Photo and video: Jubal Battisti
Dancing Replies
Dance On Ensemble
Dancing Replies
Making Dances
Dance On Ensemble
Photo and video: Jubal Battisti
Relive
Company of Elders & Eleesha Drennan
What does it mean to relive a memory?
During lockdown, Company of Elders have been working remotely with choreographer Eleesha Drennan to explore their relationships to memory and time. Relive is a poignant short dance film borne from this collaboration with our resident dance company for over 60s. A yearn for human connection. It looks at how the process of reliving memories and experiences can tell a story of what matters most in life: the people we share it with.
Community project:
We’re going oud
With the piece 99 and a little sea
Concept & choreography: Jordy Dik
Music & composition: Vincent Dankelman
Camera: Dammes Kieft
Edit: Jordy Dik
Production: Ine Dubois
Students of Codarts University of the Arts:
Laura Carvalho da Costa, Gentle Schuyffel, Renata Cidra Labiano, Rochella Prinsen, Anita Giannini, Amber Franssen, Danique Beijer, Dylan Kap, Fien Voorspools
Participants of Aafje Meerweide:
Mrs Schuyer, Mr Koedood, Mrs den Ouden, Mrs Prince, Mrs van Gilst, Mr Wiekeraad
MARÍA MUÑOZ DANCES BACH Constellation Mal Pelo Bach Project
Constellation Mal Pelo
Bach Project
A constellation on Mal Pelo’s research on Johann Sebastian Bach and his relationship with dance and the stage.
Bach is a rigorous piece of language of movement for which María Muñoz needed to travel alone to what were probably non-negotiable places in terms of her deep understanding of musicality. She herself dances it in the Constellation. The same piece is also danced by the Italian performer Federica Porello, who learned it from María Muñoz in an intensive transmission process.
Checking Out
Dance Film by Charlotta Öfverholm & Age on Stage
Film: Anders J. Larsson <br>Photo: Fabian Kriese
Choreography: Charlotta Öfverholm
Film: Anders J. Larsson
Cast: Magnus Krepper, Elena Fokina, Tobias Hallgren, James Friedman, Lauri Antila, Charlotta Öfverholm, Jan Alpsjö, Lars Hällegård, Elna Fagerberg, Anita Berger, Eva Broms
Music: Lauri Antila
Sound: Mia Kaasalainen
Costume: Linda Öhrn and Elle Kunnos de Voss
Dramaturgy: Carina Nildalen
Premiere: 24 February 2021, Dalateatern, Falun, Sweden
A new film version of Charlotta Öfverholm’s stage production Prosthesis, featuring professional and non-professional performers aged 40 – 81.
“You can check out at anytime, but you can never leave”
A surrealistic detective story, set in a hotel, where the psychological issues and behaviours of the guests and employees make them all suspects in a crime. The investigating detective is actually is searching for the meaning of life. Former hotel guests from centuries ago are watching with unexpected powers.
Works In Silence
Lucinda Childs & Dance On Ensemble
Photo & Video: Jubal Battisti
Choreography: Lucinda Childs
Staging: Ty Boomershine
Cast: Ty Boomershine, Anna Herrmann, Emma Lewis, Gesine Moog, Omagbitse Omagbemi, Lia Witjes-Poole
Light: Martin Beeretz
Sound: Mattef Kuhlmey
Costume: Alexandra Sebbag
Online-Premiere: 18 – 20 December 2020, STUK – House for Dance, Image and Sound
The WORKS IN SILENCE offer insights into a decisive development phase of one of the most important choreographers of the 20th century.
This collection of early works from the extensive repertory of Lucinda Childs is exciting both because of its rarity and its importance in the dance field. Most of these works have not been seen since they were first shown in the 1970s. In these dances, Childs has left behind props, objects, the spoken word, symbolic movement – all hallmarks of the era of the Judson Dance Theater – and chosen to focus on the passage of the body through space. To zero in on the essence of initial movement, which, for Childs, is the act of walking. From walking to running, to changing direction, to skipping, to leaping: the WORKS IN SILENCE illustrate the evolution of movement into dance through the choreographic vision of Lucinda Childs.
“I think it’s very musical for dancers to share a pulse,” she says. “They have to listen to each other. That’s what a musical ensemble does. They tune in to each other in a very precise way.” The pieces are a rare entrance into a crucial period of transformation of a choreographer and director whose impact on both the world of the visual arts and influence on a generation of choreographers cannot be overstated. The works express a fragility and a humanity that is a perfect example of the value of experience, and ideally suited to a group of dancers that bring with them their own abundant histories and knowledge. In the act of stripping away all artifice and theatricality, the beauty and truth of wisdom is confronted, shared, and exposed.
Production: Dance On/DIEHL+RITTER
Co-production: STUK. House for Dance, Image and Sound /Münchner Kammerspiele
Funded by the Doppelpass Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation