Springdance opens with Botelho's Sideways Rain: fascinating intensity of dance, but lack of consistency

by Fransien van der Putt
15 April 201130 March 2022
4 min read
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Scene from Sideways Rain by Botelho. Photo by Jean-Yves Genoud
Van links naar rechts bewegen enkelingen over het toneel, zonder ophouden en in drommen soms, een uur lang. Het is verslavend, deze locomotion in Sideways Rain, het eindeloze voortbewegen in één en dezelfde richting van wat steeds nieuwe mensen lijken. Door subtiele kostuumwisselingen, een duister lichtplan en de dramatische drones van Murcof is het in het begin heel moeilijk om de vijftien dansers uit elkaar te houden. Zij worden een...

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Fransien van der Putt

Fransien van der Putt is a dramaturge and critic. She works with Lana Coporda, Vera Sofia Mota, Roberto de Jonge, João Dinis Pinho & Julia Barrios de la Mora and Branka Zgonjanin, among others. She writes about dance and theatre for Cultural Press Agency, Theatererkrant and Dansmagazine. Between 1989 and 2001, she mixed text as sound at Radio 100. Between 2011 and 2015, she developed a minor for the BA Dance, Artez, Arnhem - on artistic processes and own research in dance. Within her work, she pays special attention to the significance of archives, notation, discourse and theatre history in relation to dance in the Netherlands. Together with Vera Sofia Mota, she researches the work of video, installation and peformance artist Nan Hoover on behalf of www.li-ma.nl.View Author posts

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