Rock Paper Shadow Boxer Presented/Organised by klpac / Libero Production / TNT
Is a dance contemporary piece about a game that cannot be won.
I must do something. I want to do something. There’s a feeling of tension in the air, a very specific one. What am I going to do? It must be good straightaway. So they think: ‘Yes, that’s it’. Does it actually matter what it is? If you looked with a magnifying glass you’d see the rough edges, the flaws; that’s inevitable… So maybe it should just be left to chance – make it a fluke. After all, everything is joined by coincidence. What is coincidence? A formula, a secret mathematical formula. If you don’t aim straight, you’ll probably miss the target. Still, I’ve only got one go. Every movement counts. Every second. A little bit like with that game, you know, what’s it called. That game where someone makes his hand into a rock, paper or scissors. Very fast, again and again. And you have to take a gamble. Rock! I’ll do it. Go for it. Rock! Right now.
Stephen Shropshire winds himself around the concepts of risk, luck and coincidence and invites Andrea Miller (USA) en Roy Assaf (Israël) to create alongside him for the production Rock Paper Scissors. To be seen: three choreographic works about a game that cannot be won.
Show/Event Dates & Times: 15th by invitation only
– 16th June 2011 @ 8.30pm
Upon donation: RM35 Adult: , RM20 Student / Disabled
Duration of Show: 1 ½ hour
Venue: Pentas 1
Rock
ChoreographChoreography Roy Assaf
Dancers 9
Music Gustav Mahler & Uri Caine / Pat Metheny Trio / Händel &
James Bowman
Length 20 minutes
Light design Otto Eggersglüss
Costumes Jorine van Beek
Première April 2th 2011, Stadsschouwburg Groningen
You cannot break a rock. Not with your hands, human hands. With another rock perhaps. It’s a firm weapon. Throw the stone and it will crush anything on its way, bruise it at least. Not exactly elegant. On the other hand. Few things roll the way rock rolls. Heavily, thoughtfully. A rock never uses up. In time it will wear out. It will become a grain of sand. A grain made out of rock. ‘Assaf has caught the consistency of stone in a tight ensemble, often drawn up in irregular shapes with measured, large and powerful movements, but toward the end in a graceful, folk circle.’ NRC Handelsblad, April 12th 2011
Scissors
Choreography Stephen Shropshire
Dancers 6
Music Hildur Gudnadottir / Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto / Oliver Arnalds
Length 20 minutes
Light design Otto Eggersglüss
Costumes Jorine van Beek
Première April 2th 2011, Stadsschouwburg Groningen
Cut loose, how many times have you been cut loose. Now it’s time to cut your own strings. A pair of scissors. An intelligent object, sharp and jagged and shaped to fit your hand. It will do a meticulous job. If the job goes wrong, you’re to blame. You were holding the scissors, not anyone else. Cut, but don’t just cut randomly. Cut towards something. Cut yourself into shape. ‘It is a smart game of light and dark, line and form, performed in a rather classical idiom.’ De Volkskrant, April 26th 2011.
Shadow Boxer
ChoreographChoreography Stephen Shropshire
Dancers 14
Music Marc Mellits / Pamela Z
Length 20 minutes
Light design Otto Eggersglüss
Costumes Jorine van Beek
Decor design Janco van Barneveld, Stephen Shropshire
Première October 10th 2009, Stadsschouwburg Groningen
‘NND is a company with a group fantastic dancers and Shropshire knows how to get the best out of them. This can be recognized especially in Shadow Boxer.’ Dagblad van het Noorden, October 12th 2009. Shadow Boxer is a group work from the hand of Shropshire, who took inspiration from the music of American composer Marc Mellits. The original movement languages of Shropshire, combined with the post minimalistic
sounds of Mellits, challenges the strength, precision and speed of the dancers of Noord Nederlandse Dans. © Karel Zwaneveld
Company Details:
Noord Nederlandse Dans is a contemporary dance company based in Groningen, the Netherlands. It is the flagship dance company for the provinces of north Holland and was established in 1997 by the Dutch Ministry of Culture under the name Noord Nederlandse Dans.
