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NDT 2 presents new work by Tom Weinberger

Photo: Edwin Paree

Choreographer Tom Weinberger and the NDT 2 dancers created a new work, specially made for locations outside the traditional theater set-up. Projects like these offer us as a company new perspectives and creative discoveries. In September 2021, the premiere of Tom Weinberger’s work for NDT 2 finally became reality in the Grote Kerk in Veere. This work was danced again on Saturday October 2 during the Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Days) 2021 in Maastricht.


			


		

	



	

		

			


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“He asks us to question: who are we? What is real and what is not real? Tom has created a poignant study on the human condition. Specifically created for an alternative location, this work supports our focus to bring NDT to new and diverse audiences.”

				
					Emily Molnar
											
    
																				

									
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The Most Fascinating Problem In The World is constructed to the lecture Myth of myself by philosopher Alan Watts. The performers give life to the ideas surfaced by Mr. Watts as they illustrate them with their bodies, seeking to bridge between the text and the observer. Using the musicality mannerism, humor and irony in Watts’s speech the performers offer a light and intense physical interpretation for the themes brought forward by Watts. Finding ways of expressing an ever pungent point, that all that exists is related to, and is a part of one whole cosmic weave.


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		Grote Kerk Veere. Dancers: Sophie Whittome, Kenedy Kallas, Austin Meiteen, Juiting Yu, Emmitt Cawley, Kele Roberson, Auguste Palayer, Barry Gans, Annika Verplancke. Photo: Edwin Paree	
			

		

	

		

					

				

					
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CHOREOGRAPHY

Tom Weinberger


TEXT

Alan Watts – Myth of Myself Full Lecture Part 1 – Alan Watts Organization Official


REHEARSAL DIRECTORS

Francesca Caroti, Lydia Bustinduy


ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER

Milena Twiehaus


LIGHT

Tom Weinberger


COSTUMES

Yolanda Klompstra


MUSIC

Johannes Brahms, played by Yo Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 9: II Adagio affettuoso. Published by Sony Music B.V.

Johan Sebastian Bach, played by Glenn Gould: Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827: VI. Scherzo. Published by Sony Music B.V.

New compositions by Matan Daskal.


SOUND DESIGN

Matan Daskal


WORLD PREMIERE 

17 September 2021, Grote Kerk Veere


DURATION

25-30 minutes


CAST

Austin Meiteen, Auguste Palayer, Ivo Mateus, Kele Roberson, Emmitt Cawley, Barry Gans, Jui-Ting Yu, Annika Verplancke, Sophie Whittome, Kenedy Kallas

			


			

			

				

			

					
“He realizes then

that you are something that the whole world is doing


just as when the sea

has waves on it

alright the sea the ocean is waving


and so each one of us

is a waving of the whole cosmos

the entire works

all there is


and with each one of us

its waving and saying

YOHOO

here I am

only it does it differently each time

because variety is the spice of life”


Myth of myself – Alan Watts.

			


			

		

	

	

	

		

			

	

		
	




	
		Grote Kerk Veere. Dancer: Sophie Whittome. Photo: Edwin Paree	
		

	






	

		

			
			

					
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