monday june 28th 2010 www.itsfestivalamsterdam.com

ITsDaILymonday

june 28th 2010

its movietime!

Go and see three films, made by students of the

nederlandse Film & televisie Academie:

homerun, Mo and Ver bij mij vandaan. the programme

starts at 2pm in the Compagnietheater.

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Programme monday june 28th 2010

acting

performing

dance

choreography

music theatre

playwriting

directing

filmdirecting

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miXed emotionsPreview

Two men are sitting in a cold empty, steel-clad room. It’s an oppres-sive futuristic land-scape, devoid of any emotion. Their slightly sarcastic remarks have a robotic feel to them.

Then the older of the two closes his eyes and enters some sort of dream world filled with visions of his life. A fiery glow floods the stage. Suddenly: there’s loud music and

apple pies fall from the sky. A girl enters the stage, visiting her imprisoned father. Is this the future? Slow-ly but surely, the world that is presented here is taking shape. This is going somewhere. The pieces fall into place… And then the lights go out. (MB)

funded by:

coloPhon writing staff: Michiel Bulthuis (MB), Mustafa el Faroog (MeF), eveleen hamers (eh), jasmina Ibrahimovic (jI), henk de jong (hdj), Ilona de jong (Idj), Asja Krsmanovic (AK), Adi Lucic (AL), Getoarbe Mulliqi (GM), Anna Peschke (AP), jodean Sumner (jS) translator: Roos van de Wardt editor in chief: Daniël Bertina (Domein voor Kunstkritiek) coordinator: Ingrid Straathof (Its Festival) project leader: nynke Oele (Domein voor Kunstkritiek) photography: Aida Ro-driguez cover photo: judith Zwikker graphic design: tirza teule printed by: Copy Copy Amsterdam made possible by: SnS Reaal Fonds and Stichting nORMA.

This work programme has been funded with support from the European commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author and the commission cannot be held responsible for any use which is made of the information contained therein.

“IT wAS

trigge-

ring

for sure“

compagnietheatergroTE Zaal

compagnietheaterklEinE Zaal

frascati 1 frascati 2 Brakke grond Expo Zaal

engelenBak

verve 1021.30, 120 min.(page 12)

norThErn School of comTEmporary DancE, U.k.

amra von Peroxide23.00 - 01.00, (page 4)

voordat de zon ontploft21.00, 60 min.(page 17)

amSTErDamSE hogESchool voor DE kUnSTEn

Keurig meisje19.30, 50 min.(page 17)

koninklijk conSErvaToriUm DEn haag

classical ballet19.00, (page 12)

amSTErDamSE hogESchool voor DE kUnSTEn, riga chorEography School, koninklijk conSErva-ToriUm DEn haag

vom schlachten des gemästeten. lamms und vom aufrüsten der aufrechten21.00, 70 min. (page 22)UnivErSiTäT hilDEShEim & hochSchUlE DEr künSTE BErn

The concept behind Mixed Emo-tions, an initiative of ArtEZ Ho-geschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem, is as follows: a cho-reographer and a composer are to work as a pair, but they don’t get to choose their part-ners. This is how Marco Gerris and Jasna Velickovic have been paired. Gerris is from the urban scene, while Velickovic attend-ed the Koninklijk Conservato-rium Den Haag. They couldn’t

have been further apart. Marco Gerris: “To me, the challenge lay in working with ArtEZ’s ac-ademically schooled students of dance. In a very short time span, I have tried to teach them as many techniques as possible from various hip-hop styles. The music is a different story altogether.” Velickovic took a hip-hop song and transformed it into a composition with a completely different character.

“I chose the song Sabotage by the Beastie Boys for my com-position. Then I translated the song into a different ‘voice’. Instead of being an aggressive song, it has become soft, sweet and sad – played by a brass band. Beyond all recognition.” Gerris and Velickovic agree that some-thing unexpectedly interest-ing happened when music and dance were united on stage. Velickovic: “It was triggering for sure.” (EH)

Mixed emotions, 29 June, frascati 1, 7pm

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There is no time to pause and look back. That is sad, director Anna van Keimpema says. This, she noticed while she was studying at the Ned-erlandse Film & Televisie Academie, but she can see it in every aspect of life. People are chasing success and one of the effects is that they no longer notice the little things. The train maintains full speed while many sta-tions are forgotten. This is what her film Homerun is about. It will be playing at the Compagnietheater Tues-day afternoon. In Dicht bij mij vandaan, Martijn de Jong shows four people who all share the same problem, be it in different situations. By ex-posing different generations, the film shows that these problems are not dependent on age. Melancholy and find-ing yourself in a place where you don’t want to be, play an important part in these problems. Director Eché Jan-ga’s film Mo is the third film in the film academy’s com-bined programme at ITs Fes-tival Amsterdam. Mo shows

theater Bellevue

rozentheatergroTE Zaal

frascati Wg

are you there?15.00 & 21.00, 45 min. (page 21)

amSTErDamSE hogESchool voor DE kUnSTEn

after all15.00 & 18.30, 60 min. (page 22)

