ECD 2 presents a reworked excerpt of the piece « Titanic » created in 2017 by the Amsterdam based choreographer Liat Waysbort.

Titanic by Bitter Sweet Dance / Liat Waysbort
Dance till you sink. Bitter Sweet Dance presents a topical remake of Ohad Naharin’s memorable dance production The Sinking of the Titanic (1989), inspired by the imperturbable orchestra that played on as that iconic ship went down.

Liat Waysbort: “I feel that the sinking ship is a metaphor for a world in transition. Significant changes are taking place right now, and we seem hardly able to get to grips with these. Titanic shows that individual actions always have an impact, whatever the surrounding forces might be.”

The dancers are overwhelmed by disaster, but they don’t go down without a fight. Instead, they radically embrace every option and opportunity to exert an influence on their ending. Powerful and explosive, vulnerable and hushed, they draw us into their appetite for struggle, their deathly fear, resignation and solidarity. A bittersweet evening during which – alongside the inevitable rending of human lives – hope and comradeship emerge.

Liat Waysbort saw The Sinking of the Titanic as a teenager, and the work made a deep impression on her. She went on to start her career with Ohad Naharin and his world-famous Batsheva Dance Company. She has now worked as an independent choreographer in the Netherlands for many years. She set up Bitter Sweet Dance in 2015, creating productions that permeate every fibre of your being: ‘It grabs you by the senses’. Work that undermines clichés of age, gender and physicality, broadens definitions of beauty and gives concrete form to all human life.

ECD 3
Choreographers Yasmine Hugonnet and Mario Lopes are invited to create original works with ECD3 students.

Yasmine Hugonnet
Yasmine Hugonnet is a choreographer, dancer, and researcher, born in Montreux in Switzerland, living and working between Lausanne and Paris. Her works perform internationally, namely in Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, UK, Italy, Corea, Taiwan.

« All my projects, since 2013, are based on corporal practices (vocal and performative) that can also be created in the moment. If my stage writing is ultimately very precise, it is because at the end of the creative process, I operate a crystallization. These practices invite the performers in a space inhabited by what I call distinct and often opposing fields of forces like erection/lethargy, sleep/wake, active/passive, will/abandon, feminine/masculine, movement/immobility, lifting/crushing, lightness/ gravity, alive/ dead... These fields are set in motion, dialogue and allow to float between polarities that often seem too frozen.

If I am so interested in these polarities, it is because they govern the way in which we inhabit our bodies and compose our representation of the world. Meeting these polarities allows us to move, to practice areas of uncertainty, to travel with the heterogeneity of our beings and our bodies. Our great partner is the duration, the practice of the passage of time, which changes, by its gentle erosion, the taste of moments. »

Mario Lopes
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Mario Lopes is a choreographer and articulator. With more than 15 choreographic works performed in Brazil, Germany, France, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Austria, Switzerland and Finland, Lopes is currently finalising his research Afrotranstopia at DAS choreography.

« To describe my work as curator and idealizer, choreographer and performer I use the terms articulator-choreographer and choreographer-articulator, whose fundamental idea is to articulate bodies, spaces, ideas and people. I have been researching and investigating "conflicts of social

norms and foreign bodies". Mobility, encounters, intersections and compositions, social norms and their repercussions on the body and movement. I am constantly searching to recognize, despite distances and differences, another way of creating, a convergence of ideas that helps to displace my own actions. »

Tickets:

You can make your reservations online. Click on the date of your choice and follow the instructions.

Wednesday 14th of June 19.30 hrs
Thursday 15th of June 19.30 hrs
Friday 16th of June 14.00 hrs
Saturday 17th of June 19.30 hrs

If you also want to go to the performance with ECD 1, go to the ATD agenda
They are playing the same days, but at different times.