Reflection in Motion – Part 1
Embracing Authenticity and Celebrating Artistic Diversity
Over 100 dance students from eight state-run national and five international dance training institutions – from Budapest, Den Haag, Taipei, Toronto and Dakar – will present choreographies in the context of the 9th Biennale Tanzausbildung 2024 München national competition. The choreographies rehearsed in the final year of training will be performed in Munich’s Muffathalle. They offer an inspiring insight into diversity, high quality and artistic spectrum of dance training worldwide.
The performance series Reflection in Motion: Embracing Authenticity and Celebrating Artistic Diversity with six and seven pieces respectively present the work of dance students and offer a cross-section of works ranging from classical to contemporary, corresponding to the different profiles of the 13 dance universities in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America at which the students are enrolled.
BALLET ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC AND THEATRE MUNICH
Mirror
Choreography: David Russo with the dancers
Dance: Sofiia Danilovska, Lisa-Marie Deloye, Magdalena Knappe, Ekaterina Lifanova, Ilinca Nistor, Anastasiia Turianska, Daniel Chernyavskiy, Mykhailo Denysenko, Gabriele Gilardi, Kyle Lippoth
Rehearsal assistant: Rita Soares and Simone Geiger-Liebreich
Music: Yuval Seeberger
Costumes: Lucia Zettl
Mirror serves as a contemplation of values transcendent in storytelling, drawing parallels between life’s dualities and the timeless elements present in fairy tales. Drawing inspiration from childhood memories, we’ve crafted movement patterns and choreographic material influenced by the core values embedded in renown such as Snow White and less famous tales like the story of The Scorpion and the Frog, seamlessly weaving them together without a defined narrative. Within this exploration, fear, competition, and violence coexist with themes of courage, help, and caring, laying the groundwork for the potential beginnings of a new narrative or reflective echoes of another.
ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE DANCE THE HAGUE
Crisantemi
Choreography: Jan Linkens
Performance: Ellyne Knol, Wouter Smit
Music: Giacomo Puccini / Played by Bessler-Reis Quartett
Crisantemi was premiered in 1993, for two upcoming dancers with the Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam, Marieke Simons and Roger Janssen. Two dancers at the beginning of their career. Now, thirty years later, I pass it on to a new generation. Giacomo Puccini wrote the delicate composition Crisantemi in 1890, three years before his big success Manon Lescaut. Puccini’s music formed the inspiration for the choreography.
HOCHSCHULE FĂśR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST FRANKFURT AM MAIN
For long
Choreography: Nicole Beutler
Performance & choreography: Clémentine Cloux, Hyewon Cho, Emma Ibáñez Frau, David Schmidt, Marta Maestrelli, Ramon Ferracane, Sara Olivieri, Selina Hauptmann, Sonia Lautenbacher
Dramaturgical support: Igor Dobričić
Music composition & mix: Gary Shepherd
Rehearsal assistant: Pietro Gallo
Rehearsal director: Isaac Spencer
“Oh slow fish / Show me the way / O green weed / Grow me the way / The way you go / The way you grow / Is the way indeed / O bright sun / Light me the way/ The right way / The one / No one can say / If one can choose it / It is wrong / Sing me the way / O song / No one can lose it / For long” Ursula Leguin
We are in a web of connections, infinite but locally fragile, with and of everything, of all beings, including what we generally class as things, as objects. We hold the space for the complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, for paradoxes and failure. By trusting the space and the time of the encounter we will keep searching for the new ways to balance our togetherness – for long, for long, for long.
HOCHSCHULĂśBERGREIFENDES ZENTRUM TANZ BERLIN
Prototyping
Choreography and Performance: Suet Wa Tam, Anton Gerzina, Valentin Okutan, Milena Luise Stein, Frida Zack, Auro Orso, Nurilla Carillo Erra, Coco Watts, Kamilla-Monika Li, Sophia Obermeyer
Mentoring: Philipp Gehmacher, Colette Sadler
The improvement of our listening skills can be a first step towards the transformation of personal and collective communication patterns, even for society as a whole. This presentation deploys speculative conceptions of future as a means to create movements, to retrieve altered states of bodily perception, call up fictional bodies and explore fluid notions of time and space.
ÉCOLE DES SABLES
Beloved »Oui ou Non«
Choreography & Performance: Kezia Jonah
Voice over: Mame Seynabou
Light creation: Hermann Coulibaly
Slam poetry: Makua Joma
Composers: Willy Razafimanjary, DJ Elephant
Musicians: Jean Mermoz, Papisse Bouky, Wielfried Ambroise
Woman is the pillar of humanity. Through love, she gives life to man and instills in him the values that make him proud. Despite her inescapable importance to human existence, women unfortunately remain, for some people, a marginalized being. To remedy this, the fight must be led mainly by herself. All women are greatly deserving of love and respect.
Right of Nature
Concept & Performance: Ibrahim Niassy (Pisco)
Music: Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons, Baaba Maal
Sound creations: Kestro Beatmaking
Video Images: Captured by Zila (photographer)
Scenography: Pisco
Lighting design: Starting January 2nd 2024, Pisco will undertake a one-month residency between IF and the Château, working on lighting design in collaboration with Mr. Faly Diaw from the Théâtre Châtelet in Paris
Partners: ÉCOLE DES SABLES, INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE PARIS ET DU SÉNÉGAL, CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS DE PARIS, MUSÉE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE SAINT-LOUIS, SAINT-LOUIS SCHOOL OF DANCEThe Right of Nature project is an engaged dance aiming to raise awareness about environmental violations, with a focus on climate change and plastic waste in Senegal. Inspired by my training at the École des Sables, this choreography expresses my admiration and gratitude towards nature. In a world where natural resources are exploited, and biodiversity is at risk, it is essential to become aware of our responsibility towards the environment. Right of Nature offers a unique artistic approach to make the audience aware of the challenges we face. While providing practical solutions for engaging in the preservation of our planet, I aim to encourage the audience to reflect on their role as guardians of the Earth and to take positive steps to reverse the harmful trends threatening our ecosystem.
AKADEMIE DES TANZES DER STAATLICHEN HOCHSCHULE FĂśR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST MANNHEIM
The Smaller Room and Other Stories
Choreography: Quirin Brunhuber
Dance: Lara Ern, Eleonora Ricci, Natsuha Tonouchi, Tine Schmidt, Emily Pflumm, Eva Pijnenburg, Erin Phillips, Gianna Sargent
Music: Quirin Brunhuber, Lilian Mikorey: The Smaller Room I
Frédéric Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66, Daniil Trifonov
Quirin Brunhuber, Lilian Mikorey: Lovely Life
Quirin Brunhuber completed his master’s degree at the Akademie des Tanzes Mannheim in 2020. Since then, he has been working as a freelance choreographer and composer in Munich, experimenting with various artistic media. His creation delves into the complex fabric of human perception – playing with the interwoven delicate nuances that we absorb on a daily basis. It explores the subtle interaction between individuals and the intimate spaces that surround them, focusing on the essence of human relationships and the environments that shape and mould them.
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