TonEElacaDEmiE maaSTrichT

ten onder20.30, 75 min. (page 22)

amSTErDamSE hogESchool voor DE kUnSTEn

its intimate / 3 X filmPause, looK bacK, and eternal yearning

two best friends who are on the verge of adulthood, both choosing their own direction. Clearly, eternal yearning is a recurring theme for all three directors. (HdJ)

Combined presentation, gra-duates in film directing. 29 June, Compagnietheater, 2pm

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wanda (theatre maker): “These mimes have chosen a huge theme, love, which they’re treating rather marginally. The performance is simple – which has its charm – yet, it only touches the surface. If I may be so bold: drop the dialogue! The physical interaction is ample display of what is trou-bling the characters; there is no need for verbal clarifica-tion. One of my favourite scenes was when the girl went completely rigid. She almost became an object. In their physical performance the actors are very convincing. This really is the strongest feature of the performance. There is a wonderful chemistry between the two of them and that was very pleasant to watch. I would really like to see more.” (EH)

Ze heeft ja geZegd

afterParty

dj amra von PeroXide“I don’t really have a style, but I play old records mostly,” Amra von Peroxide, the only female Dj

performing at the Its Festival Afterparties, says. “I actually try to look different, and I do it by play-

ing everything. I just love music. And I think when you enjoy what you do, you do it the best.” Von

Peroxide grew up listening to rock music. “But people don’t really dance to rock, so now I try to

make it as danceable as possible, or mix it with hip-hop. then people go: I never knew I could actu-

ally dance to this music. I don’t really play techno or house myself, but it depends on where I am

Dj-ing. I decide what music to play just 30 minutes before the party starts.” Intrigued? Check her

out tonight, 11pm at the Compagnietheater. (GM)

walK-outArtistic Director Dance ITs Festival

Amsterdam:tim Persent

steP by steP, first

things first

I trained at the Rambert Academy from the age of 18. I loved it. training was strict: we were told in no uncertain terms that there was no room for fail-ure. Somehow this was not frightening; our teachers were a dedicated bunch. Compared to today, we had a simple schedule: our days were mainly ab-sorbed with ballet and Graham classes – the em-phasis was on learning physical information. this doesn’t sound very excit-ing, yet it allowed us to focus on technique and to free our bodies. the work was repetitive, routine and improvement was demanded: more flexibil-ity, better co-ordination – things that have proved invaluable throughout my career. All this is a long time ago. today’s students have access to so much more. they are treated as professionals the moment they enter school, but maybe they are expected to run before they can walk. I believe students need time to establish a solid foundation without too many distractions. I sometimes wish today’s students wouldn’t be in such a rush, and would be allowed the time to devel-op into versatile dancers.

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grofgebeKt maar niet te letterlijKreview

The stage is white and spotless. Anne Fé de Boer (HKU), clad in black, is sitting on a stool and gives us a pene-trating stare. She is about to do something important which we are allowed – or forced? – to witness. She is about to end her life. For the rest of the performance we will wander her beguiling distorted mind. A privi-lege as it turns out. After an ironically comical attempt to set herself alight with a match, she squirts empty two containers of red paint, across the white floor. She places her head – winking ostentatiously – in the pool of fake blood. From this position she contemplates her life. Every now and then in her performance, a few tragic characters pass by. why? There’s no explanation. This talented theatre maker’s slightly eccentric per-sonality turns this play into an up front and sincere performance. At the end she sings “Everybody’s gotta learn some time,” and takes a final deep breath. Then the lights go out and the audience awaken from Anne Fé de Boer’s morbid, yet very inspirational world. (JI)

Pulsereview

Hammering on mercilessly, a machine in constant mo-tion, Pulse is a performance that is as relentless as it is rewarding. Directed by Jolika Sudermann of Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, this performance creates an environment in which the players execute the repetitive pounding of movements in parallel to the rhythm of their own pulse. They begin by feeling the beat of their own bod-ies. Touching different pulse points, they gently show us what they feel, tapping it out on a hip or nodding their heads in time. This beat gradually takes over and crescen-dos into movements and music that take possession of the whole body. Pounding their arms, and thrusting their hips in time, they exact physically the pattern of their bodies, the surge of blood through their veins. The performers gaze at us directly as they become increasingly exhausted, but we do not see a message or an attempt at communication. Instead, their eyes are windows to the visceral workings of their bodies. we see no emotion – just a mechanical display of biology. Logic over feeling. (JS)

“Follow me! *Smack!* Shh-hh! Smile!” These are just some of the sounds that you can be expecting when you walk into the dance studio of the Amsterdamse Ho-geschool voor de Kunsten, where the ITs Ensemble week workshops for actors are taking place. In that room, you will find students from seven different coun-tries including Iceland, Great Britain, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Holland. They have their eyes closed and they’re slowly mov-ing through the room, si-lently repeating their ac-tions. The atmosphere is almost meditative. They are trying to find the right physical response to things they saw just a few hours earlier, when they were exploring the city. Trying to sense its pulse. Under Andrew Loretto’s super-vision, they have started to create unique images,

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successfully translating what they have seen into theatrical language. They are creating their own in-terpretation, starting with the smallest details, and repeating it in ensemble with their partner and the

space around them. The re-sult: a theatrical symphony of Amsterdam. what I saw in this workshop was just a fragment of something that looked very promising. I can’t wait to see tomor-row’s performance! (AK)

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