In the Dutch Mountains
In The Dutch Mountains is Marco Goecke‘s new world premiere for NDT, a title some may recognize from the song by the Dutch band Nits, and others from Cees Nooteboom’s novel of the same name. Goecke moved to the Netherlands…
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Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT; literal translation Netherlands Dance Theatre) is a Dutch contemporary dance company. NDT is headquartered at the Amare building in The Hague. NDT also performs at other venues in the Netherlands, including Amsterdam’s Het Muziektheater and Nijmegen’s Stadsschouwburg.
Triple Bill
Impasse How do we bridge the gap that continues to grow as we stagnate? The work problematizes the ease with which we blindly adopt what others say or do, and how in so doing we lose the opportunity for fruitful…
Fathoms
Fathoms Attemptsto measure the depths,to understand,to recover distances between us,to contend with undertow,and to remember the buoyancy of the human heart. The choreography of Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond (Canada) can be described as cinematic, and gravity defying and pushes…
Cluster
Coming back to create for NDT 2 felt almost necessary.The company is completely new since the last time I worked with them and this aspect was the starting point in the process. No concept, no ideas, no music or other…
Sleepless
Jiří Kylián has already made many masterpieces, one of them the fascinating Sleepless, a creation for six young dancers in which the set plays an important part. It has a wall behind which dancers – or sometimes just parts of…
In with in
Nederlands Dans Theater 1 will dance a world premiere created by a new face to the company, Tao Ye. The choreographic duo Imre & Marne van Opstal will also create a new work in collaboration with DRIFT. The evening is…
Jirí Kylián: Svadebka, Symphony of Psalms, Torso
Three performances by the Nederlands Dans Theater. The choreography by Jiri Kylian is set to Stravinsky’s ‘Les noces’ and ‘Symphony of Psalms’, and Toru Takemitsu’s ‘Torso’. Among the dancers are Shane Carroll, Nils Christe and Sabine Kupferberg. Every now and…
The Other You
The Other You, a duet created by Crystal Pite for Kidd Pivot in 2010, is a portrait of a man in dialogue with his other. The work lives in the tension between contrasting states – conscious and unconscious, civilized and…
SOON
Walerski create a work for two dancers. SOON started off with a piece of music that was of great significance to the choreographer. A few years ago I went to a concert by Benjamin Clementine. From that moment on, I…