Ieder jaar organiseren de dansers van NDT 1 en NDT 2 Switch: een uniek programma volledig samengesteld door de dansers, waarvan de gehele opbrengst naar een goed doel gaat. De editie van 2025 vindt plaats op 18 januari.
Bekijk het NDT 2-programma Lucid Variations ook als video on demand in Digitaal Theater.
Folkå – Marcos Morau
An untold story – Nadav Zelner
Beste dansliefhebbers,
Welkom bij het eerste NDT 2-programma van seizoen 2024-2025: Lucid Variations. We zijn blij dat je er bent.
Als huis van creatie zijn we niet alleen gepassioneerd om onze rijke historie te eren en samen te werken met gevestigde choreografen en kunstenaars, maar geloven we ook dat talentontwikkeling en het creëren van ruimte voor nieuwe stemmen in dans, ons definiëren als dansgezelschap. Vanavond zullen onze opkomende, buitengewoon talentvolle dansers, precies dat laten zien: een dynamische double bill, die de volgende generatie van danskunstenaars en makers in de spotlight zet.
We hernemen Folkå (2021) van internationaal gerenommeerd choreograaf Marcos Morau. Een pulserend visueel en auditief landschap vertelt het verhaal van een gemeenschap en diens rituelen en gebruiken. In deze tijd van polarisatie en het gebrek aan verbinding met onszelf en anderen, roept dit werk ons op om samen te komen, te bewegen, zingen en dansen om zo onze gezamenlijke doelen te behalen. Opbeurend, bevrijdend, transformatief.
We zijn ook erg trots om Nadav Zelner weer welkom te heten voor een expressieve wereldpremière. Na het euforische Bedtime story dat hij maakte voor NDT 2 in 2021, onderzoekt Zelner in het nieuwe werk An untold story zowel de hoogtepunten als de uitdagingen van het leven – in het bijzonder de ingewikkelde relatie met zijn vader. Met gebruik van humor, verrassende scènes, opvallende kostuums en opzwepende balkanmuziek, komt de complexe, razendsnelle choreografie tot leven en verleggen de dansers de grenzen van hun artistieke virtuositeit.
Ik wil Marcos, Nadav, onze partners, onze buitengewone dansers en ons toegewijde team danken voor hun werk, passie en inzet. En jou, voor je komst.
Geniet!
Emily Molnar
Artistiek Directeur
STAGED BY
Shay Partush
MUSIC
Composition / sound design by Juan Cristobal Saavedra, contains compositions: Condividiamo La Luna & Whisper: Kim Sutherland.
The London Bulgarian Choir led by Dessislava Stefanova: Mor’f Elenku, trad.; Izgreyala Yasna Zvezda, trad. arrangement by Dessislava Stefanova; Razbolyal Se E Mlad Stoyan by Kiril Todorov.
LIGHT DESIGN
Tom Visser
DECOR
Marcos Morau
COSTUMES
Silvia Delagneau
NDT REHEARSAL DIRECTOR
Ander Zabala
WORLD PREMIERE
November 4, 2021, Amare, The Hague
DURATION
±30 minutes
Nathan Allen, Maša Anić, Viola Busi, Conner Chew, Sophia Frilot, Joey Gertin, Eliana Hayward/Giovanna Doria, Ruth Lee, Miquel Martínez Pedro, Casper Mott, Nathanaël Plantier, Gabriele Rolle/Esmee Boevink, César Sautès-Vescovali, Rebecca Speroni
“The frenetic pace of contemporary life elicits us to stop for a moment and collect the legacy of time. Human beings, from their solitude, face the awareness of their finitude and the drama of not finding their definitive place in this world. This difficulty is in turn the gift that allows us to express ourselves and transmit our concerns from one generation to the next.
The person who leaves the cave versus the person who leaves their apartment in the 21st century is the same person that builds fictions where they do not find the answers that calm their spirit, asking themselves the same questions about life and death generation after generation. All fictions, from primitive rites to their manifestation in updated images, are developed in communion with the group.
Folklore is the expression of the customs and traditions of the peoples, it is the celebration of life and the honor of death through music, dance, symbols, legends or superstitions.
Folkå acts as a ceremony of our time that looks to the past to remind us that we continue to celebrate life, though mystical rites, here bathed in the fury of contemporaneity, where we continue to be part of an endless cycle.
Folkå is a song to life, a night of offering and celebration.”
