Elina Pirinen’s artistry and practice is entangled in choreography, dancing, music making and experimental writing, pedagogy and curating. She is committed to make stage, performative, aural and linguistic autopsies to the subconscious registers, deep primary emotions and intelligence through them. The focuses of her art are in imagination, romanticism, doom, obsessions, nightmares, daydreams, taboos, sorrow, lust, despair, joy, suffering, silence, horror, satisfaction, shame, unwantedness, consolation and hope driven by feminist psychoanalytical depth and attempt to say something about these realities and experiences through it.
Maija Eränen is a producer working with choreographer-music maker Elina Pirinen. Together they run an association Libidian Wonders, based in Helsinki, Finland.
Last year Libidian Wonders co-produced with Zodiak and Dance House a large-scale work Mortal Tropical Dances (2023) by Elina Pirinen. Currently they are working with Teater Viirus co-producing Doves and Bloods, a multidisciplinary stagework premiering on 6th September 2024.
Elina Pirinen is represented at Tanzmesse by Maija Eränen.
Website: elinapirinen.com