Youngsters step in different directions
- Source: Global Times
- [09:09 July 16 2010]
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A scene from 15 Minutes Universe by David Middendorp. Photo: Courtesy of Dutch Culture Center
By Guo Song
Time and future, and life and death are some of the most perplexing concepts in the history of human thought, and today and tomorrow three talented young choreographers will share their ideas on these subjects via dance at the Dutch Culture Center.
Prospect Future by Joeri Dubbe, 15 Minutes Universe by David Middendorp and God Studies by Kenneth Flak are in the program A Dancer's Life which is presented by the Korzo Production House of Dancing in The Hague in the Netherlands.
"The idea of A Dancer's Life is to have a day for dancers and choreographers in Shanghai," said Leo Spreksel, artistic director of Korzo.
Joeri Dubbe is a young Dutch choreographer and dancer from the Nederlands Dans Theater II. He was named the "most talented student" when he studied at the National Ballet Academy.
Inspired by world-famous choreographers like Jiri Kylian and Ohad Naharin and by young choreographers like Kenzo Kusuda, his movements represent a balanced combination of different styles.
Dubbe will bring Shanghai's dance lovers his Prospect Future which premiered in January 2008.
The work, which is performed by three dancers, deals with the fears and uncertainties that people can experience when communicating, and the dance will display Dubbe's raw, energetic and grounded style.
The Dutch choreographer David Middendorp will perform his 15 Minutes Universe which is inspired by the concept of time.
The performance combines dance with video animation, accompanied by harpist Astrid Haring.
Middendorp creates both the choreography and computer animations. His works are set in a surrealistic world in which the human body and animated characters and objects challenge each other.
The choreographer and dancer Kenneth Flak, born in Norway, studied mime and modern theater dance in the Netherlands after studying philosophy in Norway.
In September 2007, he won a New York Dance and Performance Award, informally known as the Bessie Award, an annual award for innovative dancers and dance-related artists.
"Here is a world that couldn't be evoked by anything other than the physical detail of Flak's extraordinary dance," the New York Times said of his performance in 2007.
