De Dansers – Hold Your Horses – ph. Bart Grietens
Hold Your Horses by De Dansers can be seen as an ode to our versatile, longing arms, as well as a cry for help in an increasingly elusive world – NRC
The Fonderia is one of the few stops on the Italian tour of De Dansers, a Utrecht-based company that must be seen at least once in a lifetime.
Performance for children and adults.
Suggestion to health insurers: include a visit to this cheerful dance and music company in the standard health plan. It will significantly reduce the cost of antidepressants. Daily paper Theaterfestival Boulevard
Choreography: Josephine van Rheenen
Music (live): Guy Corneille
Made with and performed by Yeli Beurskens, Liam McCall, Youri Peters, Arturo Vargas, Marie Khatib-Shahidi, Noëmi Wagner, Yoko Haveman, Guy Corneille
Stage and lighting design: Timme Afschrift
Dramaturgy: Moniek Merkx
Costume design: Nicky Nina de Jong
A co-production by De Dansers and Theater Strahl Berlin
With the support of Gemeente Utrecht, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, K.F. Hein Fonds, Fonds 21, Schäxpir Festival
Running time: 1h
Hold Your Horses is an energetic and sensitive dance concert about the desire to hold on. De Dansers tell their story with twelve hands, including the accompanying bodies, and a few guitars. We see hands grasping, mistaking, touching, taking off, falling down and plucking guitar strings. We see passion and distance. We don’t see horses, although we do feel them. We see an unconstrained dance party, where the cry for help slowly creeps in.
De Dansers – Hold Your Horses – ph. Bart Grietens
Hold Your Horses is about the urge to hold on to something or someone, in a world that is becoming increasingly elusive. With a spectacular, acrobatic movement language, six performers trot on with full dedication, without losing human sensitivity. Suddenly we meet a personal dance solo, or we abruptly feel the tension between the group and the individual. As one body, the dancers move in a continuous flow, propelled by Guy Corneille’s live music full of compelling guitar compositions and moving songs.
Hold Your Horses was partly created in Berlin and premiered in Berlin and Utrecht in September/October 2021.
De Dansers is a company of dancers and musicians from Utrecht directed by choreographer/dancer Josephine van Rheenen and composer/musician Guy Corneille. Their performances are ‘dance concer ‘dance concerts’, a meeting of modern dance and live music on the theme of liberation from everything that can make the individual feel stuck, all in an atmosphere of playful anarchy.
Performances that recall the liveliness of children and the almost forgotten desire of adults to indulge in physical contact.
Josephine van Rheenen // Choreographer She studied dance at the Theaterschool in Amsterdam and, in parallel, performed as a dancer with De Dansers. After dancing for five years with De Dansers, Vloeistof and Breekgoed, she replaced Wies Merkx as artistic director of De Dansers together with Guy Corneille in 2014. Since then, she has created performances for children and adults for this company. As a choreographer, she is dedicated to the search for humanity in dance and a language of movement based on instinct. Openness, surrender and interaction are the keywords of her works.
Guy Corneille // Composer and musician He has been the artistic director of De Dansers together with Josephine van Rheenen since 2014. On stage he is a musician and physical performer at the same time. He also participates in the creation of choreographer Josephine van Rheenen’s performances as a composer and musical dramaturg. He studied sociocultural anthropology and has a background in pop with his indie band La Corneille. Her artistic interest is in communicating the physical and emotional experience, the improvisation typical of pop concerts and the accessibility of any music without being superficial
or of low quality. In 2017, Guy Corneille won a VSCD Gouden Krekel for his multi-performance in The Basement (De Dansers / Theater Strahl / Wies Merkx).
THEATER STRAHL BERLIN
Theater Strahl was founded in 1987 in Berlin as an independent theatre group and has been producing contemporary dance performances for young audiences in collaboration with international artists since 2013. With Theatrer Strahl, young people are involved in the selection and development of performances, thus actively coming into contact with the theatrical world.
TICKETS
Full price: 6 euro
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