Tag: Heerlen

Jan Martens – THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 2.0

Post author By hahparis
Post date July 10, 2025

September 17th – 19th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
September 24th – 25th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
October 12th, 2025 Festival Aperto, Reggio Emilia
October 23rd – 24th, 2025 SPAF, Seoul
November 7th – 9th, 2025 National Theater NPAC-NTCH, Taipei
November 20th – 21st, 2025 La Comédie, Valence
November 26th – 27th, 2025 La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand
December 2nd, 2025 Les Salins, Martigues
December 12th – 13th, 2025 TANDEM, Douai
January 13th, 2026 Schouwburg Concertzaal, Tilburg
January 20th, 2026 Parkstad Limburg Theaters, Heerlen
January 21st, 2026 Theater de Veste, Delft
January 31st, 2026 Grand Theatre, Groningen
February 3rd – 4th, 2026 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
February 11th – 12th, 2026 KLAP, Marseille
April 2nd – 3rd, 2026 ITA, Amsterdam
April 21st, 2026 centre culturel, Hasselt
April 22nd, 2026 centre culturel, Sint-Niklaas
April 24th – 25th, 2026 De Singel, Antwerp
May 5th – 7th, 2026 STUK, Leuven

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The Dog Days Are Back

Thanks to its radical choreographic form, THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER revealed the audience’s perception of dancers, choreographers, spectators and the cultural policy at the time. Ten years on, these questions are still very much relevant due to current political and social trends: Where does the thin line between art and entertainment lie? Who are we as an audience when we contemplate the suffering of dancers from the theatre like a bullfight in an arena? Is contemporary dance striptease for the elite? THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER makes the viewer shift in his position: from being merely subjected to the experience to actively reflecting on it.

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Tags Tilburg, Valence, Martigues, Seoul, Leuven, Clermont-Ferrand, Ghent, Heerlen, Sint-Niklaas, Delft, Hasselt, Taipei, Lyon, Reggio Emilia, Jan Martens, Douai, Marseille, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Groningen, Rotterdam

Benelux

TAO Dance Theater – 16 & 17

Post author By hahparis
Post date May 17, 2025

July 25th – 26th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
August 9th, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
October 12th – 13th, 2025 Dialog Festival, Wrocław
October 16th – 17th, 2025 SPAF, Seoul
March 4th, 2026 Amare, The Hague
March 7th, 2026 International Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
March 10th, 2026 schrit_tmacher Festival, Heerlen
March 14th, 2026 Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht
March 17th, 2026 SPOT Groningen, Groningen

70 minutes

The Latest Chapters of Numerical Series

This double bill from the TAO Dance Theater’s Numerical Series begins with a celebration of the dragon, a bringer of good look in China. Inspired by the Chinese dragon dance Loong, sixteen black-clad dancers from Beijing swirl through colourful light in the first piece, 16. And the seventeen bodies in 17, wearing black and white, activate their voices along with their movements, thereby turning themselves into a “mobile sound system”. With his minimalist yet virtuoso dance style, choreographer Tao Ye has found a path between tradition and futurism that brings the body and the mind into harmony.

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.

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Tags Wrocław, Venice, Seoul, Heerlen, TAO Dance Theater, Vienna, Amsterdam, Groningen, The Hague, Utrecht

Crystal Pite & Simon McBurney – Figures in Extinction for NDT

Post author By hahparis
Post date January 20, 2025

February 19th – 22nd, 2025 Aviva Studios, Manchester
February 26th – March 1st, 2025, Amare, The Hague
March 6th – 7th, 2025 Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht
March 11th – 12th, 2025 Parkstad Limburg Theaters, Heerlen
March 15th – 16th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
March 19th, 2025 Parktheater, Eindhoven
March 26th – 29th, 2025 Internationaal Theater, Amsterdam
April 8th – 11th, 2025 Tanssin Talo, Helsinki
June 18th – 20th, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
June 25th – 27th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
July 4th – 6th, 2025 Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin
August 22nd – 24th, 2025 Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh
October 22nd – 30th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris

approx. 150 minutes

THE Urgent Dance Trilogy

Pite and McBurney were transfixed when they saw each other’s work. But it was the ecological theme with which they found common cause. “Straight away we decided we wanted to make something centred on the climate crisis,” says Pite. “Which is not,” stresses McBurney, “separable from human crisis. We are all inescapably part of this living world.”
Sanjoy Roy (The Guardian)

We are living in an age of extinction. Can we ever hope to give a name to what we are losing? What does it mean to bear witness to a violence in which we are both perpetrator and victim?

Across continents, choreographer Crystal Pite and Complicité Artistic Director Simon McBurney have exchanged ideas reflecting on their fears and cautious hopes for our age. Their process has drawn on a rich and surprising array of source materials: from the sound of ice caps melting to the clarion calls of climate change deniers, from scholastic lectures on the neuroscience of the brain to the cacophonous clatter of Instagram influencers.

Over a span of four years, the two world-renowned artists have created three works together for NDT 1, each developed in response to the last. Figures in Extinction [1.0] confronts us with everything that is dying on our planet, while [2.0] is a searing examination of our need for connection in a separated world. The third and final work will continue this cross-disciplinary exchange, making its world premiere in the UK in February 2025, and will offer a spark in the darkness as to where we – collectively, spiritually, and imaginatively – might go next.

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Tags Montpellier Danse, Simon McBurney, Manchester, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Crystal Pite, Heerlen, Montpellier, Luxembourg, NDT, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht

Chunky Move – 4/4

Post author By hahparis
Post date November 12, 2024

November 15th – 16th, 2024 Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels
November 22nd – 24th, 2024 Dansens Hus, Olso
December 3rd, 2024 PLT Theater, Heerlen
December 6th – 7th, 2024 Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto
December 10th – 11th, 2024 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
60 minutes

A Uniquely Australian Performance

4/4 is Chunky Move’s blueprint for choreographic precision, physical endurance, minimalist design and rugged street aesthetics.

Eight dancers perform a stark symphony of mesmerising movement against the backdrop of minimalist design. As episode after episode builds upon the last, quartets and duets converge and diverge in ever more hypnotic configurations.

Described by audiences as meticulous, mesmerising and exhilarating, and collecting 5- and 4-star reviews and a Green Room award and nomination, 4/4 is a stunning and unrelenting display of Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton’s distinctive choreographic language and methodology.

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Tags Chunky Move, Oslo, Porto, Heerlen, Luxembourg, Brussels