Mercury

Sydney Dance Company Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela presents one of Europe's most revered choreographers, Kenneth Kvarnstrom. Making his Australian debut, Kenneth Kvarnstrom will apply the sensibilities of his beyond-cutting-edge choreography to the creation of a full length work for the Sydney Dance Company.

Finnish-born Kenneth Kvarnstrom's work is imbued with a bold and distinctive visual stamp as a result of his frequent collaborations with light and set designers of his choice; artists whose technical skills and personalities have combined to inspire the overall energy of his creations.

For several years the director of the Helsinki City Theatre Dance Company and of the esteemed Dansens Hus in Stockholm, where he presented the finest of international dance artists, Kvarnstrom has now returned to a career of creative diversity, reapplying his creative energies to his own K. Kvarnstrom & Co and making commissioned works for Gothenburg Ballet, Helsinki Dance Company and Finnish National Ballet.

Defined by choreography which is at once powerful and dynamic, yet sensual and intimate, Kenneth Kvarnstrom's work is both challenging and demanding.


"If the work of K. Kvarnstrom comes to your town, see it. It's worth it for the beautiful movement and the choreographer's unique voice." Critical Dance.com

"With its precise integration of space and all the intensity of excellent dance, Kvarnstrom's choreography carries you away again and again." Ballet International Magazine, Berlin

"A sway of arms opposite the hips, the isolation of a shoulder, limbs articulating and unfolding, give a distinctly athletic hip-hop feeling ... a magically marked out space, brings a visual polish to an intriguing work." Dance Magazine, US