Programme booklet Moving Meetings Dance 2016 by Dutch Performing Arts

Dutch Performing Arts and Julidans present 7-9 July 2016

a showcase programme for professionals

Friday October 2

17:00 hr

Programme

Preface

| pitch

July 7 9

Nicole Beutler | 2: Dialogue wit Lucinda - Interior Drama

July 8

Alida Dors | Built for it

Boukje Schweigman | Kaleidoscope Schweigman&

Cecilia Moisio | Facets

Connor Schumacher | The Fool

Fernando Belfiore | D3US/x\M4CHIN4

Jasper van Luijk | The Definition of Now

Jija Sohn | Geisha’s Miracle

Katja Heitmann | Homo Avatar

Sabine Molenaar | That’s it

Samir Calixto | M

Double Bill: Itamar Serussi | TEFER

Double Bill: Keren Levi | The Dry Piece XL

Friday October 2

17:00 hr

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

July 9 25

Florentina Holzinger

Julian Hetzel | The Automated Sniper

Noha Ramadan | Los Angeles

Ola Maciejewska | LOIE FULLER

Oneka von Schrader | Panda Express

Orion Maxted | [THE MACHINE] and HUMAN SIMULATION

Rodrigo Sobarzo | Prins of Ne†works

Schwalbe | Schwalbe performs a time

Wild Vlees: Tamar Blom & Francesca Lazzeri | When everything is human, the human is an entirely different thing

Julidans

Notes

Colophon

moving meetings dance 7-9 July 2016 Thursday, July 7 Location Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam 5:00 -7:30 pm

Opening and registration (obligated) Moving Meetings Dance 2016 Fragment of Nicole Beutler | 2: Dialogue with Lucinda - Interior Drama p.9

Friday, July 8 Location Dansmakers Amsterdam 9:15 am

Start programme and registration (obligated)

10:30 am

Part 1: showcase

12:15 am

• Fernando Belfiore | D3US/x\M4CHIN4 • Connor Schumacher | The Fool • Jasper van Luijk | The Definition of Now

Part 2: lunch and different installations

• Katja Heitmann | Homo Avatar • Boukje Schweigman | Kaleidoscope Schweigman& • Cecilia Moiso | Facets

1:45 pm

Part 3: showcase

3:10 pm

Coffee break

• Alida Dors | Built for it • Samir Calixto | M

Part 4: showcase

4:40 pm

Drinks

5:30 pm

Bus transport to Leidse Square

7:00-8:30 pm 9:00 pm

• Jija Sohn | Geisha’s Miracle • Sabine Molenaar | That’s it

p. 17 p. 19

Walking diner at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Koninklijke Foyer Double Bill: Itamar Serussi and Keren Levi at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

p.22-23

Saterday, July 8 Location Veem House for Performance

Transport by bus from Leidse Square to Dansmakers

10:00 am

3:40 pm

9:30 am 10:00 am

p. 15 p. 14 p. 16

10:30-5:00 pm

p. 18 p. 12 p. 13 p. 11 p. 20 5:00 pm

Start programme and registration (obligated) Opening and keynote speech Double programme: round table talks and presentations/conversations/ fragments by: • Florentina Holzinger p. 25 • Julian Hetzel | The Automated Sniper p. 26 • Noha Ramadan | Los Angeles p. 27 • Ola Maciejewska | LOIE FULLER p. 28 • Oneka von Schrader | Panda Express p. 29 • Orion Maxted | [THE MACHINE] and HUMAN SIMULATION p. 30 • Rodrigo Sobarzo | Prins of Ne†works p. 31 • Schwalbe | Schwalbe performs a time p. 32 • Wild Vlees: Tamar Blom & Franzeska Lazzeri | When everything is human, the human is an entirely different thing p. 33 Drinks

Dear colleagues and friends, It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the fourth edition of Moving Meetings Dance. We look forward to introducing you to an exciting selection of dance makers from the Netherlands. Everyone of them is creating an outspoken signature and has his or her own vision on what the body can express and what the meaning of dance is or can be. Moving Meetings Dance was presented three times before, in 2011, 2013 and 2015. For the edition as part of 2015 Dutch Performing Arts, Julidans and the Dutch Dance Festival joined forces to internationally promote Dutch choreographers and dance companies, and Moving Meetings Dance became a yearly event. Every other year, during the Dutch Dance Festival, the focus will be on up-and-coming and midcareer makers. Alternating, and this year for the first time, Julidans will organise the programme of Moving Meetings Dance. Programmed over several days and integrated in Julidans, the programme shows new developments, creations and choreographers at multiple locations around town: at Dansmakers Amsterdam, Veem House for Performance and Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.

