Programme booklet Moving Meetings Dance 2015 by Dutch Performing Arts

Dutch Performing Arts and The Dutch Dance Festival present

1- 4 October 2015

a showcase programme for professionals

moving meetings dance 1- 4 October 2015 Thursday October 1 6:30 pm

location Brandweerkazerne

Informal opening night of Moving Meetings Dance 2015 with: Word of welcome by Pieter Zeeman and Anja Krans, Dutch Performing Arts Showcase: Cecilia Moisio | L.O.V.E.

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Pitch: Florentina Holzinger | Recovery (video)

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Dinner Talks by Anita van Dolen, (artistic director of Julidans and member of the selection committee Moving Meetings Dance 2015), Merel Heering (dance dramaturge), Erik Kaiel (choreographer), Rainer Hofmann (artistic director SPRING Performing Arts Festival)

Friday 9:15 am

Doors open

9:45 am

opening speech

10:00 am

11:15 am 2

October 2

location AINSI

by Peggy Olislaegers, director Dutch Dance Festival

showcase - block 1

• Jan Martens | Ode to the Attempt • Edan Gorlicki | A little too close • Giulio D’Anna | DATA Break

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11:40 am

12:30 pm 1:45 pm

pitch - block 1

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Dario Tortorelli | D No Body Amos Ben-Tal | OFFline Kalpana Raghuraman | Tightrope Walker Keren Levi | Clubbing

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Lunch

showcase - block 2

• Connor Schumacher | Boy oh Boy 2 • Hilde Elbers & Lea Martini | The Animated • María Peralta | Hip Hop

3:00 pm

Break

3:15 pm

pitch - block 2

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p.18 p.20 p.22

Katja Heitmann | For iTernity p.36 155 | Episch p.37 Marina Mascarell | It is like a large animal deep in sleep (video) p.38 Ryan Djojokarso | Balts p.39

4:00 pm

Break

4:20 pm

showcase - block 3

5:30 pm

Drinks & dinner

7:30 pm

Transport to Central Station Maastricht

9:00 pm

Opening Dutch Dance Festival

• Nicole Beutler/NBprojects | 3: The Garden • Itamar Serussi | Element, A Quartet • Liat Waysbort | Please me Please - The Solo

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Saturday October 3 Programme of the Dutch Dance Festival; full length performances of e.g. Michele Rizzo and Iván Pérez; network meetings and walking dinner at Theater aan het Vrijthof.

Sunday October 4 Programme of the Dutch Dance Festival; full length performances of e.g. Guilherme Miotto and Loïc Perela.

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to welcome you to the third edition of Moving Meetings Dance. It is our great pleasure to have you here in Maastricht and present you the most exciting productions in Dutch dance. Moving Meetings Dance was presented two times before, in 2011 and 2013. This third edition marks the start of a new chapter. From now on, Moving Meetings Dance will be organized yearly. The Dutch Dance Festival, Dutch Performing Arts and Julidans have agreed to join forces in the coming years to internationally promote choreographers and dance companies from the Netherlands. Every other year, during the Dutch Dance Festival, the focus will be on up-and-coming and midcareer makers. Alternating with this, Julidans will present various showcases for mid- and large-sized venues. The Netherlands can without any doubt be called a country of dance. The wealth of dance academies and master courses attracts students from all over the world. These educational programmes guarantee a continual inflow of international dancers and choreographers who develop their work here in the Netherlands. From this broad variety of dance makers, we will present young choreographers who stand out for their individuality, dance language or theatrical idiom at Moving Meetings Dance. They are makers with a strong and clear signature, freshly minted or established, and often already firmly positioned in the European dance scene. During Moving Meetings Dance 2015, you will be presented with a strong selection of excerpts from various Dutch choreographers and companies. In addition to this the Dutch Dance Festival offers you an exciting programme, which also includes various up-and-coming choreographers. Be surprised by Dutch dance, and its exciting choreographers and dancers of the future! We wish you all a wonderful stay and inspiring days in Maastricht. Peggy Olislaegers - Director, Dutch Dance Festival Anja Krans - Programme Manager, Dutch Performing Arts Anita van Dolen - Artistic Director, Julidans 4

Photo: Robert Benschop

Tightrope Walker - Kalpana Raghuraman

Friday October 2

17:00 hr

| pitch

Programme

Foreword

Index

showcases

Cecilia Moisio | L.O.V.E.

