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ZOE
2019
ZOE is a performance in which dance, thought and meanings open into experimental landscapes for the viewer. The work is based on the concept of Zõe by philosopher Rosi Braidotti, which describes life’s sensation- and emotion-based conections. Zõe is situated in all matter, alive or dead. In ZOE, human, non-human and posthumanistic experience is combined.
Concept and initiator: Sara Gurevitsch
On stage: Jenna Broas, Salla Rytövuori, Sara Gurevitsch and Tom Lönnqvist
Sound design: Tom Lönnqvist
Space and light design: Sofia Palillo
Costume design: Hanne Jurmu
Producer: Riikka Thitz
Co-production: Regional Dance Center of Eastern Finland
Residencies: Kutomo Ehkä-production, O Espaço do Tempo, Z-free Zodiak - Centre for New Dance
Supporters: The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Arts Promotion Centre Finland/The region of North Savo and South Savo tanssiopisto.
Premier on the 3rd of October 2019, Sotku-theatre, Kuopio.
Photos: Pekka Mäkinen
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Third Practice
2019
Choreography & Concept: Tero Saarinen
Music: Claudio Monteverdi
Music direction, Arrangement: Aapo Häkkinen
Lighting design: Eero Auvinen
Projection design: Thomas Freundlich
Costume design: Erika Turunen
Sound design: Marco Melchior
Choreographer’s Assistants: Henrikki Heikkilä, Satu Halttunen
Virtual soloist (soprano): Núria Rial
Soloist (tenor): Topi Lehtipuu
Dancers | Tero Saarinen Company: Jenna Broas, Annika Hyvärinen, David Scarantino, Eero Vesterinen, Won Won-Myeong, Pekka Louhio
Musicians | Helsinki Baroque Orchestra: Julien Martin (recorder), Tuomo Suni / Maite Larburu (violin), Aira Maria Lehtipuu (violin), Mikko Perkola (viola da gamba), Eero Palviainen (theorbo), Aapo Häkkinen (harpsichord)
Premier 29th of May 2019, Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli, Rassegna di Danza & Festival Monteverdi, Cremona, Italy.
Photos: Tero Saarinen Company: Kai Kuusisto
www.terosaarinen.com
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UrbanApa NOITAPIIRI - club
2019
A performance art club event at Putte’s Bar & Pizzeria. Come party with us and let’s celebrate feminism, femininity and art. Let’s dance together towards the destruction of the patriarchy! Some pop-up performances will emerge from the darkness.
For the whole night we witches are being shaked by the wondrous dj duo Astro-Sofia & Laney. The most wicked and fierce Vane Vane from Pimeä Hedelmä is throwing a gig during the night.
The performers: Sara the Transformer & Michaela the Queen of Fucking Everything, Sade Risku and Marika Peura aka Sirkka Rukoilija
Visuals and photos: Jenna Broas
Poster: Vilunki 3000
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ANON - The Act of Waiting
2018
Choreographer Johanna Nuutinen utilises her customary medium of virtuoso dance to explore the unavoidable senses of surrendering and uncertainty created by waiting. ANON also examines the temporary communities created by the act of waiting and questions the power structures of waiting. Who has the power to keep others waiting and who agrees to wait?
Choreography: Johanna Nuutinen
Performance: Jenna Broas and Oskari Nyyssölä
Sound design: Tuuli Kyttälä
Light, set and visual design: Joonas Tikkanen
Set up: Kaba Assefa
Dramaturgical support: Miranda Laurence
Costume design: Erika Turunen
Costume fitting and sewing: Johanna Vehmas
Premier on the 22nd of November 2018, Teater Viirus, Helsinki.
Supported by The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, city of Helsinki, South East Dance, Zodiak - Center for New Dance and Seoul Dance Center.
Photos: Johanna Nuutinen
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Posthuman days
2018
What is a post-human human subject? What does it mean to let go of anthropocentrism? The world is breaking before our very eyes, but what is this inevitable state of change?
Posthuman days by choreographer Jenni-Elina von Bagh and her workgroup is an ambitious and impossible attempt to bring a topical philosophical notion of ‘post-human’ into the stage context. Posthuman days explores questions relating to a breaking of categories such as subject/object, nature/culture, human/non-human and life/death. It assumes a form of embodied, choreographed question articulated by five young female dancers.
