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Ingrid Berger Myhre – Spelling Spectacle

December 17th – 18th, 2024 Kaaitheater, Brussels
December 21st, 2024 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam

65 minutes

A Game of Three Performers

© Tale Hendnes

With each move, they peek into the immediate future, attempting to avoid the pitfalls of individual whims and stringent collectivism. By being loyal to the game rules, they risk steering into walls, hopelessly going in circles, missing their marks. By being loyal to their individual ideas, they risk sabotaging the collective effort. This productive dilemma drives the work forward.

The goal is to build the piece in real-time. Everything becomes material, as movement trajectories are woven thanks to coincidence and careful considerations. And as the map is drawn, the mysteries unfold.

Every next frame is the result of a previous stepping stone. 

Each stone carries the baggage of the ones before. 

In con-sequence, they spell out both the obvious and the magical:

The next step, the next room, the next door- continuously leaving one space to make another appear.

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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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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.