Kalpana & Rutkay

Kalpana Raghuraman

Kalpana Raghuraman is a choreographer, dancer, anthropologist and artistic director of Kalpanarts. Combining Indian dance forms with urban and contemporary dance, she has developed a unique dance language. Kalpana has previously created works with our Choreographic Academy, but in this Double Bill she is now creating her first piece in the position of Creative Associate with Dutch National Ballet. 
 

Rutkay Özpinar

Rutkay Özpinar is a Turkish Dutch choreographer with a broad dance background, in hip-hop, classical ballet, Turkish folk dance and modern dance, among others. In his works, he turns these styles into an idiosyncratic mix, simultaneously approaching dance from a human perspective. In 2014, at the age of 23, Rutkay made his debut as the youngest choreographer in the Netherlands at The Hague's Korzo Theater, where he also became resident choreographer. Now he is creating a work for the Junior Company of Dutch National Ballet for the first time.