Posthuman days does not want to convey or represent anything. It wants to open an artistic platform for dissident thought. It admits to being awkward, emotional and melancholy while remaining superficial.
As a performance, Posthuman days is a network-based hybrid. It proves that the notion of post-human is already here.
Choreography:Jenni-Elina von Bagh & the performers
Performance: Jenna Broas, Karoliina Kauhanen, Anni Koskinen, Outi Markkula and Pinja Poropudas
Sound design: Tom Lönnqvist
Light design: Ina Niemelä
Costume design: Ingvill Fossheim
Set and video design: Fabian Nyberg
Dramaturge: Otto Sandqvist
Production: Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Jenni-Elina von Bagh
Premier on the 18th of October 2018, Zodiak Stage, Helsinki.
Photos: Katri Naukkarinen
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Something, or an amount, poured
2018
The solo installation is composed by organic movement, flow, cyclic structure and the cellular body. A meditative performance merges from layered images in space.
The installation was performed part of UrbanApa’s platform for young artist in Zodiak C4. UrbanApa’s platform for young artist is initialised by Sonya Lindfors and it brings seven artist together to share their work and to collaborate. These artists are Jenna Broas, Sanni Giordani, Minna Karttunen, Taru Miettinen, Kaisa Nieminen, Pinja Poropudas and Vanessa Virta.
Performance and video design: Jenna Broas
Sharing on the 26th of May 2018, Zodiak C4, Helsinki.
Photos: Minna Karttunen and screenshots from the film
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Dry storm
2018
The work arises from fragmented changes in the body, created by embodied reflections from the environment. It rattles through the materialization of dryness, into hybrid bodies that in their multi directionality loosely connects anywhere and everywhere. Building structures of feeling and waiting, wondering in the in-betweeness.
Performances to be beings.
Choreography: Sara Gurevitsch
Performance: Jenna Broas, Geoffrey Erista, Tuuli Heinonen, Ella Koikkalainen, Katriina Tavi and Salla Rytövuori
Sound design: Tom Lönnqvist
Light design: Sofia Palillo
Costume design: Hanne Jurmu
Set design: Sara Gurevitsch, Hanne Jurmu, Tom Lönnqvist and Sofia Palillo
Premier on the 7th of February 2018, Kallio Stage, Helsinki.
Photos: Sanni Siira
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Different but same in this structure of a structure
2017
Choreography and performance: Jenna Broas and Pinja Poropudas
Sound: Tom Lönnqvist
Video editing: Jenna Broas
The work is composed by two dancers and a projector. Together they form the three performers of the piece. A composition of three scores are bringing these three performers together, creating their own realities within the same shared space. Each score acts as an independent part that opens and frames its own explorative world. Set up parallel to each other, the scores open up new dimensions, creating new perspectives for viewing and exploring – to see and to be seen. What do these scores suggest when they are in relation to each other? What associations do we make?
Performed in Ateneum, Helsinki, UrbanApa festival 2017.
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Kosto I-IX
2017
is a recitative fantasy directed by choreographer Elina Pirinen. It sings forth visions of revenge in linguistically, visually and corporeally subtle and direct ways. The singing on stage is surrounded by nine bodies incorporating rest and festivo. The tableau vivant, in turn illuminated and extinguished, brings forth the beautiful inner tumult of humanity.
Premier on January 19th, 2017 at Theatre Academy of the Uniarts Helsinki.
Choreography: Elina Pirinen
Performance: Krista Arppo, Jenna Broas, Karoliina Kauhanen, Anni Koskinen, Anna Kupari, Outi Markkula, Pinja Poropudas, Lotta Suomi ja Katriina Tavi
Visual concept: Elina Pirinen ja Heidi Väätänen
Dramaturgy: Heidi Väätänen
Direction in writing process: Niko Hallikainen
Consultation and execution of lighting design: Nadja Räikkä
Sound technician: Lauri Malin
Photos: Katri Naukkarinen
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Tila tilassa - Kalasatama
2016
Concept and performance: Jenna Broas and Karoliina Kauhanen
Photos: Jenna Broas and Karoliina Kauhanen
Kalasatama, Helsinki
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MESH
2016
Choreography: Tero Saarinen
Music collage (Martti Pokela, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Pekka Jalkanen, Petri Sirviö/trad.)
