Retina Dance Company is a contemporary dance company based in Nottingham and Belgium whose work tours nationally and in Europe, accompanied by extensive education work. The increase in regular funding will provide them with greater stability, enabling them to create one performance per year and tour this regionally.
Antipode
Choreographer: Filip Van Huffel
Dancers: Robert Guy, Steven Martin, Matthew Slater, Brian Tjon Tjauw Liem
Composer/musician: Joris Vanvinkenroye/BASta!
Lighting Design: Andrew Hammond
Costumes: Sara Baeten
www.retinadance.com
Four great young male dancers are joined by a double bass player as they perform a raw and exhilarating piece of athletic dance. Powerful and energetic movement demonstrates the skill of the dancers and emphasises their connection with the live soundscore.
Antipode was made possible with support from Arts Council England,
ccBe Antwerpen, Nottingham City Council, Djanogly City Academy and Artesis Hogeschool Antwerp.
Retina's 2009 production Antipode premiered in DanceKiosk festival in Hamburg in July 2009. Four great young male dancers perform a raw and exhilarating piece of athletic dance in this full-length production. Powerful and energetic movement choreographed by Filip Van Huffel is set to a soundscore by Belgian composer and double bass player Joris Vanvinckenroye/BASta!.
Eleven stories for the body, distance to our soul finds its source in words, text and poetry from eleven stories about the body, written specially for this production by eleven writers and poets. These texts inspire, dictate, and drive the direction of the movement and represent different perspectives of humanity, elements that make us who and what we are. Eleven stories for the body is a physical translation of these eleven impressions/expressions about the body. When we read a book we physicalise the characters and settings, in Eleven stories Filip has done this for us, however his intent is not for us to literally view the stories, but to play with our interpretations, juxtapose the images, sounds and movements, and manipulate our expectations.
Artistic Direction Filip Van Huffel
Choreography Filip Van Huffel and company
Performers Mariana Barros, Agnieszka Dmochowska, Juraj Korec, Rachel McDermott, Filip Van Huffel
Movement Analyst Natalie Gordon
Music Soundtrack compiled, sampled and edited by Filip Van Huffel including music by Balkan Brass Fest, Chet Baker, Dvorak, J.S. Bach and The Cracow Klezmer Band.
Costumes Sara Baeten and Veerle Janssens
Lighting and set design Manolito Glas
Commissioned writers Wayne Burrows
Jon McGregor
Writing competition winners Ara
C.J Allen
Anna Brown
Karen Harvey
Thea Hermans
Grace Lawson Conquer
Kris Lauwereys
Siobhan Logan
Jessica Nosal
Production management Pauric Hackett
Company management Natalie Gordon
Sophie Roper
Retina Dance Company and Eleven stories for the body, distance to our soul are supported by Arts Council England, College Street Centre, Dance 4, Lakeside Arts Centre and Derby Dance Centre in England, ccBe Antwerpen in Belgium and Choreographic Centre Linz in Austria
With special thanks to Matt Aston, Suzannah Bedford, Alistair Conquer, Marc Goossens, Esther Linley, Nicky Molloy, and Shona Powell, Aimee Smith and Krista Vuori.
Relative Danger is a 30 minute production made in 2008 based on hidden realities behind the latent image of a groups photograph. A Retina Dance production choreography by Filip Van Huffel, music by Jules Maxwell, performed by Laure Bachelot, Rohanna Eade, Tory East, Stephen Moynihan, Matthew Slater, lighting by Andy Hammond, camera & editing by Peter Carmeliet for AV-image bvba.
This is not a body is the second part of a choreographic triptych where the body is being influenced by different art forms. Choreography Filip Van Huffel, visual art Brian Hartley, music Dave Boyd
This is not a body is the second part of a choreographic triptych where the body is being influenced by different art forms. Choreography Filip Van Huffel, visual art Brian Hartley, music Axelle Kennes
www.retinadance.com - Antipode
Eleven Stories for the Body, Distance to our Soul
www.retinadance.com - This is not a body (part 2)
www.retinadance.com - This is not a body (part 1)
www.retinadance.com - Hard Shoulder
