Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with Tristan Koepke + Benny Olk - Season 13, Episode 150

Tristan Koepke (he/him) is a dancer, choreographer, and educator
based in Portland, ME. He holds an MFA in Dance from the
University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently Assistant
Professor at Bates College and Associate Director of the Young
Dancers Intensive at the Bates Dance Festival.


Benny Olk (he/him) is a performing artist based in Minneapolis
with an interest in contemporizing and contextualizing American
modern and post-modern dance. As a member of Lucinda Childs Dance
Company, he performed reconstructions of pieces such as Dance and
Available Light. He performed in reconstructions of works by
Merce Cunningham, and has premiered works by Moriah Evans and
Anthea Hamilton. He is part of the Isolated Acts 2024 cohort at
Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis. Benny holds a BFA in Dance from
NYU and an MA in New Performative Practices from Stockholm
University of the Arts.



There’s More Than One Bed is the second collaboration
between Tristan Koepke and Benny Olk. Inspired by the creative
and amorous relationship between Merce Cunningham and John Cage,
Instagram thirst traps, speculative masculinities, and romance
novel tropes, Koepke, Olk, and their collaborators interrogate
what devotion and commitment to love, longing, and process can
look like when you make room for more than two.