Jan Martens | Ode to the Attempt

Edan Gorlicki | A little too close

Giulio D’Anna | DATA

Connor Schumacher | Boy oh Boy 2

Hilde Elbers & Lea Martini | The Animated

María Peralta | Hip Hop

Nicole Beutler/NBprojects | 3: The Garden

Itamar Serussi | Element, A Quartet

Liat Waysbort | Please me Please - The Solo

Friday October 2

17:00 hr

| pitch | also at NDD xxx-theatre, september monday 31th

pitches

Florentina Holzinger | Recovery

Dario Tortorelli | D No Body

Amos Ben-Tal | OFFline

Kalpana Raghuraman | Tightrope Walker

Keren Levi | Clubbing

Katja Heitmann | For iTernity

155 | Episch

Marina Mascarell | It is like a large animal deep in sleep

Ryan Djojokarso | Balts

video

Colophon

Photo: Karel Zwaneveld

Edan Gorlicki - A little too close

‘Moisio has a good eye for strong concepts and supplements this with lots of humour and energy.’ – Theaterkrant

Photo: Sigel Eschkol

‘The faces of the dancers speak volumes when a series of expressions – cleverly acted and staged – race across them in a staccato, nutty fashion.’ – De Volkskrant

Thursday October 1 | showcase

Cecilia Moisio L.O.V.E. Credits Concept, choreography and direction: Cecilia Moisio Performers: Karin Frankel, Jorijn Vriesendorp, Shay Partush, Lorenzo Capodiecci Sales Hit Me Productions - Diana Roos diana@hitmeproductions.com +31-6-48319371 Website www.ceciliamoisio.com Duration 60 min.

In L.O.V.E. the main theme is a boundless, euphoric feeling of happiness and love. Cecilia Moisio not only shows us how we can lose ourselves in the quest for love, but also the extent to which the expectations of society and the media affect our amorous behaviour. L.O.V.E. is introverted and vulnerable as well as confrontational. The feeling of happiness is magnified and glorified, but does too much euphoria and ecstasy eventually lead to its own downfall? ‘L.O.V.E. is an emotional roller-coaster through all the feelings and emotions a person can have. Not only in love but actually just in life. Happiness and loneliness are juxtaposed and I wanted to give a dissection of all the thoughts and inner conflicts a person carries within them. The performance combines text, singing and movement in a specific way that has become my signature.’ – Cecilia Moisio

Choreographer and performer Cecilia Moisio danced for many years with Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel and Ann Van den Broek. Her work is multidisciplinary and she combines her strong dance vocabulary with singing, live music and acting. Moisio won the Dutch Dance Days Award in 2014. 11

‘Workout for the mind, dressed in cheeky humor.’ – New York Times

Photo: Phile Deprez

‘Martens adds expressiveness and meaning to dance by placing signs and gestures on an equal footing with choreography.’ – Theaterkrant

Friday October 2 | 10:00 am | showcase block 1

Jan Martens Ode to the Attempt Credits By and with: Jan Martens Sales Belgium/Netherlands: grip vzw - Klaartje Oerlemans klaartje@janmartens.com International: A Propic - Line Rousseau line@apropic.com Website www.janmartens.com Duration 30 min.

Ode to the Attempt is a collage-like self-portrait laying bare choreographic and other choices. Authenticity, manipulation, coolness, perfectionism, humour and melancholy form the extremes between which Martens moves, wondering whether he is part of the new generation. In this solo, Martens gives insight into his way of working and living. He invites you to have a look into his head and computer. ‘This performance emerged from an urge to go back on stage myself and find out how I could go in extremes in the ‘here and now’. After a few dogmatic attempts, I created a more flexible form and went back to the basics: why do I move, what are the ways that I like to move and to what kinds of music does that have to be?’ – Jan Martens

Jan Martens studied at the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg and at the Artesis Conservatory for Dance in Antwerp. In 2009, he started to develop his own choreographic work. In a short time, his work received critical and popular acclaim, which has resulted in a growing number of shows. Martens was recently awarded the Charlotte Köhler prize. 13

Photo: Karel Zwaneveld

‘One of the most convincing aspects is the way he leads us to evolve from being passive spectators to conscious participants.’ – LandEscape

Friday October 2 | 10:00 am | showcase block 1

Edan Gorlicki A little too close Credits Choreography: Edan Gorlicki Performed by and created with: Mayke van Kruchten & Ilija Surla Performed by (second cast): Zoe Gyssler & Evandro Pedroni Sales edangorlicki@gmail.com +31 6 244 238 36 +49 17 638 787 637 Website www.edangorlicki.com Duration 30 min.

