REvenge

July 25 at 5 pm VPK theatre

Paula Tuovinen's solo REvenge evaluates revenge starting from a personal humiliation and ponders upon the right to revenge. From a personal level she opens the question to a broader one and asks whether revenge has a scale where it could be justified and how  forgiveness and understanding could be possible.

In this work, which is partly documentary, come together a mobbing letter, middle aged women, speech, movement and improvisation.

Besides her dance career, Paula Tuovinen has made academic studies and has MA in cultural anthropology, which has influenced her work as an artist. She has been also chair of the Board of Zodiak - Center for New Dance. She has worked as full time lecturer of contemporary dance at the Theatre Academy of Finland, Dance Department. At the moment she is the rector of the Theatre Academy of Finland.

Tuovinen's choreographic style is versatile, and is flavored with irony and humor. She has choreographed both for dance films and Bollywood. The work that she has toured most is Blonde, which she has performed in Belgium, France, Lithuania, Czech Republic and in the

former Serbia-Montenegro. She has collaborated with environment artists, different visualists and with a number of Finnish composers, like Jukka Koskinen, Lotta Wennäkoski, Harri Kerkko and Kaija Saariaho.