Noord Nederlandse Dans is known for its athleticism, musicality and virtuosity. Since 2009, the company has been under the artistic direction of Stephen Shropshire and continues to present physically thrilling programs that engage the emotions and intellect. Shopshire’s work, along with work by a new generation of young international choreographers, re-confirms the company’s position as one of the most exciting and original contemporary dance companies working in the Netherlands today.
14 dancers together form Noord Nederlandse Dans and the Noord Nederlandse Dans StudioGroup. The main company currently visits some 45 venues with a total of 70 performances a year, on native soil but also outside of The Netherlands. Noord Nederlandse Dans StudioGroup is a talented group of young dancers who rehearse and train with the dancers of the main company. They are also responsible to carry out educational projects and to build up their own repertoire, specifically for a younger audience. Artistic coordinator of the StudioGroup is Ronald Wintjens.
Artistic director – Stephen Shropshire
Stephen Shrosphire (Miami, 1972) trained at the Juilliard School, New York City under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy. In 1992, while still a student, Shropshire created a number of works under the mentorship of Doris Rudko, Elizabeth Keen and Bessie Schonberg. Upon graduation, Shropshire joined the American Repertory Ballet.
Between 1999 and 2005, Shrop-shire was a dancer with NND/Galili Dance. In 2003, his work ‘The Piper’s Progress’ was awarded the Grand Prize and the Public’s Prize at the 8th internationalchoreographic competition’Tendan-ces’in Luxembourg. Since 2005, Shropshire has created for companies including Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Norrdans, Diversions Dance Company of Wales/Holland Dance Festival and the Iceland Dance Company. In January 2009 Stephen Shropshire succeeded Itzik Galili as the new artistic director of Noord Nederlandse Dans and the company subsequently adjusted its name to Noord Nederlandse Dans.
Choreographer – Andrea Miller
Andrea Miller is originally from Salt Lake City, USA. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School, New York and a former dancer of the Batsheva Dance Company. She has also worked with dance companies including Cedar Lake, The Limón Dance Company and Buglisi Dance Theater. In 2006 Miller established Gallim Dance, based in New York. Miller’s choreographic works are kinetic and intimate expressions of the self and its inner mosaic of weakness, desires and struggles. She has been selected as one of Dance Magazine’s ’25 to Watch’ (January, 2009).
Choreographer – Edan Gorlicki
Gorlicki (1982) started dancing in California and later studied at the ‘Reut and Wizo’ schools of performing arts in Haifa, Israel. In 2000 he joined the Batsheva Ensemble Dance Company moving to the Inbal Pinto Dance Company in 2003 with whom he toured worldwide. He joined NND/Galili Dance, directed by Itzik Galili in August 2005. Gorlicki has also worked as an independent dancer with choreographers such as Paul Selwyn Norton and Yair Vardi. He has created numerous works for the Suzanne Dellal Center for Music and Dance in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Gorlicki is one of the founders of the in Groningen based Random Collision, a collective focusesoncontemporary choreography.
Choreographer – Einav Eshel
Eshel (1984) began her dance studies at the age of 15 at the Mosinson School of Dance in Hod Hasharon, Israel. She gained classical and contemporary dance experience working with the likes of Talia Paz, Dylan Newcomb and Kevin Cregan. In 2007, she entered the ‘dance and performing arts’ study programme at artEZ Dance Academy in Arnhem, the Netherlands. As a dancer and a choreographer she has been inspired by working with choreographers Yasmeen Godder, Yossi Tamim and Philip Taylor. Her piece ‘Work in Progress” has also been performed at the ACT festival in Bilbao, Outnow! Festival in Bremen and IT’s Festival in Amsterdam.
