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May 3 | all day
Motion on Screen
A sweet corner where you can watch dance films and interviews from artists who are active in the city. Put on the headset and immerse yourself!
Motion on Screen
May 3 | 11.30 - 19.00
Leave a Thing Room
During the festival we are offering a space for artistic donations. In here, you can write a poem, leave a message, record a movement, take a picture, draw on a canvas… Let your creativity flow!
Leave a Thing Room
May 3 | 11.30 - 12.30
Afro
A workshop led by Caissa Aartsen, one of our treasured team members of the festival. To take part of this workshop, you don’t need any previous experience. Come, have fun and get inspired! (Age 6+)
Workshops
May 3 | 11.30 - 12.30
Salsa
Don’t miss this passionate yet joyous workshop, led by Karin Karamat. Feel free to come alone or bring a dance partner, and get ready to move and enjoy the incredible view of the Stadsbalkon! (Age 14+)
Stadsbalkon
May 3 | 13.00 - 16.10
An eventful afternoon, filled with performances throughout the whole building!
Performances
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2 Weirdos by Olga Balińska and Chilton Galimo
13.00 - 13.10 at KennisMakerij
Two humans. In fact, two weirdos. Finding each other in space and making it even more weird. There is randomness. Playfulness. And of course weirdness. Or maybe it's just us being ourselves?
patchworks (in progress) by Lio Jakob
13.15 - 13.30 at Lamp Sky
sounds stitched together, forming a rhythm
creating a dance from the patchwork of movements
layers intertwine
overlap
in a tapestry of motion
a collage of moments that shapes our existence
as we keep on adding
to our patchworks in progress
Óleo, una tarde de alivio by Tesa Aviño
13.35 - 13.55 at Table on Tracks
Once, my mother had a bad day. I was playing the guitar for her and I normally play sad songs on the guitar. She just cut me off while playing and she told me: Please Teresa, sing something beautiful, something easy, something nice, joyful, dreamy, something that flies, something that makes you fall in love, sing a beautiful song.
My name is Helena, nice to meet you by Helena Alemany Ortiz
14.00 - 14.15 at StemmingMakerij
I have never considered myself a fearful person.
But I’ve recently realised that there are many things that scare me.
From a research on fragility and empowerment. I would be afraid of not feeling.
I actually just wanted to wear the blue shoes.
Confronting to have it in front of you, without humor everything would be too boring by María Sierra Carrión
14.20 - 14.25 at Balcony Entrance
my thoughts turned into a solo
Calestrina ladon (you’ve changed, but so have I) by Koen Engelen
14.30 - 14.45 at StemmingMakerij
Life hits you when you're just doing your thing and also caterpillars eat a lot.
(No) Cambiaré by Minka Konkol
14.30 - 14.45 at Balcony Entrance
Again you find yourself in
this dark room with all your
nightmares living in
it is so hard to leave this
home for too many years that you try to
forget and deny, pretend it’s
over or it never even happened, but you
slide
slide
back inside it's warm hug you know too
well that gives you comfort but you
forgot that it hangs on to you till you’re
trapped in its sweet arms for what seems like
forever that you try to find a way
out you can’t get from
here you’ll need to die again.
Trapped in its arms for what seems like forever.
Forever that you try to find a way out.
Out you can’t get from here.
Here you’ll need to die again.
The Odyssey ACT:I by Hayrik Martes
14.50 - 14.55 at StemmingMakerij
Recollecting Data 33347/62.2
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Am I programmed to move or is it my free will to do so…?
What happens when it takes control of my body…?
Will I be a puppet forever…?
NO!
I will… go against it and journey through the unknown…
I am not a…fraid…
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End message…
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ID - ODDS by Minoe Bossink, Loreen Jansen, Sem Hermans, Melissa van Wees, Naomi Stadwijk
15.00 - 15.25 at Stadsbalkon
ID-ODDS is een dansende weerspiegeling van een wereld vol unieke individuen met eigen kwaliteiten en gebreken, waarbinnen de mens verbinding zoekt door een ander op te zoeken, te botsen en te versmelten. Hoe kleur jij je eigen weg tussen allerlei verschillende persoonlijkheden?
Ga mee op deze reis en teken je eigen lijnen in een grote gekleurde wereld.
