Note: No longer in repertoire!

The two-colour fugue, a co-production of the Helsinki City Theatre’s dance group Helsinki Dance Company (HDC) and Carl Knif Company (CKC), is a moving study of the age-old relationship between music and dance.

In Carl Knif’s choreography, dance and improvisation-based methods meet the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The precise formal language of the preludes and fugues composed by Shostakovich for piano collides with the richly sprawling expression of the dancers.

The seven-member line-up consists of virtuoso dancers from HKT’s dance group, Helsinki Dance Company and CKC. Dancer and choreographer Carl Knif has worked more than
ten years as a freelance dancer in the works of Tero Saarinen, among others, before founding his own company in 2012. In addition to his own productions, Knif has made co-productions and commissioned works, and has been a guest choreographer and director at the Swedish Theatre, among others. In addition to Finland, Knif’s works have been seen in about ten countries.