Ping pong is not just a sport, it’s a philosophy. The intellectual recipe is a mix of Yin and Yang, Heaven and Hell, Stephen Hawking and Uri Geller, with a dash of Kahlil Gibran and Bruce Lee on top. A time-proven chreography of Jo Strømgren Kompani, an independent continuation of the peculiar symbiosis of sport and dance Jo Strømgren Kompani developed in 1997 with A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football.

This original idea, the first of its kind ever, has been a strange bird in the international dance fauna. With close to 500 shows in 23 countries and still running strong, a number of prizes, and an inmense press coverage, it’s still represents an academic dilemma – is it populistic entertainment or cutting edge contemporary dance?