Eve Mutso

(dancer, choreographer)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Eve Mutso is a freelance dancer and choreographer and former Principal Dancer of Scottish Ballet. Her repertory with Scottish Ballet included roles in works by Ashton, Arias, Balanchine, Brew, Bruce, Caniparoli, Darrell, Elo, de Frutos, Forsythe, Hampson, Loosmore, MacMillan, Van Manen, Page, Pastor, Petronio and Pickett. In 2012, she created the leading role of Blanche in Meckler/Lopez/Ochoa’s “A Streetcar Named Desire”. 

Eve graduated from Tallinn Ballet School in 1999 and joined the Estonian National Ballet. She returned to Tallinn in 2011 as guest principal to dance the title role in MacMillan’s “Manon”.

Her work, “111”, a collaboration with Joel Brown (Candoco Dance Company) premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2019, followed by a national and international tour.
She recently collaborated with artist/poet Rhona Warwick Paterson for three new commissioned works for Fruitmarket in Edinburgh and created new work for Indepen-dance, which will tour internationally in August 2023. Eve has also collaborated with various filmmakers, composers and photographers throughout her career.

Eve has created choreography, workshops and taught classes for the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, MUBA (Tallinn Music and Ballet School), Estonian Dance Academy, LPM Dance Theatre, Artists for Africa, AXIS Dance Company, Edinburgh Dance Academy, Alonzo King LINES Dance Center, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Lothian Youth Dance Company, Aerial Edge Circus School, Indepen-dance, Estonian National Ballet and Scottish Ballet. Eve has consulted theatre makers for dance composition at New Voices Theatre and is mentoring independent freelance dance makers worldwide.

Eve is currently a guest lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Tallinn Music and Ballet School and a board member of Indepen-dance, an inclusive dance company for disabled and non-disabled people in Scotland since 2017.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
She has been nominated by the Critics Circle for the National Dance Award for Best Female Dancer in 2005, 2013, and for Outstanding Female Performance in 2015.

 

Photo by Robert Perry