Kenneth Flak (Norway) was born 1975 in Kristiansand, Norway. He freelances internationally as a dancer, choreographer and composer. He has danced in the works of, amongst others, André Gingras (Netherlands/Canada), Dansdesign (Norway), Preeti Vasudevan (India/USA) and Richard Siegal (France/USA). Kenneth is educated at the Stage Direction department of the National Academy of Dramatic Arts, Norway; the Mime Department and Modern Dance Department of the Amsterdam Arts School. 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 “Of Gods and Driftwood”. He received the Norwegian Government Grant for Young Artists 2004 and 2008-9. Currently he is collaborating with choreographer and dancer Külli Roosna (Estonia) on several projects under the name “Kompanii Kuri Koer”. Flak is a regular guest teacher at universities and professional workshops around the world. A self-taught composer, he frequently writes the music for his own choreographies, as well as those of Charlotta Öfverholm, Wilfried Seethaler, Kosmas Kosmpoulos, Yael Gaathon and others.

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