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20120225
The new performance MAKES PEOPLE TALK is on tour in the Netherlands. This performance is a trio for graduate students at Codarts Rotterdam and Artez Arnhem and is a part of the An Evening With Tim Persent.
26-28 Januari 2012 in Korzo, The Hague
13-15 April in Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
24 April in Goudse Schouwburg, Gouda
26 April in Kunstmin, Dordrecht
9 May in Het Park, Hoorn
11+12 May in Toneelschuur, Haarlem
17 May in Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam
23 May LAK theater, Leiden
20120206
GRIND on tour in the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany. In February and March GRIND will be performed in Tilburg, Gronigen and Rotterdam. There after in Malmö, Essen and Berlin. Se calender for dates.
20111207
The premiere of GRIND in Stockholm is coming up. GRIND is a collaboration with lighting designer Minna Tiikkainen and sound designer David Kiers. The premiere will be held at Weld in Stockholm on 16+17+18 December with subsequent shows in the spring of 2012 (see calender).
20110926
Brazil! The trio Kneeding will go on tour in Brazil. We will dance and sweat in three cities and festivals, starting in Belo Horizonte on 1+2 November, moving on to Sao Paulo on 5+6 November and finishing in Panorama Festival in Rio de Janeiro on 9+10 November. I will also teach a workshop in how to knead in Sao Paulo on 3+4 November.
20110925
Stockholm! The Blanket Dance - a collaboration between Frederic Gies, DD Dorvillier and myself - will be presented at MDT in Stockholm on 11+12 October. During the days after, on the 14+15 October THE WAY THINGS GO - my piece from 2009 - will be danced by the Cullberg Ballet in Kulturhuset in Stockholm. For this occasion, and maybe more to come, the original choreography will be performed by nine dancers instead of five, during walk-in-walk-out situation in one of Kulturhuset’s gallery spaces.
20110821
During sommer.bar in Berlin, in the context of Tanz im August, I have been given a carte blanche. For this occasion I have decided to present the performance Kneeding. So for all of you who have not seen it, please do come. It will take place at 22.00 on the 27th of August in Podewil, and I can recommend Margrets Sara Gudjonsdottir's Soft Target, which will be presented at 21.00, while you are at it. And after our show there is the closing party of sommer.bar.
20110202
Premiere of The Blanket Dance, a collaboration between Frederic Gies, DD Dorvillier and Jefta van Dinther. The performance will be presented in Frascati Amsterdam on 16+17+18 February, in Tanzquartier Vienna on 11+12 March and in HAU Berlin on 17+18+19 March.
20101211
Living Room Festival in Berlin and Madrid simultaneously between 20-23 December. Check out or program and be fast to reserve, cause the places are limited.
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20101130
Great review on Kneeding, written by Anna Ångström in Svenska Dagbladet on November 25. Click here for the review on Svenska Dagbladets website.
20101103
Kneeding will be presented in Weld, Stockholm on 24+25 November and in Sophiensaele in Berlin on 2+3 December.
20101029
We are playing our last shows of IT'S IN THE AIR in Helsinki during festival Moving in November on October 30th and 31st.
20100805
DD Dorvillier, Frederic Gies and Jefta van Dinther will be teaching a workshop at Fabrik Potsdam in the context of festival Herbstleuchten. The workshop is a parallel development of The Blanket Dance, a work that focuses on the non-linguistic power of touch in order to highlight it as a primary means of producing sense in the world. In the workshop they will teach physical practices that are used in the making of the piece with the same name (premiere February 2011). The practices from The Blanket Dance continue the formulation of aesthetic, social, emotional and philosophical questions and propose expanded ways of developing physical awareness and critical thinking through the senses, in particular through the sense of touch. The workshop is a means of sharing work with audiences and colleagues, proposing physical practices not only as training for the body, but as a frame for discourse on the subject of touch, society, dance and art.
20100613
Jefta will start a first research phase on a new project during a residency at WELD in Stockholm. The project is an artistic collaboration between light-designer Minna Tiikkainen and himself, and will research on the interaction between light and body: on the movements that this interaction generates and/or seems to generate. In the project they search for assemblages of perceptive/sensorial effects that take place in a body’s relation to light, which border on the invisible, intangible and unintelligible. What exactly a viewer experiences - be it light or body - is not so clear, nor very important. Instead, they look for a fusing of the elements, creating situations in which light and body concretely start to interact, and where one becomes indistinguishable from the other. Alongside this "co-existence" runs the subject of productivity as an expression. A performance as machine. An active working place where events are produced, and where a causal production is tacit. But where at a closer scrutiny, the machinery, including all the preparation and surplus expression, is a creation of productivity itself. Where in fact every moment is an orchestrated choreography.
20100613
Upcoming show of IT'S IN THE AIR in the context of the festival Joint Adventures in Munchen on August 9th.
20100510
Next shows of IT'S IN THE AIR will be during Dansand on the beach in Oostende, i.e. outside version on July 1+2.
20100509
I am starting to get a hang of this. Don't mind mistakes yet.