Jumppatytöt – Havukainen - Hyvönen – Lahdenmäki

Jumppatytöt (‘Gymnastics Girls’) is a performance about team gymnastics. It is a journey of former gymnasts into past and present bodies – into training, competition, comparison, evaluation, joy, beauty, communality and peerage. The performance is an ode to Finnish women’s gymnastics and to everyone who has ever practised until they can taste metal in their mouth. Special thanks to diary entries from 1998–2009 and the girls who kept writing them and held onto them despite the embarrassment. “ENJOY!” Jumppatytöt tour creative team: Script, direction, dramaturgy, performance: Katariina Havukainen, Inkeri Hyvönen, Ella Lahdenmäki Choreography: Antton Laine and the team Sound design: Roy Boswell, Oscar Fagerudd and the team Video: Compiled by Liisa Mudist from the team’s home videos and archival material Lighting design for the tour: Heikki Paasonen Scenography for the tour: Heikki Paasonen and the team Tour technicians: Oscar Fagerudd, Aleksi Karjalainen and Pinja Kokkonen Tour manager: Jukka Siurua Tour production: Ella Lahdenmäki and the team Performance images: Jukka Hämeenniemi / @agg_dad Poster: Jaakko Pietiläinen Minimum age recommendation: 12 Performance duration: 1 h 45 min, no intermission The show is supported by: People’s Education Fund (President Tarja Halonen Fund), Ida Aalberg Foundation (Petra Uexküll Fund), Samuel Huber Art Foundation, City of Helsinki, SKR Pirkanmaa, SKR Uusimaa, SKR Varsinais-Suomi