MOVING FUTURES FESTIVAL UTRECHT

Let yourself be surprised by the engaging, daring and barrier-breaking dance makers and performers of today.

Friday 12^th and Saturday the 13^th of April 2024, the travelling festival Moving Futures Festival will be inTheater Kikker, Utrecht. Moving Futures is the festival where you can experience dance by the newest generation of makers in all its manifestations. The festival showcases innovative dance in a generously varied programme with performances, installations, workshops and (after)talks.

In Utrecht, you will see performances by:
- Friday, April 12
Justin de Jager - Brothers
Trevoga - 11 3 8 7
- Saturday, April 13
Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue - songs for friends: a vinyl
Gaja Caruso - Crisis of Comfort

Photo: © Hilde Harshagen

Justin de Jager - Brothers

The performance Brothers is a duet by Justin de Jager and Sem Deliveyne. This play focuses on the theme of 'brotherhood'. Inspired by their mutual friendship and experience as ‘younger brothers of..’ Justin and Sem take you on a journey of support, competition, intimacy and cooperation. Brothers is epitomised by the movement concept threading derived from breakdance. They clench limbs and create openings through which they pass together, literally and figuratively.

Bio Justin de Jager
Justin de Jager started out as a breakdancer, but his interest in other forms of movement introduced him to contemporary dance. He specializes in the concept of threading, which originated from breakdance. In threading, you create an opening by connecting several body parts and then passing through it with another body part.

Theatrically, Justin is a pioneer who is pushing the artistic boundaries of threading. In 2019, he won the audience award of Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC), first prize at AmsterDans in the category 'emerging dance duets' and hit the semi-finals of Hollands Got Talent. In 2020, he received the Leo Spreksel Award. He also worked extensively with Canadian choreographer Emma Portner, culminating in the movement film Sit Bones.

Credits
Choreography and concept : Justin de Jager
Performance: Justin de Jager, Sem Deliveyne
In collaboration with: Korzo

TREVOGA - 11 3 8 7

In this multimedia collaboration, new choreographic collective Trevoga and experimental electronic music producer Damyst generate a gloomy vision of human bodies in the new media world they navigate.

An artificially generated tv show, an eery dream after a late-night doom scroll, perhaps something even more uncanny. 11 3 8 7 is a performance inspired by the lavish fantasies we fabricate online and their conflicting relation with the increasingly hostile reality around us.

From targeted ads to tailored newsreels, vlogs, gaming streams, and lifestyle influencers, the piece takes virtual representations of ‘real’ human interactions far into the unfamiliar - similar to how an AI bot distorts content when prompted.

11 3 8 7 fills the eyes with polished imagery, yet the packaging is hollow. Behind the glossy appearance of its fictional avatars lurks an unsettling atmosphere almost impossible to grasp. Like wandering alone through a deserted shopping mall, it haunts its viewers with the chills of a cold, manufactured absence.

Bio Trevoga
Trevoga is an emerging Amsterdam dance collective, currently formed by alumni of the Amsterdam School of the Arts Neda Ruzheva (BG, 1999), Antonina Pushkareva (RU, 2000) and Erikas Žilaitis (LT, 1999), graduating in 2021/2022/2023. Trevoga has been supported by ICK Dans Amsterdam since 2023. With the performance 11 3 8 7, Trevoga is a striking newcomer in the (inter)national field with a number of awards: winner of Best of Fringe Award 2023 and Aerowaves Twenty24. Connected by their experiences of growing up in the shadowy socio-political context of post-Soviet reconstruction, they grew up with a fascination for overlaps between oppression and seduction. This contradiction is the basis of Trevoga's work, in which flashy figures of style from popular media and high culture go hand in hand with an everyday sense of unease. Playing unapologetically and incoherently with genres, registers and symbols, the trio gnaw away at the mental assault of the fast-paced city they live in, seeing their bodies as symptoms of the myriad addictions and the stage as a means of disentangling the many dissonant processes and contradictory forces.

Credits
Choreography: Trevoga Collective
Styling: La Fam
Sound: Damyst
Light: Nadia Bekkers
Co-Production: ICK Dans Amsterdam & One Dance Week Bulgaria
Made with the support of NORMA Funds, Performing Art Funds NL/Fonds Podiumkunsten & Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.