Match & Watch: Rhino

We invite you to find your new dance partner through Match & Watch. Because we believe that watching dance is a great experience, but even more beautiful when you can share it with someone. A few days before the performance, you will receive a questionnaire from us, fill it in and, based on it, we will match you with the person we believe to be your ideal dance partner. Your dance partner does not necessarily have to be romantic; it can also be a meeting of people with a shared passion.

-|-On the evening of the performance, you will be welcomed at 20:15 in the Bookshop of Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. Here you will meet your match and get a drink from us. Afterwards, you will enjoy the performance Rhino.
After the performance, there will be a DJ to get your own feet off the floor.

The “Match & Watch” concept is based on “Dating the Unknown” by Theater Rotterdam

Animal, human or element - In Rhino, we meet a Rhino, a Skeleton, a Narrator, a Matador, a Condor, a Cockroach and Oil. They are already past their prime, are on the verge of extinction and are fighting for their place in a world that seems to understand them less and less. What does it really take to survive? What can they take with them from the past to explore a possible future?

In Rhino, Tregarthen and Raymond combine cinematic techniques with physical expression, defying the laws of gravity and stretching the dance idiom. Live video projections bring the performers' emotions closer. Intimate close-ups of faces and hands appear in mist and Hologauze, creating hologram-like images.

-|-These techniques reveal the inner workings of the characters: haunting images reflect the uncertainty of their future, aimed directly at the audience. It seems as if their struggle is our own, the monster we must face to reflect about what is truly intrinsic and essential for us to stand the test of time - perhaps even to survive. Humour, compassion and an uncanny kind of suspense come together in this visual spectacle, in an ultra-dynamic dance language that is as acrobatic as it is poetic.

artistic Directors Tiffany Tregarthen, David Raymond
performers & Creative Collaborators Adam Khazhmuradov, Aiden Cass, Alesandra, David Harvey, Julian Hunt, Jade Chong, Kylie Miller
apprentices Madeleine Cruz
video Design and Technical Direction Eric Chad
lighting Design James Proudfoot
costume Design & Fabrication Janet Dundas
sound Design Stefan Seslija
national Creation Funds’s Critical Friend Lou Cope (participation made possible by the National Creation Funds’s Critical Friends initiative.)
stage Manager Tiffany Tregarthen
costume Design & Fabrication Assistant Alaia Hamer

-|-costume Stitchers Desiree Morin, Halley Fulford, Holly Anderson
apprentice Technical Director Jack Chipman (Apprenticeship partner: Canada’s National Arts Centre.)
music James Ginzburg, Yair ElazarGlotman, emptyset (James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas), Eric Holm- courtesy of Subtext Recordings
co-production The CanDance Network Creation Fund (Agora de la danse, Dance Victoria, National Arts Centre, La Rotonde), La Comète (France), Julidans (Netherlands), One Dance Week (Bulgaria), Agora de la danse
developed with support of The National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund
creative residencies Agora de la danse,ArtSpring Theatre, Yukon Arts Centre

The “Match & Watch” concept is based on “Dating the Unknown” by Theater Rotterdam