work. Full-length performances for larger scale venues can be seen during the Julidans programme. A double bill of Dutch choreographers will be shown Friday night at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. Furthermore, if visiting the first part of the Julidans festival (June 30 – July 6), then you’re invited to join a number of independent Dutch choreographers on a personal tour through Amsterdam. Moving Meetings Dance 2016 is selected by the artistic staff of all the partners and locations involved and is part of the Julidans festival. This year’s programme presents new works by Keren Levi, Itamar Serussi, Lisbeth Gruwez, Jefta van Dinther for Cullberg Ballet, Arco Renz, Lali Ayguadé and many others. We wish you a wonderful stay with inspiring dance meetings in Amsterdam! Anita van Dolen (artistic director Julidans) Anja Krans (programme manager Dutch Performing Arts)

The strength of dance produced in the Netherland lies in the fact that the range of styles and movement languages is extremely diverse, owing in part to the large number of nationalities based here. The wealth of dance academies and master courses attracts students from all over the world, so that these educational programmes guarantee a continual influx of international dancers and choreographers who develop their work here in the Netherlands. Moving Meetings Dance 2016 presents a selection of excerpts and performance installations from various Dutch choreographers and companies that stand out for their individuality, dance language or theatrical idiom, and shows their perspectives on personal and social matters. Starting at Dansmakers Amsterdam, a production house and workplace with its own stage, this programme focuses on the variety of what the Dutch field of dance has to offer, from the youngest up-and-coming talents to an exhibition of the interdisciplinary oeuvre of a mid-career artist. Moving to Veem House for Performance the next day, the focus shifts to presenting artists and performances in the interdisciplinary field of dance, theatre, visual arts and music. As a house for performance, dance and discourse, Veem stands for radical, bold and experimental 6

Thursday July 7 | Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

Nicole Beutler/NBprojects

July 7 | Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam Nicole Beutler/NBprojects | 2: Dialogue with Lucinda - Interior Drama

Photo: Anja Beutler

2: Dialogue with Lucinda – Interior Drama

Credits concept & choreography: Nicole Beutler original choreography: Lucinda Childs music composition: Gary Shepherd (icw. Aleksandar Grujic and Robbert Van Hulzen) Duration 60 min. Contact for booking Iva Horvat ivaagente129@gmail.com Website www.nbprojects.nl

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Fascinated by the radical and deceptively simple minimalism of Lucinda Childs’ early work, Nicole Beutler chose to remake two of her silent dance pieces, Radial Courses (1976) and Interior Drama (1977), setting the latter to a specially composed work by DJ/producer Gary Shepherd. In Interior Drama five dancers conform to an apparently perfect system, moving in repetitive and hallucinatory patterns. Childs describes her own work as an ‘intense experience of intense looking and listening’. Beutler’s reinterpretation centres on the individual dancer’s efforts and responsibilities within the group patterns, revealing parallel realities and the ritualistic qualities of the dance. Choreographer and theatre maker Nicole Beutler lives and works in Amsterdam. After studies of Fine Arts at Münster and München Arts Academies and of German Literature at the University of Münster, she came to study at the School for New Dance Developments at Amsterdam University of Arts where she graduated in 1997. Since then she produces work that is situated on the threshold of dance, performance and visual arts. She works from the conviction that fixed categorisations should be destabilised. With her precise and clear visual language, she opens up new perspectives on the complexity of human endeavour. The balance of content and form are carefully weighed and underneath all her works lurks a socio-political drive.

Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Photo: Jean van Lingen

Alida Dors Built for it

Credits choreographer: Alida Dors spoken word: Typhoon dancers: Bilal Bachir, Donna Chittick, Sarah Mancini, Xander van den Corput, Denden Karadeniz soundtrack: DJ Lovesupreme Duration 60 min. Contact for booking Gysele ter Berg gysele@backboneconnects.nl Website www.backboneconnects.nl

Sabine Molenaar | That’s it Samir Calixto | M

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Built for it is a performance about empathy. Five dancers try to break free from persistent stigmas and prejudices. Is it possible for an individual to break free from a stigma? Built for it is about this personal quest for autonomy. Together with sharp words from a well-known spoken word artist, the work is characterised by rhythmic patterns. These two disciplines together form the engine of the dance. Alida Dors (1977) is artistic director of her own foundation BackBone. Her work always starts from the hip hop idiom. Alida knows how to build bridges between dance languages and between different types of audiences. At the same time, she continues to seek the unknown. Linking hip hop with other disciplines, Alida’s work explores social issues in our society. BackBone has grown into an ambitious dance company with its roots in the hip hop dance and is known for its outspoken dance language and dancers.

Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Boukje Schweigman Kaleidoscope Schweigman& | installation

Cecilia Moisio Facets | installation

Photo: Darko Vaupotic

Photo: Jochem Jurgens

Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Credits artistic director: Boukje Schweigman scenography & lighting: Theun Mosk visual design: Cocky Eek Duration N/A Contact for booking Rachel Feuchtwang directie@schweigman.org Website www.schweigman.org

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Kaleidoscope Schweigman& expo provides a glimpse into the last 13 years of Schweigman’s work. Excerpts from reprises of earlier work, installation and location-based site-specific performances including the more recent works Blaas, Erf and Curve can be seen in compilation videos, alongside other images and videos, offering a brief but vivid impression of the atmosphere and language of Schweigman&. For the last 13 years and under the artistic leadership of Boukje Schweigman, Schweigman& has been making award-winning and ground-breaking work with visual, poetic and immersive performances for a wide range of audiences in the theatre hall, and with site-specific and installation work. Combining movement, design, light, sound and manipulation of space, Schweigman& works with the universal languages of the body, the image and spatial and sensory experiences. Though much of the earlier work was made for intimate spaces and audiences, recent performances have explored a larger-scale and broader range of mise-en-scène, while maintaining the highly acclaimed signature feature of Boukje Schweigman’s directing: an intense focus on the physicality and presence of both the performers and the audience, with an uncompromising play between movement language and spatial awareness.

Credits choreography, direction and performance: Cecilia Moisio Duration 5 hrs Contact for booking Diana Roos diana@hitmeproductions.nl Website www.ceciliamoisio.com

A woman delves into different facets of her persona within one contained space. She shows us images of who she would like to be and the sides she keeps hidden. A magnified look into the associative thought processes of a woman and the stereotypes she lives by. Cecilia Moisio (1978) is a choreographer and performer based in the Netherlands. In 2014 Cecilia won The Dutch Dance Festival Award Maastricht as an upcoming choreographer. Cecilia’s work comments on the psychology of humans, in particular the unconscious behavioural patterns that arise from social norms and expectations imposed on us. Her work is multidisciplinary and she combines her strong dance vocabulary with singing, live music and acting. Her performances have a dynamic character, filled with raw emotion on the one hand and a clean, controlled choreography on the other.

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Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Connor Schumacher The Fool

Fernando Belfiore D3US/x\M4CHIN4

Photo: Alwin Poiana

Photo: Studio Rios Zertuche Dansateliers

Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Credits concept, choreography and performance: Connor Schumacher Duration 30 min Contact for booking Johan Cuperus johan@dansateliers.nl Website www.connorschumacher.com

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As a man looks into darkness, he assumes something is there, be it a presence or be it space itself. But is he capable of recognising the colour black? The Fool is a performative presentation by choreographer Connor Schumacher that investigates the psychological relationship between audience and performer. A search into “finding” meaning and “reading” meaning. Connor Schumacher is an artist in residence at Dansateliers, Rotterdam. With support of Dansateliers he created a.o. Boy oh Boy (2013), Boy oh Boy 2: God’s first creature (2014), I trust in this life we will have another moment alone (2014 - Performing Gender) and The Fool (2015). He is also a participant in the European project Dancing Museums. With his work Connor analyses spectrums of extremes in which it seems that opposing extremes always have similar outcomes. By searching for a balance between theatrical imagery, transparent use of objects, and composition he tries to bring awareness to the present moment.

Credits direction: Fernando Belfiore creation and performance: Goran Goki Kusic, Luna Eggers Matz, Rozemarijn de Neve and Jija Sohn Duration 60 min Contact Suzy Blok suzy@dansmakers.nl Fernando Belfiore fernandobelfiore@gmail.com Website https://belfioreword.wordpress.com

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The title derives from a term in Greek tragedy that refers to an unexpected power that saves a seemingly hopeless situation. D3US/x\M4CHIN4 seeks to incorporate the idea of bringing the gods on stage, using machines to expose our most vulnerable human conditions. While stretching the limits of theatricality, plastic faces melt, different sources of sound form a chorus, and a supernatural battle becomes the starting point for a choreography that balances between the epic, science fiction and a ritual, where the performers embody energies and (e)motions. A machine that, once set in motion, will trigger your imagination. D3US/x\M4CHIN4 wants to question the Natural. It brings the idea of integration, possession and liberation to a story about a miraculous rescue from the things that threaten us. Fernando Belfiore studied theatre in Sao Paulo and graduated in 2011 at the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam. He is artist in residence at production house Dansmakers Amsterdam. Belfiore’s work explores the intersection of dance, theatre and visual arts and is known for its unusual mix of themes, his unexpected choices and a strong performativity to construct a direct and bodily audience experience. 15

Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Jasper van Luijk The Definition of Now

Jija Sohn Geisha’s miracle

Photo: Andrzej Rudz

Photo: Menno van der Meulen

Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Credits choreography: Jasper van Luijk with all artists involved dance: Jefta Tanate audiovisual design and composition: Marcel Wierckx experience design: Robert Groenewald Duration 60 min. Contact for booking Eve Hopkins eve@generaleoost.nl Website www.jaspervanluijk.com notes

New technology and the human body interact in a live dialogue on the perception of time. After the international success of Yonder, a solo with dance talent Jefta Tanate, Jasper van Luijk takes a new step in exploring the relationship between man(kind) and time. The Definition of Now is an inquiry into the dynamics of time and how time is experienced in a single person’s lifetime. Can a person shape and steer how he experiences time? And how do we choose to live within our given timeframe? Three-dimensional light barriers, projected visuals and a synchronised soundscape, all generated live and on stage, create a world in which the dancer deals with different situations of time-experience. By his actions, the dancer also leaves a mark on the spatial environment. Technology and dancer take turns in their level of control of the performance to create a new and unique experience of time altogether. Jasper van Luijk (1987) graduated from ArtEZ School of Dance in 2011. Jasper is very much intrigued by the communicative and narrative aspect of dance, and specifically how pure physical control and aesthetic movement can create a narrative line. He furthermore has a strong interest in set design and music composition.

Credits concept, choreography and performance: Jija Sohn co-creation and performance: Yurie Umamoto, Yui Nakagami dramaturgy: Charlot van der Meer light design: Vinny Jones sound design: Sne Martin Snider Duration 40 min. Contact for booking Suzy Blok suzy@dansmakers.nl Website www.jijasohn.com

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In Geisha’s miracle, a trio of Asian performers invite you to experience their universe; shiny and blue, light and white. They take you on a journey to a place between life and death. A place between a transformative reality and a fountain of imagination. Geisha’s miracle is a synesthetic, physical experience that reaches out to the perception of the audience. The surreal visual and musical landscape speaks not only to the rational mind but also to the irrational sides of our being, inviting you to immerse yourself in absurdity. Jija Sohn (1982) explores how to communicate emotional or formless material with dance and movement to bridge the gap between different cultures. She is interested in the question how cultural diversity can be transformed into a universal value, and searches for the core of the human experience. Jija Sohn was selected for the Moving Forward Trajectory. This gave her the opportunity to develop her work and network with the help of five Dutch production houses: Dansmakers Amsterdam, DansBrabant, Dansateliers, Generale Oost and Random Collision.

Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Katja Heitmann Homo Avatar

Sabine Molenaar That’s it

Photo: Terri Florido

Photo: Hanneke Wetzer

Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Credits concept & choreography: Katja Heitmann concept & music: Sander van der Schaaf performers: Anna Zurkirchen, Lisa Wallerbosch, Eleini Ploumi, Thommy Pham, Celine Werkhoven Duration 20 min. Contact for booking Sander van der Schaaf sander@vanderschaaf.nl Website www.katjaheitmann.com

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How many online profiles do you have? How many profile pictures? And how many of these are photoshopped? Nowadays everyone creates multiple digital clones of our ‘self ‘. Often these ‘avatars’ are very personal and intimate. And still we share them with the whole world. Katja Heitmann (1987) graduated in BA choreography at Fontys Dance Academy (NL) in 2012. She is fascinated by the human struggle to get a grip on its own existence. By creating systems to control our lives, we end up restricting ourselves. Questioning the definition of reality is the common theme in her work. From there Katja continuously explores new themes, disciplines and performance formats. Katja is inspired by the growing influence of digital technologies on society and the concomitant questions about the identity of our human body. She fuses everyday technology, the dancer’s body and the presence of the audience into unconventional performances. Who moves who?

Credits concept, choreography and performance: Sabine Molenaar music: Emilian Gatsov light: Filip Timmerman dramaturgy: Gina Serbanescu Duration 55 min. Contact for booking Sarah De Ganck info@arthappens.be Website www.dansbrabant.nl

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In her solo performance That’s it, Sabine Molenaar drifts among layers of reality, claws her way back from nightmare dreamscapes and morphs into creatures hidden in the darkest recess of our minds in a dream that transforms body, time and space. With each morphing movement, Molenaar seduces the viewers until they come face to face with their greatest fear: that nothing is what it seems. In spirals of discomfort she keeps her viewers in a state of non-control mirrored in her performance, opening the gateway to other worlds of perception where only one burning question exists: where do dreams end and does reality begin? Sabine Molenaar studied Modern Theatre Dance at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. In 2012 she created her first solo, That’s it, under the umbrella of her new company Sandman. That`s it won the first prize at the Bilbao ACT festival (ES), and Sabine Molenaar won the award for Best Female Talent at Theater Aan Zee in Oostende (BE).

