Nederlands Dans Theatre To Preview FALL FOR DANCE Showcase, Today
By: BWW
News Desk Nov. 16, 2016
Nederlands Dans Theater 1, one of the
world's most prolific and creative contemporary dance companies, will
perform in Program 5 of the 2016 Fall for Dance Festival at New York
City Center on Friday, October 7 and Saturday, October 8 at 8 pm.
Marco Goecke. The piece will premiere as part of the Company's 2016
season, which will run for four performances, November 16 - 19 at City
Center. The season will also feature the U.S. premieres of Safe as
Houses and Stop-Motion, choreographed by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot;
and The Statement, choreographed by Crystal Pite. "We are thrilled to return to the Fall for Dance with a preview of our
2016 season," said Artistic Director Paul Lightfoot. "Nederlands Dans
Theater has a strong connection and history to New York City, and we
are thrilled to introduce four U.S. premieres to American audiences." About the 2016 Performances: Safe as Houses (2001), choreographed by house choreographers Sol León
and Paul Lightfoot to secular music by Johann Sebastian Bach, was
inspired by the ancient Chinese book of I Ching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCf8oMwauWY&feature=youtu.be
music by Max Richter, features seven dancers depicting a process of
farewell and transformation, reinforced by large screens that show
delayed video projections, which include their daughter Saura.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz_k7BEZY2I&feature=youtu.be Sol León and Paul Lightfoot started to work as a duo for NDT over 26
years ago. Together they have won many prestigious awards, including
the Benois de la Danse and the Herald Archangel. They have been the
house choreographers of NDT since 2002 and have created over fifty
ballets for the company. Their many works include Sehnsucht/Schmetterling, Softly, as I Leave
You; Spiritwalking; Shoot the Moon; and most recently, Shut Eye. Woke up Blind (2016), choreographed by NDT's Associate Choreographer
Marco Goecke, was inspired by two love songs by American
singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, who died tragically and young. Two
female and five male dancers are drawn into an acoustic world that
contrasts with Buckley's vocal power and his frenetic guitar sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr8yuY6QXiA&feature=youtu.be
first choreographic work in 2000. Since then he has created over forty
works and is one of the world's most sought-after choreographers.
Goecke was resident choreographer at the Stuttgart Ballet and the
Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. He has created work for Les Ballets de Monte
Carlo, Hamburg Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, the
Norwegian National Ballet, the Leipzig Ballet and Zurich Ballet. Mr.
Goecke is the recipient of the prestigious Nijinsky Award (2006) as
Emerging Choreographer. The Statement (2016), choreographed by Crystal Pite, on a new
composition by Owen Belton with spoken text by playwright Jonathan
Young, takes a contemporary world view of power, conflict and
morality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rragD1P34NA Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite has been an Associate
Choreographer with NDT since 2008. The ballet Plot Point, which Pite
created for NDT 1 in 2010, was nominated for the prestigious dance
award Benois de la Danse. Pite is also an Associate Dance Artist at
Canada's National Arts Centre and at Sadler's Wells, London. Her
ballets are performed by dance companies worldwide. In 2002, Pite
founded her own company, Kidd Pivot, based in Vancouver, Canada. Nederlands Dans Theater is recognized as one of the most prolific and
creative contemporary dance companies in the world. It consists of
two multinational companies: NDT 1 and NDT 2. The latter prepares
sixteen classically trained dancers (between the ages of 17 and 23)
for the highest possible level, during a three-year trajectory. NDT 1
consists of 28 dancers (varying in age between 24 and 38 years old),
each one excelling in their solo qualities and renowned for their
versatility, astonishing technique and virtuosic expression. Under
artistic guidance of Artistic Director Paul Lightfoot and Artistic
Advisor Sol León and based in The Hague, NDT dancers perform for over
115,000 visitors annually in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. The
multi-national company showcases multiple art forms alongside their
stunning choreography, including visual art, music composition and
innovative light and set designs. Since inception in 1959, NDT has built a rich repertoire of over 600
works by master choreographers such as Ji?í Kylián and Hans van Manen,
León and Lightfoot, associate choreographers Pite and Goecke, and
high-profile guests such as Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato, William
Forsythe, Johan Inger, Glen Tetley, Gabriela Carrizo, Franck Chartier,
Edward Clug, Hofesh Shechter, Alexander Ekman, and Sharon Eyal &Gai
Behar. www.ndt.nl Fall for Dance tickets are $15 and will go on sale on September 10 at
11 am. Nederlands Dans Theater's 2016 season tickets are on sale now.
The season will run for four performances at New York City Center:
Wednesday, November 16 at 8 pm, Thursday, November 17 at 8 pm, Friday,
November 18 at 8 pm, Saturday, November 19 at 8 pm. Tickets start at
$35. Tickets can be purchased online at www.NYCityCenter.org, by
calling CityTix® at (212) 581-1212, or at the City Center Box Office
at 131 W. 55th St. (between 6th & 7th Aves). For more information,
please visit www.NYCityCenter.org.
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