Julidans x WhyNot
Julidans x WhyNot: OFF VENUE
In the special location dance project OFF VENUE Julidans, in collaboration with WhyNot, explores the hidden world underneath our feet. Choreographers and performance artists present short performances in cellars, bunkers and vaults, staged in a specially created dance route. Preferably to be covered by bicycle!
Julidans
EXTENDED
Run time TBC
Location At various locations throughout Amsterdam
At a time when the planet is threatened by war, natural disasters and complex energy issues, OFF VENUE descends to what is going on below the surface, to places where you can escape everyday worries. Locations that are normally hidden: dark cellars, mysterious bunkers and medieval bridge vaults; a dark environment that stimulates the imagination.
OFF VENUE is taking place for the sixth year, in close collaboration with WhyNot, the Amsterdam-based platform that connects contemporary dance and performance with visual art, music, architecture, the landscape and the city.
During OFF VENUE, dance and performance art come to life. You can follow a specially created dance route past surprising underground locations and see Amsterdam from a completely different angle. There are six different routes, in which you can see three out of the five performances.
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For instance, you can join a blind performer to test your sense of touch in Sightless Seeing #5 by Sarah van Lamsweerde or be enchanted by hip-hop dancer and Fringe 2022 winner Liam McCall, who engages into a duet with the light of a torch in pitch darkness.
And there is much more: in Warping Soul, Andreas Hannes makes his dancers change course each time by the rousing power of music; the new choreographic collective TREVOGA paints a dystopian picture of the relationship between their bodies and media; and Flemish artist and choreographer Ugo Dehaes explores the extent to which robots can replace his dancers.
For more background on the artists, our sources of inspiration and the special locations, please visit Offvenue.nl.
THE ROUTES
Route A: Andreas Hannes, Sarah van Lamsweerde, Trevoga
16:00 van Beuningenplein (20 min)
16:50 Chassekerk dans studio’s (30 min)
17:40 Vondelbunker (30 min)
Download the programme for tour A
Route B: Andreas Hannes, Ugo Dehaes, Sarah van Lamsweerde
16:00 van Beuningenplein (20 min)
16:50 Torensluis (35 min)
17:40 Chassekerk dans studio’s (30+15 min)
Download the programme for tour B
Route C: Sarah van Lamsweerde, Andreas Hannes, Ugo Dehaes
16:00/15:45 Chassekerk dans studio’s (30 + 15 min)
16:50 van Beuningenplein (20 min)
17:40 Torensluis (35 + 10 min)
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Route D: Trevoga, Andreas Hannes, Liam M'Call
16:00 Vondelbunker (30 min)
16:50 van Beuningenplein (20 min)
17:40 De Nieuwe Anita (30)
Download the programme for tour D
Route E: Liam M'Call, Trevoga, Andreas Hannes
16:00 De Nieuwe Anita (30)
16:50 Vondelbunker (30 min)
17:40 van Beuningenplein (20 min)
Download the programme for tour E
Route F: Ugo Dehaes, Liam M'Call, Andreas Hannes
16:00/15:45 Torensluis (35+10 min)
16:50 De Nieuwe Anita (30)
17:40 van Beuningenplein (20 min)
Download the programme for tour F
Andreas Hannes presents at Van Beuningenplein
Warping Soul
“Warping Soul is alienating and of otherworldly beauty.”
Het Parool
Warping Soul is the surprising choreography made by upcoming choreographer Andreas Hannes who often explores gravity and aerodynamic forces in his work. He created Warping Soul for Conny Janssen Danst's talent development project DANSLOKAAL and is a short dance performance 'from outer space' developing into a techno rave which makes you long for more...
Three dancers appear in a space that is constantly in transition. They seem transfixed and move with difficulty, seemingly as if gravity is exerting a greater influence on them. Through disorientation and regrouping of bodies and space, the movement becomes a dance of transformations and storylines. “To warp” means to bend, to change direction or course.
Ugo Dehaes presents in De Torensluis
Simple Machines (fragment)
In Simple Machines (fragment, Ugo Dehaes shows how he grows and raises organic-looking robots in his basement and how he trains them to become dancers.
We live in a world dominated by economic principles that push us to make everything as efficient and cheap as possible. In response, Ugo fired all his dancers and researched how to grow and train robots himself. They are born from crazy cocoons and then crawl across the table like strange caterpillars. Some get hair, others run around like little dogs. Using artificial intelligence, he lets them come up with their own dance performance. Then Ugo's job as a choreographer also falls away...
