A close canon

A close canon

“…Who knows when or where we shall meet in this strange sound world.” (Evelyn Glennie) In A close canon, three individuals try to break the codes of an austere building to be together. Premiere 23 May 2002Choreography Neel VerdoornDances Horne…

Nomad club

Nomad club

Premiere 24 October 2002Choreography Neel VerdoornDance Eva Maria Christ, Kenji Imukai, Andreas Kuck, Nono Ladas, Cecilia Moisio, Barbara Louise SutersMusic Simeon ten Holt – nr 7. Canto Ostinato, Steve Reich – New York-Vermont CounterpointCostumes Emmy SchoutenLight Niko van der KlugtPhotography…

Sisters

Sisters

Sisters is an electrifying dance performance about the relationship between three women. Sisters unfolds as a thriller. Fear, due to a far-reaching occurrence in their lives, is the motivation for three women to enter into a dialogue with their surroundings,…

Listen to this image

Listen to this image

If we care for contact with othersIf we need this approachIf we can’t live without this sensationWe should use our senses See the musicHear the imageFeel the thought Premiere 23 April 2004Choreography Neel VerdoornDance Spala Korinna, Kozár Eszter / Góbi…

First to the right second to the left

First to the right second to the left

The rhythm of the day, of the heart, the mind… First to the right, second to the left Get up, go on, walk on, live on Every day Again and again To the right, to the left First to the…

Intermission

Intermission

A gripping physicality also characterises the duet Intermission by Neel Verdoorn. Yanaika Holle and Marco Jodes never make physical contact, but the eye contact is so constant and concentrated that it makes for an exhaustingly intense relationship, where dancing apart…

If you forget me

If you forget me

In retrospect All is unenduring A week Becomes a random incident In a year of weeks In a lifetime of years That passes in a flash When it comes to an end If you forget me… is a dance piece…

Embrace

Embrace

The melancholy of the tango music of Astor Piazzolla drives the dancers to the other. The music has great contrasts: from modest to extravagant, with strong tempo changes. The music for the dancers as perfume, to inhale. Dance, intense and…

Puur, minatuur

Puur, miniatuur 1

Puur, miniatuur 1 outlines a barren environment where dancer and musician from their own center looking for extremes. In a dialogue they let two worlds sanding together and they create a new, abstract and self-contained universe, a world where movement…

Terra Incognita

Terra incognita

A duet for piano and body, on time and memory, and melancholy temperament, compressed into the present moment. Central to the duet is the instrument, the prepared piano. In the duet Terra incognita choreographer Neel Verdoorn presents itself after about…