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TAO Dance Theater – 13 & 14

October 12th, 2024 Theater Bonn Opera House, Bonn
October 16th-19th, 2024 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
October 25th-26th, 2024 Teatro Central, Seville
October 30th, 2024 Teatro Ariosto, Reggio Emilia
November 5th-6th, 2024 International Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
November 13th, 2024 Le théâtre de Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Nazaire
November 15th-16th, 2024 Théâtre de Cornouaille, Quimper
November 21st, 2024 Le Quartz, Bres
July 30th, 2025 Civitanova Danza, Civitanova Marche
August 6th, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
75 minutes incl. intermission

Winners of Silver Lion, BIENNALE DANZA 2023

© Duan Ni

TAO Dance Theater is a Chinese dance company based in Beijing. Founded in 2008 by the choreographers Tao Ye, Duan Ni and by the producer Wang Hao, the company has an innovative approach to movement, a body technique known as “Circular Movement System”. At its roots is the idea of pure dance, achieved through the “ritualistic repetition of the body’s natural movements”, invoking the spectators’ capacity to concentrate on the essential nature of the repeated gesture, devoid of any ornament.

TAO Dance Theatre’s choreographic Series of Numbers began in 2008 and has been invited onto the most important stages of the world, from the Lincoln Center Art Festival of New York to Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, as well as the Sydney Opera House and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. Its minimalist aesthetic further codified Tao Ye and Duan Ni’s method, achieving an exasperated repetition that seeks truth in the body.

13 and 14 explore different themes, respectively involving 13 and 14 dancers on stage following the habitual pattern of the series. 13 develops along a three-part scheme, exploring three different ways that bodies relate: in the solo, the duet, the ensemble. Starting from the unity of the ensemble, the choreographer progressively fragments the dancers into different formations between ralenti and sudden accelerations, reflecting the “complexity of the physical world, where one is continuously colliding, coming together and apart, falling and bouncing back” within a choreographic form that is both rigorous and open.

A study of rhythm, 14 relies on rapid changes of movement that bring out the full range of possibilities between stasis and movement. As the result of a complex dynamism, 14 takes the vocabulary of the “Circular Movement System” to the extreme: Points, lines and planes that intersect in space bring the work back to pure movement, deploying the full range of possibilities”.

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Lea Anderson – The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele

October 9th – 31st, 2024 FILM ONLINE
53 minutes

Digital Live Talk with Lea Anderson on October 15th

Dance Based on
the Work of Egon Schiele

© Pau Ros

Many years ago, when leafing through the books in the Arnolfini bookshop, choreographer Lea Anderson discovered the work of Austrian expressionist painter, Egon Schiele. Lea was taken by the possibility of seeing Schiele’s framing of the repeated figures in the reproduction of his sketchbooks, as a system for writing dance. What resulted from this intrigue was a full misconstruction of dances, imagining Schiele as a choreographer whose dances had been lost. 

Originally created in 1998 as a live work, it was remade as a film in 2010 in collaboration with Deborah May of Kinoki and with new music by Steve Blake and Will Saunders. The film has never been publicly aired and will be a world premiere for Dance Umbrella 2024.

Lea Anderson is a celebrated dance choreographer, filmmaker and artistic director. Her iconic dance company The Cholmondeleys is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and its brother company, The Featherstonehaughs is not far behind. Lea makes groundbreaking theatre work and films, was awarded an MBE in 2002 and was given an honorary doctorate of arts from Dartington College of Arts in 2006. 

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Amala Dianor – DUB

October 9th – 12th, 2024 Maison de la Danse, Lyon
November 20th – 21st, 2024 L’Empreinte, Brive-la-Gaillarde
November 24th, 2024 L’Archipel, Perpignan
December 11th – 14th, 2024 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
December 18th, 2024 Le Corum, Montpellier
February 7th, 2025 Le Forum, Fréjus
February 11th – 12th, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
60 minutes

A Melting Pot
of Urban Dance

© Pierre Gondard

In DUB, Amala Dianor explores how today’s globally connected youth has embraced the legacy of hip-hop culture to forge new choreographic identities. After travelling across continents seeking out the underground world of urban dance and delving into social media where movements are reimagined, extended, and exchanged, the iconic Franco-Senegalese artist has brought together talented dancers from diverse geographical backgrounds, each influenced by a plethora of aesthetics and encompassing different styles, from whacking and dancehall to jookin and pantsula. As they adapt their practices and blend their techniques to connect with each other, they create a space that’s even brighter and freer than their individual realms. Awir Leon’s live music and Grégoire Korganow’s evocative design contribute to the immersive, joyous atmosphere.

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nasa4nasa – NO MERCY

October 8th – 9th, 2024 Kaaitheater, Brussels
45 minutes

A Dance Collective from Cairo

© Migliorato

NO MERCY navigates our daily virtual and non-virtual modes of feeling. During this 45-minute DJ set, nasa4nasa explores the limits of sensuality and desire interplaying with violence. The two female bodies navigate the gaze, referencing their repertoires of body image, pop, rage and intimacy. nasa4nasa will lure you in, disarm you and in the process unravel in their own drama.  

nasa4nasa is a dance collective based in Cairo co-founded by dancers Noura Seif Hassanein and Salma AbdelSalam in 2016. Housed primarily on Instagram, the collective’s work explores image-making and online presence as their ongoing dance practice. nasa4nasa’s debut performance SUASH premiered at Next Festival and MDT (2018). They were most recently awarded the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture for their latest work Sham3edan (2023).  

