Open Nights
During ISH Open Nights, discover work in progress by a new generation of talented dance makers, each with roots in hip-hop dance or urban sports. The three makers, Vainergill Thurnim, Vanildo Varela Landim and Guido van Moorselaar, will each show a short choreography with their own approach. Here, their personal experiences and experimentation and are central. Are you open-minded and want to be surprised? Then don't miss ISH Open Nights!
Morning Dew | Vainergill Thurnim
Morning Dew is a duet between dance and saxophone in which boundaries of expression and emotion are pushed. In the piece, the explosive movements of Vainergill Thurnim meet, fuse and collide with the intense sounds of saxophonist J.J Scoop in a confrontational dialogue centred on the emotion of anger. As the sun sets and anger takes its place, the complex and repressed emotion comes to light. But is anger really so negative and destructive or is it a legitimate and healthy emotion? Morning Dew shows that anger can liberate, create space for new perspectives, incite action and increase understanding of each other. Experience the vulnerability of night and discover how it turns into morning dew.
House Decoded | Vanildo Varela Landim
House Decoded takes you back to the essence of house dance: back to the free atmosphere of New York queer clubs where people came to dance and could be themselves. Because of house dance's popularity, it moved to the studio, making it necessary to codify dance. It became too much stuck in boxes while dance springs from freedom. The piece focuses on creating patterns and rhythmic games within house dance with influences from other dance styles. The performance shows an organic, non-codified style that reflects the original freedom of dance in an underground club setting.
Jazz'n Motion | Guido van Moorselaar
Jazz'n Motion = Live Jazz x Breaking x Freestyle Football. In these three art forms, freedom is central, but also the expression of the artist with his instrument, for the b-boy his body, for the freestyler the ball and for the jazz musician his or her instrument. How do the b-boy and freestyler translate the sounds with the movements? How do the musicians translate the movements into sounds? To what extent do they understand each other's language and come together? Discover how the three different forms of expression become one in the piece Jazz'n Motion.
ISH Open Nights
Every year, ISH Dance Collective invites three new makers to develop an existing idea for choreography into a short piece. The makers rehearse in ISH's studio, edit the performance and present it in the theatre. ISH Open Nights fall under the pillar ISH Talent, in which ISH supports talented, new makers in their professional development.
