Bedroom Dances
Photos by Jussi Ulkuniemi
Working group
Concept, direction, choreographic practice and anthem: Elina Pirinen
Dramaturgic partnership and costume design: Heidi Väätänen
Lighting and spatial design: Rasmus Strandell (MA in Lighting Design, artistic thesis)
Composition and sound design: Linda Lazarov (BA in Sound Design)
Dancers: Ronja Antikainen, Elias Berglund, Anniina Dyster, Matilda Edlund, Valtteri Juvonen, Tuure Kaukua, Sofia Kistol, Vasilliki Kontopoulou, Julia Mäkelä, Miska Palsio, Monia Kimara Penttinen, Pi Sandås, Anna Saves, Nella Matleena (BA in Dance Art, artistic thesis)
Dancers' mentor: Paula Nousiainen
The dancers have created artistic materials for their own acts.
April 2025
Elina Pirinen’s Bedroom Dances brings to the audience a wondrous bedroom dance for enjoyment and horror, a strange physical experience and empathy of 14 dancers, a glowing color saturation and a mesmerizing undercurrent layered through composition in a common force field.
These dancers are wise magicians of the bedroom and the subconscious. Their generous rituals and the stage, the queer, fun-loving atmosphere, sensuality, playfulness, the temperaments flowing through the channels of the nail tips, the base of the skull and the pelvic magma center create sound-visual, simultaneous body-psychic dances and events, in which eros, fun, rage, folklore, sadness, oxygen, the relationship with the audience and a look through time to the future daydream, session and adjust with each other. The chest of the bedroom thirsts for intimate contact or active playful movements for the disgust generated by that contact.
Bedroom Dances is a beautiful, delicious, artistic, entertaining and emotional coming together of dance artist-lyricist Elina Pirinen, third-year dance students in the Theatre Academy’s dance arts degree program, dramaturg-costume designer Heidi Väätänen, sound design student Linda Lazarov, lighting design student Rasmus Strandell and the audience.