ABOUT ME AND MY WORK
My interest delve in the interaction between visual and performing arts, such as theatre and dance.
I work in hybrid projects that explore and question the unity between content, medium, context and narrative display in an intuitive and compromised praxis.
Often the themes of my work revolve around notions of reality, perception and behavior. During the working process and along its outcomes I try to figure out how we perceive reality and how we act upon that. I'm interested in one's emotional being and in the conversion of one's inner into representational forms. While I speculate on constructing dramaturgical entities, I refer to individual and communal conducts as well as their contexts.
During the last years I have been directing video and dance projects and worked in several theatre and dance productions as a video artist. Further I have performed as a dancer and exhibit my work in a gallery context.
I'm both fascinated and disturbed by humans. I'm interested in how the impulses take form in words and gestures and how they succeed or fail in doing this. I like to see people shaking their meat. Moving flesh is life. Can such a statements be made based on uncertain feelings? I like to work, a bit like those donkeys following a carrot.
CURRENT PROJECTS
IN & OTHERS
Concept, direction, scenography: Anna Estarriola
Performance: Anna Estarriola, Pälvi Salminen, Jukka Tarvainen
Lighting design: Anna Pöllanen
Photography: Johanna Tirronen
In & Others is based in wonders about the origin and development of one's behavior until it is pulled out to the outer. The thematic scope of the piece contains domestic approaches to the unknown, looks at the visible in us guessing the invisible happening inside, and enquires into scientific knowledge and non factual believes. Departing from the compromise to be objective or right, the piece looks for the translation of the inner into forms, constructing metaphor of what is rooted inside us and reacts to the external, through movement, presence and image.
Premiere in Finland: 27.04.2010, Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki
Premiere in Catalonia: 02.10.2010, Festival Mapa, Pontós
LATEST WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
- Fascinated and Disturbed by Humans, solo exhibition, Kuvataideakatemia gallery, Helsinki (2008)
- Fascinated and Disturbed by Humans, solo exhibition, Kuvataideakatemia gallery, Helsinki (2008)
- Lock, group exhibition, FAFA, Helsinki (2007)
DIRECTED DANCE WORKS
- Brain Visioning About Self Unity, a 10 min. demo of an upcoming piece, Mamuska-Zodiak, Helsinki (2009)
- The Happiest, Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth, Helsinki + tour (2008)
DIRECTED DANCE WORKS
- Brain Visioning About Self Unity, a 10 min. demo of an upcoming piece, Mamuska-Zodiak, Helsinki (2009)
- The Happiest, Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth, Helsinki + tour (2008)
WORKS AS A VIDEO ARTIST FOR THEATRE AND DANCE PRODUCTIONS
- Sold Out, by Eeva Muilu, Stoa, Helsinki + tour (2007)
- Bodies in Construction, by Harriet Abrahamsson, Huset, Copenhagen + tour (2007)
- Sold Out, by Eeva Muilu, Stoa, Helsinki + tour (2007)
- Bodies in Construction, by Harriet Abrahamsson, Huset, Copenhagen + tour (2007)
CALENDAR
23.08.2009: The Happiest, Nuorta Verta Festival, Kuopio, Finland www.nuortaverta.com/anna_eng.html
21-22.09.2009: Sold Out, Dance Triennale, Tokio, Japan
www.aoyama.org/japanese/topics/sozai/2009/triennale/pro1_e.html15.10.2009-15.12.2009: Fascinated and Disturbed by Humans, New/Now Vilnius online Festival
06.11.2009: The Happiest, Divendres de Contraband, Figueres, Catalonia
27.04.2010: In & Others, Zodiak-Center for New Dance, Helsinki, Finland
01.09.2010: One month artistic production residency with dance artists Pälvi Salminen and Jukka Tarvainen in Pontós within Festival Mapa, Pontós, Catalonia
02 and 03.10.2010: In & Others, Festival Mapa, Pontós, Catalonia
01.11.2010: One month artistic research with theatre director Harriet Abrahamsson, Helsinki, Finland
CONTACT
anna.estarriola@gmail.com
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ABOUT "FASCINATED AND DISTURBED BY HUMANS" (exhibition)
DESCRIPTION
CREDITS
electronics: Gregoire Rousseau
coding and motion tracking: Otto Korkalo
technical advising: Arttu Polojärvi, Pasi Söderlund
video/photo performing: Anna Estarriola, Otto Korkalo,
Jyri Pitkänen, Anna Pöllänen, Arttu Polojärvi, Jukka Tarvainen
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
In the following link you will find the video documentation of the exhibition:http://www.vimeo.com/2286296
PHOTO DOCUMENTATION
By Jussi Autio
Solo:Head Manipulation
solo: blind walk while colorful things are maybe passing by
solo: Up and Down
solo: trying to synchronize body and soul
Solo:stillness
solo: movement lecture-basics
A group
a group
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ABOUT "THE HAPPIEST" (performance)
"The Happiest" is based in the physicality of the human behavior in relation to a given or self-created environment in which someone happens to exist. The piece goes trough multiple try outs that aim to overlap imposition and free will. "The Happiest" attempts to create living moving images and translate mental landscapes into physical forms.
As a catalogue of life scenes it contains crappy speeches, self-slavery, conceptual butterflies, innocent destruction, huge statements, mechanical order, dancing monsters, silver fields, electronic music, reconstruction and tasks.
"The Happiest" says things such as: "Life is like a butterfly, sometimes it's funny, sometimes it doesn't exist" and "I'll be here until this ends"
CREDITS
Direction and concept: Anna Estarriola
Performance: Anna Estarriola, Jukka Tarvainen
Light Design: Anna Pöllänen
Aprox. duration: 30 min.
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
In the following link you will find a short video documentation of the dance performance, Michiko Isogai and Tuomas Karhu have recorded this images:http://www.vimeo.com/8647801
PHOTO DOCUMENTATION
By Jyri Pitkänen
