From November 22, the five-part NTR series ADO dances to see. It is not the first time football and dance have merged.
Surely the most famous example of football and dance is Feint: an NOS film by Piet Erkelens and Pim Marks on the similarities between the two different worlds. They showed this through interviews with Johan Cruijff and Rudi van Dantzig on the one hand, and Marco van Basten and dancer Clint Farha in motion on the other. See the video below with some nice wrong music.
The comparison between football and a dancer is often drawn. When a footballer makes an overhead kick or a match picture looks very much like dance. But now NTR is coming up with a real series about ADO youth footballers who have to deal with dance in their daily training. The link to ballet comes from dancers at the Royal Conservatoire.
Actually, this plan came from Jeroen van der Kaaij: who has been letting his Sportmindz school pupils perform various movement elements. He approached me before the summer whether I wanted to create a short warm-up choreography for pupils at ADO. I referred him to Holland Dance: an excellent dance facilitator. At an eventual demonstration day At ADO, there was a man walking around inconspicuously acting important.
Just let it be the director of ADO dances.
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