Marie Goeminne explores the composition of two bodies and the use of light and text projections in space. Focussing on physical presence, use of space and detail she shows the beauty of human vulnerability.
Concept Marie Goeminne
Performance Lenneke Bisschop- Maaike van de Westeringh
Text Siska Goeminne
Video Beldan Sezen
Kunikuli
Kunikuli is a duet for the dancers Cristina Leitão and Valentina Campora, based on the power, rhythmical and sharp strength, the direct energy of the choreography and androgyny of the body which don't erase the dynamism of its sensuality.
‘Dancers Cristina Leitão and Valentina Campora, embody in their three short detached fragments, the strong, androgynous woman, with millimetre hair, unisex white tops and jeans.’
– Parool 3 juli 2009, door Bregtje Schudel
A view of the future of contemporary dance in the city
The new festival AmsterdamDance offers talented choreographers the possibility to work with fine dancers of high quality. This year the honour is bestowed upon White Horse and Giulia Mureddu.
Giulia Mureddu has created new work. Intermezzo is a physical study of the desire to make contact with the other, to come closer. Even though the five dancers do their best, there is always the risk of missing each other. Mureddu worked in recent years with companies such as Danswerkplaats Amsterdam, Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel, and for the Oerol festival.
Take note: The time of the premiere on Wednesday 22 September has been brought forward to 20:00 after the release of the season brochure.
Voorstelling gezocht
Wat een ramp! De voorstelling heeft nog geen begin, maar het publiek is er al!
Paniekerig gaan de spelers op zoek naar een verhaal. Hierbij raken ze verdwaald in allerlei onverwachte, niet-geplande verhalen. En wat pas echt verwarrend is: figuren die eigenlijk helemaal niet mee zouden doen, duiken toch ineens op. Zoals die danseres daar. Uit de duisternis kronkelt ze over de vloer naar het licht, als een dier, een en al lichaam...
Choreografie en regie: Gaia Gonnelli en Isabella Steenbergen
Dans en spel: Gaia Gonnelli, Daniel Hayward en Isabella Steenbergen
Muziek en spel: Marc Nukoop
Understudy: Kim van den Bemt
Artistiek advies: Suzy Blok
Repetitor: Viviane Rodriguez de Brito
Lichtontwerp en techniek: Ellen Knops
Kostuums: Dieuweke van Reij
Productie: Carolina Parreira
Video: Beldan Sezen
Urban Soul of Sjahnameh (USOS)
“Darab has a higher aim in mind: to integrate hip hop in the theatre. “Through USOS I want to show that hip hop on its own, is qualitatively good enough to become high art (…)’”
– Parool 23 december 2009, by Bregtje Schudel
‘One by one the dancers show their deepest feelings and desires with their audience, from a budding romance to abuse and respect.
Dansmagazine, 2009 by Joost Groeneboer
What defines your identity? And what's your deepest inner struggle?
These are the central themes of the Sjahnameh, the national epic of Iran. In the Urban Soul of Sjahnameh (USOS) Sheyda Darab combines hip hop with personal stories in her search for identity. It’s a hip hop performance about vulnerability, purity, rawness and emotion.
What happens when it is not allowed to show who you really are? Do you scream or do you show serenity? If you are supposed to be part of the bigger picture, you will conform to society. Where uniformity reigns, individuality perishes. Serenity, the counterpart of USOS.
Concept en choreografie: Sheyda Darab
Dramaturgy: Suzy Blok
Dancers: Joey Lewing, Eddy Vidal, Steve Nestar, Yordana Rodriguez
Light: Roland van Ulden
Production: Maaike Res
Produced by Dansmakers Amsterdam
TISSUES / WEEFSELS
The performers call it tensegrity, the interaction between gravity and tensile forces that constructs a duet of balance and movement. Through physical limitations they aim to investigate this interaction. Together with visual artist Ralf Westerhof they start an artistic dialogue about tensegrity and special audio and their influence on choreography and perception.
The form of movement comes from the fusion of different backgrounds: somatic movement studies, under which tensegrity falls, sculpture and contemporary dance.
Concept Christian Guerematchi, Rafael Zielinski & Ralf Westerhof
Choreography Christian Guerematchi & Rafael Zielinski
Spatial audio Ralf Westerhof
Coach Suzy Blok
Production Carolina Parreira
Light and technique Peter Castelijn
Photo: Wieteke Koolhof
A research project by Dansmakers Amsterdam
THE CRITICAL PIECE
It starts from a basic idea: to try creating dance solely on the base of written dance reviews. Stechmann turns the order around: instead of a review being written as a reaction on existing dance, it will be the dance that is constructed in reaction to an existing review.
Choreography Jochen Stechmann
Performers Sonia Si Ahmed, Amaranta Velarde Gonzalez, Mariangela Tinelli
Coach Suzy Blok
Production Carolina Parreira/ Maaike Res
Light and technique Peter Castelijn / Roland van Ulden
Photo: Jochen Stechmann
IOVIODIO
IOVIODIO points the finger at the incapacity to take risks,
at the lack of courage to fight and to love, to make mistakes, to fail, to be different and
to think different, to live deeply and fully without being paralyzed by "correctness" and "politeness".
Beyond this incapacity there is a whole space of creation. In and with our bodies we invite the audience to take the courage to create alternatives in relationships, in lives and in art.
With all the LOVE we have, come, come to IOVIODIO!
choreography: Gabriella Maiorino - assistant to the choreographer & researcher: Marlene Vilhena -
dancers: Valentina Campora, , Simon Beyer-Pedersen, Or Hakim, Erin Harty, Ásgeir Helgi Magnússon, Fernando Balsera Pita - vocals: Amos Ben-Tal - music: Rodolphe Coster - rehearsal director: Cristina Planas Leitao - advisers: Simone Giacomini
A production by Dansmakers Amsterdam and Danslab, Den Haag and financially supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten.
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