November 6th, 2024 Theater De Veste, Delft November 8th, 2024 Stadsschouwburg Haarlem, Haarlem November 9th, 2024 Korzo, The Hague November 10th, 2024 Lux, Nijmegen November 11th, 2024 Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam 60 minutes
A powerful dance creation that prompts questions about new social hierarchies and interpersonal relationships in the virtual world.
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In We, Us and Other Games, Jocić reflects on the ongoing digitalization of the human experience. A father searches for his daughter in a digital world called “The Living Project”, gradually losing his grip on reality. The performance, presented by an ensemble of eight dancers from the renowned Spellbound Contemporary Ballet of Rome, takes you on a hallucinatory odyssey through the digital subconscious, encountering androgynous insect armies, secret societies, masked parties, and a choir of children performing an ominous ritual dance.
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.
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.
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
TAO Dance Theateris 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. 13develops 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, 14relies on rapid changes of movement that bring out the full range of possibilities between stasis and movement. As the result of a complex dynamism, 14takes 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”.
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
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.
