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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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Christos Papadopoulos – Ties Unseen

September 26th – 28th, 2024 LIVE STREAMS

Part of NDT 1 Program “Architecture of the Invisible” with revisit of Jiří Kylián’s Vanishing Twin (2008) and Clowns by Hofesh Shechter (2016).

A Minimalist NDT

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Christos Papadopoulos’ new work explores our subtle, everyday social connections, revealing the beauty within the most profound connections that often go unnoticed. Drawing from the unadorned fabric of the human experience, the choreographer illustrates the simplicity of shared moments: the unspoken understanding between friends, silent nods of solidarity among strangers, and the quiet resilience threaded through collective struggles.

A new voice for NDT, the Greek-born choreographer favours a minimalist and precise language of movement. Through small gestures that belie an intense physicality, Papadopoulos has created an ode to the power of invisible forces and transports the audience to a mysterious space in which there is neither beginning nor end.

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Christos Papadopoulos – Ties Unseen

September 26th – October 2nd, 2024 Amare, The Hague
October 4th, 2024 Chassé Theater, Breda
October 8th – 10th, 2024 Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
October 12th, 2024 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
October 23rd – 26th, 2024 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
November 6th – 9th, 2024 Megaron, Athens
November 28th – December 1st, 2024 Amare, The Hague
35 minutes

Part of NDT 1 double-bill or triple-bille program.

A Minimalist NDT

© Nederlands Dans Theater

Christos Papadopoulos’ new work explores our subtle, everyday social connections, revealing the beauty within the most profound connections that often go unnoticed. Drawing from the unadorned fabric of the human experience, the choreographer illustrates the simplicity of shared moments: the unspoken understanding between friends, silent nods of solidarity among strangers, and the quiet resilience threaded through collective struggles.

A new voice for NDT, the Greek-born choreographer favours a minimalist and precise language of movement. Through small gestures that belie an intense physicality, Papadopoulos has created an ode to the power of invisible forces and transports the audience to a mysterious space in which there is neither beginning nor end.

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Sylvain Huc – Sujets

November 22nd, 2024 Cofestival 2024, Ljubljana
60 minutes

A Spellbinding Continuum

© Erik Damiano

Confronted with the rawness of their nature and the uncertainty of their condition, human specimens explore the space they inhabit and the desire that moves them. However abstract, the drawings borne out by their bodies attest to a tangible commitment by these individuals.

They experiment with movements, test their energies, feel themselves being pushed towards each other or into the void, which threatens to push back its limits… Drifting through the space, they suddenly regain their self-confidence to form a new community.

Through the use of nudity, Sylvain Huc explores the issue of writing, achieving the right balance between the organic nature of the choreography and the natural life of the bodies. The acute, supple movement of the performers, the subtlety of the lighting and the obsessive sound all combine to form a spellbinding continuum.

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Javier Martín – Figuras del Umbral

November 14th – 15th, 2024 Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona
70 minutes

Science, Philosophy and Choreography

© Leo López

A piece that invites us to reflect and review the speed of our era, installed in our bodies and fragmenting our attention. Javier Martín invokes the concept of ancestral rituals of “crossing the threshold”, involving the body in a social dance. In the words of the artist: “The famous ‘Guardian of the Threshold’ archetype refers to those figures that take on the forms of our most intimate fears: they guard the threshold, not to deny us entry, but to encourage us to explore the propitious labyrinth that facilitates transformation and, therefore, passage.”

Javier Martín, a choreographer with a scientific background and passion for philosophy, is developing an epistemological and critical research project about the art of movement. He takes a transdisciplinary approach to choreographic creation and dance, drawing on writing, performative conferences, research groups and creative laboratory and tool development. Since starting out in 2005, he has created and showcased more than 30 productions in Spain, France, Russia, Portugal, Ukraine, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala and Uruguay, with fifteen stage shows and an equal number of site-specific projects and special collaborations.

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Farooq Chaudhry – Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight

November 15th – 17th, 2024 Young Theatre, Shanghai
Duration: unknown

When Poetry Meets Dance

© Oliver Hoo

Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight is a compelling dance-theatre production that draws inspiration from the thought-provoking poems of Yu Xiuhua, a female celebrated contemporary Chinese poet. The production brings to life Yu Xiuhua’s reflections and questions on love, beauty, disability, and the societal expectations placed on women.

Conceived and directed by Farooq Chaudhry, Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight, merges the languages of poetry, dance and visual design to explore the dualities and contradictions that inhabit Yu Xiuhua and all of us. The performance raises questions about the role of personal struggles in finding our authenticity. It asks whether stepping out of the shadows and embracing our true selves is the key to finding liberation, or if these shadows hold a deeper meaning? Could these poems, serve as a doorway to an alternate reality where our essence can flourish and our souls can find freedom?

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Maria Clara Villa Lobos – Pedros

November 20th – 23rd, 2024 Théâtre de Liège, Liège
50 minutes

When a Father and His Son Are both Dancers

© Davide Zazzera

Their names are Francis and Antoine Pedros. They are father and son, and both professional dancers. Francis was soloist in the Ballet Royal de Wallonie, which later became Charleroi Danse, Antoine is a dancer and choreographer for his own company.

With this duet, Maria Clara explores the father-son relationship through the language of dance which they have in common, but also through words, memories and anecdotes…

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Benoît Nieto Duran – AILLEURS

October 24th – 26th, 2024 Les Brigittines, Brussels
November 8th, 2024 Centre Culturel de Huy, Huy
50 minutes

The Elsewhere of Oneself

© Mas­si­m­il­iano Arnone

With his first solo, Protéiforme, Benoît Nieto Duran pushed the demanding boundaries of breakdance and hip-hop movements to create a new style.

Today, as part of a duo, he is continuing this exploration by tackling the notion of ‘elsewhere’: the elsewhere of oneself, the elsewhere that is the other. Here we are dealing with the aesthetics of ‘distortion’ that allows us to see the absurdity of our everyday gestures. Starting from the imitation of the dancers, Benoît Nieto Duran creates a new choreography. In his pursuit of a free and ideal language, this creation, straddling depth and dynamism, presents another exploration of movement. Surprising to say the least.

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Pierre Piton – Open/Closed

October 30th, 2024 Fabbrica del Vapore/DiDstudio, Milan
55 minutes

Inside-Out & Outside-In

© Gregory Batardon

Born in 1995, Pierre Piton belongs to a generation that, according to him, is that of an in-between, that of a dystopian utopia. Between anger and fear, the beings of this generation navigate in an impossible future. With Open/Closed, Pierre Piton tries to externalize this duality in order to give the disorder a new strength.

Open/Closed guides the viewer through an intimate research exposing the body ‘inside-out and outside-in’. Imbued with organic sounds, this intimate and conceptual choreographic exploration plays on the ambiguity between intensity and vulnerability of a personal revolution that is as fragile as it is powerful. The boundaries of the self vanish in favor of an experience where the body coincides with that of the other, and is defined in a continuum linking past and future bodies.

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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, Brest
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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