A little too close is the first part of an ongoing study on power and control. This duet takes place inside the line between two sides of a relationship. For better and for worse, there is a layered cycle of patterns in our relationships. We need structure and control for clarity but this can easily become abusive and destructive. There is a fine line between healthy structures and horrifying abuses of power. Can we find this fine line? ‘This performance is a visual experience that takes you on a journey. The performers battle with communication in an endless search for harmony. This work hits home on many levels; from the familiarity of the music and simple composition to conceptual depth and emotional confrontation. Everybody can identify with the performers’ drive to never give up on one another.’ – Edan Gorlicki

Edan Gorlicki is a choreographer and movement researcher. He has worked with the Batsheva Dance Company, Inbal Pinto Dance Theater, NND/Galilidance and Club Guy & Roni. Gorlicki teaches his own movement research LAMA worldwide. His choreographic work has been co-produced in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. 15

‘D’Anna succeeds in making a connection between dry, quantifiable physical data and a person of flesh and blood in a fascinating manner.’ – Dansmagazine

Photo: Ksenija Spanec

‘The epilogue, a frenzied dance that approaches self-torture, is simply terrific.’ – De Volkskrant on O O O O O O O O

Friday October 2 | 10:00 am | showcase block 1

Giulio D’Anna DATA Credits Concept, choreography and performance: Giulio D’Anna Sales Agnese Rosati info@giuliodanna.com Website www.giuliodanna.com Duration 50 min.

DATA is a dance theatre solo that follows the format of a documentary. The man on stage is being investigated as though he were a subject in a zoo. An analytical investigation and the movements of the performer meet, creating a dialogue that transforms meanings. Can the words we use to describe a person capture the invisible, emotional landscape that a body holds? Does ‘data’ have a soul? ‘DATA originates from a desire to work with physiological and anatomical information. Inspired by the short movie The Perfect Human by Jorgen Leth (1967), this piece portrays a person in the same way that an animal or plant is portrayed in a documentary. The collision between an analytical view and an intimate portrayal on stage is the foundation for DATA.’ – Giulio D’Anna

Giulio D’Anna graduated in Choreography from School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam School of Arts. He is interested in the fusion of different theatre languages with ‘dramatic bodies’. He has won several prizes such as the Dioraphte Dance Prize (2012), the Danza&Danza Prize (2013) and the Dutch Dance Festival Award (2013). 17

‘Beautifully strange, full of mystery and sacredness.’ – unfauteuilpourlorchestre.com on Boy oh Boy 2

Photo: Studio Rios Zertuche

‘An experience that stays with you.’ – Theaterkrant on Boy oh Boy 1

Friday October 2 | 1:45 pm | showcase block 2

Connor Schumacher Boy oh Boy 2 Credits Created and performed by: Connor Schumacher Sales Johan Cuperus johan@dansateliers.com +31 10 436 9937 Website www.connorschumacher.com Duration 35 min.

‘God’s first creature, which was light.’

– Sir Francis Bacon

Boy oh Boy 2: God’s First Creature is a journey through the inner self, interpreting the subconscious through a play of light and imagery. Connor Schumacher starts by showing an empty room. Soon enough he builds an entire playing field using raw theatre equipment and cables. From this point on, what seemed to be a light-hearted, transparent theatre performance quickly evolves into a deep trip down the rabbit hole of the subconscious and the imaginary. ‘Boy oh Boy 1 was a short autobiographical piece where I explored specific memories of my youth, and how they had been affected by ideology. Boy oh Boy 2 is more intuitive and abstract. I took inspiration from Butoh theatre, which finds beauty in the darker aspects of life. The focus on this piece resides in a universal search for identity, stripped from ideology and ego.’ – Connor Schumacher

Connor Schumacher comes from conservative, religious, home-schooled America. He received his BFA in 2010 from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase in New York. In 2012 he began creating his own work, where he analyses ideology, and how opposing extremes always seem to have similar outcomes. Schumacher finds this in identity, dogmatic belief, and in vulnerability. He is currently an artist in residence at Dansateliers, Rotterdam. 19

Photo: Anna van Kooij

Friday October 2 | 1.45 pm | showcase block 2

Hilde Elbers & Lea Martini The Animated Credits Choreography, dance: Hilde Elbers, Lea Martini Sales Heleen Volman heleen@dansbrabant.nl Hilde Elbers elbershilde@gmail.com Website www.hildeelbers.nl www.dansbrabant.nl Duration 30 min.

