Tanzconnexions Contemporary dance in the Asia-Pacific Region - Germany - Archive - Impressions

The Pearl Fishers

Inspired by Cubism, The Pearls Fishers is a contemporary exploration into the relationship between classicalism and modernism, based on the famous opera by Georges Bizet. Here Chompee seeks an alternative voice, aesthetic and social stance to art history.

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Wifi Bodies

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Stop in Manila

Snapshots from the recent Stop In Manila (12 - 15 March 2015) program at deSingel, Antwerp - the first in a series of stops in world cities. Presentations included, Jose Jay B Cruz Rehearsal for Disaster, Arco Renz - Kobalt Works Coke, Donna Miranda The State Of Philippine Dance: A Solo in 10 parts, Eisa Jocson Macho Dancer.More ...

The Gentlemen

The Gentlemen investigates male/female roles in contemporary society and the training process of those striving to reach the apex of power and influence.More ...

Groove Space

Sebastian Matthias' performance series Groove Space is based on a format that creates a new performance with different cooperation partners in various cities. It sets out to choreographically explore the specific "groove“ of each city with the dancers, and to transform it into a dance event.More ...

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The Edge

Raymond Liew und vier Tänzer des Folkwang Tanzstudios präsentieren The Edge. Ein fesselndes Stück, geschaffen an den Rändern des Lebens.More ...

A Tranquil Star

A Tranquil Star explores the relation of the human body to celestial bodies and the surrounding space. This piece marks a return for Fitri Setyaningsih to collaborating with trained Javanese dancers after five years working with actors and/or non trained performers.More ...

7x by Tran Ly Ly

Exploring the effects on the individual in a rapidly changing society, 7x by Tran Ly Ly unravels an individual absorbed in inner turmoil and the tipping points where one becomes disconnected with the outer world.More ...

Hanoi Stardust

Hanoi Stardust is a collaboration between German choreographer Arco Renz / Kobalt Works and five soloists of the Vietnam National Opera Ballet (VNOB) and two guests from the independent dance scene. The piece has been commissioned by Goethe-Institut.More ...

Europe Meets Asia

The 4th edition of "Europe meets Asia in Contemporary Dance" in Hanoi, Vietnam. Works presented from Vietnam, Belgium, France, Japan, Sweden and Finland.More ...

SoftMachine

SoftMachine is Choy Ka Fai’s dance research project exploring the genealogy of contemporary dance in Asia.More ...

Fire! Fire! Fire!

As a cooperation of Goethe-Institut with the Khmer Arts Theater in Phnom Penh, Pichet Klunchun & Dancers Bangkok and the Solo Dance Studio, in the scope of an international exchange on contemporary dance, in 2013 the production Fire! Fire! Fire!More ...

Trolleys

Flashmob meets guerrilla choreography in the Southeast Asian debut of Shaun Parker’s dynamic and quirky dance piece that sucks passers-by into the hidden lives of the mundane objects that surround us.More ...

Australian Dance Theatre - Be Your Self

Garry Stewart’s Be Your Self reveals the precarious stability of the concept of self as the work steps through the conventions we use to construct a singular and consistent notion of ‘I’. In an analysis of selfhood, Stewart situates the body at the centre of his inquiry.More ...

Complexity Of Belonging

A project by Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk: Complexity of Belonging peers into the lives of nine interconnected individuals.More ...

Cabdance

In Cabdance, different cultural attitudes are expressed. Choreographers Kadir “Amigo” Memis from Germany and Jecko Siompo from Indonesia experiment with dance in limited space.More ...

Little Room in Etienne Marcel

Thai director and choreographer Jitti Chompee, founder of 18Monkeys Dance Theatre, unveils his new dance Little Room In Etienne Marcel in Bangkok off the back of a residency at the Cité Internationale Des Arts in Paris.More ...

Solid States

In cooperation with Kelola Foundation, the Indonesian Art Summit and the Padang Bagalanggang Festival, Goethe-Institut Indonesien presented the new work of Arco Renz in October 2013.More ...

Spaces

In Southeast-Asia and the Pacific the spaces where dancers rehearse are very diverse: From a fully equipped studio in a newly built and privately sponsored theater in Kuala Lumpur to a a small rented studio in the top floor of a shopping mall in Bangkok.More ...

Dido & Aeneas

Berlin choreographer Sasha Waltz has come together with baroque orchestra Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin to present her first opera: a reimagining of Dido & Aeneas, Henry Purcell’s 17th century masterwork.More ...

Impressions: Padang

Padang, the cultural capital of the Minangkabau region of Western Sumatra, was afflicted by a devastating earthquake in 2009: hundreds of people lost their lives; the bigger part of the city got destroyed. Today, flat plains give way to new villages, rebuilding their lives at a calculated distance from a tsunami’s reach.More ...