Två duetter is a dance performance composed of two duets, Vardag and Sense of Hope. The performance is a collaboration between DuvTeatern and Carl Knif Company.

Vardag

Vardag is a duet choreography created and performed by Carl Knif and Pia Renes. The performance contemplates the everyday through Pia’s perspective. She guides us through her routines, hobbies, and work. The structures, colour codes, and rhythms of her weekly schedule transform into music and movement. The everyday becomes poetry, the small becomes big in this intimate study of time and its essence.

Language: key word signs
Duration: 20 min.

Premiere: 26 November 2022 at DuvTeatern’s studio

Choreography: Carl Knif
Dance: Pia Renes, Carl Knif
Sound design: Janne Hast
Scenography & light design: Joonas Tikkanen
Costume design: Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila
Video design: Jonatan Sundström
Technical manager: Anttoni Halonen
Production: Annina Blom, Marjo Pyykönen, Sara Sandén

Sense of Hope

Sense of Hope is a duet created by Carl Knif in collaboration with Emil Nordman and Eero Vesterinen. This autobiographical work is based on Emil’s own experiences of loneliness and exclusion. Despite the dark theme, however, the performance wants to evoke light and warmth through text and dance. Can we be reconciled with our pasts? How might we find our way back to the light? These are the questions posed by the performance.

Sense of Hope received Finfringe’s Kiss my Turku award, which celebrates a Finnish performance with international potential.

Language: English
Duration: 20 min.

Premiere: 26 November 2022 at DuvTeatern’s studio

Choreography: Carl Knif, Emil Nordman
Text: Emil Nordman
Dance: Emil Nordman, Eero Vesterinen
Sound design: Janne Hast
Scenography & light design: Joonas Tikkanen
Costume design: Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila
Vi­deo de­sign: Jo­na­tan Sundst­röm
Costume production: Nina Ukkonen
Technical manager: Anttoni Halonen
Production: Annina Blom, Marjo Pyykönen, Sara Sandén

”I’m glad my collaboration with DuvTeatern continues with these two duets. Along with Emil Nordman and Pia Renes, we will create two different works based on the self-experienced.” – Carl Knif

“The eye contact remains unbroken as the scenes change. Respect, tenderness, and softness infuse each scene, each movement, and embraces even the audience. — Calle and Pia have given each other a beautiful gift wrapped in trust, concentration, and beauty, which we in the audience have the honour to take part in.”

– Nina Winquist, FDUV 25.11.2022

“[Vardag] is a restful and above all a beautiful depiction of everyday life, with a strong sense of presence. — Where Vardag is quiet and beautiful, the other duet Sense of Hope is sorrowful and dynamic. — a marvellously overwhelming, warm, and honest experience.”

– Lasse Garoff, Svenska Yle 29.11.2022

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