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SOLO CONTEST<\/strong><\/p>\n EILEEN<\/strong> (15\u2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n Created & Performed by:<\/strong> Sarah Gordon Butler<\/p>\n Original music composed & performed by:<\/strong> Sarah Gordon Butler<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018EILEEN\u2019 is a solo performance exposing the honest process of navigating uncomfortable and self-made circumstances. Multi-media artist and performer Sarah Gordon Butler intricately weaves movement and vocals to undress themes of identity and transformation, highlighting the impossible situations we willingly create for ourselves. Straining both the body and voice in an attempt to access a raw, almost disturbing sense of vulnerability and beauty, the work features highly nuanced movement, dissonant harmonies, extreme physicality, and the live layering of an original acapella sound score.\u201d<\/p>\n DEW<\/strong> (13\u201925\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n Balen, Belgium<\/p>\n Created & Performed by:<\/strong> Pommelien Van Hees<\/p>\n Music:<\/strong> Ben Salisbury \u201cPlainsong\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c \u2018DEW\u2019 is a solo inspired by the energy of club culture and natural elements. The piece traces a body caught in transitions between clarity and blur, control and surrender, solitude and collectivity. Through rhythm, repetition and subtle shifts, the work unfolds as a physical ritual that edges towards trance and release.\u201d<\/p>\n PRIMAL ECHOES (11\u2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n Linz, Austria<\/p>\n Created by:<\/strong> Valerio Iurato<\/p>\n Performed by:<\/strong> Samuel van der Veer<\/p>\n Original Music:<\/strong> Kaperotxipi \u201cPrimal Echoes\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn a world where artificial intelligence races ahead, our human forms lag behind, bound by primordial constraints. This dance piece captures the growing tension of our obsolescence in the shadow of Super intelligence, a timely reflection on the urgent challenges of our era.\u201d<\/p>\n CHOREOGRAPHY CONTEST<\/strong><\/p>\n ADSURBE<\/strong> (11\u201923\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n Vineuil, France<\/p>\n Created & Performed by:<\/strong> Cl\u00e9mence Juglet & Emilie Joneau [OUPS Dance Company]<\/p>\n Original Music:<\/strong> Robin Betelu \u201cSociety\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c \u2018ADSURBE\u2019 is a physical and visceral exploration of burnout in a world that constantly demands more. Through sharp, pulsating movements and moments of rupture, the piece follows a body pushed to the edge\u2014a dancer oscillating between control and collapse, acceleration and exhaustion. The choreography reveals the invisible weight of performance, productivity, and societal expectations that slowly erode one\u2019s sense of self.\u201d<\/p>\n REMAINDER<\/strong> (14\u201940\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n Taipei City, Taiwan<\/p>\n Created by:<\/strong> Chuang Po-Hsiang<\/p>\n Performed by:<\/strong> Ong Kuan Ying & Huang Shi-Hao<\/p>\n Music:<\/strong> Gustavo Santaolalla \u201cEndless Flight\u201d, Son Lux \u201cJobu Sees All\u201d, Rival Consoles \u201cTouches Everything\u201d, Alexander Ekman \u201cThe Contradiction of Silence\u201d & Heike Brinkmann \u201cKinder Jorn\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAgainst the time, the pendulum swings as we pace ourselves into the river of life’s emptiness, occasionally cursing, sniggering, reveling, but most of the time, we simply wander aimlessly or reincarnate unconsciously, like the tears that disappear unseen as we stand weeping in the pouring rain.In contrast to memory, which is active, forgetting is passive, which means that one can opt to remember something, but not to forget it. Even if we can choose to pass on our memories, it is inevitable that as time passes, some things will be forgotten, some will become unfamiliar, and others will lose their sense of meaning, like bricks and tiles flaking off and gradually falling away. Life is like a journey of escape, and time is the bullet that is fired every day, and there is no way to break out of the cage. We are often faithful to the past and try to open up to the present, long before we realize that time exists, as a leftover living in the remaining time. The dominoes used in the piece are my physical imagination of \u201ctime.\u201d If one can be a carrier, then we hold time in our hands, building and destroying it, slowly arranging the trajectory of our own lives.\u201d<\/p>\n MASDANZA Award at the Yokohama Dance Collection Festival 2024. Yokohama, Japan.<\/p>\n SOFT ANIMALS<\/strong> (12\u2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n Dresden, Germany<\/p>\n Created by:<\/strong> Jack Bannerman<\/p>\n Performed by: <\/strong>Marie Da Silva & Mattia Antonio Serio<\/p>\n Music:<\/strong> Arreglo original de Jack Bannerman, incluyendo m\u00fasica de \u201cI dreamed a dream\u201d, interpretada por Patti LuPone & The Violet, compuesta por Charles Original arrangement by Jack Bannerman, including music from \u2018I dreamed a dream\u2019 performed by Patti LuPone & The Violet, composed by Charles Washington.<\/p>\n \u201cThe rhythmical, cyclical, patterned and emotional nature of language makes it often difficult to interpret exactly what another person is telling us. Words, when overused or emotionally charged, may lose their meaning and dissolve into pure rhythm. This work explores whether rhythm, timing, and context connect us more deeply than words The timing of our sentences, much like the sounds of vehicles speeding past us on the street corner, can give us a much stronger indicator of if we are existing in the same reality as the people closest to us. Do you hear the cars on the street like I do?\u201d.<\/p>\n MUGA (12\u2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n Rotterdam, The Netherlands<\/p>\n Created by:<\/strong> Francesco Paolino<\/p>\n Performed by:<\/strong> Francesco Paolino & Tom Blanc<\/p>\n Music:<\/strong> Godspeed You! Black Emperor \u201cThe Dead Flag Blues\u201d, Cristobal Tapia de Veer \u201cHe Looks So Real\u201d, Sebastian Meissner \u2013 Foreigner \u201cSnow Tracks\u201d, Sebastian Meissner \u2013 Light Movement \u201cNova Huta\u201d, Efrim Menuck \u201cThe Dead Flag Blues\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c \u2018MUGA\u2019 is a term from Japanese philosophy referring to the state of non-ego: a condition of emptiness free from attachments and desires. It is not absence, but a space where being can manifest authentically. The work reflects on contemporary individuals, immersed in a system that accelerates life and reduces existence to production and performance. Two bodies move within this mechanism in a suspended landscape. When one loses precision, a fracture appears, giving rise to fragility and awareness. This marks an awakening: a return to presence and individuality, where dance becomes a space in which the void is inhabited.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\n\n
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