You vomited on Jupiter

Oksensitte Jupiteria ambitiously and playfully subverts your notions of the performing arts. The performance is a live poetic work that navigates the subconscious, created by choreographer Elina Pirinen for Dance Theater Rimpparemmi.

The work is built from a meticulously stylized torrent of speech, which Pirinen has aestheticized and amplified from the small details of the performers’ personal texts. The mass of text, which moves between truth and fantasy, is enhanced in its beauty by a visual light surface and classical piano music performed live. The key to the core of Jupiter is not to examine what it is as an art form, but rather what thrills occur within you when you encounter this performance.

Pirinen’s starting point for the work has been to restore humanity to the stage of dance art instead of distant physicality. She challenges perceptions of choreography, dance, movement, and theater by utilizing the flow and quirks of language and sound.

Elina Pirinen (b. 1981) is one of the most internationally intriguing Finnish choreographers. The visionary Pirinen’s ideals include intellectual virtuosity, outrageous solutions on stage, and dark humor. She has been awarded, among others, the Kritiikin kannukset Prize in 2014 and the Prix Jardin d’Europe, the main prize for European choreography, in 2015.

Performance duration approx. 45 min

Premiere: July 27, 2016, Full Moon Dance Festival, Pyhäjärvi