The Animated is an exhausting marathon for two female bodies absorbed by movement. Movements are not an option, but a command: they are there to be danced. Not a neat way of dancing, but dedicated, raw and assailable. The dancers are driven by a quest for complete surrender and conversion. Are they playful kids, lascivious queens or minions? The Animated is a duet that deals with our perception of time by investigating the relation between body and film. ‘Both of us have a big desire to work with extreme physicalities: to endure, to do things for a very long time, to put ourselves in defined, challenging situations. We share an interest in the manipulation of time and perception. We want to find out if all of us – dancers and audience – can arrive at a state that alters.’ – Hilde Elbers & Lea Martini

Hilde Elbers and Lea Martini came together because of their interest in extreme physicalities and the multifariousness of surrendering. The Animated is their first piece as a duo. Elbers, based in Amsterdam, works as a choreographer, dance teacher and dancer. Martini, based in Berlin, is part of the performance collectives Deter/Müller/Martini and White Horse. 21

Photo: Nellie de Boer

Friday October 2 | 1:45 pm | showcase block 2

María Peralta Hip Hop Credits Dance: María Peralta Sales Stephanie Lühn productie@hetveemtheater.nl Website mariaperaltagonzalez. wordpress.com Duration 30 min.

A white watch around a girl’s wrist marks the time in a steady series of bleeps. It gives the illusion that time is passing in a linear way, while her movements create a time removed of all parameters; stretched out, infinite. In Hip Hop, María Peralta experiments with dislocation and disorientation of the movements of body and space. Up is the same as down, left the same as right, front the same as back. Her movements become room, the room is her body. Everything is one. ‘Hip Hop is a movement research project developed from daily studio practice. The basic techniques of hip hop have been extended to include not only the movements of the body but the invisible movement of perception, attention and thought. This is a dance research/experiment that approaches movement beyond narration, representation or rational thought.’ – María Peralta

María Peralta is a choreographer and performer from Venezuela. She studied dance at the National University of Arts in Caracas (UNEARTE). In 2014, Peralta finished her choreography studies at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam School of the Arts. Hip Hop, her graduation piece, was nominated for the ITS Choreography Award 2014. 23

Photo: Anja Beutler

‘An original and bizarre idiom of images and movement that is worked out in every detail in a highly musical way.’ – De Volkskrant

Friday October 2 | 4:20 pm | showcase block 3

Nicole Beutler | NBprojects 3: The Garden Credits Choreography: Nicole Beutler Created and performed by: Hillary Blake Firestone, Marjolein Vogels, Giulio d’Anna, Niels Kuiters, Hendrik Willekens, Javier Ollero Sales marten@nbprojects.nl Website www.nbprojects.nl Duration 60 min.

Dutch Dance Festival: Nicole Beutler - 3: The Garden Sunday October 4 at 3 pm

People have wanted to go back to nature throughout the ages. Nature stands for purity, authenticity, no restraints. Culture, everything that man touches, is civilized, orderly and thought out. With 3: The Garden, choreographer Nicole Beutler investigates these truisms. In her Garden of Eden, acrobatic dancers form perfect symmetrical figures, like hallucinogenic pebbles in a kaleidoscope. Propelled by music, this controlled beauty falls apart and man becomes the stoker of a furious chaos. ‘I took my inspiration from today’s zeitgeist and older sources that assigned a special status to nature: the pre-Socratic nature philosophers, the spirit of the Romantic age, and an early 20th century artist community in Switzerland called Monte Verità. I also used the theory of evolution to play around with the biblical story of creation and was influenced by the exuberant painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.’ – Nicole Beutler

Nicole Beutler is a choreographer and theatre maker. After studying visual art, she studied Choreography at School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam School of Arts. Her work, which takes place on the interface of visual arts, theatre and dance, always relates to the world, is composed in a musical way and is full of subtle humour. 25

Photo: Luis Rios Zertuche

Friday October 2 | 4:20 pm | showcase block 3

Itamar Serussi Element, A Quartet Credits Choreography: Itamar Serussi Dancers: Luca Cacitti, Genevieve Osbourne, Shay Partush, Milena Twiehaus Sales iserussi@me.com Website www.itamarserussi.org Duration 80 min.

