Jumppatytöt – Havukainen – Hyvönen – Lahdenmäki
Apr 12, 2026 | 7:00 pm
Kasarmikatu 46-48, 00130 Helsinki
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 floor: R18 alcohol serving area. The gallery: no age restrictions, no alcohol serving.
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
