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

Vloeistof

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

Nikita Maheshwary

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

Leïla Ka

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

Connor Schumacher

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

Not on this Earth

Keren Rosenberg & Charlie Prince

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

Sophie Mayeux

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.

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.

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

Random Collision & University of Groningen

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

Lois Alexander

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

Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen

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

Igor Vrebac

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

Ibon Salvador Bikandi

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

Singer Songwriter Simon Keats

Listen to the live music of Simon Keats

Körper

NEON

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

HEROES

Igor Vrebac

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

Choreopop

Jesús de Vega & Chai Blaq / Loulou Elisabettie

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.

Dancetalk: Merel Heering

An aftertalk by Merel Heerink

Emotional Porn – Exhibition of the Self

Rosenberg, Sacharias & Cavalazzi

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.

Lullaby

Annemijn Rijk & Piet Van Dycke

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

The Beauty of Falling Apart

Hilde Elbers & Heather Ware

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

Ingrid Berger Myhre & Lasse Passage

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

Exhibition

Connor Schumacher

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

Chameleon

Joseph Simon

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.