NEW Adventures 2024 #2
New makers, new ideas, new adventures.
New Adventures is a programme by ICK Dans Amsterdam for new dance makers who want to deepen their creative practice. Every year, a number of makers are selected who can work on their artistic development for four weeks in complete freedom and safety. They receive artistic, production and financial support. During the residencies, the makers get to know each other better by sharing their vision and working methods. This results in a fruitful artistic cross-pollination between the makers. At the end of the residency, the results are shown in a double bill and the audience gets the chance to enter into dialogue with the makers.
New Adventures is a programme by ICK Dans Amsterdam for new dance makers who want to deepen their creative practice. Every year, a number of makers are selected who can work on their artistic development for four weeks in complete freedom and safety. They receive artistic, production and financial support. During the residencies, the makers get to know each other better by sharing their vision and working methods. This results in a fruitful artistic cross-pollination between the makers. At the end of the residency, the results are shown in a double bill and the audience gets the chance to enter into dialogue with the makers.
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David Feenstra
During New Adventures #2 David’s main research questions are: what do people do with randomness, and how does the random, irregular and illogical reality of everyday life influence your path to reach a specific goal? David questions what it means to watch the vast landscape of possibilities around us and realizing that the edges of that landscape are dictated by utter randomness, meaninglessness. Or are they?
During the residency in November 2024 at ICK Dans Amsterdam, David will continue his research into how he can use randomness in dance. He wishes to further use and develop his random movement generation methods in order to let human intuition speak inside improvisation-based scores.
Credits:
Choreography and Concept: David Feenstra
Dancers: David Feenstra en ICK Next: Allisa Kouzmenkov, Leelou Teillet, Pau Bernaus Aparicio, Marvin Kouassi en Mandy Smits
Outside eye: Eva Karczag en Amit Palgi
Light design: Michiel
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Niek Wagenaar
Within the context of New Adventures, Niek explores the physical language for his new performance "Sabbath," in which three dancers come together for a witches' Sabbath. His research draws a parallel between witchcraft and the queer community, and seeks to redefine the conventional image of queers and witches from a more inclusive lens.
Credits:
Sabbath - Niek Wagenaar’s Nymphs
Choreography: Niek Wagenaar
Dance: Lisa de Faria, Filippo Gualandris, Linde Wagemakers
Music: Tom van Wee
Set design: Rodrigo Ribeiro
Costumes: Polina Skaia
Dramaturgy: Lisa van den Burg
Understudy: Nina Keijzer
Outside eye: Jasper van Luijk
Made possible by: ICK Dans Amsterdam, Karavaan, De Schuur, Makershuis Alkmaar, Gemeente Alkmaar, Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, Janivo Stichting
In the November 2024 residency at ICK, he focuses on developing and specifying the dance vocabulary for the performance, and explores how choices in that language can influence the viewer's experience to transform initial negative perceptions of queers and outsiders into positive feelings of inclusivity and belonging.