About | Bunch Of Scrumps

Bunch of Scrumps

The core members of this collective, Maja Kalafatić, Jacqueline Aylward and Jesse Ojajärvi, are coming from different countries and different cultural environments/landscapes. We work towards growing the collective in future artistic work and see it operate as a sustainable, experimental and internationally active group.

Maja Kalafatić

Maja Kalafatić (Slovenia/Serbia) is a dance maker and pedagogue who lives and works between Finland, Slovenia and Serbia. She is very much interested in the relation of movement and music and trying out new possible formats of collaboration and performing. She wishes to distribute dance outside of dance and theater context and share it with locality. Maja has a Masters of Dance performance (The Theatre Academy Uniarts, Helsinki), Master of Arts in Dance Dissemination from University of Music and Dance Cologne, Germany and Bachelor in Dance from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance.

Jacqueline Aylward

Jacqueline Aylward (Australia) is a dance artist from Naarm (Melbourne) who is currently based in Helsinki. Her artistic practice is preoccupied with dance and dancing as a space of excessive nonsense, material playfulness and fiction; for both the performer and their audiences. Her approach is interdisciplinary and intuitive. She has a Masters of Dance Performance (The Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki), Bachelor of Fine Arts, Contemporary Dance (The University of Melbourne), Bachelor of Arts, History and English Literature (The University of Melbourne).

Jesse Ojajärvi

Jesse Ojajärvi (Finland) is a multi-instrumentalist and dancer working on both solo and group projects, such as Mikko Sarvanne Garden and Harri Kuusijärvi Koutus. He is a Master of Music (Department of Jazz, SibA, Uniarts Helsinki), and also has a vocational qualification in dance (North Karelia College, Riveria Outokumpu).