{"id":122871,"date":"2026-05-20T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juuso-matias.fi\/?page_id=122871"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:39:10","slug":"artist-expert-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/juuso-matias.fi\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Juuso-Matias – Taiteilija-asiantuntija"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Juuso-Matias - An Artist-Expert<\/h1>\n

I am Juuso-Matias (they\/them), an artist-expert, a Finland-based performing arts professional.<\/span><\/p>\n

In productions I use my skills <\/span>as an intimacy director <\/b>and <\/span>as a fight director. Whatever the role I take, my artistic practice is based on collaboration. <\/b>Processes behind the scenes of intimacy and violence have in their core a collaborative choreographic work, practical safety protocols and specialized story-telling techniques. Still, they are two specialities with very different notion of risk-management, different priorities and basic techniques. Weaving violence and intimacy together in one scene is complicated and takes its time.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am also <\/span>a performing arts educator<\/b>. I often even describe my work as mainly <\/span>pedagogical and didactical. <\/b>These simply mean that <\/span>I weave together<\/b> various practices, skillsets and threads of knowledges of the people in the room.<\/span><\/p>\n

My main focus is to give tools to others so <\/b>they can do their best possible work with the help of my expertise. <\/b>In an optimal situation, the different performing arts experts I work with can use their original artistic and technical skillsets to meet the specific demands of intimate or violent scenes they work with.<\/span><\/p>\n

I most often teach skills useful to the scenes of heightened physicality. I have taught future professionals on University of the Arts, University of Applied Sciences and Folk high school levels. I have at basic theatre education and at amateur theaters. As a part of my teaching practices, I direct and fight direct various scenes with specific learning goals in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n