Come and discover the work of a new generation of dance makers in four short performances!
Dorrit Griffioen, Oumar Jalloh, Bo Jacobs and Anna Raiola have taken on the challenge of creating a new piece in just seven weeks. Four very different makers with backgrounds in contemporary dance, hip-hop, popping, electro and more.
They are guided intensively throughout their individual research and creative process, and learn from one another during shared feedback sessions on choreography, dramaturgy, music, creative producing and communication. For several weeks, they immersed themselves in the studio to work on their own artistic research and the creative journey that comes with it. By pushing boundaries, developing concepts further, challenging their bodies and allowing different forms to merge, they have created new, energetic and unpolished work.
Each year, the emerging makers of One Night’s Dance receive close guidance and coaching from Dansateliers and Lloydscompany. This year, dramaturgical coaching is provided by Vera Bonder.
From 5–8 February and 12–15 February, they will present their work to the public at Dansateliers.
Bo Jacobs: Flavoured Lipgloss
Flavoured Lipgloss is a solo performance that explores the tension between imposed rhythms and inner truth. Through strong visual symbolism, the piece reveals the orchestrated loops many of us inhabit. This piece is shaped by expectation, reward systems and the outside gaze.
At the heart of the work lies a longing to return; to the body before conditioning, to vulnerability, to a personal rhythm that is wilder, softer and more honest. Flavoured Lipgloss reflects on how we trade our unapologetic self for temporary comfort, while something essential quietly fades.
Flavoured Lipgloss unfolds as an intimate reclaiming of inner authority. Rooted in a female perspective, the work combines movement with visually striking projections created in collaboration with visual artist Meis Belle Wahr, breaking the sugar-coated rhythms of girlhood and reclaiming a truth that never needed permission.
Dorrit Griffioen: I think that I think
Dorrit dances from the freedom of Hip Hop Freestyle, but now turns to examine the limits of that freedom. In I think that I think, she dives into the constant pressure to always be “good” or “captivating” — an ideal that can feel just as suffocating as it is seductive.
Through the use of liquid organza, Dorrit makes tangible the underlying fear of being ugly, vulnerable, or simply “not enough.” In her effort to keep everything beautiful, the weight of continuously trying to meet that expectation becomes visible. But what happens when you realise that truly living up to such expectations is impossible?
Anna Raiola: En descanso
En Descanso (at rest) is a personal reflection on the experience of anxiety and fear. Its aim is not to offer a solution to the problem, but rather to expose it and put it on display.
Imposing discipline on oneself proves difficult. Looking back at a time when discipline was imposed from outside, that period suddenly feels like a gentle, almost sweet memory.
“But now, when the bell rings, I immediately get choked up.
My chest is up my throat, and I don’t dare raise my hand in class.
How silly is it to be afraid?”
En Descanso shows that being anchored does not mean being grounded.
Oumar Jalloh: Annica
The knowing that all things come into being and dissolve again, including the self. Annica is an exploration that explores impermanence and the constant flux of life.
The practice begins with learning to observe sensation more objectively, by cultivating an equanimous state of mind—one of non-craving and non-aversion. Choreographer and performer Oumar translates this understanding through dance, fashion, scenography, and music.
The work aims to move from automatic reaction to conscious action, embodying a sense of organic wholeness.
Come see the show:
Thursday 5 February 20:00
Friday 6 February 20:00
Saturday 7 February 20:00
Sunday 8 February 16:00
Thursday 12 February 20:00
Friday 13 February 20:00
Saturday 14 February 20:00
Sunday 15 February 16:00
One Night’s Dance is the annual talent development program for up-and-coming dance makers, produced by Dansateliers in collaboration with Lloydscompany.
This program is made possible in part by: Gemeente Rotterdam, Erasmus stichting, Van Leeuwen van Lignac Stichting, and M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting.
