Festival - Moving Futures

Dance Before You Go: Progress Is Moving!

Train the body and mental space to access both aliveness and freedom of movement!

Building Bridges Film

Building Bridges is a film about making connections between people and cultures. A film by Joeri Verhoeven about his brother & urban dancemaker Ruben Chi. “Over the sky above the sea from the sun to the moon There need to be a connecting bridge That is not built of cement and steel ribs, Neither is […]

Contextprogramma

With these programmes, contemporary dance can be viewed from a different angle.

Ballet Russe

Joseph Simon

Ballet Russe is a duet verging between ballet and house dance.

As Much As It Is Worth

Marta & Kim

In As much as it is worth two performers find themselves in an off-balance situation.

Loser

OSA+MUJIKA

Loser is about the constant need to show a perfect life, in order to fill an endless void.

Cold Hawaii

Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen

In the dunes of Cold Hawaii, a lonesome body is caught in a constantly moving body wave.

Re:Born

Annemijn Rijk

A short dance film about getting up.

Show Me

The100Hands

A performance on looking, seeing and being seen.

STRANGER

Karel Tuytschaever / BARRY

From one male body, Karel explores in STRANGER different concepts on the man.

I STILL REMAIN X

Judith Clijsters

With a nod to the world of games, composer / musician Patrick Housen and dancer / choreographer Judith Clijsters battle with their demons.

Practice-led seminar: The post\human in performance

In this practice-led seminar, we want to experience and discuss the implications of posthumanism, cyborgs and robots on performance.

AURA

Moreno Perna

In AURA, the ecstatic dance creates a charged atmosphere. Moreno Perna and Evgenia Rubanova perform a Shamanistic Techno Ritual that stimulates the audience to open their senses and enable catharsis.

Not on this earth – The Void of Longing

Keren Rosenberg

Not on this Earth – The Void of Longing is a physical and spiritual journey that seeks to bring the body back in time – to its primal roots, to its essential form: boundless and pure.

Neptune

Lois Alexander

What can water teach us about change, about letting go of old systems? Surrounded by melting ice blocks, Lois Alexander explores the structures that have influenced women of colour throughout history.

Tremble

Andreas Hannes

In Tremble, a group of dancers embarks on a journey without a destination. They move across the stage by drawing geometrical patterns and falling in and out of rhythm.

Abandoned Women / Verlaten Vrouwen

A playful dance-performance about the spectrum of the experience of “being a woman”

Mind the Body

A humorous physical solo performance about the connection between the head and the body

see me notice you

Slightly uneasy, lighthearted and heartwarming location performance by Arnhemse Meisjes and Rosine Langbroek

Moving Sounds

Ruben Chi

A dynamic urban dance performance through stories and rhythms.

Context Program for Artists: ‘Building a Sustainable Practice’

Dance professionals are invited at Dansmakers Amsterdam to join a work session about the Sustainable Practice.

Swirling Dance Act & Aperitif

The first day of the Moving Futures festival in Amsterdam will start festively with a welcome drink, snacks and a surprise dance act by CHRONOS, danced by students of the Academy for Theatre and Dance.

Dance workshop DIFF Dance Centre

Dance workshop for everyone, with or without dance experience. By one of the teachers of DIFF Dance Centre.

Introduction contemporary dance – Sanne Wichman

An interactive introduction to contemporary dance by Sanne Wichman.

Live poetry by Wout Waanders

Wout Waanders will perform live poetry after the performances.

Art, the body and identity

Annelie David, former dancer and choreographer (Het Nationale Ballet, Stichting Pure Dance Company, Danswerkplaats) will discuss changes in contemporary dance and the relationship to the body with dance collective NEON (‘Körper’).

Life-line

In an interactive way we will explore our relationship to the body. How do we relate to our body? Do we feel home?

(Wo)man vs. Machine

How do you turn a robot into a human being? What movements is a robot capable of? Puppet player and theatre maker Tim Hammer researches this topic. Together with dancer Fernanda (Arnhemse Meisjes) and writer Martin Rombouts he will, together with the audience, research the topic of realistic movement by a machine.

Monumentum

Monumentum is a 360-Dance Video installation viewed within VR-Glasses. You as an active observer take a position close to the skin. Viewed from a ground level shot: the dancers appear like Cathedrals around you. You will be part of the Monumentum.

NO STATEMENT

Karel Tuytschaever / BARRY

Karel Tuytschaever has two starting points for this installation: a specific situation and an individual approach. From De Nieuwe Vorst as home theater – her historical, social and aesthetic context – and with the body as a medium, he invites people to watch.

