Kasper Ravnhøj
Denmark
Awarded Dancer of the Year by the German Yearbook of Tanz Magazine in 2011. In 2013 nominated for a Danish Reumert as Dancer of the Year. In 2014 he creates the choreography for the Reumert-winning performance ´Metamorfoser´ by The Red Room, The Danish Royal Theatre.
Kasper Ravnhøj casts musicians and performers with different training, background, nationality and physicality. And rather than conforming them he mobilizes their individual strengths and characteristics. The result is densely layered and carefully weaved together montage-like performances, contrived of a network of images delivered with a powerful physical energy.
A performance by Kasper Ravnhøj is a dance theater experience in the intersection of dance, live music, performance, hard core physicality and slam poetry – often with comic relief added to the mix. The work reflects Ravnhøj’s eclectic worldview and his personal fascination with modern man’s excellent ability to stumble and fall. On the basis of contemporary culture (and often with a political or socially critical backdrop) his work revolves around recurring themes such as existence, mythology, religion, the human drive and the darker sides of life. Kasper Ravnhøj has won great acclaim both as a choreographer and as a dancer. His characteristic movement vocabulary carries an intense presence, an extreme flexibility and floating limbs that seem able to twist in any direction, even inside out.