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'It felt a bit like the first time sex: way too direct, rushed, overactive and largely based on insecurity': Ivo Dimchev in battle with Franz West's wearable art

"What the fuck should I do with this?" was choreographer and performance artist Ivo Dimchev's (1976) first thought when confronted with the artworks of Austrian artist Franz West. After Dimchev's solo performance Some Faves (2010) in Vienna, West, a multi-awarded creator of bizarre sculptures and objects, sought contact with the choreographer. He asked him to make an improvised video based on his... 

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Director of Dance Days Maastricht: "I really feel supported by Mayor Onno Hoes."

The Dutch Dance Days are not yet a mad hive of dance, but for Maastricht they are increasingly a fun tourist attraction. Day trippers and weekend tourists come from all over the country to combine the delights of the South with those of the art of dance. For that matter, all of Maastricht seems to float on VVV leaflets. In this sphere of promotion, is there still room for... 

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Ingmar Bergman becomes opera at Grachtenfestival

Amsterdam, 1999. Studying Theatre Science, first-year theatre analysis class. I sit with notepad and pen clutched in fingers, making indecipherable notes. Halfway through the lecture, Sjaron Minailo (Tel Aviv, 1979) saunters in, dressed in a huge fur coat, with big Gucci sunglasses and dreadlocks. With a sigh, he plops into the back lecture bench, hears three sentences of the disrupted lecturer's speech 

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Eszter Salamon and Daniel Linehan gems of highly diverse Julidans

Holland Festival, Julidans, IT's, Over 't IJ. End-of-season theatre is always strewn across Amsterdam. Between April and September, international performance offerings migrate from Utrecht (Springdance and Festival aan de Werf) via Amsterdam to Rotterdam (Internationale Keuze). If you want to experience something of contemporary, international dance, Springdance, HF and Julidans are the places to be. [For... 

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#HF11 Special performance Jagden und Formen by Waltz and Rihm does not produce an ideal exchange, but it does raise interesting questions about the merging of dance and music

Composer Wolfgang Rihm and choreographer Sasha Waltz, two familiar faces at the Holland Festival and big names in European performing arts, released a performance together in 2008 that could not be missing from a Holland festival programme this year. The festival not only has a focus on some great contemporary composers (Xenakis, Rihm), but is also making considerable headway on the... 

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#HF11 Environmental message in 'Birds with Skymirrors' does not give imagination wings, but literally gets in the way

You can hardly take your eyes off the feet. The dancers make busy, fast steps and yet their bodies seem to glide across the stage. It exudes something of perfection. In 'Birds with Skymirrors', you constantly get the feeling that the bird world has been the model for the movements. Trembling hands are reminiscent of wingtips, vulnerably scanning the skies.... 

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Opinion: 'Let Joop van den Ende take classical ballet under his wing, merge Nederlands Dans Theater, Nationale Ballet and Scapino Ballet.'

It was predictable. Now that the Culture Council has given the secretary of state a go-ahead for massive and very deep cuts in dance, the first press releases are appearing with the outraged reactions. The National Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater are aggrieved: 'How

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Fascinating canon with 24 dancers by Boris Charmatz as bouncer and finale of Springdance 2011

Boris Charmatz's dancers in ''Levée des conflits'' Photo Caroline Ablain.
Niets is zo opwekkend als samen een canon zingen. Het Frère Jacques van de Franse choreograaf Boris Charmatz, te zien als uitsmijter op de laatste avond van Springdance, is wel een bijzonder geval. ‘Levée des conflits’ heeft geen terugkerend refrein, maar wel maar liefst 25 coupletten, die door elk van de 24 dansers worden gedanst. De krankzinnige meerstemmigheid, die uit deze monstercanon van dansende...

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Yasmeen Godder lets contrast between frightened individual and roaring group animal linger too much in dancers' minds

Dancers by Yasmeen Godder - photo Itzik Giuli
Ze zit op haar knieën. Schokkend en trillend deinst ze achteruit. Met klauwende vingers die in het luchtledige lijken te grijpen. Als een bange kat. Schuifelend beweegt de danser zich achterwaarts in een halve cirkel op de witte toneelvloer van Theater Kikker. Eén voor één stappen de vijf anderen het lege open speelvlak op, terwijl de eerste danser angstig het publiek blijft aankijken. Zo begint 'Storm end come'. Met deze voorstelling toont de Israë...

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"It would be very weird if you weren't allowed to laugh at a performance"

A shy, unassuming man, who transforms on stage into a brilliant clown and artist at the same time. You can't get more typically British than choreographer and dancer Jonathan Burrows. He has achieved cult status in the dance world, and it is actually strange that his performances do not reach a wider audience. Although he himself says he has no shortage of audience members... 

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Cesc Gelabert revives dance innovation

Cesc Gelabert Cesc Gelabert is een aparte verschijning in de wereld van de moderne dans. De Catalaan met Duitse roots maakt er een gewoonte van om repertoire uit de hete periode van de dansvernieuwing levend te houden, door er decennialang mee rond te trekken langs theaters en festivals. Dus geen Assepoester en Zwanenmeer voor deze innemende perfectionist, maar danspassen uit… 

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How do you bring a river on stage?

De opening van Springdance was een mooie, aaneengesloten beweging, van links naar rechts over het toneel van de Utrechtse Stadsschouwburg. Vooraf aan het optreden sprak Wijbrand Schaap met choreograaf Guilherme Botelho over dit bijzondere dansstuk. … Je kunt nu inloggen om verder te lezen! Welkom in het archief van Cultuurpers! Als lid heb je toegang tot alle, meer dan 4000… 

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'I want to make the perpetrator relive the death of his victim.' Jens van Daele makes dance out of cruelly disturbed art project

Foto: Judith Zwikker Jens van Daele sluit zijn reeks choreografieën over de zeven hoofdzonden af met de voorstelling Brides for Peace. Het stuk is gebaseerd op de kunstperformance Brides on Tour van de Italiaanse kunstenaars Pippa Bacca en Silvia Moro. Liftend en gekleed in bruidsjurken, met een tekst ‘Peace’ op hun borst, trokken zij in 2008 van Milaan naar Jeruzalem.… 

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Springdance 2011 presents programme. The Dodo is there.

On Thursday 14 April, the Springdance festival 2011 opens with the opening performance Sideways Rain by choreographer Guilherme Botelho and his company Alias in the Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. Springdance 2011 presents innovative and high-profile contemporary dance from around the world. Besides many premieres, the festival has an extensive fringe programme including street performances, lectures, an introduction to contemporary dance for budding... 

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'Stardust' by Pete Rogie is great stream of little stories about encounters, confrontations, disappointments and lonely moments #dekeuze

Anyone who walks into the venue where choreographer/visual artist Piet Rogie's performance 'Stardust' is to take place is immediately astonished. In the vacant exhibition hall of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, ropes are stretched, it is teeming with seemingly carelessly scattered props and four cement mixers stand along the side like implacable sentinels. The whole space radiates that things are getting exciting. And the viewer is not disappointed with that.

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