Intimate Portraits – Between Us
Intimate Portraits is a special series of performances featuring unique dance makers, presented by Stichting KunstenDialoog. Experience a mix of personal stories, political statements, and thematic explorations through compelling choreography. Each evening concludes with an interview with the performers, offering a rare insight into their creative process.
Between Us
An evening exploringconnection, memory, and belonging. Through intimate movement and culturalexpression, the performances reflect on the bonds between people and thelandscapes they inhabit, the presence left behind in absence, and theresilience that sustains us in times of loss and longing.
– 15 november –
Program:
Air Has No Borders by Olena Stoian
Aitaiby Matthea Lára Pedersen
Air Has No Borders
Choreography: OlenaStoian
Performed by: Nadia Tomazenko, OlenaStoian, Paola Martire
I am from Ukraine, under temporary protection in theNetherlands, I miss my home and I am grieving along with my people. So I takeUkrainian traditions, dance elements, soundscape and folklore mystic creaturesas an inspiration, I explore how culture identity can be shown with movementand I create a dance piece in which I explore connection between people andtheir land, while examining themes of freedom, borders and resilience when thisconnection is endangered.
Aitai
Choreography: MattheaLára Pedersen
Performed by: Matthea Lára Pedersen andBjörn Bakker
Scenography: Krassa Sig
“Aitai” is a duet about connection, absence and the spacebetween people.
The word means “miss u” in Japanese andthe piece began as a response to the loss of my grandmother last year. It hassince grown into a broader exploration of what it means to be deeply connectedto someone, what we carry from each other, what remains in absence, and how weshape and are shaped by those around us. Grief is the starting point but thepiece reaches towards something larger: the weight and wonder of humanpresence.
Organisedby: Stichting KunstenDialoog
