HOLLAND DANCE FESTIVAL 2018 - International and imaginative 16th edition
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HOLLAND DANCE
FESTIVAL 2018
International and imaginative 16th edition
Get ready for the Holland Dance Festival, returning to its home base in The
Hague and cities Delft, Rotterdam and Amsterdam from 25 January to
11 February 2018. Opening a window to the (dance) world, the festival will
feature over 50 international performances representing nineteen countries.
Featuring projects in unique settings, large-scale productions and intimate
performances, the programme showcases the very best of the worldwide
contemporary dance scene.
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A highlight of this edition will be a large project dedicated to one of
the twentieth-century’s greatest and most influential dance artists:
Martha Graham. Spanning The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, it
will bring audiences face to face with the work of this dance legend. An
array of other adventurous acts, world firsts and masterpieces colour the
programme, among them a fascinating piece by the Taiwanese Huang Yi
with his industrial robot KUKA, the world-renowned choreographer Mats Ek’s
farewell creation, Eun Me Ahn’s highly acclaimed Dancing Grandmothers
from Korea, and The Hole, a piece choreographed by Ohad Naharin
and staged in a special setting by one of Holland’s most prestigious and
productive companies – Nederlands Dans Theater.
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Martha Graham Dance Company Huang Yi & Kuka
The Legend is Back! Stirring pas de deux by
Martha Graham Dance Company Huang Yi & KUKA
returns to the Netherlands
From Taiwan comes an intriguing creation by the
In 1991 Martha Graham passed away. The founder of innovative young choreographer and dancer Huang Yi.
American modern dance, Graham today is hailed as the In his quest to be the perfect child, Huang Yi yearned to
indisputable ‘mother of modern dance’ worldwide. In have a robot as a friend and companion. As an adult, he
a career spanning 71 years she created an impressive created a robot to be his dance partner; that robot is KUKA.
180 productions. Martha Graham played a pivotal and His own childhood in which he constantly pretended
global role in the development of modern dance, also in that all was well now forms the central inspiration for his
the emergence of the Dutch dance scene. She was a true choreography. Dance Magazine called Huang Yi & KUKA
revolutionary, being one of the first to break with the rules one of the ‘25 to Watch’.
of classical ballet, and introducing the ‘contract and release’
method that is still taught to this day.
This year the Martha Graham Dance Company returns
to the Netherlands as part of a European comeback, made
possible through an international collaboration between
the Holland Dance Festival and the Luxor Theater in
Rotterdam, the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Highlights
des Internationalen Tanzes in Bonn, Die Internationale
Tanzwochen Neuss and Les Théâtres de la Ville de
Luxembourg. In a programme put together exclusively for
this tour, audiences will have a chance to get (re)acquainted
with Graham’s unique style of movement, in a performance
extending from early works by the dance legend to her very
last choreography, Maple Leaf Rag.
The Hole by Nederlands Dans Theater
Ground-breaking theatre experience in
The Hole
Nederlands Dans Theater has been a fixture of the Holland
Dance Festival since its inception. Building on its
site-specific pieces School of Thought and Spiritwalking,
the company’s new festival production tests the limits
of the traditional theatre experience. Each evening it
will be putting on two performances of Ohad Naharin’s
masterpiece The Hole (2013); one by the company’s female
dancers, the other by their male counterparts. Naharin’s
intimate setting for this work seats the audience on a raised
dance floor on the stage.
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Mats Ek’s farewell creation AXE Dancing Grandmothers
Exclusive programme with Mats Ek’s Consummate feel-good show by
final creation AXE Eun-Me Ahn Dance Company:
Dancing Grandmothers
Every now and then a great master draws the curtain on
his or her career. For the internationally acclaimed Swedish
Dancing Grandmothers is easily the most playful
choreographer Mats Ek, that time has come. Though he
performance of this edition. Following its success abroad,
will not stop his creative work entirely, the creation AXE
now it is finally coming to the Netherlands. The production
embodies his choreographic farewell. Last seen at the
by choreographer Eun-Me Ahn, aka ‘the Pina Bausch of
festival with Bye, his creation for star ballerina Sylvie
Seoul’, combines flower power, folklore and electro and
Guillem, AXE is a duet Ek produced first as a film and
has been danced by all ages. For this performance, the
later as a live performance for his muse Ana Laguna and
company’s dancers will be joined by ten true to life Korean
former Cullberg Ballet dancer Yvan Auzley. In an evening
grandmothers. Together they explore their Asian take on
programme put together exclusively for this festival, Ek’s
ageism and dance. Their boundless energy is infectious and
marvellous creation is paired with Emanuel Gat’s Sacre
sure to inspire everyone!
and Jiří Kylián’s latest film Scalamare.
Scalamare
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About the Holland Dance Festival
For more than thirty years the Holland Dance Festival has been bringing
dance to the Netherlands from all over the world. The festival engages
companies and dance artists not otherwise seen in Holland. Each year
the festival presents a kaleidoscopic programme, giving audiences
an unparalleled opportunity to experience and admire the pinnacle
of international dance. Holland Dance Festival is an event that welcomes
all audiences, offering both new things to discover and works
that strike a familiar chord.
Besides performances the festival also organizes hotel packages, dance
dinners and workshops for dance enthusiasts of all ages to make for
an unforgettable wintertime visit to Dutch dance capital The Hague.
‘The Holland Dance Festival is a good
thing, with a wide range of dancing,
seriously presented.’
– FINANCIAL TIMES
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HOLLAND DANCE
FESTIVAL 2018
25 Jan. through 11 Feb.
More than 50 performances
representing 19 countries
Always something new to discover:
95% of the productions are new
in The Netherlands
Based in The Hague, in association with
Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Delft
For the full programme, visit our new website:
www.holland-dance.com
NOTE FOR THE PRESS: For more information, interview requests or visual material,
please contact Roel Funcken at roel@holland-dance.com or +31 (0)30 2170556
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