MOVING FUTURES FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM

Let yourself be surprised by the engaging, daring and barrier-breaking dance makers and performers of today.

Saturday the 25^th and Sunday the 26^th of May 2024, the travelling festival Moving Futures Festival will be in Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam. Moving Futures is the festival where you can experience dance by the newest generation of makers in all its manifestations. The festival showcases innovative dance in a generously varied programme with performances, installations, workshops and (after)talks.

In Amsterdam, with context program you will see performances by:
- Saturday, May 25
Anthony van Gog - crowdkill
Yoko Haveman - Conundrum
- Sunday, May 26
Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue - songs for friends: a vinyl
Gaja Caruso - Crisis of Comfort

Photo: © Hilde Harshagen

Yoko Haveman - Conundrum

Conundrum is an interdisciplinary solo performance that explores the manifestations of friction,
confrontation, and the obstacles of thought. Performing this physical work herself, Haveman challenges the viewer’s sensory and emotional aspects. With the use of object manipulation, physical theater and cinematic imagery, she experiments with the notion of identity as an idealism.

Her work is inspired by questioning human behavior and philosophies, from the vulnerable to the invincible, all under the umbrella of the (un)conscious self. In Conundrum, we see an entangled being with a three-meter-long metal chain as a metaphor for conditioned idealism. Which ideas are imposed by nurture, culture, and environment, and how does she distinguish them from her natural thoughts? Combining physical theater and text, she demonstrates how identity can give shape in abstraction while seeking a genuine connection with the audience.

Bio Yoko Haveman
Yoko Haveman (Brazilian/Japanese, 1994) is a Dutch interdisciplinary dance artist, creator, photographer, and director, with a background in martial arts, modern dance and music. As a creator, Haveman choreographed a short fiction dance film in 2023 called Paradise Lost by Jordy Tempelman, and directed a full-length music and dance concert called ‘Solastalgia’ with and for the eccentric indie band LUKA. Topics that inspire Haveman’s work include human behavior, philosophy, and cinematography. She shapes it with connection, absurdity, and an interest in the transient ways of life, translated to stage and film. Furthermore, Yoko has been nominated for the Young Swan Award for the most impressive dance performance by the Association of Theater and Concert Hall Directors (VSCD), in 2022.

Credits
Choreography, concept and performance: Yoko Haveman
Sound design: Danny van der Lugt
Light design: Yoko Haveman
Dramaturgy: Merel Heering, Lloyd Marengo
Artistic advice: Kristin De Groot
In collaboration with: Dansateliers, Lloyd’s Company
Thanks to: De Dansers, Courtney May Robertson

photo © Moon Saris

Anthony van Gog – crowdkill

Enter the world of crowdkill, Anthony van Gog's latest performance in which an intense bass sound dominates. Surrounded by four mega subwoofers, a figure seeks the limits of his body. The intense bass, together with a soundscape of instrumental melodies, ambient sounds and live body sounds, builds a space where nothing is certain anymore. What happens when the performer's body, as well as yours as a spectator, no longer has landmarks and can no longer hold onto anything?

PLANmaker Anthony van Gog (Antwerp, 1996) will spend the next few years under the wings of DansBrabant and Veem House of Performance, working on his research into the "selfless body" - the idea that we humans have no fixed core, but that identity forms by mirroring what happens outside us. Self-development is thus no longer a steadily building development, but a "falling in all directions, without any foothold, a constantly mutating body."

Bio Anthony van Gog
Anthony van Gog (Antwerp, 1996) graduated from the performance program at the Toneelacademie Maastricht in 2019. He has since been developing a transdisciplinary performance practice at the interface of the theatrical and museum. To feed his artistic work with more theory, he took a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Antwerp. In 2021, Anthony created the performance Heartscore with Maarten Heijnens. Over the next few years at PLAN Brabant, Anthony will focus on an investigation of the selfless body. He also made crowdkill under the mentorship of DansBrabant and in collaboration with residency partner and co-producer Veem House for Performance.

Credits
Maker: Anthony van Gog
Performer: Evangelos Biskas
Sound design: Boris de Klerk & Anthony van Gog
Light design: Erik van de Wijdeven
Production: PLAN Brabant / DansBrabant in coproductie met Veem House for Performance
With thanks: Club Smederij, De Nieuwe Vorst en Joel Thurman

context program - Starting time 19:30h

WHO IS AFRAID OF DANCE ?

Starting time 19:30h, end time an half hour after the performance ends.
Language: English

Do you sometimes feel lost in contemporary dance? Do you not always understand what the dancers are doing on stage, despite the beautiful descriptions on the website? Or perhaps you are too well-informed and critical. How can you discover the lost pleasure?

Natalia Amelia Saied, hosts with/in the arts, invites you to meet others around experiences with dance: to warm up the perception and cool down judgement; to experience how dance can be meaningful for each of us. Are you joining?

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Meeting point: foyer in the hall of Theater Bellevue