New Adventures 2022 #1

On 3 and 4 June 2022, the first two New Adventures-makers of 2022 will share their work in De Vlugt. Denden Karadeniz will share his work F(r)ictie and Roshanak Morrowatian will share Heroes and heavens. Afterwards, there is an after-talk to meet the artists, discuss their work, and inspire each other.

New makers, new ideas, new adventures. New Adventures is a programme of ICK Artist Space in collaboration with ICK Academy for new dance makers who want to deepen their creative practice. Denden Karadeniz and Roshanak Morrowatian are selected as the first makers of 2022 who have worked on their artistic development in complete freedom and safety for four weeks.

Read more about F(r)ictie and Heroes and heavens below.

F(r)ictie
In F(r)ictie, Denden starts from a Japanese proverb: "Fall down seven, stand up eight," which means that every time life throws you a bad fit, you get back up and keep going. Inspired by the mysterious oasis of a desert, by the energy generated by friction, he experiments with choreographic elements such as time, repetition, group work versus the individual. Denden continues to explore his dynamic and highly physical movement language as a metaphor for life in this day and age, in a society that seems to be a succession of friction and fiction, of trial and error, of falling and standing up again.

Heroes and Heavens
During the New Adventures presentation, Roshanak Morrowatian will take you through the research for her new, interdisciplinary dance performance Heroes and heavens (working title). Central to this is a ritual of empowerment on a physical, spiritual and social level. With Heroes and heavens, Roshanak wants to redefine the martial arts form Varzesh-e Pahlavani (heroic sport). It is an ancient ritual that originated in Persia and was used to train warriors. It consists of a combination of martial arts, strength training, spirituality, ethics, poetry and music, among other things. Traditionally, only men were allowed to practise it. Roshanak wants to let women and other genders share in the power of the ritual and celebrate the versatility of mankind.

During the presentation, she shares her source of inspiration through video images, shares a piece of physical research accompanied by music of Rutger Zuydervelt, and invites the audience to physically experience a piece of research together. No sport or dance experience is required.

"Learn modesty, if you desire knowledge. A highland would never be irrigated by a river." - Kanz ol-Haghayegh

Teaser - Heroes and Heavens

Credits - F(r)ictie

Choreography: Denden Karadeniz
Dance: Elsa Dobrynina-Becks, Melissa Damayanti, Thersa Bergmann, Stasy Terahnova, Zeen Dahbour, Rolf Kuijpers, Senne Reus
Artistic Coaching: Suzy Blok / ICK-Artist Space
Dramaturgy: Nicole Geertruida
Dramaturgy assistent: Astrid Klein Haneveld
Technicals: Stef Touw / Theatervogels
Production: ICK Dans Amsterdam / ICK-Artist Space

New Adventures was made possible by subsidies from Fonds Podiumkunsten and the municipality of Amsterdam.

Credits - Heroes and Heavens

Concept & maker: Roshanak Morrowatian
Music: Rutger Zuydervelt
Artistic coaching: Nicole Geertruida & Suzy Blok / ICK-Artist Space
Dramaturgie assistent: Astrid Klein Haneveld
Technics: Stef Touw / Theatervogels
Fotography: Afagh Morrowatian
Coproducers: Stichting Rover, VIA ZUID Talentontwikkeling podiumkunsten Limburg, Korzo, DOX & ICK Dans Amsterdam / ICK-Artist Space

New Adventures was made possible by subsidies from Fonds Podiumkunsten and the City of Amsterdam.

About Denden Karadeniz

Denden Karadeniz (Netherlands, 1990) is a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer and founder of Zero Dance Theatre: the first hip hop / contemporary fusion company in the Netherlands that excels in floorwork technique. A unique mix of various dance styles and dance backgrounds that come together in a very physical movement language. After his dance degree he trained further in Los Angeles (Club House) and Australia (Australian Dance Theatre) to get the best of both worlds. With his roots in the battle scene, experience on television and love for theatre he created his own unique Floorwork technique (Zero) based on a mix of breakdance and contemporary, which he now teaches at Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts in Amsterdam and around the world.

About Roshanak Morrowatian

Roshanak Morrowatian (Iran, 1989) is a choreographer, dancer, actress, performer and lives in Maastricht. She holds a BA in dance and MA in dance composition from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. After studying modern dance, Roshanak worked as a freelance dancer, performer and actress in the independent scene at home and abroad before pursuing her interest in choreography. She danced and performed in the work of Marina Abramovic, Pina Bausch, Joost Vrouenraets and others. For the performance Polished, she received the BNG Dance Award together with Mami Izumi and was part of the DansClick 22 tour. Roshanak won the Dutch Dance Days Award in 2020.

The desire for a more harmonious society runs like a thread through Roshanak's work. Unnoticed details, invisible people and forgotten stories take the leading role in her choreographies. Interdisciplinary performances in which themes such as identity, borders and belonging are central. As an artist, she searches for the physical roots in memory, the redefinition of traditions and rituals and where our movements come from.