from right to left: T. Körtvélyessy, E. Nassar, E. F. de Graaf, P. Yao
VIDEO TRAILER
machines ♂d' tendresses /
en·semble 4 gentle men
studio presentations 2019
Dansateliers
's Gravendijkwal 58-b
3014 EE Rottterdam
| Thursday | June 27, 20.30h | try out |
| Friday | June 28, 20.30h | Gay / queer night, and by invitation * |
| Saturday | June 29,20.30h | premiere |
| Sunday |
June 30, 16.00h | matinee |
*50 year anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings in New York City - more information
**200 year anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman - more information
admission by donation
suggested range 15-45 euro, or what you wish to give
GoFundMe-page
donations can also be sent directly to NL62 ASNB 0942 8261 75 (Real Dance Company, Rotterdam)
thank you ..
machines ♂d' tendresses
explores (gay) (male) vulnerability when we want to communicate our love and desire.
stereotypes, traditions, and hierarchies (= machines) are transformed through the moving embodied = tender human individual in the moment, alone and as an ensemble working together.
dances, centered around specific pieces of music, alternate with long musical healing drones and silence, as in a musical recital.
(how) can we accept the response-ability?
concept & choreography :
Thomas Körtvélyessy
creation, interpretation, and performance with :
E Nassar (voice), Paolo Yao, Eltjo Felix de Graaf
advice costumes and scenography:
Jean-Ulrick Désert
preparing performances
May 21 puit d'amour Queer Performance Art Festival, Ubik/WORM, Rotterdam - more information
May 24 + 25 machinespiritualités / EffèTTe(s) ETTO Space, Rotterdam - more information
many thanks to :
Dansateliers, SKVR Dansschool, CLOUD at Danslab, Lars Wettmann / Artship, Deborah Black, Kinetic Awareness® Center, Inc., Hazem Header
and all donors / supporters
tableau de la troupe
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E 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 choreography. Sinds
February 2019 he has been collaborating with the
French / Russian artist Nadia Larina on Salon
de queer: contre nature, a duet premiering
in 2020. |
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Paolo Yao is a modern dancer
from Reggio Emilia (Italy) now based in Rotterdam,
who after finishing his studies in fashion design
at age 19 studied dance at codarts, then worked
with several choreographers, among others Jack
Timmermans, Dario Tortorelli and Thierry Smits. In
2016 he created his first solo project H25.
His main interest as maker is how to translate
through movement what is not possible to be
explained rationally. |
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Eltjo Felix de Graaf is
looking to create spaces where people can feel
safe enough to live at ease in a symbiotic
relationship with their surroundings. Currently he
is working in various
independent productions and projects such as Ruimte
is een Mooi Geluid (Bellevue),
community art organisation SKéR, and in the
alternative-underground cultural circuit around
Amsterdam, including Ruigoord and
LoLalanding/IJburg. |
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Thomas Körtvélyessy is working to re-form dance from the sensation of the moving body, before vocabularies or styles. His often conceptual pieces have been performed in a wide variety of settings and situations, sometimes very informal and ephemeral, such as Sokrates, other times in more established theater spaces. Since 2013 he is working on dances that examine what queer and more specifically Gay choreography could be, resulting in, among others, Pelléas material / b.a.n.q. and medvetánc [bear dance] - degrees of (in)tangibility |