Umrao&Me

Umrao&Me is an innovative lecture performance in which Nikita shared with the audience personal letters she wrote to the legendary early 20th century Indian Tawaif performer (courtesan) Umrao Jaan Ada on what it means to be a woman artist in present day society.

STRANGER (studiopresentation)

Karel Tuytschaever / BARRY

STRANGER flirts with the various sub-personalities of the phenomenon man, and tries to refocus the male image. This performance connects dance with film and exposes the perspectives of one vulnerable male body.

Talent Talks: Dance & Film

How do you actually make a good dance film?

Dance&Dare Expo

Read and see the results of the innovative writing course.

Wax Me Apart

Like spiderwebs containing remains, ossified bodies that preciously had once been there, Wax Me Apart is an exploration of a time-clash that takes place in a particular time and space.

Meal with Artists

Eat with the artists at the festival and enjoy a tasty vegetarian meal or burger.

SHOW ME (Try-out on location)

The100Hands are in the middle of creating SHOW ME (première this Summer!) and would like to invite you to a test-session.

STAND

The100Hands

In STAND (STAAN) the core members of The100Hands test each other’s ability to keep standing to the very limit.

Pode Ser

In Pode Ser Leïla Ka combines theatre, hip-hop, and contemporary dance. In a solo boxing match about borders, aspirations, and chaos, she researches the relations between the individual and the world.

Cinedans 2019

As partner of Moving Futures, again Cinedans put together a special dance filmprogram. The program is based on the different themes and subjects of the performances in the festival. Shorter films from different choreographers and directors are screened.

The Fool Plays With Himself

The Fool welcomes you! This character is designed and performed by Connor Schumacher.

Not on this Earth

In this duet, the dance artists Keren Rosenberg and Charlie Prince reflect on the geo-political boundaries that have been imposed on them.

Die Verwandlung

After the short version of Die Verwandlung, inspired by the book of Franz Kafka, Sophie Mayeux explores in a new performance the evolutionary process of the species.

Femke Verbeten – Cosmic Latte

A small pop-up dance performance

The PREformance Act – Arnhemse Meisjes

De Arnhemse Meisjes will prepare you for an evening full of contemporary dance.

Notes on Synchrony

In this living laboratory of brain and movement research, the audience witnesses the collision of two very different disciplines exploring the same phenomenon: inter-brain synchrony.

Fading Fire

Fading Fire takes on the theme of fire. This piece confronts the complexities between nature and humans. It is an exploration on balance, tension, and reaction.

Hope & Heavy Metal

Existing perceptions around the female body are stretched in this musical dance solo by Sigrid Stigsdatter (1990, DM), winner Moving Forward Trajectory 2017/18. How does the body deal with anger and sensuality? Hope & Heavy Metal is a legitimate attempt to recover the mastery over the body. In collaboration with musician & visual artist Juliet Aaltonen.

Seminar: The significance of the body in performance

De Nieuwe Oost, ArtEZ Bachelor of Dance and NCPA organize a practice-led seminar on how contemporary dance and performance address the body and physicality and how this resonates in our current society.

Blur #1

In Blur #1 Ibon Salvador Bikandi explores the borders of the human body.

Körper

In Körper (winner Amsterdam Fringe Award 2018) dance collective NEON questions the unconscious way most of us live our lives.

Singer Songwriter Simon Keats

Listen to the live music of Simon Keats

HEROES

In this tribute to women the Bosnian-Dutch artist Igor Vrebac examines the strength of the female body.

Choreopop

Musician Chai Blaq and choreographer Jesús de Vega collaborate in this multidisciplinary project with the aim of merging two disciplines and their creative processes. They both find inspiration in things that seem broken: society, relationships, climate, bodies etc.

Emotional Porn – Exhibition of the Self

Performer/choreographer Keren Rosenberg, visual artist Tony Markus Sacharias and filmmaker Nicola Cavalazzi create an immersive physical and virtual interface between the human body, image and performance. In this first interdisciplinary collaboration of dance & visual art installation, these three artists invite the audience to reflect on their own perception of identity.

Dancetalk: Merel Heering

An aftertalk by Merel Heerink

Lullaby

Annemijn Rijk

Lullaby is a danced, contemporary lullaby that focuses on the current millenial problem: the idea that life should always be fun.

Bored To Death

Judith Clijsters

Bored To Death is about how much we ask of ourselves and how passive our body becomes of that. Judith Clijsters translates the overquestioning of our thinking into physical movement and seeks, breaks and surrenders. Until she changes her strategy and dares to look at who and what has always been.

The Beauty of Falling Apart

The Beauty of Falling Apart is an uncanny and yet seductively precise exercise in how two individuals strive to find trust, to inhabit the thin edge of being ‘just safe enough.’