Friday July 8 | Dansmakers Amsterdam

Photo: Joris-Jan Bosk

Samir Calixto M

July 8 | Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

Credits concept, choreography, sound: Samir Calixto dance: Samir Calixto, Thibault Desaules, Ivan Montis, Quentin Roger, Gino Taytelbaum light design: Pavla Beranova costumes: Min Li scenography: Pavla Beranova, Samir Calixto. Thommy Pham, Celine Werkhoven Duration 65 min. Contact for booking Stacz Wilhelm, stacz@korzo.nl Website www.korzo.nl/nl/producties/ m-samir-calixto notes

M is inspired by the philosophical insights of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra. Nietzsche set great store by the knowledge contained in the human body: “there is more wisdom in the body than in the deepest philosophy”. In M, Samir focuses on the power of transformation that the body possesses. Accompanied by a modern arrangement of music by Mahler, five male dancers present their entire humanity on stage: their physical and mental effort and dedication, their extreme force and vulnerability, and their personal fortunes and paradoxes. In recent years Samir Calixto created impressive adaptations of Winterreise (Schubert), 4 Seasons (Vivaldi) and Paradise Lost (Milton). With an uncompromising crossing of pure musicality with intense physicality, he digs deeply into the themes of his performances until they achieve a timeless quality. For 4 Seasons, Samir Calixto was nominated for a Swan for the Netherlands ‘most impressive dance production 2013’, and he received the prestigious Dutch BNG Bank Dance Award for Excellent Talent 2014.

Double Bill: TEFER by Itamar Serussi & The Dry Piece XL by Keren Levi

Friday July 8 | Programme Julidans at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

Double Bill Keren Levi | The Dry Piece XL Edition

Photo: Anna van Kooij

Photo: Mattee Corratoni

Itamar Serussi | TEFER

Credits choreography: Itamar Serussi Sahar Contact for booking Itamar Serussi iserussi@me.com Website www.itamarserussi.org

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Itamar Serussi / Balletto di Roma | TEFER The playful, light choreographies of Itamar Serussi are never without humour and improvisation. In TEFER he works with six male dancers from the Ballet of Rome to examine the gestures of the male body, set to original music by Richard van Kruysdijk (inspired by sounds of the madcap cartoon La Linea from the seventies). Ironic in tone, and with a powerful voice, TEFER lays bare all the conflicts that the male body carries with it: the familiar divide between rugged manliness and vulnerable sensitivity. Amsterdam-based Itamar Serussi Sahar started his dance education at the age of 15 at the Israeli Dance Academy. In 1998 he started dancing at the Batsheva Dance Company, and in the summer of 2014 he became residential choreographer for Scapino Ballet (Rotterdam, NL). He experiments with physical boundaries using humour and improvisation. Trying to break through traditional dance, his work is playful, light and elegant. All his pieces are the result of the synergy between him, his surroundings and his dancers. The choreographies speak strongly to both audiences and performers and are performed widely in Europe. Itamar also creates works for companies in England, Austria, USA, France, Denmark, Belgium and Italy.

Credits concept, choreography, sound: choreography and concept: Keren Levi dance and choreography: Mari Matre Larsen, Karin Frankel, Alma Lindenhovius, Eva Susova, Hillary Blake Firestone, Maddy Bullard, Alice Pons, Alicia Verdú Macián music: Tom Parkinson light design: Minna Tiikkainen video: Assi Weitz dramaturgic advice: Igor Dobricic Contact for booking Jette Schneider jette@kerenlevi.com Website www.kerenlevi.com notes

In The Dry Piece XL Edition, performed by eight nude dancers behind a projection screen, an important role is reserved for the voyeuristic spectator. Levi draws our attention to the gap between beauty and pornography which is inherent to the violent (male) look on the (female) body. Keren was inspired by the images of women from the 1930s musical choreographer Busby Berkeley (who used women as geometrical characters in his choreographies) and by the writer Naomi Wolf, who describes in “The Beauty Myth” how images of beauty are used against women. Since 2004, Keren Levi (1972) has built an international profile as a choreographer with works performed in over 20 countries. Between dance, live music and video, Levi’s work is best described as transdisciplinary, yet it is founded on choreographic principles. Levi teaches dance, body-work and choreography at School for New Dance Development and the Modern Dance Department of the Amsterdam University of Arts, as well as at festivals and companies and in training programmes across Europe. “The Dry Piece” is available to tour next season in three formats: 1. Original version – 4 dancers / small – medium stage 2. XL EDITION – 8 dancers / medium – big stage 3. XL EDITION / Julidans special – with PUBLIC ACTION / big stage

