Thursday 25th November
”Phoenix”
An investigation of our body movements in relation to each other, to the room and the audience – an investigation of our bodies as part of a bigger system – the performance itself.
Ina (Denmark) has danced for about five years, mostly Jazz and Modern dance. She also has a background in gymnastics, martial art, physical theatre and drama.
Egle (Lithuania) has been dancing for four years. She started with aerobic dance and later hip-hop, which she danced for a short period. Now she decided to experience modern dance.
Music by: Lars Kyndesen (drummer)
“Within”
“Summer is a season, but also a way of being. Summer is a mood, a scent, a feeling on your skin… so time does not matter anymore. Round, smooth, soft, warm… The memories on the wall and the summer on stage.”
Lucia Margheritini (Italy): modern dancer for two years, has already participated in the performances: “Poems” and “Sex” of the Sandro Masai’s Dance Troupe. Being individualistic and always reluctant about obeying rules, she finds her peace in the modern dance.
”My two instruments”
A solo performance to connect the audience with the drum-beat of the earth. Using the rythm of a djembe and the own body as instruments to express the spiritual energy that runs through us.
Pernille Rasmussen (Denmark): ”As an artist, I like to express myself through modern dance using my body as a paintbrush and the stage as canvas to create my paintings.”
Pernille has been dancing in Sandro Masai’ Dance Troupe for two years and has participated in the performances ”LivArt” and ”Poems” in 2009 and ”Sex” in 2010.
Music and video: Sandro Masai
Friday 26th November
“Communication”
In the process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only exchange information but also create and share meaning, we attempt to follow some conventional rules. We also get impatient of expressing our point of view and we find comfort when we feel we have been understood. Through the dance language we explore this process by mimicking and deconstructing movements. We enjoy freedom of expression clashing our styles into contact improvisation.
Lucia Margheritini (Italy): modern dancer for two years, has already participated in the performances: “Poems” and “Sex” of the Sandro Masai’s Dance Troupe. Being individualistic and always reluctant about obeying rules, she finds her peace in the modern dance.
Milan (France): has been dancing in Sandro Masai’s Dance Troupe for two years, with a background of fire dance, yoga, African rhythms and martial arts.
Puck Graafland (The Netherlands): is a modern dancer from The Netherlands who started with classical ballet as a child. Later on she discovered and fell for modern dance, creating two choreographies for the Dutch Dancing Days in 2007 and 2008. She has also performed in a movement theatre piece, which she likes to explore further.
”Never alone”
“The story I tell is about how it feels to be alone in a big world. I would say it is a little about all the issues teenagers go through as teens. How to react to the feelings you suddenly get out of nowhere.”
Anna Christiansen (Denmark) has been dancing for about 13 years. “I enjoy using my body for something that not all people are in to. I am young, but I feel like my body is old when I dance, because I know every corner, every cell. It is fantastic to dance like this, and I do not think I will ever stop.”
“As I got Kvium”
This is an interpretation of Michael Kvium’s creatures’ body language.
Music by: Christian Skjødt.
Sandro Masai (Brazil) is a dancer and choreographer, started his carrier as an actor about ten years ago in São Paulo in Brazil. In the last six years has been dancing modern dance, performing and teaching. He has started a modern dance company in Aalborg - The Sandro Masai’s Dance Troupe – and has been making solo and group performances in several events, theaters and art galleries in Denmark and other countries.
