Külli Roosna and Kenneth Flak / CREATIVE LAB
Creative lab “Responsive Body” / A+B+C level
In this workshop we bring attention to our senses. With the help of a partner we expand the range of our movement choices, creating physical responses to internal as well as external impulses, and research different ways of creating improvised as well as fixed material.
Later on we will introduce sensor technology, enabling us to research a new set of connections between movement and sound. We will use small, wireless movement sensors attached to the dancers’ ankles or wrists. These make it possible to trigger and control sounds in real time, allowing the dancer to create their own soundtrack while moving.
Video material: https://roosnaflak.com/workshops/
BIOGRAFIJA
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 dancing for others, their work deals with the narratives and technologies of the body. They have explored a wide range of themes, including ecology, ancient Viking mythology, contemporary internet culture and totalitarian regimes. The core of their work is 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; and in 2018 Prime Mover was nominated for the Estonian Dance Awards.
You can read more on how they use the technology in their research project “100 sketches” here.
Creative lab “Responsive Body” short video.
Performance “Blood music”, created using sensors, short video (chor. and perform. Külli Roosna)
More: https://roosnaflak.com/about/