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Thursday, June 30

Hold your Horses

De Dansers / Theater Strahl Berlin
  • 14+
  • dance
  • LNP
Het Huis Utrecht, Theaterzaal
Start 21:00, End 21:55

Hold Your Horses is a dance concert about the desire to hold on. De Dansers tell their story with twelve hands, including the accompanying bodies, and a few guitars.

We see hands grasping, mistaking, touching, taking off, falling down and plucking guitar strings. We see passion and distance. We see the passage of time, fixed in a tight rhythm. We see people, sometimes close to each other, sometimes endlessly far away. We don’t see horses, although we do feel them. We don’t see the whimsical world that we can’t get a grip on. We do feel it slip through our fingers.

Hold Your Horses has a spectacular, acrobatic movement language, and never loses its human sensitivity. As one body, the dancers move in a continuous flow, propelled by Guy Corneille’s live music full of compelling guitar compositions and gripping songs.

“There is an intriguing friction in Hold Your Horses, the latest performance by De Dansers […]. It is so easy to be swept away by the passionate and high-spirited dancers and musician Guy Corneille’s comforting sounds. But when I take the theme of the piece into account, looking for something to hold onto in a volatile world, comfort is exactly what is in short supply.” – Movement Exposed – Critical Space

About the makers
De Dansers is a Utrecht-based company of dancers and musicians, led by choreographer/dancer Josephine van Rheenen and composer/musician Guy Corneille. They create ‘dance concerts’: organic meetings of modern dance and live music. Performances by De Dansers tell accessible, intuitively compelling stories about liberation and surrender, in which playful anarchism is never far away. The Utrecht-based company has performed at Festival Tweetakt before, including with The Basement (2016), Binnenbeest (2017) and Pokon (2021).

Theater Strahl Berlin was founded in 1987 as an independent theatre company in Berlin. Since 2013, they produce contemporary dance performances for young audiences in collaboration with international artists.

credits

Choreography: Josephine van Rheenen
Music (live): 
Guy Corneille
Made and performed by: 
Yeli Beurskens, Liam McCall, Youri Peters, Arturo Vargas, Marie Khatib-Shahidi/ Noëmi Wagner/ Yoko Haveman, Guy Corneille
Set and light design: Timme Afschrift
Technics: 
Chieljan van der Hoek
Dramaturgy: 
Moniek Merkx
Costumes advice: 
Nicky Nina de Jong
Performance support:
Theater Strahl Berlin, Anna Vera Kelle, Florian Bilbao
Production: 
Danae Bos
Co-production: Theater Strahl Berlin
Management: 
Miriam Gilissen

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Buy your ticket
Thursday, June 30

Hold your Horses

De Dansers / Theater Strahl Berlin
  • 14+
  • dance
  • LNP
Het Huis Utrecht, Theaterzaal
Start 21:00, End 21:55

prices

  • Adults€ 16,50
  • Up to 18 years€ 10,00
  • CJP€ 10,00
  • Student€ 10,00
  • U-pas€ 10,00
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credits

Choreography: Josephine van Rheenen
Music (live): 
Guy Corneille
Made and performed by: 
Yeli Beurskens, Liam McCall, Youri Peters, Arturo Vargas, Marie Khatib-Shahidi/ Noëmi Wagner/ Yoko Haveman, Guy Corneille
Set and light design: Timme Afschrift
Technics: 
Chieljan van der Hoek
Dramaturgy: 
Moniek Merkx
Costumes advice: 
Nicky Nina de Jong
Performance support:
Theater Strahl Berlin, Anna Vera Kelle, Florian Bilbao
Production: 
Danae Bos
Co-production: Theater Strahl Berlin
Management: 
Miriam Gilissen

prices

  • Adults€ 16,50
  • Up to 18 years€ 10,00
  • CJP€ 10,00
  • Student€ 10,00
  • U-pas€ 10,00
Buy your ticket Discount? Passe-Partout
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