Panflutes & Paperwork

‘Panflutes and Paperwork’ is a collaboration between choreographer Ingrid Berger Myhre and composer Lasse Passage.

Exhibition

‘Exhibition’ by Connor Schumacher is the culmination of professional en personal experiences from 2016 in which the theme ‘relationships’ is central.

Chameleon

Can I be a chameleon? And if so, what would it look like if I transform into different colours?In ‘Chameleon’ choreographer/dancer Joseph Simon researches the different movement languages he himself embodies.

Joseph Simon, Annemijn Rijk

Day 3 Rotterdam: Re:Born / Mind the Body / Ballet Russe

Sunday 22 Mar 2020 15:30 Tickets

Joseph Simon, Marta & Kim, Lois Alexander

Day 1 Arnhem: Neptune / Ballet Russe / As Much As It Is Worth

Wednesday 25 Mar 2020 20:30 Tickets

, Ruben Chi

Day 2 Arnhem: Première day Ruben Chi & Arnhemse Meisjes

Thursday 26 Mar 2020 20:00 Tickets

Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen, Judith Clijsters

Day 3 Arnhem: Mind the Body / I Still Remain X / Cold Hawaii

Friday 27 Mar 2020 20:00 Tickets

Day 1 Den Haag: See Me Notice You / Mind the Body / Cold Hawaii

Thursday 23 Apr 2020 19:30 Tickets

Day 2 Den Haag: Neptune / Tremble

Friday 24 Apr 2020 19:30 Tickets

Day 3 Den Haag: Ballet Russe | Re:Born | Not on this Earth – The Void of Longing

Saturday 25 Apr 2020 19:30 Tickets

Andreas Hannes, Joseph Simon, Marta & Kim

Day 1 Utrecht: Ballet Russe / Tremble / As Much As It Is Worth / Café Theatre Festival

Tuesday 28 Apr 2020 20:00 Tickets

Day 2 Utrecht: see me notice you

Wednesday 29 Apr 2020 19:15 Free

Lois Alexander, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen

Day 2 Utrecht: Neptune / Cold Hawaii

Wednesday 29 Apr 2020 20:00 Tickets

Andreas Hannes

Day 1 Nijmegen: Tremble / Mind the Body

Thursday 07 May 2020 20:00 Tickets

Joseph Simon, Ruben Chi, Marta & Kim

Day 2 Nijmegen: Ballet Russe / Moving Sounds / As Much As It Is Worth

Friday 08 May 2020 20:00 Tickets

, Judith Clijsters, Lois Alexander

Day 3 Nijmegen: Verlaten Vrouwen / Neptune / I Still Remain X

Saturday 09 May 2020 20:00 Tickets

Marta & Kim, Lois Alexander, Ruben Chi

Day 1 Tilburg: As Much As It Is Worth / Neptune / Moving Sounds

Tuesday 12 May 2020 20:00 Tickets

Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen, Keren Rosenberg

Day 2 Tilburg: Cold Hawaii / Not on this Earth

Wednesday 13 May 2020 19:00 Tickets

Annemijn Rijk, Judith Clijsters, Andreas Hannes

Day 3 Tilburg: Re:Born / I STILL REMAIN X / Tremble

Thursday 14 May 2020 19:00 Tickets

Andreas Hannes

Day 1 Groningen: Mind the Body / Tremble

Saturday 16 May 2020 20:00 Tickets

Lois Alexander, Annemijn Rijk, Joseph Simon

Day 2 Groningen: RE: Born / Neptune / Ballet Russe

Sunday 17 May 2020 20:00 Tickets

Andreas Hannes, Karel Tuytschaever / BARRY

Day 1 Breda: Tremble / STRANGER

Friday 05 Jun 2020 20:00 Tickets

Annemijn Rijk, Judith Clijsters, Keren Rosenberg, Karel Tuytschaever / BARRY

Day 2 Breda: Re:Born / I STILL REMAIN X / Not on this Earth / STRANGER

Saturday 06 Jun 2020 20:00 Tickets

, Ruben Chi

Day 1 Amsterdam: see me notice you / Mind the Body / Moving Sounds

Wednesday 10 Jun 2020 20:00 Tickets

Marta & Kim, Judith Clijsters, Lois Alexander

Day 2 Amsterdam: As Much as it is Worth / I Still Remain / Neptune

Thursday 11 Jun 2020 20:00 Tickets

Keren Rosenberg, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen

Day 3 Amsterdam: Dag 3 Amsterdam: Not on this Earth – The Void of Longing / Cold Hawaii

Friday 12 Jun 2020 20:00 Tickets

Joseph Simon, Moreno Perna

Day 4 Amsterdam: Ballet Russe / Mind the Body / Aura (Party)

Saturday 13 Jun 2020 20:00 Tickets