Erlkönig / collage by Elie Nassar, Thomas Körtvélyessy, incl. photo by Eltjo Felix de Graaf and artwork by C. Ebrecht and M. Seeberger, used with kind permission
Erlkönig
Studio presentations:
21 februari 2020, De Studio Rotterdam
22 februari 2020, SKVR, studio 3.2 Rotterdam
Free entrance
Reservation via info@realdancecompany.nl
Erlkönig
In Erlkönig, choreographer / dancer Thomas Körtvélyessy brings Franz Schubert's musical piece written on the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe back to life. Two passionate dancers, one young, one old, dance a duet about life and death, security, fear, desire and loss. Several modern dance forms merge with the intensity of Japanese Butoh. What are the Erlkönig’s motives? What role is there for the father? And what is his child trying to tell us? In a flash of time, a disruptive fever dream unravels which at times goes beyond social rules and norms.
Choreography: Thomas Körtvélyessy / Reàl Dance Company i.s.m. the dancers
Dance: Thomas Körtvélyessy, Elie Nassar
Assistant choreography, repetitor: Eltjo Felix de Graaf
Music: Der Erlkönig; Franz Schubert | Jessye Norman - Soprano, Dalton Baldwin - Piano, 1995
Thanks to: SKVR, De Studio Rotterdam, Dansateliers, Paul Sixta, Lody Meijer
tableau de la troupe
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Thomas Körtvélyessy works as a dancer, maker and teacher in Rotterdam
and beyond. After his studies at the Rotterdam
Dance Academy (now codarts), the School for New
Dance Development, Amsterdam and the EDDC, Arnhem,
he worked closely with Elaine Summers, one of the
founders of the experimental Judson Dance Theater
in New York and the developer of the somatic movement technique Kinetic
Awareness®. Since 1996,
Körtvélyessy has been working under the name of
Reàl Dance Company on various dance projects and
performances. His work focuses on the perception
of dance and the investigation and analysis of
existing dance traditions and languages. His most
recent work is machines d'♂tendresses
(2019), a concert of short dances, about
vulnerability and male homosexual desire and the
current work-in-progress Erlkönig. |
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Elie Nassar is a Lebanese
artist based in the Netherlands. His
pluridisciplinary background in dance, science,
and literature has given him tools for a
poetically scientific approach to movement that he
currently develops through his choreographic work.
He worked on projects as maker and performer in
Lebanon, France and the Netherlands. Since
February 2019, Elie has been collaborating with
the French/Russian artist Nadia Larina on making a
duet premiering at the Marche de L'été festival in
april 2020 with the support of the conservatoire
of Bordeaux, the CND and the Ménagerie de verre in
Paris. After the piece machines d'♂tendresses
in 2019, Erlkönig is the second
collaboration project between Nassar and Thomas
Körtvélyessy Reàl Dance Company. |
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Eltjo Felix de Graaf is a
movement artist based in Amsterdam. He started studying dance at the
Dutch National Ballet School in Amsterdam but was looking for a more
liberated form of dance, therefore he started at Artez Bachelor of
Dance, where he graduated in 2019. He is involved in projects with
Thomas Körtvélyessy /Real Dance Company’ in Rotterdam and started to
work with Fernando Oliviera (ANT) in the BACHproject. Eltjo is also
studying to become a Certified Teacher of Kinetic Awareness®, because he
is interested in creating spaces where people can feel safe enough to
live at ease in relationship with their surroundings. |
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