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Parisa Madani – Pariyestan: Tails of Sisters (青蛇+白蛇: 緣起)

October 6th, 2024 ARSENIC, Lausanne
12h

Let’s Dream Together

© Mayra Wallraff

In the upcoming edition of the PARIYESTAN-multiverse – a series of durational collective dream meditations – we will focus on slow, dreamy choreography accompanied by recitations of traditional persian poetry and classical live music, this time specifically around the topics of sisterhood and motherland. sisterhood is embraced in the form of resistance. a gathering of sisters dreaming together in languages they don’t understand. they share artistic expressions freely while creating a monument in time together. through slowness, love and trust, they are powerfully exploring other possibilities of co-existing.

Parisa Madani // PSORIASIS (RIP) aka B1txx3$k?llah*fka the Persian Princis from the Gorgeous House of Gucci and the Iconic Hall of Fame Kiki House of Juicy Couture بھ پاریستان خوش آمدید Pillow Talk say ha name – the story of a long-nailed german-iranian woman of trans* experience with sharp green eyes working with live arts and the communities. In the last four years, the collective has released live and digital art on their website, a mini album (pariyestan on soundcloud). it has also started the multiverse of collective dream meditations through collaborations with international artists and shown in the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and Italy.

Inspired by ancient persian mythologies and spiritualities, the immersive performances create spaces of worship and resistance; especially for those of non-white, neurotypical, queer & trans communities and others who are underserved by traditional and conservative legislations. In the future she might lead a spiritual revolution, tour the world as a secret popstar with big tits and/or meditate inside volcanoes until the end of time.

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CIE CHARA – HIT 7AYT حايط حيث (because of the wall)

October 5th, 2024 Centre Culturel de Namur, Namur
October 11th, 2024 Villa des Arts de Casablanca, Casablanca
60 minutes

Choreography of
Moroccan Daily Life

© Yoriyas

HIT 7AYT حايط حيث (because of the wall) is inspired by the city of Casablanca and its inhabitants, gestures, and choreographies of daily Moroccan life. Four dancers with roots in urban dance transform these movements of daily life into details, intentions and urgencies. They explore the walls in the city as a separation and connection between public and private space, as sites of observation or limits of movement. Memories of family and friend’s gatherings, meetings with friends or strangers are transformed to physical movements and present a bodily vision of a Moroccan society between observation and individuality, tradition and innovation.

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Hiroaki Umeda – assimilating

October 4th-5th, 2024 Le Cube Garge, Garges-lès-Gonesse
October 8th, 2024 Théâtre Hexagone, Meylan
90 minutes (double bill with split flow)

A Behavior Designer

© Hiroaki Umeda

Choreographer, dancer, and visual artist from Tokyo. After studying photography, he broadened his interest in physical expression and independently pursued cross-disciplinary dance art, incorporating visual art and digital expression without the shackles of any specific method. He began presenting works in 2000, and the piece “while going to a condition” received international acclaim. Since then, he has performed as well as created installations focusing on human physical senses in more than 150 cities throughout 40 countries, including France. Also involved in sound, video, and lighting design, Umeda’s work is highly acclaimed in the context of visual art for his methods of combining original movement and digital technology.

His latest solo assimilating expands the concept of dance and treating the human body and its environment as “one nature” in his choreography, with back and forth between the projected images and the artist’s body. Umeda is responsible for the design of movement, sound, and visuals as well as programming.

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Euripides Laskaridis – LAPIS LAZULI

October 1st – 3rd, 2024 Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris
October 22nd & 23rd, 2024 Teatro Stabile Torino, Turin
October 27th, 2024  I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia
December 7th, 2024 Les Écuries, Charleroi
December 11th & 12th, 2024 Théâtre de Liège, Liège
80 minutes

An Unpredictable Performance from Greece

@ Pinelopi Gerasimou

Following the success of RELIC (2015), TITANS (2017), and ELENIT (2019) — which continue to tour globally — Euripides Laskaridis now presents his latest work, LAPIS LAZULI. Inspired by the mesmerizing blue semi-precious stone known for its unpredictable behavior under pressure, Laskaridis crafts an enigmatic world filled with intriguing dualities. The stone’s name, often interpreted as the “Stone from Heaven”, reflects both earthly and celestial origins, sparking Laskaridis’ exploration of contrasts on stage. Paying tribute to the rich diversity of theatrical genres — from amateur to commercial, horror to musical, ancient Greek drama to Kabuki, and beyond — LAPIS LAZULI also celebrates the complexity of the performing arts.

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Damien Jalet × Kohei Nawa – Mirage [transitory]

September 27 – October 6, 2024 THEATER 010, Fukuoka
70 mins

The New Collaboration of Damien Jalet & Kohei Nawa

© Yoshikazu Inoue

In this work, the dancers change their forms from moment to moment, just like the flickering light, the changing weather, or the evolving plants and animals. Through the interaction of these different forms, the boundaries between seemingly opposing concepts, such as life and death, the ancient and the future, as well as harmony and chaos, are explored. Eventually, the stage, where even the boundary between information and matter has become blurred, will become a place of transformation.

Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa aim to depict the unknown landscape that lies beyond.

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Akaji Maro / Eric-Maria Couturier – Alter Ego

September 26th, 2024 Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
November 14th, 2025 Maison de la Musique, Nanterre
40 minutes

When Butoh Legend Meets Bach’s Cello Suites

© Hiroyuki Kawashima

To mark ARTONOV’s tenth anniversary, dancer-choreographer Akaji Maro, a living butoh legend, meets virtuoso cellist Eric-Maria Couturier, soloist with the Ensemble intercontemporain, for an original performance.

Based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites, the butoh dancer and the musician dialogue and improvise, in a radical staging that transcends historical periods, cultural areas and artistic genres.

With a narrative based on the development of a human being, the performance explores with intensity the notions of identity, in all their ambiguity and contradictions.

A powerful and harmonious encounter between two strong, original personalities at the peak of their art.