For centuries, people have used rituals to attune themselves to their environment, nature and the ecosystem in which they live. Planting is enhanced with rituals of hope, the good harvest is exuberantly celebrated and people connect with each other through dance and music.
In our own modern ecosystem of the city, many people meet in nightclubs, where they dance, move and celebrate life together. When they merge together into the music and the intoxication of the night, the sense of space and time disappears. The group then transforms into a collective and together they recreate the world on the dance floor.

Club Mountain is an interdisciplinary project in which elements of ancient ritual and the modern nightclub come together. The project reflects, investigates and poses open questions about how rituals and modern technologies can serve as a medium to travel between worlds and tap into the collective memory that is stored in our bodies and comes to life on the underground rhythm of the city by night.

Credits:
This project is part of an ongoing interdisciplinary research about ritual technologies with guest artists choreographer and director Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti (BO/BRA) and Light artist Zalán Szakács (RO/HU) with repetitor Matheus Moreira de Oliveria (BRA) and dance students (third year) from Expanded Contemporary Dance (ATD Sarah Mary Bittar, Tim Brügger, Aleyna Demir, Lola Dupriez, Mélie Favre, Mandisa Gramelsberger, Sem Houmes, Naomi Katthagen, Pei Kuo, Hope Landu, Sára Mezei, Lucija Miletić, Elise Richards, Ditte Toppet, Rowan van den Boomen, San Wolteche with Partner Club Raum.

Production support: Dorothea Sinnema.

Initiated by WhyNot Festival under the Ancient Future project, in collaboration with ECD - ATD, Club Raum and FIBER Festival.

Performances:
April 17 - 17:00 and 18:30 at Club Raum Humberweg 3, 1043 AC Amsterdam

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