Lighting and set design Iwashina Takeaki
Costume design: Izumi Miyamura
Choreographer’s Assistants: Satu Halttunen, Henrikki Heikkilä, Sini Länsivuori
Dancers: Auri Ahola, Satu Halttunen, Mitsutake Kasai, Natasha Lommi, Pekka Louhio, Oskari Nyyssölä, David Scarantino, Eero Vesterinen, Jenna Broas, Anni Koskinen, Pinja Poropudas, Jane Sievänen, Erika Vilander, Malla Ylöniemi, Marcus Björkbom, Tiia Lehtinen, Julianna Luhtala, Eliisa Nenonen, Konsta Roos ja Nelli Sinilaakso.
First premiered on the 2nd of February 2014, Saitama Arts Theater, Tokyo, Japan by 20 Japanese dancers. Production Saitama Dance Association and Saitama Theater.
Finnish premier at the Kuopio Dance Festival 15th of June 2016.
Photos: Tero Saarinen Company : MESH Sami Kulju (1-2/7) and Sakari Viika (3-7/7)
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Papers and pens
2016
Choreography: Jenni-Elina von Bagh
Performance: Jenna Broas, Karoliina Kauhanen, Anni Koskinen, Outi Markkula ja Pinja Poropudas
Photos: Hanne Salonen/Eduskunta (29.11.2017)
In the performance for five dancers Papers and pens reflects the question of change and the fracturing of the categories. The body and the speech are closely connected to each other continuously forming new relationships and meanings. The inspiration for the work are the theories and texts by an Italian feminist philosopher Rosi Braidott.
Premiered at the Theatre Academy, Helsinki 13th of April 2016.
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As if the fish is the frame
2015
Concept: Joanna Kalm
Performance and choreography: Jenna Broas, Bridget Lappin, Eleni Papaioannou, Gabi Serani and Joanna Kalm
Premiere: 25th June 2015 at Robin Howard Dance Theatre, London
“I believe in myself enough to say that I could have choreographed a good dance piece, one that the audience would actually like and enjoy. But where would be the fun in that for me, for the dance artists I am working with, for the audience? Where would be the excitement? The risk? I am not interested in the safe, in the ‘this works well’, in producing conditionally new work. I want to make unconditionally new work. But how? (Don’t know) It is a search. Not for what has already been established in our contemporary dance fashion, but for what lies further down the road of ‘this does not work’. I think I am going to fail. Fortunately I have people who are willing to fail with me. And this makes me happy.” - Joanna Kalm
Photo: Kasia Witek
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Moving Cities
2015
Photographic project by Jevan Chowdhury.
Moving Cities captures international dancers in real settings. Dance, cars, trains, planes.
Cities are mesmerising. Moving Cities celebrates this.
Photos: Jevan Chowdhury
Dancers: Jenna Broas, Madeleine Jonsson and Mari Ishida
15th of June 2015, London.
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The Illuminations
2015
Photography and concept: Clara Giaminardi
Styling: Shaheen Peer
London
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Projected
2015
Choreography and design: Anders Duckworth
Music: Chris Edwards
Lighting: Seth Williams
Performance: Jenna Broas and Eleni Papaioannou
Photos: Lee Carter and Anders Duckworth
Two characters have emerged from the world of celluloid. Seeing their projected memories realised unearths questions of what is 2D or 3D, fantasy or reality.
A collaboration between Anders Duckworth and sound artist Chris Edwards, Projected draws inspiration from our brief relationship with the celluloid image and our ability to understand a string of still images as a real universe.
Premiered at the Robin Howard Theatre, London 8th of January 2015.
