Kristian Larsen (Sound)

Kristian Larsen is a Tamaki Makaurau based multi-disciplinary artist: dancer / choreographer / musician / composer / writer / researcher / teacher / improviser. Working at the edges of contemporary dance and experimental music in live performance, Larsen’s performances describe relationships between the somatic and the acoustic through creative misuses of dance techniques and audio technologies. His choreographic thinking on bodily agency in an era of hyper-capitalism is filtered through notions of hauntologies of obsolescence, disability, and hope. Larsen’s eccentric practice spans over three decades. His interrogations of contemporary dance have been compelled by radical methods of improvisation and movement sampling. His movement palette scrolls through the nostalgia’s of puritanical ballet and anally retentive 20th century American modernist dance forms such as Hawkins and Limon. Postmodernist darling Contact Improvisation alongside dance somatics such as Skinner Releasing and Body Weather are informed by the vocabularies and principles of...Read More