Element, A Quartet is a piece for two male and two female dancers. Apart from the physical and technical aspects, the main objective is to add dramaturgical depth to what is happening on stage. Itamar Serussi wants to tell about the relationships and interactions between individuals, which are often based on his personal experiences. ‘With this work I took the freedom to start creating without a commission. I jumped back in time a little, to work with dancers for whom and with whom I had made various pieces in the past. This work may have been created in the most stretched out and slowest fashion I have experienced yet, leaving the time and space to let chorographical ideas and material reappear and be remodelled.’ – Itamar Serussi

Itamar Serussi started dancing in 1998 with the Batsheva Dance Company. Since 2006, he has been developing his own personal style. Serussi was in-house choreographer for Danshuis Station Zuid. His work Mono was nominated for a ‘Best Dance Production 2011/2012’ Swan Award at the Dutch Dance Festival. Since 2014, Serussi is in-house choreographer for Scapino Ballet. 27

Photo: Rob Hogeslag

‘In Waysbort’s brilliant body language all dancers develop very individual variations’ – Tanzweb Köln on What’s Left

Friday October 2 | 4:20 pm | showcase block 3

Liat Waysbort Please me Please - The Solo Credits Choreographer: Liat Waysbort Performer: Ivan Ugrin Sales Hit Me Productions hedi@hitmeproductions.com diana@hitmeproductions.com Website www.liatwaysbort.com Duration 30 min.

Please me Please - The Solo is about audience satisfaction and the wish to please. Ivan Ugrin represents the perfect male dancer: young and energetic, gifted and seductive. He turns all his charms on the audience in order to please and seduce them. What happens when this image is ruptured? Slowly, Ugrin transforms from an object of desire to the one who desires. This solo challenges our wish to please and be pleased, in dance and in society.

Dutch Dance Festival: Liat Waysbort Please me Please - The Duet Sunday October 4 at 1 pm

Liat Waysbort began her dance career in Tel-Aviv, where she danced with the Batsheva Dance Company for nine years. Waysbort completed her studies in the Netherlands at Codarts, where she graduated with a Master’s in Choreography in 2006. She continued working in Dansateliers, and in 2015 started her own company, Bitter Sweet Dance.

‘The production arose from a need to portray our collective urge to please. We always strive for a certain appreciation in terms of everything we do and experience. The piece is inspired by our vulnerability to wanting to be accepted by everyone in accordance with the standards and values that are set by society.’ – Liat Waysbort

Thursday October 1 | pitch

Photo: Anna van Kooij

Florentina Holzinger Recovery

Credits concept & performance: Florentina Holzinger performance: Btissame Amadour, Clara Saito, Eva Susova, Lenneke Vos & guests Sales stephanie.luehn@gmail.com LotteHeeman@frascatitheater.nl Website floholzinger.wordpress.com Duration 90 min.

It all started with Florentina’s accident during a performance of Silk in Norway, when she crashed three metres to the ground. The work Recovery is the product of a lengthy recovery period. Raising questions about coping with trauma, a fresh start and female support, Recovery revolves around struggle as a process of healing and the stage as an arena. The performance emerges from the conviction that the only art worth making is art that can heal. ‘Recovery is a raw, theatrical pileup of events that includes a memorial ceremony, a rap, kitschy dance routines, a speech, a live kick boxing match and a classical ballerina. With the aim of spiritually and physically transforming myself into a warrior, I go on stage and into the boxing ring every night in order to face the Art World, Fear and Trauma.’ – Florentina Holzinger Florentina Holzinger studied architecture in Vienna, after which she graduated in Choreography from School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam School of Arts. Holzinger received a Dansweb Europe scholarship (2008 & 2010) from ImPulsTanz, and the Prix Jardin d’ Europe 2012 for her performance Silk. Together with Vincent Riebeek, she made Kein Applaus für Scheiße, Spirit and Wellness. 31

Friday October 2 | 11:40 am | pitch block 1

Dario Tortorelli

Photo: Daniella de Haan

D No Body

Credits Artist: Dario Tortorelli Sales Jannita Jáuregui +31 6 467 41919 Website www.dariotortorelli.com Duration 50 min.

