Relaxed Performance: Aniara

Carl Knif is a Finnish dancer, choreographer, artistic director and the founder of Carl Knif Company. Knif has created numerous choreographies for his own company and carried out co-pro-ductions and commissioned works for theaters and dance houses.
 
Some of his works are non-verbal based on power of movement and dance, some are more towards physical theater. During the years Carl has formed himself an interesting, unique style with which his company has risen to the forefront of Finnish dance.
 
Carl Knif was awarded the State Prize for Performing Arts in 2016. His works have gained international interest and have toured in 10 countries. 

Carl premiered his last piece in Sweden in 2023 when he created a dance theatre performance based on Franz Kafka's The Process for Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. In 2021 he interpreted August Stindberg's Ett drömspel (A Dream Play) at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki.

Ville Leppilahti is a Finnish sound designer, a musician and a composer. He graduated from Theatre Academy in 2012 and has worked as a freelance sound designer ever since. He has made several plays for the Finnish National Theatre as well as smaller projects for various theaters and radio.

Ville sees his work as a sound designer and composer as being a storyteller. He works reactively and content-oriented in close cooperation with a group.

Ville is also an active musician. He plays keyboards in Oranssi Pazuzu, an internationally known avant-garde metal band.

Jukka Huitila work as a light and video designer. His projects involve buildings, public spaces, events and the performing arts. Jukka is equally at ease working with intimate performances for small stages or creating light design for massive edifices like the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. He has a sharp artistic sensibility which he shares generously with his collaborators – he says his job is to keep honing ideas until they reach the shape that the work requires.

Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila is a Helsinki based costume designer and set designer. She graduated from Helsinki university of arts 2003.

Karoliina has worked as costume designer on more than 90 productions in theatre and dance, 10 feature films and various tv-series and films. Karoliina har worked with choreographer Carl Knif since 2007 and she is one of Carl Knif Company's designers. 

Robin N Spegel, born 1988, is a playwright trained at the playwright programme at the Theatre Academy in Malmö. Since graduating in 2017, Robin has written about fifteen plays that have been performed at Stockholms Stadsteater, Riksteatern, Malmö stadsteater, SR Drama and others. Robin prefers to write queer stories with popular culture references, humour and soap-like action. Robin has been involved in starting up two free groups; Crush (2014) which makes interactive, site-specific audio works and kvalitetsteatern (2011) which is a queer feminist free group that works with devising and collective processes. In 2013, Robin initiated the national movement Lesbian Power, which today is a non-profit membership organisation with activities all over Sweden.