Note: No longer in repertoire!

Kaksivärinen fuuga, a co-production by Helsinki City Theatre’s dance company Helsinki Dance Company (HDC) and Carl Knif Company (CKC), is a movement-based exploration of the age-old relationship between music and dance.

In Carl Knif’s choreography, dance and improvisational methods encounter the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The precise formal language of Shostakovich’s preludes and fugues for piano is set against the dancers’ richly expressive movement.

The seven-member cast brings together virtuoso dancers from Helsinki City Theatre’s Helsinki Dance Company and CKC. Dancer and choreographer Carl Knif worked for over
a decade as a freelance dancer, including in works by Tero Saarinen, before founding his own company in 2012. In addition to creating his own productions, Knif has collaborated on co-productions and commissioned works and appeared as a guest choreographer and director at venues including Svenska Teatern. Knif’s works have been performed in Finland and around ten other countries.