Kenneth Kvarnström has been working in the field of dance since 1990, mainly with his own company K. Kvarnström & Co. His works have toured in most European countries and also in Africa, Israel, Japan, Latin America and the US. In 2003 Kenneth decided to stop choreographing for 6 years and became the director of the House of Dance in Stockholm, a guest performance venue. In 2008 he started his five-year plan, working again as a choreographer with his own company and doing comission works for others. The same year he was appointed Professor of the Arts by the Finnish government. From 2010 he will work as a house choreographer with Helsinki Dance Company creating new danceworks in co-production with K. Kvarnström & Co.

Kenneth Kvarnström: ”For me choreography is finding the musicality in the movements. If choreography was a band the dancer would be the singer, actually the whole orchestra working together and constantly changing instruments and vocals.

357 steps, 16 short stories re-edited, 37 combinations, trust and control are all intertwined into the choreography.

I’m not interested in choreographing a storyline, I like to capture the unknown, work with the subconsious. To find my own way of poetry in motion. To quote the painter Francis Bacon: After all, if you could explain it, why would you go to the trouble of painting it. I guess the same goes for me… if I could explain it, I would not be dancing…”

The goal is to work with talent in different forms. The best dancers you can find, wizards in light- and set design, creative fashion designers and composers of magic, dedicated technicians. People whose technical skill and personality have inspired the overall energy of the company’s creations. 

Major productions 1990-2010 by K.Kvarnström & Co: