performer
Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland