Kenneth Flak
Choreographer, audiovisual composer, software developer.
About
Kenneth Flak (born 1975), is a Norwegian dancer, choreographer, composer and software developer. He is educated at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Norway and the Amsterdam Arts School in the Netherlands, and is currently studying Audiovisual Composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater.
Since 2008 he has been collaborating with dance artist Külli Roosna (Estonia) under the name Roosna & Flak. They have dealt with a wide range of topics, including deep ecology, 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.
They have performed their works all over the world. Additionally, they teach Responsive Body movement technique, composition, and sensor programming at various universities and festivals, adapting their methodology and content to different contexts.
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), Two Body Orchestra (2020), Singularity (2022) and Shelter Ouroboros (2024) were nominated for the Estonian Dance Awards.
In 2007 he received a Bessie Performer’s Award in New York for his interpretation of Gingras’ solo CYP17. In 2010 he was nominated for the BNG Award in Amsterdam for his choreography Of Gods and Driftwood.
He has also performed in the works of André Gingras, Dansdesign, Richard Siegal, Kari Hoaas, Preeti Vasudevan and many others.
Flak has taught contemporary dance and sound design at universities and festivals around the world. He has taught and performed in Estonia, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Greenland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, Germany, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia, China, Jordan, India, Japan, Australia, Russia, Belarus, USA, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Italy, Spain, Portugal.
A self-taught composer and creative coder, he makes music and interactive tools for live choreographies and dance films.
He was chair of Norwegian Arts Council Commission for Dance 2018-2020.