Saturday July 9 | Veem House for Performance

July 9 | Veem House for Performance

Photo: Magdalena Blaszczuk

Florentina Holzinger

Florentina Holzinger Julian Hetzel | The Automated Sniper Noha Ramadan | Los Angeles Ola Maciejewska | Loie Fuller

Contact for booking Stephanie Luehn stephanie.luehn@gmail.com Website floholzinger.wordpress.com

Oneka von Schrader | Panda Express Orion Maxted | [The Machine] and HUMAN SIMULATION Rodrigo Sobarzo | Prins of Ne†works Schwalbe | Schwalbe performs a time Wild Vlees: Tamar Blom & Francesca Lazzeri | When everything is human, the human is an entirely different thing notes

Florentina Holzinger studied choreography at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Her collaboration with Vincent Riebeek resulted in a trilogy of pieces – Kein Applaus für Scheisse, Spirit, and Wellness – lately followed by Schönheitsabend. Her second Solo work Recovery was an experimental meditation on Florentina’s recovery from a traumatic stage accident and explores different modes of female representation trying to investigate the full potential of female physicality. The show that hosts a sport psychologist and a female K1 champion led to public request to offer martial arts training for artists. Similar to the starting point of the show Florentina started proposing the training for a fight as training for the life as an artist. Alongside her residency at ICK Amsterdam Florentina currently produces her first ballet approaching classical repertory through ideas of dualism. The ballet forms a stepping stone aimed at the making of Florentina’s next work for the stage, the Apollon Musaget, which is all female contemporary adaption of Balanchine’s neoclassical quartet. The work premiers in summer 2017.

Saturday July 9 | Veem House for Performance

Julian Hetzel The Automated Sniper

Noha Ramadan Los Angeles

Photo: Peter Empl

Photo: Thomas Lenden

Saturday July 9 | Veem House for Performance

Credits concept & direction: Julian Hetzel machine artist: Hannes Waldschütz performers: Giulio d’Anna, Anna Wild Duration 60 min. Contact for booking Yola Parie yola@julian-hetzel.com Website www.julian-hetzel.com

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The Automated Sniper is a project on the changing power dynamics in warfare through the increasing distance between the combatants, resulting in a situation described as asymmetrical war. The project focuses on the oscillating relationship between the virtual and the real, extending to the ‘gamification’ of war and the combat zone. The Automated Sniper is a performative installation for two performers and one gamer. The performers are actually put into the crosshairs of a remote-controlled weapon operated by a professional gamer from the Greater Middle East who shoots the performers on stage with the audience as witness. Julian Hetzel works as performance maker, musician and visual artist. Operating on the intersection of theatre, music and media, his works have a political dimension and a documentary approach. His works are produced and presented internationally. Julian Hetzel was born in Germany’s Black Forest region and is currently based in Utrecht (NL). He studied at Bauhaus University Weimar with a focus on visual communication. In 2013 he graduated from DasArts in Amsterdam. His upcoming Project Schuldfabrik will premiere at Steirischer Herbst in Graz, in September 2016.

Credits choreography/performance: Noha Ramadan sound design: S.M. Schneider light design: Wassan Ali Duration 45 min. Contact for booking Noha Ramadan mail@noharamadan.net Website www.noharamadan.net

In Los Angeles, Noha Ramadan channels the chaotic and coexistent worlds of information, fantasy and mythology. She mutates text into action into movement, crashing elements together and spinning tales of disrupted utopias. Noha Ramadan is a choreographer, performer and dramaturg. She studied at the School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam) and Music at the University of Sydney. Her work is underscored by an interest in language and choreographic experimentation, with a search towards the collapse and reconfiguration of meaning.

