Reflection in Motion – Part 2
ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN TANZ DER HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND TANZ KÖLN
Fragment Symphonique
Dance: Pamela Banchetti, Ana Isabel Vieira Carvalho, Lena Valentina Hauth, Rita Maria Klos, Lea Marie Neumayer, Andrès Felipe Gonzalez Patarroyo, Elin Tezel
Choreographic Mentoring: Adonis Nebié
In a world that is in constant motion, the space of the individual in its entirety has become a central theme. The question arises as to the place that each individual occupies in relation to the group, society in all its diversity. Questions relating to belonging go hand in hand with self-assertion as an individual.
NATIONAL BALLETSCHOOL OF CANADA
A Major
Choreography: Kiara Flavin
Performance & choreography: Emily Web, Theodor Bimer
Dramaturgical support: N/A
Music composition & mix: Cello Concerto in A-major, Wq. 172:3. Allegro assai, performed by Lucerne Festival Strings, Pierre Fournier, Rudolf Baumgartner, written by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, produced by Hans Ritter, source: Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
Rehearsal assistant: Keith Morino
Lighting design: Theo Belc
Costumes: Canada’s National Ballet School Wardrobe Team
I’m curious where that glorious feeling of dancing to your favourite song lives inside the balletic form. I believe the joy that sent us spinning around our living room to ABBA (or whomever) as a child, lives inside the discipline that brings us to stand at the barre everyday. Rococo composer Carl Philip Emanuel Bach’s melody is an invitation to dance. This piece aims to create a meeting place between the simple joy of dancing and the complex beauty of ballet.
BALLETTSCHULE DES HAMBURG BALLETT
Self-Portrait
Choreography: Martyna Wrzesinska, Melissa Koivuaho, Javier Martínez
Dance: Maia Weisinger Braun, Jacqueline Lane, Bernadette Sinues
Music: Clark, Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, Bonkers Beat Club, Eden Avery and Marten Moses
Rehearsal director: Gigi Hyatt
A choreographic exploration of process, of what there is to discover of ourselves:
As I have loved, I have hated. People told me I am good and also, that I am not good at all. I am. I just am.
TAIPEI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS TAIWAN
A White Night
Choreography: Xiaoxiong Zhang
Dance: Tzu-Yu Chou and Chi-Hsun Chen
Music: Alexander Waite Mitchell
Costume Designer: Chien-Wei Wu
Re-light Designer: Boon-Ann Goh
Commissioned by DanceArt Hong Kong – premiered at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in 2009
My reticence is a wall
One that is rusted by time
My wall
And the moss exist together
I use my reticence
To help flourish and grow
Xiaoxiong Zhang
BCDC BUDAPEST CIRCUS ARTS AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE COLLEGE
Insides and Outsides
Choreography and performance: Dorka Guba, Lea Kiss
This duo attends to string improvisation, composition, and prescribed material together to embrace and challenge the interplay of the clarity and ambiguity of the improvised moment, emerging composition, and re-explored structure. The idea of the piece was conceived in a compositional class that explored the possibilities of reciprocities of improvisational scores and choreography. Dorka and Lea reimagined and reinvestigated the tasks and created a work that places choreography between improvisation and structure and the intricate dialogues of movements, spatial patterns, and the two moving bodies.
FOLKWANG UNIVERSITÄT DER KÜNSTE
Present Continuous
Choreography: Jakub Truszkowski
Dance: Julia Farkas, Maja Kowalik, Eugenia Labuhn, Thor Galileo Silva Lago, Daniel Lapko, Maria Alegria Poppel Lubeigt, Erika Polifroni, Maria Teresa Ruggerio, Julia Marie Turnage
Music: Johann Michael Haydn, Hildur Guonadottir, Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Scarletti
In Present Continuous, together with the group of 4th year students, we went through the process of creating a personal choreographic language from the limited pool of a shared movement vocabulary. As with the language of words, we engaged with the task of developing and articulating a shared ,dictionary of movement’. By accepting the limitations of this selection as a guide to our creativity, we used it as a means of developing and expressing individual ,storylines’ and identifying the points of encounter.
STAATLICHE BALLETTSCHULE BERLIN
Mare Crisium
Choreography: Arshak Ghalumyan
Rehearsal directors: Arshal Ghalumyan, Krasina Pavlova
Dance: Irmak Akartuna, Paulina Blum, Saaya Iwata, Karen Malatesta, Nina Nashiki, Antea Parodi, Mao Yakushiji, Yuktake Hiyori
Music: Karl Jenkins
Premiere: Staatsballett Berlin / Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2019
Experience Mare Crisium, a captivating ballet piece. It’s a celestial ode to feminine energy and power, inspired by the lunar and enchanting music of Karl Jenkins, a celestial journey of strength and grace.
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