Identity Shifts by Camille Verhaak & James Hewitt
Are we who we think we are? And does other people’s perception of us (or what we think their perception of us is) change what we are? Playing with masks, the performers become characters in a surreal and fantastical landscape, able to inhabit multiple identities, or to choose moments of transformation into new identities.
Camille Verhaak- clarinet, movement, voice
James Hewitt- violin, movement, voice
a.k.a. DaMu
DaMu (short for Dance and Music) began with a workshop with Mary Oliver and Michael Schumacher on dance and music improvisation in 2011, but quickly developed its own individual approach, in which space and movement become part of the musical performance. The performers are just as likely to move, speak, sing, or play with objects as they are to play their instruments. Interacting in the moment with each other and with the environment, they merge sound, gesture, colour, and light, into an unpredictable, site-specific gesamtkunstwerk. www.damucollective.weebly.com.
Object 1 & 2
Performed by Jhae Ko, Kay Patru
Objects by Hee-seung Choi
Following Jihae and Kay's research project on material and sound. This presentation is the result of their collaboration with visual artist Hee-seung Choi. It is an encounter between two sound objects and two moving bodies.
Kay Patru (FR/ NL) is a dance and movement improvisation teacher, choreographer, certified bodywork therapist based in Amsterdam. His work focuses primarily on developing improvisation and somatic awareness tools designed to awaken the innate intelligence of the body. His work is deeply inspired by body oriented practices and self-inquiry methodology as tools for creativity and well being.
Jihae Ko (KOR/NL) is a choreographer, somatic movement teacher and certified bodywork therapist based in Amsterdam. Her work embodies a somatic and multidisciplinary approach to dance and movement research.
In recent years her focus is in somatic movements through the sensory and the perceptual, as a way of investigating the co-creative relation between body and environment. She collaborates with various visual and sound artists in S.Korea and Europe. Her work has been supported by Seoul Dance Center (KR), Dansateliers(NL), Melkweg(NL), Generale Oost(NL), Kampnagel (DE) and Masdanza (SP).