D No Body is a pitch by the artist Dario Tortorelli about his transformation into the character/alter ego Romeo Heart. Physical and visual changes form the starting point of an introspective study on identity. Tortorelli has been developing the character in an evolutionary manner in an effort to make it stronger in a continual search for immortality. D No Body is an introduction to the world of Romeo Heart. ‘The Heart character came into being in 2009. He became an alter ego that directly and indirectly has been a main character in all of my projects and research. He represents our search for immortality. What sort of things do we do in order to become our ideal selves? Can we become that person and what consequences does this have?‘ – Dario Tortorelli

Dutch Dance Festival: Dario Tortorelli - Distinguished Dreams #2 | Saturday October 3 at 10 am, 12 am, 2 pm, 4 pm & Sunday October 4 at 1 pm, 3 pm

Choreographer Dario Tortorelli has created strongly visual work since 2009 under the name DIVEinD. Tortorelli previously danced in Conny Janssen Danst, among others, and was dancer for Ann Van den Broek. In 2014, he created HARY +++++ for Dutch Dance Festival as part of the (OLD)Fashion(ed) programme.

Friday October 2 | 11:40 am | pitch block 1

Photo: Klaus Dilger

Amos Ben-Tal | OFFprojects OFFline

Credits Choreography, music and light concept: Amos Ben-Tal Music: Amos Ben-Tal, Dyzack (live) Dance: Milena Twiehaus, Aurélie Cayla, Amos Ben-Tal Sales amos@off-projects.com +31 6 110 45949 Website www.off-projects.com Duration 90 min incl. installations

We live in hectic times. Digital transactions often take the place of personal interactions. The artist collective OFFprojects offer an antidote. OFFprojects take us OFFline. OFFline is an event where the group, led by choreographer and composer Amos Ben-Tal, invites us to activate our senses and perception through interactive installations, to witness how a choreography comes to life in real-time and even to ask questions that affect the path of the performance.

Dutch Dance Festival: Amos Ben-Tal - Distinguished Dreams #2 | Saturday October 3 at 10 am, 12 am, 2 pm, 4 pm & Sunday October 4 at 1 pm, 3 pm

OFFprojects is a group of former dancers from the world-renowned companies Nederlands Dans Theater and Batsheva Ensemble. The collective creates exciting multi-disciplinary productions and events and has already presented its works all across the Netherlands as well as in France, England, Czech Republic and Germany.

‘OFFline is more of a small event than a regular performance. It’s inviting people to let their guard down and feel like they are sharing the performance with the artists, not just sitting in front of them. However the show constantly plays on the fine line between casual and magical, so the spectator is always kept on the edge of their seat.’ – Amos Ben-Tal

Friday October 2 | 11:40 am | pitch block 1

Kalpana Raghuraman

Photo: James Rowbotham

Tightrope Walker

Credits Concept & choreography: Kalpana Raghuraman Dance: Sooraj Subramaniam Sales kalpanarts@gmail.com Website www.kalpanarts.com Duration 37 min.

The tightrope walker is a strong metaphor when it comes to growing up in a culture of shame. You must find a balance between what you want, what you want to be, and what is expected of you. There is always the judging gaze of others, you could lose face, and your honour is at stake. Tightrope Walker is a solo by choreographer Kalpana Raghuraman about breaking out of this culture.

Dutch Dance Festival: Kalpana Raghuraman Distinguished Dreams #2 | Saturday October 3 at 10 am, 12 am, 2 pm, 4 pm & Sunday October 4 at 1 pm, 3 pm

Kalpana Raghuraman is a choreographer who creates contemporary work inspired by Indian dance forms. She uses her in-depth knowledge to pry classical Indian dance forms away from their conventions and connect them with contemporary dance, creating a style that is personal and unique.

‘I have always been amazed at how people are imprisoned by shame and self-judgement. As a child, I was often told while I was in India: ‘Don’t do that! What will the neighbours think?’ In this personal solo, there are references to Indian dance which I have connected with the theme in a contemporary manner.’ – Kalpana Raghuraman

Friday October 2 | 11:40 am | pitch block 1

Keren Levi

Photo: Anna van Kooij

Clubbing

Credits By: Keren Levi, Tom Parkinson Dance: Hillary Blake Firestone, Mari Matre Larsen, Alma Lindenhovius, Yui Nakagami, Outi Markkula, Rita Vilhena Sales Jette Schneider jette@kerenlevi.com Website www.kerenlevi.com Duration 75 min.

