Effective April 1, 2010, Peggy Olislaegers (b.1966) has been appointed as new Managing Director of Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival). She will succeed Leontien Wiering, who will then leave our organization. The Nederlandse Dansdagen is familiar territory for Peggy Olislaegers. She has staged site specific productions; overseen the organization of the Gala van de Nederlandse Dans (Gala of Dutch Dance); and helped to compile the festival program as part of the editorial team. Leontien Wiering announced that she was bowing out as Managing Director of the Nederlandse Dansdagen after a 9-year stint. As of April 2010, she will focus all energy on her position of Deputy Managing Director and Dance Director of De Theaterschool (The Theater School) of the Amsterdam School of the Arts.

 

Sefton Clarke and Mitchell-lee van Rooij are nominated for the Swan for Most Impressive Dance Performance 2010. Sefton Clarke is nominated for his contribution to the ballet Solo, a choreography by Hans van Manen performed by The National Ballet. Mitchell-lee van Rooij is nominated for his part in Holland, a choreography by Ed Wubbe performed bij Scapino Ballet Rotterdam.  

Each season the VSCD (Dutch Assocation of Theater and Concert Hall Directors) presents te Swan dance awards during the Gala of Dutch Dance. This years Gala will take place on Saturday October 2 in Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht during de Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival).

 

In 2007 COVER initiated several meetings between the old and the new generation of choreographers in the Netherlands which resulted in four exciting remakes from the Dutch dance history. These remakes were premiered at the Dutch Dance Festival. Now COVER #2 continues and offers a stage to traditions and new development from the international dance context. Besides performances, installations, lectures and after talks in Theater Frascati and De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, COVER #2 starts on Monday 22 March at 20.00 hours in the theater of the Theaterschool with the presentation of the performance project Roman Photo from Boris Charmatz, based on photo’s of the work of Merce Cunningham and made in collaboration with students of the Theaterschool of the Amsterdam School of Arts.

 

Fascinated by the radical and deceptively simple minimalism of Lucinda Childs' early work, Nicole Beutler choose to remake two of her pieces performed in silence: Radial Courses and Interior Drama. Read more

 

The installation NOV.27, 1924 is based on the Dadaist choreography Relâche, commissioned by Rolf de Maré, director of the Parisian Ballets Suédois. Bruno Listopad got intrigued by this work because it clearly questioned the limits of the medium and it attempted to shake up the accepted conventions of what was then considered to be choreography. Read more

 

In A Mary Wigman dance evening Fabián Barba is citing from a broader oeuvre, finding the challenge in the tension between his reconstruction and her original. Read more

 

Besides stripping her work form additional, compulsive emotions, Mijn solo voor Marie (Vernietigd) of Marc Vanrunxt offers Ann Van den Broek the possibiity to approach movement on its essential level. Read more

 

More information about COVER #2:  www.cover-project.con