Based in Arnhem, Netherlands, INTRODANS choreographer Adriaan Luteijn, who has been working on inclusive activities to create dance with people with disabilities and the elderly, and LAND FES artistic director Dai Matsuoka, who has been promoting similar activities in Japan, Dutch and Japanese dancers will collaborate across borders to create a multi-generational integrated dance work called “UNUM.”
Choreographer Lucinda Childs is the queen of minimal dance. She will be 85 years old in 2025, and Introdans is celebrating this with the focus programme ICON, a tribute to the ‘grand old lady’ of American dance. This evening the audience will experience a (time) journey that starts with Interior Drama from 1977, new for the Dutch audience, past the pieces Kilar, Petricor and Concerto that Introdans has danced before, and ends with a world premiere of her latest work: Notes of Longing.
Childs’ movement idiom is absolutely unique: taking an abstract, almost mathematical approach she uses relatively simple ballet and athletic movements to create amazingly complex masterpieces. The bond between Childs and Introdans can also be called unique, there is no company in the world that dances so much of her work. Introdans has a rich oeuvre of existing and new work by Lucinda Childs. With ICON it underlines this special bond.
The choreographies Kilar, Petricor and Concerto are accompanied live in a number of theatres by the National Youth Orchestra led by Jurjen Hempel. Notes of Longing will then also be accompanied live by composer / pianist Matteo Myderwyk.
