As humans, we learn to strive for success and perfection. What does this drive for achievement do to us? The patterns in which we move that lead to success bring satisfaction, but as soon as we fail to achieve it, we find it hard to accept. We are shaped by imposed structures.
In Work Line, Rutkay Özpinar brings to life this tension between our instinct and what we have been taught by society into a dynamic spectacle. Four dancers end up in a world where they are confronted with these imposed structures. How do they deal with this and what role does instinct play?
Rutkay Özpinar has a broad dance background in hip-hop, break dance, Turkish folk dance, classical ballet and modern dance. In his career, he has gone through remarkable developments that have led him to his own dance language. His route starts with Bertha Huls through Boys Action at ArteZ (Arnhem) and later he follows the dance education at Codarts (Rotterdam) and is part of the first batch of The Dutch Junior Dance Division in The Hague. In 2014, at the age of 23, he started as the youngest choreographer in the Netherlands at Korzo. For his work Grip (2015) he won the BNG Bank Dance Prize and was nominated for the first edition of The Hague Piket Art Prizes.
