ANTROPOMORFIA
by Leandro Kees


h a b i t a t
by Juraj Korec

Promoting young talent | Dance production 2010
Emerging young choreographers

World Premiers
Friday, June 11th, 2010 | 8 pm | semper kleine szene | Dresden, Germany

Further performances
June 12th | 13th | 17th | 18th | 19th, 2010 | 8 pm


Prior to the premiere
open rehearsals
KlangKunstHöfe Bärwalde (Moritzburg) May 15th, 2010 | 5 pmJuraj Korec and Leandro Kees did perform extracts of earlier works.  Further information

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 | 6 pm | semper kleine szene | free admission

After the performance
Art-Talk
Saturday, June 12th, 2010 | following the performance | semper kleine szene

Tickets 11  (Premiere) | 9 € (ordinary performances)
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ANTROPOMORFIA (Adaptation) by Leandro Kees
Halation of Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
June, 26th 2010 | 2.00 | 2.30 | 3.00 pm
Free admission

If you want to see ANTROPOMORFIA in a different context and at an ectraordinary place June 26th 2010 from 2.00 pm on you will have the possibility to. As a part of the events of the reopening of Albertinum in Dresden Leandro Kees and his team will show a modified part of ANTROPOMORFIA.

Promoting young talent | Dance production 2010

Tanzplan Dresden seeks to give new impulses to the contemporary dance scene in Dresden and has therefore been looking for two production teams to come to Dresden and create a new project for the dance evening at semper kleine szene in June 2010. Choreographers could apply with a team of multimedia artists, composers, stage designers, musicians, dancers or artists of other genres until September 15th, 2009. All together the productions will be supported with € 40.000. The rehearsal period will start in April 2010 over a course of six weeks.
Tanzplan Dresden received almost 60 applications from all over the world. The Jury, consisting of the artistic directors of Tanzplan Dresden, made their decision end of November. The teams of the Germany based argentine choreographer Leandro Kees and of Juraj Korec, choreographer from Slovakia, convinced the jury with their concepts. Tanzplan Dresden is looking forward to welcome the awarded teams in Dresden end of April 2010.

Why do we blush, why do cats purr of satisfaction and where is our place in nature. Two choreographers in search of answers.

ANTROPOMORFIA
by Leandro Kees
Choreography: Leandro Kees
Dancers: Juan Manuel Branca, João Fernando Cabral (www.associationbagaceras.blogspot.com), Julia Mota Carvalho, Leandro Kees, Marcela Ruiz Quinteros
Composition: Johannes Schmidt (www.tryek.de)
Dramaturgy mentoring: Carmen Mehnert

Leandro Kees regards his choreography as a kind of voyage of exploration, seeking forms of communication that go beyond spoken language. On this voyage he investigates the relationship between thinking and feeling and explores how this is manifested in facial expressions and the physical utterances of our movement code. Viewing dance through an artistic magnifying glass, Leandro Kees dares to direct his attention to scientific issues, searching above all for one thing: a physical syntax.

Leandro Kees 

Leandro Kees

was born in Patagonia, Argentina. He studied film at the Instituto Universitario Patagonico de Artes, Theatre at the National School of Drama and Contemporary Dance at the Folkwang Hochschule. He has been a guest student at the department for Electronic Composition at Folkwang Hochschule and took part in several workshops with, among others, Martin Keogh, Russel Malliphant, Germain Acogny, Jeremy Nelson, Nigel Charnock, Wim Vandekeybus, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio, Daniel Lepkoff, Frey Faust, Iñaki Azpillaga. Since 2002 Leandro has being developing his own work as choreographer presenting both student and professional works at the tanzhaus nrw, PACT Zollverein, Stadttheater Oberhausen and others. 2008/2009 he worked as choreographer and dancer for the Folkwang Tanzstudio under the artistic direction of Pina Bausch and Rodolpho Leoni. In the last 3 years he worked in active cooperations with actors, composers, videomakers and other artists.

h a b i t a t
by Juraj Korec
Choreography: Juraj Korec (www.yurikorec.eu)
Animations: Iain Gardner (www.iaingardner.co.uk)
Composition: Oliver Stotz
Photographies: Daniele Da Meda
Dancers: Roselle Gillam, Solomon Holly-Massey, Jaroslav Ondrus
Dramaturgy mentoring: Michaela Angelopoulos

Starting out from a view of the world as a human ecosystem, Juraj Korec investigates the question of our place in nature. To what extent do human beings, through their everyday actions, intervene in natural processes, individual human structures or even in social systems? Are we a part of nature, or is nature now merely a virtual part of us? h a b i t a t is an attempt to dissect the world around us in order to create the vision of a new world out of the dismantled parts. The performance utilises physical forms of expression such as bodily movement, film animations, a musical composition and a photographic exhibition. 

Juraj Korec 

Juraj Korec

studied classical ballet at the Elementary Art School and hotel management at the Hotel Academy (Slovakia). In 2002 he finished his Master Degree and graduated from the Academy of Music and Dance at The Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia). In 2002 he founded, together with the Slovak choreographer Marta Poláková the contemporary dance company DAJV in Bratislava, which was one of the most significant steps at the Slovak contemporary dance platform. In 2004 he started to work as a freelance artist abroad. His first engagement was a cooperation with Editta Braun & Schauspielhaus Salzburg (Austria). Since then he has been working internationally with many dance companies: Ventura Dance Company (Switzerland), Retina Dance Company (Belgium), Jean Abreu Company (UK) and has been living alternately in Brussels and London. Currently he collaborates with Stephanie Schober & Dance Company (UK), cielaroque/helene Weinzierl (Austria), Cocoondance Company and Stephanie Thiersch/Mouvoir (Germany). Since 1999 he has been also regularly teaching contemporary dance technique and dance improvisation and has been creating his own works. The most recent are ph-neutral (2005), a dance performance with T. Halaby, A. Petrovič, premièred at BXLBravo, Kaaitheater in Brussels, new bit-new beat (2006), a solo performance, premièred at Tanz House Festival 06 Salzburg and beat it (2009), a dance performance, premièred in Long dance night Salzburg as a result of a coaching project for graduated dance students.
The dance films The Day (2004) with A. Petrovič and J. Vlk and DARKROOM (2008) with P. Bebjak has been presented internationally at Napolidanza (Italy), Artfilm (Slovakia), Cinedans (Holland), Artfilmfestival Assolo (Italy), Antimatter (Canada), Zlatá Praha (Czech Republic),  Festival International du film sur l´art (Canada) and others.