About Eeva-Maria Mutka

Eeva-Maria is a Finnish Movement Artist & Maker currently based in Bristol, after 20 years of running Penpynfarch in West Wales.

 

She has been performer and co-creator in works by significant artists in the UK & US over three decades; including Scotty Hardwig & Andrea Olsen Matkalla (2021) - 6 Best Short Dance Film awards, Miranda Tufnell/Sylvia Hallett/David Ward Pneuma Project (2013-2021), Gaby Agis Close Streams (at Turner Margate in 2016) & Jo Fong’s Witness films (2012) and Tetsuro Fukuhara Space Dance - Body of the Future (since 1995). She has presented Transience of Forms for Body & Earth International Northampton, MA, USA, June 2024, and is developing Mrs Perfume Performs with theatre company kissküss.

 

Most recently she collaborated with Vera Boele-Keimer on an exhibition in Stroud Crossing the line /and back and she’s touring with BANDO’s Y Llyn-The Lake.

​

Class Description

E-M will be sharing from her practice of  ‘making ma‘, something of a life-long study of the Japanese concept, opening to the space between impulses, and this is like a doorway where the images can enter/rise.

 

We will work like this with the live music too, very much a co-creation. Dances and the making of images emerge through the soles of our feet, or through our shadowy surfaces, into the vast space of the imagination, like a vector passing through…emerging and disappearing again, leaving an aftermath/afterimage, dissolving into the next ‘now’ moment.

 

Ancient or new, yet unseen images appear from shifting spatial relationships (balance) and immediate sensation.

​