choreographer / dancer / teacher
Hereby an overview of some of my choreographies. It is not a chronological overview, but it shows the diversity of dance qualities which I like to develop in my works. The different choreographies inhibit the narrative meaning of the pieces. And they are in…
The ballad, in its first conception, was a narrative song. It is one of the oldest song genres, dealing with themes like love, death, faithfulness and infidelity. We all know ballads from different genres of music. The lyrics and narratives…
In the solo Zilver (Silver), dancer Roisin Verheul sets out on a path in the presence of the monumental sculptures by Igor Mitoraj. Isolation, vulnerability and fragmentation of body parts are central. Zilver is a dance performance in which the…
Composer David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion is based on the fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The connection between the suffering of Jesus and the suffering of the little match girl, who ends up freezing to death, is the…
Geen deel is a dance concert. A performance without complicated theatrical tools in which both the realization and the performance, dancers and musicians have an equal share. The initiative was taken by Neel Verdoorn and Arend Niks. Both graduated in…
Bésieque finds his inspiration among the desert peoples and their connection with nature. In one abstract form, different themes of their culture are highlighted. The life against, with, and among the elements can be seen in all its simplicity in…
Blow ups by Neel Verdoorn is completely different from the ambiance Bésieque, the first work she made for Djazzex. The choreography consists of different scenes of a story, where the details are emphasized and thus get an anecdotal shape. She…
Premiere 1991Choreography Neel Verdoorn, Glenn van der HoffDance Ellen Dijkstra, Fjorela García, Nathalie Ho-Kang-You, Annabelle Lopez Ochos, Froilán Medina Hernández, Teck Voon Ng, Roberto Ong-A-Kwie, Jane Poerwoatmodjo, Samuel Ribeiro de Castro, Natascha Siegertsz, Daan WijnandsMusic José-Luis Greco and David Rothschild…
To paraphrase a statement in Entr’Acte (1992) cites choreographer Neel Verdoorn: ‘If you’ve got yourself, you have a voice, and if you have a voice, you have the beginning of everything.’ The voice in From Tokyo to France a central…
Premiere 25 November 1992Direction Jappe Claes and Pol DehertChoreography Neel VerdoornPhotography Marc Peeters Tati Tati is a production of Theater Teater (Belgium).