Performance

Keith Hennessy is a performer, choreographer, teacher and activist. Born in Canada, he lives in San Francisco and tours internationally. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, ritual and public action as tools for investigating political realities. Hennessy directs CIRCO ZERO, and was a member of the collaborative performance companies: Contraband (with Sara Shelton Mann), CORE, Cahin-caha, and cirque bâtard. Recent awards include the USA Kjenner Fellowship, a NY Bessie, and two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. Recent works include the dance rite “Bear/Skin”, “2Sara (the smuggler)” for Sara Shelton Mann, “Turbulence (a dance about the economy)”, “Almost a duet” with Jassem Hindi, and “Negotiate” a collaboration with dancers from Togo, Senegal and DR Congo. Recent teaching includes Ponderosa (Germany), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), AEx-Corps (Dakar), UBC (Kelowna), UC Davis, Texas Women’s University, Sidestep Festival (Helsinki), and La Alternativa (San Francisco). Hennessy is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at UC Davis.

Svein Egil «Zweizz» Hatlevik is perhaps most well known for being a member of experimental black metal bands and as a composer of electronic music. But he also performs regularly within different types of sound improviasation and/or performance.

Through a range of improvisation projects Hatlevik has performed at (all the public restrooms at) the Henie-Onstad kunstsenter, as a supporting artist for throughout Europe with the legendary Oslo band Ulver, in addition to festivals in cities like Berlin, Paris and Moscow. Keith Hennessy and Hatlevik also performed together at the Improfestivalen at Dansens Hus in Oslo last summer.

Hatlevik is also responsible for vocal duties for numerous bands that operate within the vincinities of black metal, such as Umoral, Fleurety and Stagnant Waters. It is expected that this type of vocal style might be a part of the performance at the CODA festival.