– Marcos Morau
“Marcos’ movement language is very demanding. It’s isolating parts of your body, trying to dissect your anatomy and then, rebuilding it. The physicality is all encompassing, and by consequence, we evolve into something else entirely, haunting, and mystical. The journey of reviving Folkå has been a beautiful challenge filled with precision and detail. It has been thrilling trying to bring this piece back to life.
Guided by Shay, we entered a metamorphosis, arriving in a new self, looking through new eyes and waking up in an enchanted, dystopian world. With an audience, or without, this world exists. A ceremony celebrating birth and embracing the wildness within us. Despite the piece’s obscure climate, this ritual is somehow so human, maybe a reflection of things that exist within all of us.”
“Folkå is a piece that allows us to go through an extremely intense journey as a group of individuals. Marcos Morau has created a powerful world full of whispers and ritualistic pathos where a community of beings experiences loss of control, madness, fear, excitement and rebirth. The movement language and the music bring us in a dimension dominated by the conflict between feeling safe in a community and the desire to break out from it and express one’s individuality. This fills the piece with constant tension, vibration and contained energy with outbursts of freedom.
The process has been truly great, under Shay’s supportive guidance we entered this world and explored our individuality within this beautifully specific movement language. And Marcos pushed us to dive even deeper in the freedom we can find within the choreography and gave us the power to get in touch with the craziest and weirdest parts of us. I think this piece has connected us more as a group and will continue to do so throughout all the tours. I am so excited to see how we will grow with this on stage and what unknown sides of us will come out as we dive deeper into this world.”
MUSIC
Ionica Minune: Barbu Lǎutaru, Electrecord.
Henry Ernst (aka Adrian Sical) / Fanfare Ciocarlia: Doina Si cintec, Balaseanca De 8 Or, Piranha.
Taraf de Haïdouks: Dumbala Dumba, Rustem, Cintece De Jale, Crammed Discs.
Taraful Ciuleandra: Hora Staccatto / Ciocarlia, ARC Music Productions Int. Ltd.
Robert Schumann, Daniel Barenboim: Kinderszenen Op.15:7. Traumerei, Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin.
LIGHT DESIGN
Avi-Yona Bueno (Bambi)
DECOR
Eran Atzmon
COSTUMES
Maor Zabar
SOUND EDITOR
Matan Onyameh
NDT REHEARSAL DIRECTOR
Lydia Bustinduy
WORLD PREMIERE
October 24, 2024, Amare, The Hague
DURATION
±30 minutes
Cast A:
Nathanaël Plantier, Casper Mott, César Sautès-Vescovali, Miquel Martínez Pedro, Conner Chew, Rebecca Speroni, Viola Busi, Maša Anić, Giovanna Doria, Nathaniel Belnavis-Wright, Nathan Allen
Cast B:
César Sautès-Vescovali, Miquel Martínez Pedro, Nathanaël Plantier, Gabriele Rolle, Joey Gertin, Ruth Lee, Sophia Frilot, Casper Mott,
Eliana Hayward, Nathan Allen, Nathaniel Belnavis-Wright
My father said
Turn your pain into poetry
So I compose a lament
Like a fly stuck on the wall
Charmed by the bitter taste of rejection
Indulging in a glass of limoncello
I keep pouring myself
This spectacular party
Where everybody can be crushed
Proved to me that being happy is a martial art
– Nadav Zelner
“Nadav Zelner is a creator of universes. He is a human so full of life, humble, honest, and generous. Working with him has been a true pleasure and a huge challenge. His vitality and love for his work allow him to push the boundaries of the body and the mind in unimaginable ways. Surrendering to his way of working has allowed me to expand and find new paths within myself.
This new work is a kaleidoscope, various and changing. It is an ode to life, to all of it, the good, the bad and all the in between. There is space for celebration, fun, craziness and for oddness, intimacy, and vulnerability.
I would love for everyone who watches this piece to dive in with us, to surrender to the madness and to try to find all the little universes that compose the work, like shooting stars that appear and disappear in a fraction of a second.
Thank you Nadav for your generosity, thank you Lydia for your guidance and thanks to all my colleagues for their infinite support.
I hope you enjoy!”
“Working with Nadav Zelner is a fast-paced, electrifying dream, where a multitude of stories and symbols reign over a physicality in constant acceleration.
The buzzing sensation of each step, meticulously crafted from his mind to ours makes for a thrilling piece.
It is like a challenge, with oneself, with the audience, that generates wonders on stage.
In this neon yellow universe, where flies and Limoncello collide, you will find deep poetry floating in the air, bouncing from side to side, like a fly.”
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