Moving Futures is the festival where you can experience dance by the newest generation of makers in all its manifestations. Every year, the festival offers innovative dance in a generously varied programme in nine Dutch cities. Let yourself be surprised by the engaging, daring and barrier-breaking dance makers and performers of today.
Friday April 12th
Justin de Jager - Brothers
Trevoga - 11 3 8 7
Saturday April 13th
Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue - songs for friends: a vinyl
Gaja Caruso - Crisis of Comfort
The performance Brothers is a duet by Justin de Jager and Sem Deliveyne. This play focuses on the theme of 'brotherhood'. Inspired by their mutual friendship and experience as ‘younger brothers of..’ Justin and Sem take you on a journey of support, competition, intimacy and cooperation. Brothers is epitomised by the movement concept threading derived from breakdance. They clench limbs and create openings through which they pass together, literally and figuratively.
Choreography, concept - Justin de Jager Performance - Justin de Jager, Sem Deliveyne In collaboration with - Korzo
In this multimedia collaboration, new choreographic collective Trevoga and experimental electronic music producer Damyst generate a gloomy vision of human bodies in the new media world they navigate.An artificially generated tv show, an eery dream after a late-night doom scroll, perhaps something even more uncanny. 11 3 8 7 is a performance inspired by the lavish fantasies we fabricate online and their conflicting relation with the increasingly hostile reality around us. From targeted ads to tailored newsreels, vlogs, gaming streams, and lifestyle influencers, the piece takes virtual representations of ‘real’ human interactions far into the unfamiliar - similar to how an AI bot distorts content when prompted. 11 3 8 7 fills the eyes with polished imagery, yet the packaging is hollow. Behind the glossy appearance of its fictional avatars lurks an unsettling atmosphere almost impossible to grasp. Like wandering alone through a deserted shopping mall, it haunts its viewers with the chills of a cold, manufactured absence.
Choreography -Trevoga Collective Styling - La Fam Sound - Damyst Light - Nadia Bekkers Co-Production - ICK Dans Amsterdam & One Dance Week Bulgaria Made with the support of - NORMA Funds, Performing Art Funds NL/Fonds Podiumkunsten & Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
Here is an album we have made for you. This is a record of loss, and also of growing up – which is almost the same thing. As the record plays from outside-in, the rings of trees are growing from inside-out. Time is spiralling and we skip rope across it. Welcome to this living room. Here, memories dismantle, marred by glitches; violence and intimacies yield to each other with tenderness. Pull, push, pull. In the emergent speculative realities, we navigate dissociation and change. This is the place where we created ourselves. Come on in. All is as constructed as it is real.
songs for friends: a vinyl developed out of the physicality of rope-skipping, a long afternoon of reminiscence, and a co-reading of Hermann Hesse’s Kinderseele and Demian (two novels that delve into a child’s experiences of guilt and shame, of light and shadow). Domenik and Ashley grew up on opposite ends of the world. In this transmedial performance, they have built a shared world out of fractured memories that are charged with violence and intimacy. Each element – choreography, text, scenography, and sound – has been crafted by them, by hand. By placing separate memories into the same space, they activate speculative realities in which they navigate hurt, dissociation and change, no longer alone but together. The performance offers a personal, visceral, and sometimes puzzling experience that invites spectators to connect through their own memories.
Concept, choreography, scenography, text, sound, performance - Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue Costume - Nina Perino Opening dramaturgical guidance - Merel Heering Closing dramaturgical guidance - Ingrid Berger Myhre Lighting and technical support - Edwin van Steenbergen, Quintus Visser Special thanks to - Jill Kupers, Jaz Chen Jiaxin, Kristin de Groot Production - Dansateliers
What is the comfort that we search for within ourselves and the others? What is the meaning of love and intimacy in the specificity of contemporary era?
To sleep next to someone is the most intimate act.
Two dancers fall asleep. Following the dramaturgy of their sleep cycles, we see their conscious and subconscious minds seek comfort through dance. Set to a musical composition made out of vibrations and intrusive thoughts.
Maker, performer - Gaja Caruso Co-maker, performer - Rosie Reith Composer - Rik van de Heuvel Technical producer - Jelle Rebel Creative producer - Agnese Fiocchi In collaboration with - Station Noord, Grand Theatre