Meg til deg by Amisha Kumra
15.30 - 15.40 at Balcony Entrance
“Meg til deg” means “me to you” in Norwegian and reflects the cross cultures Amisha Kumra has grown up in as an Indian woman with movements from Kathak, contemporary, hiphop, house, popping and waacking. The essence of the piece is to react to the music in the purity of the moment.
el alivio by Katja Butković, Bongjin Jung, André Neto
15.45 - 15.55 at Stadsbalkon
Transcendental
thought that is here
and disappears
planted with a seed of tragedy
A salty feeling takes over my face
massaging my sternum
while I stand lost in the translation of my emotions
Lonely,
around people,
trying to find a way to reach out
I cover the ‘other’ with a gentle touch
hoping that one day it will fall
in the trap of hug
I have no answer,
just asked questions
Where are you?
When will you be here?
Yes, this is she by Cézanne Penders
16.00 - 16.10 at Table on Tracks
The phone rings. I answer. “Yes, this is she.” Schrödinger’s call. I hang up.
"Yes, this is she." is part of an ongoing research on transitions. It explores the spectrum of human emotions as subtle shifts in muscle tension and context reveal what’s behind the expression. All through the simple act of answering a phone call.
May 3 | 17.15 - 18.00
Playground Unleashed
We believe all minds to be creative and all bodies expressive! Thus, we created a jam based on the concept of instant composition, as a way of exploring together. Enter, give a shimmy, or play a riff - an open space for anything you wish to share!
Open Corner
May 3 | 19.00 - 21.00
Performance Evening
A mesmerising evening filled with performances that will leave you inspired. The evening will take place in a more conventional closed setting, in the unique Glazenzaal.
Glazenzaal
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A Flower Petal by Wan-Yun Chen
I bring my floating fan from Taiwan, I play with my floating fan, I see the spring coming, the spring comes from my body. ‘A Flower Petal’ is a research project between me and the floating fan, to see how I can bring the brightness and the joy to you, like the spring!
Maar wat als wij by Emma Thomson & Mariví van den Hooff
This dance duet explores how relationships between individuals can form, change, and fade away. The dancers outline various situations in which encounters and moments of goodbye take place. ‘Maar wat als wij’ prompts to think: how do we relate to each other?
-15 minutes break
Querencia by Dagmar van Dijk, Helena Perez, and Jürgen Rijkers
On nights like these, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.
To hear the immense night, even more immense without her.
And the verse falls over the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is filled with stars and she is not with me.
That is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
(for the full poem, see ‘Puedo escribir los versos más tristes’ by Pablo Neruda)
(Un)familiar by Frann Schollaert
"Not knowing where else to find, who's truly honest and kind.
To this so-called wonderful human being, that's been broken by overseeing."
A solo based on my personal experiences with suicidal thoughts, loneliness and pain.
ForNow by Alberto Serrano, Ana Rosa Manzanera
Inspired by the philosophy of Kintsugi, and the notion that broken pieces are put together, to create a new and yet stronger version of the once-broken structure.
We delve into a choreography that embodies fragility and speaks about identity; celebrates resilience, finds beauty in scars, and emphasizes on the power of union.
Mara, Mara, Mara by Stefan Žarić, Julia Nielsen, Ole Wolf, Chiara Scharler
"The time before, well, there is a lot from then I don't remember"
A retelling of the woman who survived a true nightmare
One picture guides us, her sitting in the cheap sofa, in a call, with her legs up on the table
She loved being on the phone
But hated when it rang
Sometimes she still does
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Meg til deg
by Amisha Kumra
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Yes, this is she
by Cézanne Penders
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The Odyssey ACT:I
by Hayrik Martes
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ID - ODDS
by Minoe Bossink, Loreen Jansen, Sem Hermans, Melissa van Wees, Naomi Stadwijk
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Work in progress of a piece that doesn't have a name yet
by Helena Alemany Ortiz
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Calestrina ladon (you've changed, but so have I)
by Koen Engelen
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el alivio
by Katja Butković
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patchworks (in progress)
by Lio Jakob
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(No) Cambiaré
by Minka Konkol
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Confronting to have it in front of you, without humor everything would be too boring
by María Sierra Carrión
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Óleo, una tarde de alivio
by Tesa Aviñó
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2 Weirdos
by Olga Balińska and Chilton Galimo
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Karin Karamat
Salsa workshop
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Caissa Aartsen
Afro workshop
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ForNow
by Alberto Serrano and Ana Rosa Manzanera (Performance Evening)
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Querencia
by Dagmar van Dijk, Helena Perez, Jürgen Rijkers (Performance Evening)
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Maar wat als wij
by Emma Thomson & Mariví van den Hooff (Performance Evening)
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(Un)familiar
by Frann Schollaert (Performance Evening)
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Mara, Mara, Mara
by Stefan Žarić, Julia Nielsen, Ole Wolf, Chiara Scharler (Performance Evening)
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A Flower Petal
by Wan-Yun Chen (Performance Evening)
