Why Not X Julidans: OFF VENUE
Short performances by promising artists and choreographers reflect various ways to understand the mysteries of life. Through the language of our own bodies or the lens of raw emotions, they bring us closer to the essence of being human. This year, 𝗢𝗙𝗙 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗨𝗘 will take place in churches and on holy grounds, the sacred spaces where generations have gathered in pursuit of
𝗥𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 & 𝗜𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗼 - 𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 @posthoornkerk.
🕯15:00
📿Book tour A, B or D to see Unfolding Multitude and see 2 other performances
🌊Hop on your bike and visit unique churches through Amsterdam.
The Posthoornkerk ⛪️🔔As architect Pierre Cuypers himself said: “a tower must be tall, a low tower is an abomination”. And he applied that principle well at the Posthoornkerk. With its three slender towers, the church is an absolute eye-catcher in the old city center. Located behind a more than hundred-year-old fence, the Posthoornkerk is Cuypers' very first building in Amsterdam, who later also designed the Central Station, the Vondelkerk, and the Rijksmuseum. Based on his ideal of the ‘Medieval city’, he wanted to give the church a prominent role in society. The immense height, the many colors of bricks, and the play of light particles that fall through the stained-glass windows give this neo-Gothic church an enchanting appearance.
13 & 14 juli 2024 'unfolding multitude' Posthoornkerk Amsterdam
Why Not X Julidans: off venue
PRE PREMIERE 'Unfolding Multitude'
Try out 20 dec : 20:30 uur
Pre premiere 21 dec 20:30 uur
Location: Het Motorblok, Zaandam (Oostzijde 381)
Ropes Aligned X Why Not X Isabel Cordeiro X Gemma Luz Bosch
What’s that mass throbbing and humming in the air? An organism of some sort? A shrub, a sea urchin, a swarm of bees?A multitude. A suspended entanglement of bodies and ropes. They hold each other knotting limbs and hands and heads and armpits and toes and wrists. Softly grappling, they seek support and offer rest to each other.In slow descent the entanglement unravels releasing the bodies, one by one. While drawing the connected ropes —the umbilical cord, the tentacle, the kundalini, the life support— bodies reveal their individuated mission, which unfolds in sound, dance and in the engagement with the surrounding materiality. The intelligence of the multitude is articulated.
WhyNot & Ropes Aligned welcome you to the vibrant cultural venue @hetmotorblok in Zaandam for the pre-premiere of Unfolding Multitude, a co-creation of vertical dance collective Ropes Aligned, visual artist Isabel Cordeiro and sound artist Gemma Luz Bosch in which visual art, vertical dance and ceramic sounds come together and gravity is being defied.
Credits
Choreography: Ropes Aligned
Concept/artwork: Isabel Cordeiro
Dancers/performers: @suusdebekker @natasjabode @charlottevandenreek @_isabel_cordeiro_
Composer/music: @gemmaluzboschMusician: @meessiderius
End direction: @kerenlevi.neverlike
Artistic advice: @marjoleinvogels
Light: Marco Chardon
Sound: Matthijs Ruijter
Riggers/ropeacces: Roan Lo-a-Njoe
Production: Gemma Hauptmeijer, Katerina VershininaCatering: Yvette & RolfCo
producing partners: EKWC, Panama Pictures, Space is the Place (SITP), WhyNot, Motorblok ZaandamUnfolding Multitude is made with the support of AFK, FPK, van Bylandt Stichting, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds NH, Stichting Stokroos, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and SITP
"UNFOLDING MULTITUDE"
TRY OUT 20 DEC 20:30 & PRE PREMIERE 21 DEC 20:30 2023 Tickets: www.festivalwhynot.nl
WhyNot x Bimhuis - Ropes Aligned -Isabel Cordeiro - Gemma Luz Bosch - Mees Siderius
WhyNot x Bimhuis: Ropes Aligned
Wed 30 aug
Tickets via Bimhuis.nl
An innovative evening with exciting encounters between music, dance and audience.
Dancers hanging with ropes on the ceiling and circling dervishes: this evening at BIMHUIS promises to be again breathtaking. The vertical dance collective Ropes Aligned welcomes you to the foyer of Het Muziekgebouw with Unfolding Multitude.
Choreography: Ropes Aligned | Isabel Cordeiro
Concept/Artwork: Isabel Cordeiro
Performers: Suzanne de Bekker, Natasja Bode, Gemma Luz Bosch, Mees Siderius
Composer/music: Gemma Luz Bosch
Musician: Mees Siderius
Artistic advice: Keren Levi, Marjolein
Vogels
Choreographic advice: Keren Levi
Lightdesign: Theun Mosk
Co producing partners: EKWC, Panama Pictures, Space is the Place, WhyNot, Motorblok Zaandam
Riggers: Tim Halussy, Roan Lo-a-Njoe
Unfolding Multitude is made with the support of AFK, FPK, van Bylandt Stichting, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds NH, Stichting Stokroos, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, SITP
Photography: Bart Grietens
Ropes Aligned welcomes you to the foyer of Het Muziekgebouw with Unfolding Multitude
making slabs from porcelain clay
Unfolding Multitude is a WhyNot produced co-creation by vertical dance collective Ropes Aligned, visual artist Isabel Cordeiro and sound artist Gemma Luz Bosch in which visual art, vertical dance and ceramic sounds come together and gravity is being defied.
To create this performance we had several residencies. We spend our first residence at ekwc_oisterwijk; 2 weeks creating the artworks. EKWC is the European Ceramic Workcentre.
The international artist-in-residence and centre-of-excellence for ceramics. A complete different surrounding for Ropes Aligned. With body parts into the ceramics making slabs from porcelainclay.
That was fun and completely new to us.
Worktitle revolving bodies we dived into this new world of ceramics and played around with the idea of folding & unfolding an ongoing researsch of our collaborating visual artist Isabel Cordeiro.
Using vertical dance and suspension to explore how our bodies transfer information from one another and into the claybodies.
Some pictures of our residencie at EKWC.