Simple Machines (fragment) is an attempt to make humans completely superfluous in the creation process. Welcome to the future. After the performance, the audience is invited to teach the robots new movements themselves in the Arena installation, the first part of the Forced Labor cycle, which travels as the backdrop for Simple Machines.
Liam McCall presents at De Nieuwe Anita
Fr/agile
How do we hold on to light in a world that seems to keep getting more dark?
What is life but a collection of problems to deal with? A collection of problems we keep dragging along with us. New ones get added, weighing on our souls, and we wonder why our backs hurt.
Fr/agile is a honest dance solo in which Liam McCall tries to find a way to unify his fragility and agility. It’s a plea for the need for vulnerability in HipHop, revealing his raw human self through his Bboying form.
In 2022 Fr/agile won the Best of Fringe Amsterdam Award.
Sarah van Lamsweerde presents in Chassé Dancestudio’s
Sightless Seeing #5: Black Box
Sightless Seeing #5: Black Box is a remote quest into the collection of the former Theater Instituut Nederland (TIN). The performance creates small openings in the closeted memories of generations of theatre makers and lovers. Blind performer Leroy de Böck revives the archive’s afterimages in his mind, pulling objects that used to act in the spotlights out of the darkness. By activating our ears and hands, we find paths to knowledge other than the gaze.
Trevoga presents in the Vondelbunker
11 3 8 7
An artificially generated tv show, an eery dream after a late-night doom scroll, perhaps something even more uncanny.
11 3 8 7 is a performance inspired by the lavish fantasies we fabricate online and their conflicting relation with the increasingly hostile reality around us.
From targeted ads to tailored newsreels, vlogs, gaming streams, and lifestyle influencers, the piece takes virtual representations of "real" human interactions far into the unfamiliar - similar to how an AI bot distorts content when prompted. Symbols overflow and contradict each other. Meaning comes together only to dissolve.
11 3 8 7 fills the eyes with polished imagery, yet the packaging is hollow. Behind the glossy appearance of its fictional avatars lurks an unsettling atmosphere almost impossible to grasp. Like wandering alone through a deserted shopping mall, it haunts its viewers with the chills of a cold, manufactured absence.
CREDITS
Andreas Hannes X Van Beuningenplein – Warping Soul
Choreography: Andreas Hannes
Performers: Maud Huizing, Adam Khazhmuradov, Laura Moura Costa.
Music: Mix: Gary Shepherd (DJ Streamer) | Song: Soul by Rival Consoles feat. Peter Broderick–Courtesy of Erased Tapes
Lights: Marcel Slagter
Advice: Kristin de Groot
Warping Soul was made possible and originally produced by
Conny Janssen Danst & Dansateliers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Commissioned dancers by Conny Janssen Danst
Supported by ICK Dans Amsterdam & Small House Productions
With the involvement of and gratitude to: Bruno Listopad, Antonia Steffens, Charlie LabanTrier, Elisa Zuppini, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen, Paulina Prokop
Ugo Dehaes xXTorensluis – Simple Machines (fragment)
Choreography: Ugo Dehaes
Scenography & Composition: Wannes Deneer
Dramaturgy: Marie Peeters Silicone
In cooperation with: Rebecca Flores
Construction table: Kristof Morel
Production: Kwaad Bloed & Tuning People
Co production: C-TAKT
In cooperation with: STORMOPKOMST
Distribution: Vincent Company
With the support of: de Vlaamse overheid & VGC
Special thanks to: AI Experience Center VUB, Caroline Pauwels, De Factorij, Gertjan Biasino, Hans De Cank, Pol Eggermont & Roeland Luyten
Kwaad bloed is supported by VGC
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Liam McCall x De Nieuwe Anita – Fr/agile
Choreography and performer: Liam McCall
Music: Niels Broos
Scenography: Joey Schrauwen
Powered by: Emoves / UC Masters
Sarah van Lamsweerde X Chassé Dancestudio’s – Sightless Seeing #5: Black Box
Concept, text, creation: Sarah van Lamsweerde
Text, performance: Leroy de Böck
Tactile scale model design: Marjoca de Greef, Sarah van Lamsweerde and Anastasija Pandilovska
Original commission by: Suns & Stars
Language: English
Trevoga X Vondelbunker – 11 3 8 7
Made by: Trevoga clctv.
Sound: Damyst
Styling: La Fam
Produced by ICK Amsterdam x One Dance Week Bulgaria
Made with the support of Fonds Podiumkunsten, NORMA startersfonds & Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.
Special thanks to: Suzy Blok, Rosa Alvarez Solano, Anna Van Jaarsveld, Ainhoa Hernandez Escudero & Ignacio de Antonio Anton.
Photo: Giovanni Salice
