MOVING FUTURES FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

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

Thursday the 25^th and Friday the 26^th of April 2024, the travelling festival Moving Futures Festival will be in Theater Rotterdam. 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 Rotterdam, you will see performances by:
- Thursday, April 25
Jefta Tanate - Domeless
Justin de Jager - Brothers
- Friday, April 26
Anthony van Gog - crowdkill
Trevoga - 11 3 8 7

Photo: © Hilde Harshagen

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

Trevoga - 11 3 8 7

In this multimedia collaboration, new choreographic collective Trevoga and experimental electronic music producer Damyst generate a gloomy vision of human bodies in the new media world they navigate.

An artificially generated tv show, an eery dream after a late-night doom scroll, perhaps something even more uncanny. 11 3 8 7 is a performance inspired by the lavish fantasies we fabricate online and their conflicting relation with the increasingly hostile reality around us.

From targeted ads to tailored newsreels, vlogs, gaming streams, and lifestyle influencers, the piece takes virtual representations of ‘real’ human interactions far into the unfamiliar - similar to how an AI bot distorts content when prompted.

11 3 8 7 fills the eyes with polished imagery, yet the packaging is hollow. Behind the glossy appearance of its fictional avatars lurks an unsettling atmosphere almost impossible to grasp. Like wandering alone through a deserted shopping mall, it haunts its viewers with the chills of a cold, manufactured absence.

Bio Trevoga
Trevoga is an emerging Amsterdam dance collective, currently formed by alumni of the Amsterdam School of the Arts Neda Ruzheva (BG, 1999), Antonina Pushkareva (RU, 2000) and Erikas Žilaitis (LT, 1999), graduating in 2021/2022/2023. Trevoga has been supported by ICK Dans Amsterdam since 2023. With the performance 11 3 8 7, Trevoga is a striking newcomer in the (inter)national field with a number of awards: winner of Best of Fringe Award 2023 and Aerowaves Twenty24. Connected by their experiences of growing up in the shadowy socio-political context of post-Soviet reconstruction, they grew up with a fascination for overlaps between oppression and seduction. This contradiction is the basis of Trevoga's work, in which flashy figures of style from popular media and high culture go hand in hand with an everyday sense of unease. Playing unapologetically and incoherently with genres, registers and symbols, the trio gnaw away at the mental assault of the fast-paced city they live in, seeing their bodies as symptoms of the myriad addictions and the stage as a means of disentangling the many dissonant processes and contradictory forces.

Credits
Choreography: Trevoga Collective
Styling: La Fam
Sound: Damyst
Light: Nadia Bekkers
Co-Production: ICK Dans Amsterdam & One Dance Week Bulgaria
Made with the support of NORMA Funds, Performing Art Funds NL/Fonds Podiumkunsten & Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.