An invitation to listen to movement, Clubbing is a collaboration between choreographer Keren Levi and composer Tom Parkinson. The gap between music and dance collapses as the entire space becomes an instrument and all movement compositional. The six female performers create a world in which speech becomes music, notes become language, weapons become instruments. Clubbing is an organism at work, as predictable and chaotic as the human body itself. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Clubbing is a live happening with a cinematic quality. Halfway between choreography and composition, the whole is an arrangement for the motion of sound and the sound of motion. In constant transformation, Clubbing resonates in relation to the acoustics of the space and the audience, who are invited to watch with their ears and listen with their eyes.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Keren Levi Keren Levi is known for performances such as Territory (2004, BNG Award), about identity and framing, and The Dry Piece (2013, Dioraphte Award), a video dance performance about beauty and femininity. She aims to remove surplus and decoration from her work and to develop choreographies based on strict yet playful conceptual guidelines. 35

Friday October 2 | 3:15 pm | pitch block 2

Photo: Jos van der Schaaf

Katja Heitmann For iTernity

Credits Concept & choreography: Katja Heitmann Concept & music: Sander van der Schaaf Performance: Celine Werkhoven Sales sander@vanderschaaf.nl +31 6 397 19181 Website www.katjaheitmann.com Duration 25 min. incl. installation

Have we reached the unreachable? We copy-paste ourselves into countless digital clones. We are – in the virtual domain – immortal and forever young. For iTernity is an installation of four beamers that project into eternity. The only bodies in the performance-space are those of the audience. The eternally dying swan is always there and omnipresent, but you need – like in virtual reality – a screen to make her visible. ‘I started with the question of whether I could make a performance completely out of Internet sources, which just like virtual reality are supposedly “everywhere’’ and “everlasting”. On YouTube, I found many versions of the ballet solo The Dying Swan. My version, For iTernity, became a requiem for an eternally dying swan.’ – Katja Heitmann

Katja Heitmann graduated with a BA in Choreography from Fontys Dance Academy in 2012. Heitmann looks at the world from a choreographic point of view and translates her findings into unconventional productions in which she defines and shapes movement in an authentic way. 36

Friday October 2 | 3:15 pm | pitch block 2

155

Photo: Marjolijn van Dijk

Episch

Credits Made by: Erik & Thomas Bos (dancers, choreography & video), Marjan Barlage (final direction & coaching), Wouter Vrijlandt (dancer & costumes), Jakob Witte (dancer & stage design), Rein Luuring (dancer & video), Liam McCall (dancer), Haico van Dijk (dancer), Joey Schrauwen (dancer) Sales mail@tvbtheaterproducties.nl Website www.eenvijfvijf.nl Duration 55 min.

Not giving a shit about being tired, drenched in your own sweat, not being able to breathe because of the smoke or find your way because you are blinded by the stroboscope. As long as it’s epic, more epic than your last production. More epic than reality, than all of last year’s films, than what other dance companies have made. As long as you blow away the audience, cause if there’s silence people will only start to think… Much too much is never enough. ‘Now that we are 155 (onefivefive) we’re adding a little extra. We’re growing up while also staying nice and childish. In our new production Episch, we can’t always hide behind the group anymore and have to reveal our individual vulnerabilities.’ – 155

Emerging from the breakdance collective iLL Skill Squad, 155 (onefivefive) is a group of creative crazies brought together by a passion for movement forms, music, emotion, art and theatre. 155 is a company with an objective: reaching as many people as possible through quirky art. The production 155 received the first André Gingras Award. 37

Friday October 2 | 3:15 pm | pitch block 2

Marina Mascarell

Photo: Robert Benschop

It is like a large animal deep in sleep

Credits Director: Marina Mascarell Performers: James O’Hara, David Essing, Yu-Fen Huang Sales Patrick Marin patrick@steppinggrounds.com Website www.marinamascarell.com Duration 65 min.

An analysis of the state of humanity in the modern world by focusing on the things that men and women can do. A discussion of the individual and the collective, starting from essential activities like eating, drinking, dressing, sleeping... and moving on to even more transcendental things such as the ability to be free. It is like a large animal deep in sleep is an attempt to understand where contemporaneity is heading. ‘The composer Yamila Rios and I met in The Hague at meetings organized as a response to the social movement that erupted in Spain in May 2011 in protest against austerity and the political situation. With that collective experience behind us, we decided to make this piece that combines text, movement, sound and scenography as equal elements.’ – Marina Mascarell

Marina Mascarell has danced with Nederlands Dans Theater II, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Nederlands Dans Theater I. She studied Pedagogy applied to Dance at the Rey Juan Carlos University, where Mascarell also later received her Master’s degree in Performing Arts. 38

Friday October 2 | 3:15 am | pitch block 2

Ryan Djojokarso

Photo: Costin Radu

Balts

Credits Choreography & concept: Ryan Djojokarso, Bram Jansen Dancers: Mayke van Kruchten & Ryan Djojokarso Sales djojokarso@gmail.com Website www.djojokarso.com Duration 20 min.

