T.r.a.s.h.
T.r.a.s.h.
Dance as sculpture in motion
Language:
Multilingual
Contact:
Artistic director: Kristel van Issum
T +31 (0)13 – 581 03 75
Agency:
The Netherlands: Bureau Berbee,
www.bureauberbee.nl
France: A Propic, l.rousseau@home.nl
The choreographer and artistic director Kristel van Issum, composer Arthur van der Kuip and set-designer Paul van Weert are the brains and talent behind T.r.a.s.h. From an intense tangle of disciplines, this young company creates performances which carefully and precisely marry classical live-music and often violent physical language. T.r.a.s.h. produces contemporary, vigorous and dynamic dance performed by a group of artists demonstrating extreme physical and verbal qualities.
The work focuses on construction and deconstruction, disintegration, and order and chaos. T.r.a.s.h.’s performances are born of ideas driven by the growing uncertainty about who we are and our lack of perspective regarding the future. T.r.a.s.h. draws its inspiration from the individual, his struggle with destiny and the accompanying state of convulsion.
International:
Since their performance Pork-in-Loop (2005), T.r.a.s.h. has been travelling abroad increasingly to France, Italy, Spain and Germany. Mischa Kroes in Ballettanz praised their performance To File For Chapter 11: ‘One cannot help but gaze in fear and admiration at a performance that doesn’t fail to move you.’ T.r.a.s.h.’s most recent performance íSA premiered in 2008 during Festival de Marseille. Pork-in-Loop, To File For Chapter 11 and íSA were performed and will be performing in theatres abroad throughout 2008 and 2009.
To File For Chapter 11, photo: Ernest Potters
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