KM 29 – DURAMADRE

Duramadre is a contact surface, a network of relationships that turns the body into a platform of unparalleled complexity, eager for bonding and interchange with the otherness. Thus, we create a movement ritual, a radical experience that sustains our unyielding desire of being a group, of turning into a bigger, more sensitive and powerful body…

PEEPING TOM – VADER

Vader is set in the visiting area of an old-folks home whose towering walls accentuate the fact that the action takes place deep underground. At the centre of this netherworld, somewhere between the world of the living and the dead, stands the figure of the father, who seems to be distancing himself gradually from the human…

AKRAM KHAN & ISRAEL GALVAN – TOROBAKA

Akram Khan Company produces thoughtful, provocative and ambitious dance productions for the international stage. Akram Khan takes human themes and works with others to take them to new and unexpected places – embracing and collaborating with other cultures and disciplines. The dance language in each production is rooted in Akram Khan’s classical Kathak and modern…

BUNK PUPPETS – STICKS STONES BROKEN BONES

Flying chickens, brain transplants and sneaky ninjas! Watch as household junk, bits of cardboard and fluff, are transformed into surreal shadow puppet characters in cartoon-like adventures. In each scene, the shadow puppetry is performed in front of the screen, giving the audience a peak at how the silhouettes come to life. An imaginative, and hilarious journey through the creative mind…

BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY – SADEH21

Ohad Naharin is one of the most original choreographic minds of our time—a modern guru whose pioneering dance language, Gaga, uses bodily self-awareness to produce constant, fluid motion and an unthinkable elasticity. Rooted in this practice is Sadeh21[1], a collection of movement studies by Naharin and his Israeli-based Batsheva Dance Company. Eighteen dancers—backed by music by…

CHUNKY MOVE – 247 DAYS

Concept Drawing on reflections of a stranger in a foreign land, 247 Days is Anouk van Dijk’s intimate exploration into the subtleties of everyday human existence. An exposition of what we most passionately love, fear, desire and hate, 247 Days investigates how these divergent facets manage to coexist in all of us simultaneously. Focusing on the individual, Van Dijk’s…