Newsflash December 2024
Expanded Contemporary Dance presents in the December 2024 newsflash:
ECD teacher Kalin Morrow wins award at Nederlandse Dans Dagen
ECD teacher Kalin Morrow won an award at the Nederlandse Dans Dagen. She was awarded the Zwaan for Most impressive Dance Performance for her role in The Previous Owner by Dunja Jocić/BIRD Productions. We asked her a couple of questions on her role in the piece.
What inspired you to perform in The Previous Owner?
I have been working with choreographer Dunja Jocić for 3 years now and her work questions the subject of life and how it should and can be lived now and in the future. The Previous Owner appealed to me in its sincerity and layers.
What have been the challenges working on this project?
The piece was challenging in its movement dynamic and acting. I had to play both characters within the work, creating a strong duality on stage.
What excited you most about the project?
It was exciting because I was alone on stage, the performance relied on me to draw the audience in and that can change every night.
What do you want the audience to take with them after seeing the performance?
I hope they questioned what life can mean, how fleeting and beautiful it is and how it’s okay to be a raw and genuine.
ECD teacher Claire Philippart: TANZ by Florentina Holzinger
ECD teacher Claire Philippart is working on her script and part for the show TANZ by Florentina Holzinger. She will be performing the piece in mid December in Hongkong, West Kowloon Festival.
What inspired you to work on this project?
To be honest, it was at first to be on stage again and dare to do that part. I have performed it already in London and Stockholm.
What can be the challenges working on this project?
Although I am naked from beginning till end, the challenge lays somewhere else: through the different stages this woman is going through, the challenge is to not overact, or even act… to find it somewhere deep in myself.
What excited you most about the project?
To be part of this collective of feminist powerful women, and the statements they are making; interact with them on stage with humour, and "peeling" gradually through all the layers of the personage.
For more information and tickets go to: https://www.westk.hk/en/events/freespacedance2024_tanz?tab=overview
OPEN CALL
ECD will host the second ECD Sneak Preview Winter Course from 9 to 20 December 2024. Participants will learn from ECD faculty, dance with ECD students and prepare themselves for the audition. For registration please go to: Sneak Preview Winter Course. There are a few places available!
PERFORMANCES
ECD 1 will show their new work ΛVΛLΛNCHE choreographed by Cristina Planas Leitão in the theatre hall on Wednesday 11 December until Friday 13 December at 7 pm and on Saturday 14 December at 2 pm.
Next to this, ECD 3 students will show their duets choreographed by themselves at the Academy of Theatre and Dance.
Please, get your tickets for the performances via the links above!