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#urbanflowevent (rivercities)
2014
Director: Carolyn Deby
Collaborating Artists:Alexandra Baybutt, Jenna Broas, Mark Carberry, Jia-Yu Corti, AnnaCarin Isaksson, Florencia Martina and Erwin Semler
Student dancers: Katy Ayling, Antonin Chediny, Laura Lorenzi and Letitia Wilkinson
Violinist: Susanna Ferrar
Stamford Hill Over 50’s Folk Dancers: Alice Hitchin, with dancers from University of the 3rd Age
Rowers: Ashley Ringshaw and Lea Rowing Club
Production Management: Louise de Villiers
Crew: Adam Holton, Keith Lim, Dávid Somló, Veronika Szabó
Funded by Arts Council England, Canal & River Trust, and Thames21.
Photo: Carolyn Deby
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flo
2014
(Short film 3’40)
Commission work by Carolyn Deby sirenscrossing as part of #urbanflowevent (rivercities). The film is in response to rivercities research along the River Lea, considering the flows of urban and wild. #urbanflowevent (rivercities) is a pilot project investigating through performance, words/images, and social media, the human connection to intersecting systems of flow in East London along the River Lea – considering networks of human waste/sewage, water supply, body water at cellular and body systems levels, and everyday human movements.
Film and editing: Jenna Broas
Performance: Florencia Martina
Supported by Arts Council England, Canal & River Trust, and Thames21, with Save Lea Marshes
Photos: Jenna Broas
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Northern dimension - Pohjoinen ulottuvuus
2014
(Short film 5’19)
Directed, edited and performance: Jenna Broas
Text: Laura Kaikkonen and Matti Tauru edited by Jenna Broas
Filming: Anne Broas-Aula
Part of a research project on the relation of the Nordic landscape, culture and art.
2014
Dance Film Festival UK
2015
Finnish Dance Shorts in Brooklyn, NY
Athens Video Dance Project
Photos: Screenshots from the film
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Arctic
2014
Inspired by the film Lovers of the Arctic Circle, this group choreography focuses on a contemporary interpretation of Inuit traditions. It is a group searching for love and trying to survive in the most extreme conditions. Love, death, destiny, nature, and coincidence are intertwined in a deeply touching work.
Premiered: March 2014 Robin Howard Theatre, London.
Direction and choreography: Jose Agudo
Composer: Vinz "the Artist"
Performance: Antonio Branco, Jenna Broas, Olivia Brown, Simea Cavelti, Anders Duckworth, Valerie Ebuwa, Iris Huang, Paige Jackson, Erika Masu, Katie Neal, Ryan Pickering, Iro Vas
Lighting: Michael Mannion
Costume: Sara Rigden
Photos: Danilo Moroni
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Shadower
2013
(Short film 5’14)
Director: Samuel Parnell
Choreographer: Jenna Broas in collaboration with the dancers
Cinematographer: Damien Gray Editors: Damien Gray and Samuel Parnell
Dancers: Ben Jones, Emilie De Roo, Ryan Yamauchi and Lexi Hughes
Sound score: Chris Edwards
Special thanks to Gabriela Tropia, Chris Elliot, Kevan Gray, Nagore Rementeria and Dan Sullivan.
Photos: Screenshots from the film
Picture: Sanni Siira
I am a dancer, choreographer and artist who is based in Helsinki, Finland. I hold a MA from the Theatre Academy of the University of Arts Helsinki (2017) and a BA from London Contemporary Dance School at The Place (2014). In my own choreographic practice I am exploring on different improvisational techniques, somatic practices, 3D animation and video. Together with visual artist Fabian Nyberg we form an artist duo, Broas & Nyberg. Our work crosses the genres of dance, installation and visual arts.
As an artist duo Broas & Nyberg we are working at Asbestos Art Space in Helsinki. Welcome to experience a setup that transforms day by day. The space is open daily November 23th to 30th 17-21.
https://www.facebook.com/events/804425909978159/
Arrived to Edinburgh, beginning of a two week residency with choreographer Johanna Nuutinen at Dance Base.
https://www.dancebase.co.uk/residencies-autumn-2019/johanna-nuutinen-co-14-25-october-1519
In Belgium with Tero Saarinen Company and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Zimmermann Trio at Brussels and Bruges on the 10th and 11th of October.
https://terosaarinen.com/en/creation/zimmermann-trio/
https://www.bozar.be/en/activities/150889-helsinki-philharmonic-tero-saarinen-company
https://www.concertgebouw.be/en/helsinki-philharmonic-orchestra-tero-saarinen-company
Download CV here