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Four new duets from Greece, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden
As part of our dance festival DansFunk 3.0 and our four year EU project Europe Beyond Access we proudly present four new duets choreographed by Roser López Espinosa, Diego Tortelli, Stefan Ernst and Venetsiana Kalampaliki for Skånes Dansteater, Holland Dance Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre and Oriente Occidente.
Program Mixed Doubles
Fine Lines, Skånes Dansteater
The work of Roser López Espinosa is based on strong physicality, with a great passion for precision, delicacy, acrobatic elements and detail. A lively and playful physical universe of refined poetics and often a touch of humour.
The new duet Fine Lines is a dialogue between two exceptional women. A meeting shedding light on the fine lines between us, reminding us of our differences, our boundaries, the outlines of our intentions. But what brings us closer together? What do we want to celebrate in each other? On stage, two women. So delicate, so powerful.
Re-call, Onassis Stegi
What kinds of identity do moving bodies bear? In the work Re-call, choreographer Venetsiana Kalampaliki focuses on the identity of the body and on how it is shaped both by the past and by each moment in the present. In a stripped-back scenic environment, the very bodies of the dancers – pitted against time with every step – play the principal roles. Through repetitive movements, moments of pause and acts of walking, the performers define their routes and manifest fleeting stories that fade away like traces in the sand. With her gaze fixed firmly on each separate individual, and taking precision and simplicity as her guide, the choreographer creates human portraits and explores the meaning of the moment as a dimension, both temporal and spatial.
FEELING GOOD, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival
A circle, a square and, in the centre, an emblematic figure of a man. References to The Vitruvian Man are evident and visible and this can lead to criticism and controversy, but if we simply do not dwell on the image itself and what the eye can observe, but simply to its poetics and meaning we find the desire for a body that experiences connecting with itself and its surroundings, both on a rational and emotional level.
These are the starting points of FEELING GOOD a duet about the ability to “be” and “feel”, a skill of contemporary dance that does not reign in a canonical form of perfection, but that finds its “being” in the acceptance of oneself, of one’s own strength and fragility which is not dictated by a symmetrical form of thinking, but which looks at the diversity of every human being in an asymmetrical way, since only diversity can destroy an idea of “canonical” beauty, which no one can please because there can be no universal model of “beauty”.
Momentum, Holland Dance Festival & SALLY Dansgezelschap Maastricht
Invited by Holland Dance Festival, SALLY Dansgezelschap Maastricht created captivating duet Momentum. In Momentum two dancers dive into their moment of encounter, to the music of Henryck Gorecki. In this intimate duet, both dancers are instrumental to the course and dynamics of the dance. They are fully open to each other, guide and follow one another and flawlessly complement each other in their physical presence. Emotion, affection and energy merge together in one instant. One moment.
Performed at Skånes Dansteater
18-19 Nov, 7 pm
Performance duration: 90 mins incl interval
World premiere Feb 6, 2020 at Holland Dance Festival.
Tickets
Tickets to the performances of Mixed Doubles at Skånes Dansteater will be for sale from April.
Tour 2020
Holland Dance Festival, The Netherlands, Feb 6-8
Kalamata Dance Festival, Greece, July 16-17
Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, Italy, Sept 7-12
About Europe Beyond Access
Since 2018 Skånes Dansteater has been a partner in the European collaborative programme Europe Beyond Access – a project running until 2022 supporting inclusive performing arts practices and offering the European audience more unique performances with European artists with and without disabilities.
Mixed Doubles is a co-production by Skånes Dansteater, Holland Dance Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre and Oriente Occidente. as part of Europe Beyond Access.
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