In Balts, the dancers depict various elements of the mating ritual of an undiscovered species in a duet. A dialogue in which the partners’ body movements seek the same rhythm. It’s about whether they can cooperate with each other. If they can, they will soon mate. But who is impressing whom? Who is mirroring whom? Who is actually synchronizing the dancing? And who is mating with whom now? ‘The duet resembles a scene from a nature documentary in which you witness the mating ritual of an undiscovered species. Once the strange birds notice the audience, the spectators also become part of the mating ritual.’ – Ryan Djojokarso

Ryan Djojokarso studied dance at Codarts. After graduating, he worked with an extensive range of choreographers. Since 2012, Djojokarso has worked as a choreographer. Balts was awarded the Critics Prize in Hanover, the Best Dancer Award in Copenhagen for Mayke van Kruchten’s performance, and the first Berner Tanzpreise. 39

A preview of the work of five selected up-and-coming choreographers performing at the Dutch Dance Festival. Their full-length performances can be seen at the festival.

Loïc Perela | SENSES SENSES is an attempt to embrace the human senses as elements that bind us human beings. In this fast and rapidly changing world in which agendas dictate our lives, we seem to keep longing for more without really knowing why. Sales: Christina Giannelia, info@loicperela.com Dutch Dance Festival: Friday October 2 at 11.15 pm

Tabea Martin | Field The central questions in Field are how to be together, how to bond and how to love. Three dancers throw themselves onto the empty dance floor and onto each other in a tragi-comedy. Sales: Kilim Production - Cécile Brissier, kilim.prod@gmail.com Dutch Dance Festival: Saturday October 3 at 0.30 am

Michele Rizzo | Higher From an immense silence, light and sound build up to a hypnotic club atmosphere. Three dancers gradually become visible, letting themselves be seen with increasing energy. The dancers remain in their own world but are bound to the music and our watching eyes. Sales: Marieke van Bueren, mariekevanbueren@ickamsterdam.nl Dutch Dance Festival: Saturday October 3 at 9 pm

Guilherme Miotto | Rise Up In a shadowy in-between world, time propels the dancer forward and every impulse is visible in a constant search for balance. Gravity increasingly gains a better grip on the moving body, but surrender is not an option. Sales: Stacz Wilhelm, stacz@korzo.nl Dutch Dance Festival: Sunday October 4 at 11.30 am

Iván Pérez | Exhausting Space In a mix of embracing, catching and pushing, Iván Pérez carries you along in a stream of solid but careful movements. The tireless, driven dancers in Exhausting Space are masterful and fragile, commanding and compliant. Sales: Stacz Wilhelm, stacz@korzo.nl Dutch Dance Festival: Saturday October 3 at 1.30 pm 41

colophon Organisation Anja Krans, programme manager for Dutch Performing Arts, an organisation that promotes Dutch music, theatre and dance on the international stage. Dutch Performing Arts is powered by the Performing Arts Fund NL. Peggy Olislaegers, director of the Dutch Dance Festival (De Nederlandse Dansdagen), the festival that offers state-of-the-art Dutch dance each year in October in Maastricht. Anita van Dolen, dance programmer for Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam and artistic director of Julidans, the international festival for contemporary dance presented in Amsterdam by the Stadsschouwburg. Locations Moving Meetings Dance 2015 • AINSI: Lage Kanaaldijk 112-113, 6212 NA Maastricht • Brandweerkazerne: Capucijnenstraat 21, 6211 RN Maastricht • Theater aan het Vrijthof: Vrijthof 47, 6211 LE Maastricht Questions? Heske van den Ende, project manager Moving Meetings Dance 2015: heske@nederlandsedansdagen.nl | +31 (0)6 57 88 13 87 Selection committee Moving Meetings Dance On the committee that selected the line-up of Moving Meetings Dance 2015 were Anita van Dolen (Julidans), Peggy Olislaegers (Dutch Dance Festival) and Jasper Weck (Theater De Veste). Thanks to: Lex Bohlmeijer, Merel Van de Gehuchte, Anne Marleen de Jong, Project Sally, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Marijcke Voorsluijs Coordination programme booklet: Karin van de Wiel & Charlotte Huiskamp | StudioKVDW Graphic Design: www.taluut.nl Cover photo: Ksenija Spanec

see you next year!

Julidans, July 2016, Amsterdam