Created by the Finnish dancer and choreographer Noora Hannula, The Ultimate Battle is inspired by dating simulator games and animé, with hologram technology developed for the 4D Box in The Culture Yard in Elsinore, Denmark. As Noora discovers her boyfriend is flirting with a virtual character named Soma, she enters the virtual realm herself to seek out her romantic rival, culminating in a dance-fight between flesh and code, the real and the virtual. As the line between virtual and real worlds becomes increasingly blurred, if even the realm of love is infiltrated by virtual humans, are we still our own masters?

Concept, Choreography & Live-Performance / Noora Hannula

Noora Hannula is a Finnish choreographer and dancer who works as the artistic director of The Nordic Beast. She has choreographed her own work since 2011 and started her career by winning prizes for best choreography in 2012 with her solo work: White noise in Belgium and in 2013 with the duet Buy My City in Amsterdam. Noora’s talent is well recognized that her dance piece got selected to the program of the Internationale Tanzmesse NRW 2016, in Düsseldorf. Mostly focusing on the issues in digital era including online identity, digital love, and intimacy merging with the technology, she studies the influence from social media to self-identity, of which she developed her works of SoMe SERIES, and first piece of Digital Love Trilogy, Noora Hannula V.S. Soma The Augmented-Reality Girl - The Ultimate Battle. Noora gives workshops in various dance establishments nationally and internationally, and is a regular guest teacher at danish theater and physical theater educations.

The Nordic Beasts

Founded in 2017, The Nordic Beasts is a dance theatre group that aims to produce, facilitate and support high quality Nordic dance theatre. A Nordic Beasts production can be characterized by an eye-catching visual style, physically merciless choreography and themes reflecting on the digital age, often served with a hint of absurdity. The group aims to be a dance company that keeps on exploring new ways for making dance theatre and creating platforms, while tackling contemporary topics in an innovative way.

The group is a Nordic cross borders dance theater group that operates under the artistic direction of choreographer Noora Hannula (FI), and it has currently seven collaborative artist members: Julie Rasmussen (NO), Elín Sígny (IS) Sophia Mage (DK/US), Ida Duelund (DK), Helena Wilhelmsson (SE), Belinda Larsen (DK), John P.G. Jónsson (IS), and Loraine Dambermont (BE).

Production Team

Concept, Choreography & Live-Performance / Noora Hannula

4D Box Stage & 3D Technical Support / The Culture Yard

The piece is co-produced by The Culture Yard, Bora Bora, and Click Festival, and supported by Danish Arts Council, Nordic Culture Fund, Koneen Foundation (FI), The Danish Composers' Society and Knud Højgaards Foundation.