Category: Archive

Categories
Archive

Nastaran Razawi Khorasani – This Is not a Dance

September 13th – 14th, 2024 Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
September 17th, 2024 Theater Kikker, Utrecht
September 20th, 2024 Theater a/h Spui, The Hague
September 27th – 28th, 2024 De Singel, Antwerp
October 4th, 2024 Grand Theatre, Groningen
October 8th – 9th, 2024 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
October 29th – 3oth, 2024 Frascati, Amsterdam
November 4th, 2024 Teater Luwes, Jakarta
60 minutes

About Dance and Censorship

© Bas de Brouwer

This is not a dance forces you to reflect on the foundations of dance, in definition and effect.

Iris Spanbroek

In Iran, dancing has been officially prohibited since the start of the Islamitic Revolution. All dance companies have been forced to cease their activities. Many dancers and choreographers have fled abroad. Those who still live there have to be very resourceful. How are they keeping their art form alive? Theatre maker Nastaran Razawi Khorasani presents the performance This is not a dance a dance performance that deals with censorship. What can be shown, what must remain hidden? As the music and lights build towards a frenzy, Nastaran attempts to keep her dancing body in check.

FIND OUT MORE
Categories
Archive

TAO Dance Theater 2 -The World of Movements

September 3 – October 1, 2024 By Art Matters, Hangzhou
during exhibition opening hours (6 hours/day)

Tao Ye’s First Immersive Dance Project

© TAO Dance Theater

Drawing inspiration from a wildlife documentary series he watched as a child, Tao Ye observes striking parallels between the intricate movements of animals in nature and the vast repertoire of human motion. Co-curated with Fan Xi, The World of Movements – When Body Language Comes Alive showcases for the first time the TAO Dance Theater 2 in the gallery of Renzo Piano-designed contemporary art museum By Art Matters in Hangzhou, China.

The exhibition features more than 20 dancers from diverse backgrounds performing in a setting of everyday furnishings, where they improvise continuously. Visitors can immerse themselves, either passively or actively, creating their own journey that interweaves familiarity with imagination, reconsidering how human bodies form connections.

Categories
Archive

Seeta Platel – The Rite of Spring

September 3rd, 2024 Oriente Occidente Festival, Rovereto
40 minutes

Igor Stravinsky’s iconic ballet score meets Bharatanātyam

© Foteini Christofilopoulou

Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, the most iconic classical ballet score, first staged in Paris in 1913, meets Bharatanātyam, one of India’s best-known traditional classical dances. Seeta Patel, a choreographer of Indian origin based in England and now an associate artist at Sadler’s Wells in London, with her The Rite of Spring offers a bridge between Europe and Asia, a place where prejudices are overcome to leave room for a hymn to life realised by a perfect interweaving of dance and music.

A dialogue with the choreographer is planned at the end of the performance.

The Rite of Spring was nominated in the Best New Dance Production category at the 2024 Laurence Olivier Awards.

FIND OUT MORE
Categories
Archive

Georgina Philp – Pump into the Future Ball

August 30th – 31st, 2024 Dampfgebläsehaus an der Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum
4h with intermissions

An Homage to the Ballroom Scene

The Revolution of Color Ball, Paris, Georgina Philp © Carolin Windel

Georgina Philp, known in the ballroom world as Legendary Trailblazer Mother Leo St. Laurent, invites you to the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum for an unforgettable evening full of glitz and glamour. At the Pump Into The Future Ball, the Ruhrtriennale will celebrate ballroom and its outstanding performers on the runway. A range of houses and participants will show off their talents in front of an international jury and compete with each other in classical ballroom categories to take home one of the coveted trophies. 

Ballroom culture originated in the USA, where it was invented in New York in the 60s/70s by Black and Latinx trans women. Ballroom was introduced to Germany by Mother Leo with a first ball at the Berlin Voguing Out Festival in 2012. That same year she also founded the first local ballroom house, which was known at the time as the House of Melody. 

To coincide with the Pump Into The Future Ball, Georgina Philp will also meet international icons of the ballroom scene for a panel talk about ballroom. In addition to the panel talk, there will also be workshops on voguing and runway given by the ballroom community.

FIND OUT MORE
Categories
Archive

Stefan Kaegi / Sasha Waltz & Guests – Mirror Neurons

August 29th – September 1st, 2024 radialsystem, Berlin
November 23rd – 24th, 2024, Tanz Köln, Cologne
November 28th – December 1st, 2024 Kampnagel, Hamburg
December 13th – 15th, 2024 TEATR ŁAŹNIA NOWA, Kraków
80 minutes

A Documentary Dance Evening with an Audience

© Bernd Uhlig

This piece is an experiment, conducted anew in every performance. It revolves around the human brain and its relationship with the body. The audience is an essential part of the experiment, because its members are invited not only to watch the dancers but also to find their own groove, to participate from their seats as an active part of a collective system, and to feel the sensation of belonging to a vast hive brain.

Spiegelneuronen (Mirror Neurons) marks the first joint project with Sasha Waltz & Guests. Following on from Andrew Schneider’s remains in 2020, this project continues the dance company’s openness to new styles as well as its commitment to broaden its repertory through artistic exploration and interdisciplinary cooperation with international artists. The collectives come from markedly different artistic directions, but are equally interested in the unconventional use of space and in interdisciplinary work. In this first collaboration, Stefan Kaegi will join forces with both the dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests and the audience for an exploration of the relationship between the individual and society, conducted through the medium of dance in front of a large mirror.

FIND OUT MORE