SAUVAGERIE

Première: 25 January 2014

Opening Gala Holland Dance Festival 2014

Tour: January - March 2014

Music: "Le Sacre du Printemps" - Igor Stravinsky

(Glorification de l'élue/ Evocation des ancêtres/ Action rituelle des ancêtres/ Danse Sacrale)

Dancers - CODARTS: Sammie Hermans, Louiza Avraam,

Ana Martins Casquilho, Axelle de Rore, Flory Curescu,

Alessandra Orzati, Marika Meoli,

Alessandra Mazza, Carolina Valentini, Giulia Zavaroni,

Julia Cambra Mompó, Francesca Ciaffoni, Cecilia Castellari,

Laia Vancells, Leire Otamendi, Charlotte de Clercq,

Carlo Camagni, Brecht Bovijn, Iacopo Loliva, Jakub Medrzycki, David Nigro,

Gido van Ooijen, Lorenzo Ponteprimo, Alberto Poti, Marco Rizzi,

Gino Taytelbaum, Markus Opperman, Luigi Sardone

Costume Design: Samir Calixto

Costumière: Ayu Ariyati, Ans Kooijman

Light Design: Gerben van den Weert

Repetitor: Simon de Mombray

Production Manager: Ellen Dijkstra/ CODARTS

Taking the four last episodes from the legendary Rite of Spring as its frame, Sauvagerie confronts the young dancers’ high level of energy to the merciless and vertiginous rhythms of the music composition.

In this piece the idea of sacrifice is transformed into an offering of the dancers’ extreme physical engagement on stage.

Their primitive energy is unveiled and shaped through an intense and compact choreography in which the group – like an uncompromising mass - executes a physical ritual towards liberation.

© Anna van Kooij

TROUBLEMAKERS

Première: 06 June 2013

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Tour: Summer 2013/ Fall 2014

Music: Symphony 25 - Andante/ Allegro - W. A. Mozart

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Dancers - Crosstown DH: Ellen Dorrestein, Charissa Banwari, Zahira Sulliman, Saskia Crefcoeur, Sasha Marusheva, Ingrid Hartgers, Kenji van Nieuwenhuizer, Feri Dissiz

Costume Design/ Costumière: Jookje Zweedijk

Light Design: Bas Vissers

Production: Nathalie Décory/ Korzo Producties/ Crosstown DH

In this piece Calixto uses two movements from Mozart's Symphony 25, one of his two "Sturm und Drang" pieces - the term stands for a rather violent artistic reaction against the norms of society and other art movements during the second half of 18th century . In Troublemakers he combines the youthful, fresh, anarchic and non-conformist raw energy of the young dancers to the powerful drive of the composition. It is an "homage" to all the rule breakers and to those who cause a good deal of equally good and necessary trouble.

© Natascha Helmer