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- 31 07 2010
1st Holland Dance Event of 2010 is 'Artifact' by the Royal Ballet of Flanders
21st of January 2010 | Lucent Danstheater | Den Haag
In 1984 Forsyte, just appointed as artistic director of the Ballett Frankfurt, made his first full length choreography 'Artifact'. This four part ballet meant the start of a radical innovation in coded dance and it was the touchstone for a different kind of ballet. Forsythe disturbed the view and the perception of the viewer by means of irregular outbursts of noise and surreptitious implosions of light. He moved sections in such a way that the form and the significant connections between the separate elements led their own lives in the head of the viewer/spectator: as an ordinary tale, as a fantasy, as a stream of images, as a construction, as a critical interrogation or as a pure play of forms. He analysed and dismantled classic ballet to build it up again with a whole spectrum of varied material. All these characteristics are to be found in 'Artifact' : brilliant/sharp/incisive classic movements in real Balanchine style, alongside 'free', fluid movements from American post-modern dance mixed with techniques from contact improvisation.Click here for more info and tickets
- 31 07 2010
Christmas not comlete without The Nutcracker in the Grote Kerk in The Hague
Unique for the Netherlands, the production is a collaboration between children, young adults, dance students, older adults, professional dancers and stars of the famous dance company American Ballet Theatre from New York. A special creation by choreographers Thom Stuart and Rinus Sprong of the Dutch Don't Dance Division. More information and tickets.
From the 26th of December in the Grote Kerk in The Hague
Also this year the De Dutch Don't Dance Division and Holland Dance Festival present the Nutcracker in the Grote Kerk, inspired by the fairy tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann and the wonderful music by P.I. Tchaikovsky. In the season 2008-2009 the Nutcracker was a big succes and therefore will be on the programme from the 26th of December 2009 untill the 1st of January 2010!
