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Month: April 2024

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Vita Aktiva by Daniel Linehan, Michael Helland & Anneleen Keppens

Photo: Joeri Thiry

STUK invited 20 participants from many different generations and backgrounds to join Daniel Linehan, Michael Helland and Anneleen Keppens of the dance company Hiatus for one week for an interactive workshop on the themes of ‘time’ and ‘work’.

In Vita Activa a group worked together for a week, playing with concepts of work and time. The workshop was an artistic project that turned the dance studio into a free space for people, with or without artistic background, who have never worked together before.

The participants investigated the role of work in society. They were given tools to look at their skills and knowledge in a new way and to search for possibilities to share them. The process was a creative game full of interactions. A different experience of valuing work arose, blurring the borders between types of work. The aim was to grow into a temporary community with an alternative economy.

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Longevity in Dance:
Elixir Festival 2024 on Digital Stage

 

Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage presents Elixir on Digital Stage: Longevity in Dance, an eclectic mix of bold, playful and poignant films that challenge perceptions of dance and age.

In our new 2024 programme, alongside global premieres, you can enjoy dance film commissions by artists Louise Lecavalier, Aditi Mangaldas and Paco Peña, and documentary The Exchange. This film follows a collaboration between Company of Elders and ZYC (ZooNation Youth Company), creating a dance show together choreographed by Chaldon Williams.

Elixir on Digital Stage: Longevity in Dance is a celebration of life through dance, and the inherent desire to keep on dancing.

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London Story & never ending (Story) at Elixir Festival

Photos: Jubal Battisti

Berlin’s Dance On Ensemble recreates and responds to an iconic work by Merce Cunningham

Originally choreographed in 1963, Merce Cunningham’s Story was never the same show twice.

The dancers were able to make choices about their movements, while a new set was constructed for each performance using material found in or near the theatre.

Now Dance On Ensemble draws from limited archival materials to re-imagine the piece for a new generation. What shape will the work take as it finds itself in the Lilian Baylis Studio?

Never ending (Story)

As a further exploration of Cunningham’s Story, the poem improvised by David Antin in 1989, was also a starting point of Mathilde Monnier’s never ending (Story). This is a piece that explores how movement and thought come together.

This piece is rooted in stories. Stories about structure, rhythm, feelings and repetitions. Stories about the dance you will witness on stage.

Watch as Dance On bring together speech, thought and dance in a way that shows they’re closer entwined than you might assume.

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Elixir Festival 2024: Rethinking Perceptions around Dance and Age

Photo: Maarten Vanden Abeele. Common Grounds: Malou Airaudo, Germaine Acogny

How do we express our changing bodies and minds as we grow and age?

Elixir Festival challenged perceptions around dance and age with works by iconic artists from around the world alongside inspiring performances from dancers drawn from our local communities in north and east London.

View the programme of workshops, films and talks here.

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Inside the Outside
Deborah Hay and Nomad Dance Academy

 

Inside the Outside is a collaborative work between the artists of Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and the acclaimed American dancer and choreographer Deborah Hay.

Operating within the framework of defined tasks and determinants (the specific score of Inside the Outside), the artists build configurations of kinetic relations, exploring how their individual dance practices can engage in reciprocal interactions. Their principles are tested in more intense kinetic rhetorical territories, encompassing theatrical and choreographed passages. Throughout the performance, compositions of temporality confront one another, pointing to kinetic landscapes beyond the present moment, including those of the past, potentiality, and future actuality.

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Dick So So by Charlotta Öfverholm
Premiere

 

Choreographer Charlotta Öfverholm and her dance collective Jus de la Vie are thrilled to share their next stage of their journey when they approach their 30th anniversary. Join us as we say goodbye to dance performance, and a great big Swedish Hej! to the world of motivational seminars. Would you like to earn more money? Have a better sex life? Have thicker, glossier hair?

Come join Dick So-So, Scandinavia’s leading women’s empowerment specialist and be re-born as the YOU you were always meant to be. Learn how to finally take control of your life! The ONLY female empowerment conference led by a man is finally here!

Humor and sarcasm in a dance theater piece about gender identity, power structures, prejudices and about finding back to oneself.

By choreographer Charlotta Öfverholm and British director Sam Brown.

Premiere at Dalateatern, Falun

Further performances at Dansenshus Stockholm, 6-8 November 2024

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