About
Internationally active choreographers, dancers and digital artists Külli Roosna (Estonia) and Kenneth Flak (Norway) have been collaborating since 2008. 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 heightened awareness of 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 performances Shelter Ouroboros (2024), Singularity (2022), Two Body Orchestra (2020), Prime Mover (2018), and Blood Music (2014) were nominated for the Estonian Dance Awards. Roosna was awarded the First Prize at the International Festival of Modern Choreography in Vitebsk, Belarus for her solo Circle Through. Flak received a Bessie Performer's Award in New York for his interpretation of André Gingras' solo CYP17.
Külli Roosna
Külli Roosna (born 1981) is an Estonian dancer, choreographer and teacher. She graduated Tallinn University in 2005 as a choreographer/ dancer and continued her studies in Rotterdam Dance Academy in the Netherlands, obtaining her second bachelor degree in 2007. In 2013 she obtained an MA of choreography at Tallinn University.
Since 2008 she has been collaborating with dance and media artist Kenneth Flak (Norway) 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 Ourobors (2024) xwere nominated for the Estonian Dance Awards.
As a performer she has also worked with choreographers Richard Siegal, Stian Danielsen, Karen Foss, Kari Hoaas, Cid Perlman, Dylan Newcomb, Fine5 Dance Theater, Teet Kask and many others.
In addition to recognitions for Roosna & Flak's work, she was awarded the First Prize at the International Festival of Modern Choreography in Vitebsk, Belarus for her solo Circle Through.
She is currently Associate Professor of Contemporary Dance and Creative Technology at Baltic Film and Media School.
Her teaching and performing has brought her to festivals, universities and theaters in Estonia, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary, Jordan, India, Japan, Russia, Belarus, and South Korea.
Kenneth Flak
Kenneth Flak (born 1975), is a Norwegian dancer, choreographer, composer and software developer. He studied Stage Direction at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Norway; Mime and Modern Dance at the Amsterdam Arts School in the Netherlands, and obtained a BA of Audiovisual Composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater in 2025.
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.