Name: Climb the sky. Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue (Pite), About Now (Soulier), Out of Breath (Inger)
Start: 2023-03-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Amare

Organization

Choreography by

Crystal Pite

Choreographer

Cindy Salgado

Lighting designer

Jim French

Costume designer

Linda Chow

Repetiteur

Lydia Bustinduy

Ander Zabala

Singer

Conner Chew

Dancer

Ricardo Hartley III

Samuel van der Veer

Sophie Whittome

Viola Busi

Barry Gans

Rebecca Speroni

Casper Mott

Demi Bawon

Nova Valkenhoff

Noé Soulier

Victor Burel

Nix Lecourt Mansion

Nick Daniels

Omani Ormskirk

Gabriele Rolle

Rui-Ting Yu

Johan Inger

Parvaneh Scharafali

Ellen Ruge

Tom Visser

Set designer

Mylla Ek

Ivo Mateus

Climb the sky. Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue (Pite), About Now (Soulier), Out of Breath (Inger)

Tilburg

Netherlands

Schouwburg

Amsterdam

International Theater Amsterdam (Stadsschouwburg)

Zwolle

Zwolse Theaters

Gouda

Alkmaar

Theater de Vest

Utrecht

Stadsschouwburg

Amstelveen

Schouwburg Amstelveen

The Hague

Amare

Heerlen

Parkstad Limburg Theaters

Haarlem

Stadsschouwburg Haarlem

Enschede

Wilminktheater

Nijmegen

Stadsschouwburg Nijmegen

Eindhoven

Parktheater

'About Now' - Noé Soulier. Dancers: Casper Mott, Gabriele Rolle. Photo: Rahi Rezvani

Public

Solaris OST

Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), BWV 1080

String quartet no. 3 : There must be some way out of here

Approved

Stadsschouwburg & Philharmonie Haarlem

Stadsschouwburg Utrecht

Dancers: Barry Gans, Rui-Ting Yu, Ivo Mateus and Omani Ormskirk. Photo: Joris-Jan Bos

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) | Crystal Pite's piece 'Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue’ for the NDT 2 programme ‘Climb the sky’. https://www.ndt.nl/en/agenda/c...

Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue - Crystal Pite (NDT 2 | Climb the sky)

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) | Interview with choreographer Noé Soulier about his new creation 'About Now' for the NDT 2 programme 'Climb the sky'.

Interview with choreographer Noé Soulier (NDT 2 | Climb the sky)

CRYSTAL PITE
Associate choreographer
“I love the word “rescue”. It captures a whole story in a single word. Similarly, the body can convey narrative through the simplest of actions. For me, this work for Cedar Lake was an act of excavation. After creating the choreography, I searched within it for images that specifically evoked rescue. There are many of them. They exist inside the dancing like fragments of an untold narrative. I suppose the presence of rescue in this work is twofold, as I tried to liberate and expose these images for brief contemplation before releasing them back into the dance: saving and holding one picture of rescue in each of the ten duets.”
– Crystal Pite

NOÉ SOULIER
Choreographer
“My approach to movement is rooted in practical actions that most of us are familiar with, such as hitting, avoiding or throwing. I insert many distortions that motivate the dancers’ movements without being identifiable by the spectators. These diverted actions capture a poetic dimension of movement that lies beneath discourse and narration. Far from being purely formal, they aim to trigger affects and emotions in both the performers and the audience without having to be part of a narrative structure. 

In About Now, I confront this vocabulary of diverted actions with the steps of classical dance, that can be seen as stylized action verbs: “frappé, fouetté, assemblé… ”. With the dancers of NDT 2, we explored actions present in this classical vocabulary, and thereby delved into the sensual, experiential and affective dimension of this movement language, rather than into its formal geometric structure. 

Ballet is disciplinary, and imposes a formal framework on the body that disregards its natural tendencies and conveys stereotyped gendered norms. The problematic nature of this heritage appears more and more clearly. It is, however, illusory to think that we could completely separate ourselves from this legacy. Instead of denying it, About Now aims to rework its principle guidelines to create a new classic movement language that draws on the richness of this tradition. This way, About Now generates a different relationship to the body, one that is affective and sensual, and that reconfigures the dynamics of power embedded in classical dance.”
– Noé Soulier

JOHAN INGER
Choreographer
“I created Out of Breath during a tumultuous time in my life when the dramatic birth of my daughter brutally sparked the awareness that life can be extremely fragile from the very start. The piece addresses the ever lingering presence of death, how we tend to forget this is part of our daily lives but also how that anxiety is constantly surpassed and transcended by the vibration and passion for life. Out of Breath was made a month after this event and I was still very taken by it so I made this piece where life and death are both present, almost going hand in hand. The curved wall on stage recalls a sunken ship that provides the anchor point for the dancers to dance around. It is counterbalanced by the passionate and spirited music composed by Jacob ter Veldhuis and violinist Lajko Felix.”
– Johan Inger

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú