Kalpana Raghuraman’s new piece provided a fitting, super even, climax to this year’s Korzo India Dance Festival. It was one of the few completely contemporary pieces in the Festival and, had you not known anything about it, you would perhaps have missed the Indian connection
It was the music that was the outstanding. The combined choirs of Zangam and Theaterkoor Dario Fo were excellent but it was the soloists who really shone. I love a good tenor and the singing of Boudewijn Ruigrok was absolutely sublime . . .
SUPERHUMAN: OUR INNER DARKNESS at the Korzo on 3rd November.
Kalpana Raghuraman’s new piece provided a fitting, super even, climax to this year’s Korzo India Dance Festival. It was one of the few completely contemporary pieces in the Festival and, had you not known anything about it, you would perhaps have missed the Indian connection
For the second night of the Festival eighteen dance groups, local academies and Indian ex-pat communities from all over the Netherlands sent performers to the Korzo. Split into two shows it demonstrated the incredible, though not really surprising, diversity of dance in that vast country.
REAPPROACHING BACH at The Cigar Factory on 5th August.
It was the enigmatic, ambiguous relationship between the two that was the essence of this performance. Koranyi’s Bach cello pieces were not just an accompaniment, they were integral to the bond between them.
This week marked the first Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC) which took place at the Schouwburg over three days – two days of heats and the final on Saturday. The original 320 entries from around the world had been whittled down to a short list of fifteen of whom seven made it to the grand final
This was an impeccable performance by the thirty-five or so Codarts students we saw last night, all of whom show great promise. It is a hard, fairly short life, being a dancer, but judging from tonight’s performances, they can all be proud and take a great deal of satisfaction, knowing that it is all worthwhile.
A pervading sense of humour allows for a lightness to remain, making it easy to forget the strangeness of some of what happens on stage. Everyone becomes complicit.
