“I’ve always wanted to be a Turk!” –

– I’m really allergic if they start dictating what I can do, Eve (2nd left) describes herself in the documentary. Yle

Dancehall champion Evaleena “Eve” Vuorenmaa is a dance teacher who got into a legal battle with her former employer. It all started when Eve had a baby and her weight increased by 40 kilos.

– I no longer fit the image of the dance school. Before the maternity leave, I had the hours according to the contract. When I came back, my hours started to decrease. I then cleaned the company toilets.

This is how Eve tells the director about her fight Cherry for Saari New Kino in a short documentary film Fat Dance. The cameras follow Eve to the district court in Pirkanmaa, where the wage receivables and an amount equivalent to six months’ salary for the unjustified termination of the employment relationship are filed.

– The employer has refused to pay Vuorenmaa the monthly salary according to the collective agreement. The defendant company transferred him from the teacher’s duties to cleaning duties. The employer’s behavior has been very offensive and has been aimed at the person of Vuorenmaa in a derogatory way, lawyer Perttu Turku justifies.

The district court’s verdict is sympathetic to Eve. However, a possible continuation at the next court level remains open in the document.

It’s not just a courtroom document. Eve takes her dancer to a rapper Powerpimpin to shooting a music video and to a feminist strip club in Helsinki. There, Eve does something she’s dreamed of doing for a long time. She strips.

– The first time I thought about stripping was when I was under 20 years old. Now let’s try. The thing that worries me the most is if someone shouts some dirty talk.

The audience does cheer, but only because the audience thinks the show is so good. Banknotes are raining on the stage. Eve is at home on stage.

– This society is such that you can’t show too much as a woman. You have to be sexy, but you can’t be rude, Eve describes.

However, he deliberately breaks the mold.

– You can be a Turk! I’ve always wanted to be a Turk!

Fat Dance today at Teema & Fem at 23:10 & Arena. See all TV programs and broadcast times in Telku’s TV guide.