Marta & Kim met in 2015. From the start, their different backgrounds in contemporary dance and circus sparked a strong curiosity to explore the space in between. Over the years they developed a shared movement language — sculptural, physical, and poetic — that blends the raw imagination of circus with the subtlety of dance. Their work goes beyond disciplines, focusing on physical communication, human connection, and the metaphors our bodies can carry.
Today they work internationally, based in Rotterdam as Associated Artists with their main partner Dansateliers (NL). In 2024 they founded their own company still still, a place to create sustainable work with care, clarity, and courage at its core.
Kim-Jomi Alstadsæter (Utrecht, Netherlands 1985) grew up in a family of street performers, where partnering acrobatics and performing for an audience were part of daily life. He later found his artistic home in contemporary dance and graduated from Codarts dance academy in 2007.
Since then, Kim has worked with choreographers such as DV8 Physical Theatre, Ann van den Broek, Andre Gingras, Pia Meuthen/Panama Pictures, Erik Kaiel and Ivan Pérez. His own artistic path has always circled around contact improvisation, hand-to-hand acrobatics and a physical blend of dance and circus.
As a maker, Kim is driven by the tension between form and freedom — building structures while allowing space for spontaneity and human connection.
Marta Alstadsæter (Hammerfest, Norway 1990) comes from a creative family. Her fascination for physical communication, inspired by working with horses, gradually shifted into a search for a more artistic physical language. That journey led her to the Netherlands, where she specialised in hand-to-hand acrobatics and graduated from Codarts Circus Arts in 2016.
Since then, she has combined performing with creating her own work. Marta collaborated with companies such as Erik Kaiel/Arch8, Pirjo Yli-Maunula/Flow, Kitt Johnson/x-Act, Het Houten Huis and Cie Woest.
As a maker, Marta is interested in physical metaphors that reveal the fragile, poetic and raw sides of being human. Her practice often moves between intimacy and sculptural imagery, exploring how circus and dance can merge into a language that speaks beyond words.