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Saturday July 9 | Veem House for Performance

Ola Maciejewska LOIE FULLER

Oneka von Schrader Panda Express

Photo: Nellie de Boer

Photo: Martin Argyroglo

Saturday July 9 | Veem House for Performance

Credits concept and performance: Ola Maciejewska Duration 30-40 min Contact for booking Elodie Perrin elodieperrin1@gmail.com Website olamaciejewska.carbonmade.com

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LOIE FULLER consists of two exercises. Inspired by the relation between the sculptor (human) and the sculpture (non-human), the workout deals with material agency of the human body and the agency of the artefact (‘Dancing Dress’) in their continuous relationship, similar to the act of sculpting. It is a physical practice stimulating the movement of matter receiving form, a movement that emerges as a result of the relationship between the human body and the object. The purpose of the exercise is not to strengthen the impulse to live a physical relationship with things; instead it focuses on facilitating forms that make that relationship visible. Ola Maciejewska is a choreographer and performer. She graduated in 2004 at Rotterdam Dance Academy (NL) and began to work as a dancer and performer in works of Bruno Listopad (PT), Nicola Unger (DE), Philippe Quesne (FR), and Bojan Djordjev (SR). TEKTON is her choreographic debut together with the short film COSMOPOL, which premiered in November 2014 in Geneva at Théatre de l’Usine and has been presented at Rotterdamse Schouwburg (NL), Actoral Festival in Marseille, Batard Festival in Bruselles, and Nowy Teatr in Warsaw.

Credits concept and choreography: Oneka von Schrader performers: Sabine Cmelniski, Clara Amaral, and Tiana Hemlock and Matthieu Blond Duration 60 min. Contact for booking Lyndsey Housden lyndsey@veem.house Website www.veem.house

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Panda Express explores the potential, conventions and expectations of the theatre space. It is a dance, a ceremony, an installation. It is a practice of constant preparation and an experience of perpetual decay. It materialises in movement and objects and dissolves in flavours and fluids. A tea ceremony that explores and opens the senses of space and spectator. Each infusion deepens the spatial and experiential sensorium a little more. Objects fulfil a carefully chosen position in time and space during the ceremony, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerts enters the space. Music, objects, and performers as egalitarian agents - sharing and supporting each other’s presence. Oneka von Schrader graduated in 2015 from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Panda Express is the first performance she makes at Veem House for Performance. Next season she will be affiliated with the house as one of the house makers. Choreography is for her the ideal field to combine dance, theatre and music, question and play in between these formats.

Saturday July 9 | Veem House for Performance

Orion Maxted

Rodrigo Sobarzo Prins of Ne†works

Photo: Hanne Nijhuis

Photo: Thomas Lenden

[THE MACHINE] and HUMAN SIMULATION

Credits performers: Margo van de Linde, Michael Burditt Norton, Alexander Coggin, Chiara Wilde, Laura Mentink. Duration 20 min Contact for booking Orion Maxted orionmaxted@gmail.com Website www.veem.house

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Orion Maxted introduces his practice focusing on two recent works that begin from the strange proposition of using performance as a substrate to create ‘computers made from people’. First, [THE MACHINE] is an algorithmic performance inspired by George Perec’s radio play of the same title. Second, HUMAN SIMULATION takes a theory of networks from systems biology and applies it to human language – creating a bizarre non-linear and open proposition intertwining vastly different scales of life. These works function as mechanisms for re-thinking the boundaries of mankind, nature and technology – which for Orion is the essence of our time. The works seek to inflict a kind of existential violence on us – while also providing new toolkits for artists, producers, scientists and audiences to think together in a quest for new ideas. Orion Maxted’s interests lie in the intersection of complex systems with language, subjectivity, and musicality. He is known for making thought-provoking and algorithmic performances, combining simple rules from cybernetics, programming and human language to produce hypnotising rollercoasters of thought. He studied computing in the UK before being seduced into electronic music, studying Music & Visual Art and making choreographies of objects and language. He holds a Master of

Credits performance: Rodrigo Sobarzo, Diego Olea Duration 45 min. Contact for booking Rodrigo Sobarzo zobarso@gmail.com Website www.autistic-mvmnt.tumblr.com

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Prins of Ne†works takes as its departure point the demise of nobility, or in a more contemporary form: the demise of elegance. In today’s electronic arena, there is no statute, title or land with inherent value. A new order has arisen based on pure knowledge and skill-driven metaphysical labour. Prins of Ne†works materialises as an experiential capsule in which we gather to visually reflect on different states of matter and its natural cycles. On this particular research occasion we focus on the cultivation of flies. Flies as material, as electric and super-advanced technological creatures. Out of decomposition, an insect (technology) is born and dies again. Twinning art production with the chemical process of decomposition, Prins of Ne†works is a visual manifesto that probes new ecologies, blending the electronic and analogue into one. Rodrigo Sobarzo de Larraechea studied at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His work seeks to immerse the viewer in visual introspection. He furthermore has a strong interest in subculture and sub-cultural production by means of connectivity throughout various internet networks.

