Jamie Adkins began his career at the age of 13 in San Diego, California where he delighted passers-by as a street performer. Later, in San Francisco, he joined the Pickle Family Circus. Then this eclectic clown, juggler, balancing artist and one-hundred percent poet joined Montréal’s Cirque Éloize. In Circus Incognitus, virtuoso clown Jamie Adkins is the vulnerable everyman, who has…
In 1999, In Spite of Wishing and Wanting caused a huge stir. For the first time, Wim Vandekeybus created a performance not about the chemistry between men and women, but a primal desire in a world of men alone – fierce, wild, naive and playful. Spellbinding footage and dance sequences, supported by David Byrne’s sensual soundtrack, flow into…
Get Lost (previously Ervaar Daar Hier Theater) presents the performance Sharira -‘Fire Desire’ by the Indian Chandralekha Dance Company in March 2016. This groundbreaking performance festival brings outstanding international choreographers and theater makers to the Netherlands.
In March Montreal’s Virginie Brunelle is on tour in the Netherlands and Belgium. Brunelle is known for male-female relationships in a post-romantic world. Her highly physical, flesh-baring works are distinctly contemporary, yet with a beautifully textured palette of pure movement.Complexe des genres explores the quest for identity, despite paralyzing doubt and an obsessive desire for perfection.
Blood Links traces William Yang’s scattered family’s migration from China to Australia over a hundred years ago. Defying conventional theater, Yang presents an intimate monologue with over 500 slide images that explores the ties which bind families. Yang is one of Australia’s most respected artists and a world-renowned photographer. Yang is in the Netherlands from the…
The new series of Get Lost performances starts on February 25, 2016 with the documentary dance performance RED from Living Dance Studio (China). The European premiere of the show in Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.
The international dance production Extremalism is a multi-disciplinary piece performed by dancers from Marseille and from Amsterdam. This large scale anniversary production crowns 20 years of collaboration by the choreographers’ duo Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.Extremalism is about the way mankind responds to today’s crisis. What does a body do in an extreme situation? Or by contrast, how…
Last year, Casus was performing in Dutch and Flemish theaters with the show ‘Knee Deep’. Because of this successful tour, the group is back in the Benelux. From the 9th of January until the 25th of January they tour along several Dutch and Flemish theaters. Knee Deep is the first performance of the Australian company.…
In 2002 world famous choreographer Akram Khan made his first group work, called “Kaash”. The performance was elected in the same year during the Dutch festival Julidans, to “audience favorite”. January 2016 Akram Khan returns with Kaash. His company tours through eight Dutch and two Flemish theaters. With five other dancers, then in 2002, he…
Founder and choreographer of the famous Belgian troupe Les Ballets C de la B, Alain Platel was awarded the $22,500 grand prize offered by the city of Montreal and Québecor. Platel’s compassion for people who are marginalized lies rooted in his early training as a psychologist. “I never trained in dance or theatre so I feel…
