Two Body Orchestra is a hydrid concert/dance performance, centering around our bodies as multitudes – as networks of organs, impulses, technologies, and fictions – as orchestras in and of themselves.

We blur the distinctions between bodies and technologies to the point where even very subtle movements – breathing, tiny shifts of posture – influence and create the sound space.

We are balancing on the borders of magic and science, leaving a space for intensity, vulnerability and wonder.

Choreography and performance Külli Roosna and Kenneth Flak Music Kenneth Flak in collaboration with Külli Roosna Light Design Kenneth Flak Light Design Consultant Thomas Dotzler Technique Rommi Ruttas Costume Ursula Mängel Video Registration Laura Lisete Roosaar

Produced by RoosnaFlak

Co-produced by Scenekunst Sør, Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava and Dansearena Nord

Supported by Norwegian Arts Council, Agder Fylkeskommune, Kristiansand kommune and Eesti Kultuurkapital

Internationally active choreographers and dancers Külli Roosna (Estonia) and Kenneth Flak (Norway) have been collaborating since 2008. Whether they are creating their own choreographies or collaborating with others, their work deals with the narratives and technologies of the body. They have explored a wide range of themes, including deep ecology, Viking mythology, totalitarianism and internet culture. The core of their work is human experience in interconnected realities. This is often explored through the dancing body’s possibilities and limitations, in a constant dialogue with the digital technologies and discourses that extend and counterpoint it.

Their interactive music and dance performance Blood Music was nominated for the Estonian Dance Awards 2015; Stalking Paradise, a commission work for Lublin Dance Theater, was selected for the biannual Polish Dance Days. Prime Mover (2018) and Two Body Orchestra (2020) were nominated for the Estonian Dance Awards.

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