Programme 

Caen Amour

Trajal Harrell

Theatre, catwalk and dance installation: Harrell revisits the history of hoochie coochie shows. Clothes become more than just costumes, but rather a means for transformation and expressing identity and desire.

Stedelijk Museum

Find, Select, Copy and Paste

Geumhyung Jeong

Intimate solo in which Geumhyung Jeong returns to the essence of movement, without robots or objects – just her body.

Likeminds

Dance is the archeologist, or an idol in the bone.

DD Dorvillier, human future dance corps

Mesmerizing solo by DD Dorvillier in which you see the same dance twice- or do you?

Likeminds

Holland Festival x Africadelic: From Kuduro to Afrotech

Batida, Noite e Dia, Nídia, Prince Pasensi, Chinnamasta

Holland Festival and Africadelic celebrate 750 years of Amsterdam while reflecting on 50 years of ‘in’dependence of five African countries and Suriname. Featuring live performances by Batida and DJ sets by Nidia, Prince Pasensi, amongst others.

Parallel

Visit #3

Trajal Harrell

Step into the world of Welcome to Asbestos Hall: a dynamic space for experimentation, artistic exchange and spontaneous encouters.

Likeminds

Dance of Darkness: butoh in film

Holland Festival, Eye

Film programme with butohfilm Dance of Darkness, selected by associate artist Trajal Harrell and the short film Rose Color Dance.

EYE

Freie Form

Marc Vanrunxt

A sublime dialogue between dancer Samantha van Wissen and mezzosoprano and composer Els Mondelaers about the possibilities of free form in movement and music, in which compositions by Morton Feldman and Yoko Ono resonate.

Theater Frascati

Meet the Artist: Marc Vanrunxt

Marc Vanrunxt

What do you want to know about choreographer Marc Vanrunxt? You can ask him during this Meet the Artist.

Theater Frascati

Study for Life

Kaija Saariaho, Tero Saarinen, Asko|Schönberg, Tero Saarinen Company

Grand visual tribute to composer Kaija Saariaho in which five of her compositions are performed. Six dancers move in a special hall arrangement where the musicians are not just static participants.

Muziekgebouw

The choreographic world of Trajal Harrell

Ondrej Vidlar

A workshop with Ondrej Vidlar in which you’ll discover how some dance can be influenced by pop culture and postmodernism.

Likeminds

Under Construction

Geumhyung Jeong

Hand-made robots move like humans in a solo where technology imitates the human body, while also showing its vulnerability.

Theater Frascati

In C

Sasha Waltz, Het Nationale Ballet

Dance performance set to Terry Riley’s legendary minimalist composition In C, in which the individual dancer’s creative freedom must relate to the group.

Nationale Opera & Ballet