In The Fork, Kenneth Flak dances with Dominika Knapik after a story by Wojtek Klimcyzk, both from Harakiri Farmers. „A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes”, surrealist Paul Eluard wrote. The Fork is based on a banal love story. [Minus 20] strongly believe that if you look at something long enough you will always discover something you have never seen before. It is like with Star Wars V, The Empire Strikes Back, from 1980: It takes time to discover that one asteroid is a shoe and the other one a potato. And love is the same. If you keep looking at it, it starts to look like a potato.
The story is both everyday and absurd – it elaborates on the experience everyone has at some point in their lives: an odd, but quite ordinary event that makes one question one’s grip on reality, because nothing seems to be the way one expects it to be. The Fork reminds us that events like these stop time in its tracks, and therefore belong to eternity.
Kenneth Flak received the New York Dance and Performance Award for his interpretation of André Gingras’ CYP17. Flak has toured with many famous choreographers, and received rave reviews for the performance Of Gods and Driftwood from 2008.
Source: BIT Teatergarasjen, Oktoberdans 2010. 06.09.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/339