Saturday July 9 | Veem House for Performance

Schwalbe Schwalbe performs a time

Wild Vlees: Tamar Blom & Francesca Lazzeri When everything is human, the human is an entirely different thing

Photo: Stephan van Hesteren

Saturday July 9 | Veem House for Performance

Credits concept and performance: Christina Flick, Marie Groothof, Floor van Leeuwen, Kimmy Ligtvoet, Ariadna Rubio Lleó Duration 6 hrs Contact for booking Anneke Tonen Anneke@schwalbe.nu Website www.schwalbe.nu

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In the wee hours between 11:59 PM to 6 AM, Schwalbe will be putting on their work gloves and building a series of stage settings. They will bring old sets into the theatre in order to repurpose them, dismantle and rebuild them. There where the walls are black and the lights eternally shine, where empires rise and fall and a café materialises that in turn must make way for a forest, they invite you to look at and participate in a series of settings that they build up and break down throughout the night. Schwalbe is a theatre collective, comprised of six performers and creators. Their work is physical by nature. Every performance is born out of the body. Physicality is pushed to the limits and shows itself to be fickle and unpredictable under extreme circumstances. The live aspect, and the unexpected, is captured in a theatrical setting. It is a quest for reality, on the intersection of theatre and performance.

Credits concept and performance: Francesca Lazzeri & Tamar Blom Duration 20 min. Contact for booking Job Rietvelt job@wildvlees.com Website www.wildvlees.com

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In the performance When everything is human, the human is an entirely different thing, Francesca and Tamar aim to physically question their own identity. The purpose of their research? Embracing a universal state of being and relativising human importance. Through the use of plaster, Wild Vlees confuses and reshapes the boundaries between humans and their surroundings. They embrace ‘being’ in its purest form, equalising themselves to each other and to everything around them. Wild Vlees was founded by Tamar Blom and Kajetan Uranitsch. In 2013 they created the performances Body On and Body Off, which won the ITs Parade Parel prize in 2014. Tamar graduated in 2014 at the Mime School in Amsterdam. Together with producer Job Rietvelt and theatre maker Francesca Lazzeri, they decided to bring Wild Vlees further. Wild Vlees stands for raw, conceptual, experimental and engaged theatre.

Julidans

international festival for contemporary dance

June 30 - July 10 2016 Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Theater Bellevue, Melkweg theaterzaal, Vondelpark Openluchttheater, Bijlmer Parktheater, Erasmus park With: Christian Rizzo, Pere Faura, Meg Stuart, Mette Ingvartsen, Lisbeth Gruwez, Lemi Ponifasio, Rachid Ouramndane, Jefta van Dinther, Keren Levi, Arco Renz and Hofesh Shechter and many more. After the twenty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring the grand masters of contemporary dance, Julidans 2016 focuses on the grand masters of the future: on choreographers who have already made their mark in the Netherlands and abroad but are now on the verge of breaking through internationally. Julidans has been monitoring their progress for a long time as they progressed from NEXT and Artist’s Lab’s talent stages to the main stage programmes. Other choreographers are introduced for the first time during Julidans. Julidans 2016 is a reflection of the human condition, shaped into fascinating, poignant, profound, awkward and amusing dance forms. Sometimes the result is as weird as it is relevant. Or as beautiful as it is disturbing. Alienating, and yet intimately related to our daily reality. War, love, sex, feminine image and women’s oppression, fear, pop culture, exploitation, obsessional neurosis – these are just some of the themes we encounter daily, and especially in this day and age. For the Julidans choreographers it is no different than for us, their audience. Through their work, each in their own way, they communicate about these themes and share their vision or their questions with the viewer. We can therefore safely say – well, safely ... – that contemporary dance is in the prime of its life. With the comforting bonus: the power and beauty of each dance performance. Information & tickets: www.julidans.nl 34

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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. Anita van Dolen, artistic director of Julidans, international festival for contemporary dance, and programmer dance Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. Editorial board Anita van Dolen (artistic director Julidans) Jochem Naafs (dramaturg, researcher and writer) Peggy Olislaegers (director Dutch Dance Festival till 1 June) Ronald Wintjens (director Dutch Dance Festival from 1 June) Team Moving Meetings Dance 2016 Heske van den Ende (programme manager) Norma Schiphof (coordinator visitors programme) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n More (production) Leonie Dijkstra (communications) Programme advise Suzy Blok (Dansmakers Amsterdam), Anne Breure (Veem House for Performance), Lara Staal (Frascati) Thanks to: Pieter Zeeman; Jutha Bakker; Carlie Janszen; Lex Bohlmeijer; Eva de Zeeuw; Moving Futures network (Eve Hopkins; Heleen Volman; Kirsten Krans; Kristin de Groot); Veem House for Performance, Dansmakers Amsterdam; Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

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