Performing Company : Current Repertoire 

Romance Inverse

Choreography: Itzik Galili
Music: Steve Reich, Percossa
Choreographer's Assistant: Leonardo Centi
Lighting Design: Yaron Abulafia
Costume Design: Natasja Lansen
Set Design: Janco van Barneveld
Costume Maker: Angharad Gamble
Dancers: The Company

Tel Aviv-born Itzik is Co-Artistic Director of Dans Groep Amsterdam. He studied with Nira Paz in Tel Aviv and danced with Bat- Dor Dance Company and Batsheva Dance Company before moving to the Netherlands in 1991.

In 1997 he was nominated by the Ministry of Culture as Artistic Director of a newly founded and publicly supported dance company to be based in Groningen: The Dance Company of the Northern Netherlands/Galili Dance.

He has been shortlisted for Best Modern Choreography at the Critic's Circle UK National Dance Awards in 2010 and was knighted in the Netherlands on the royal order of the House of Oranje Nassau in 2006.

" This is a conversation with members of the audience, a visual and emotional conversation. That conversation starts with dancers of one gender, elegant, wild and expressive, their changing physical space defined by large boards.

" Another dimension is explored when our perception is also totally altered by the complete inversion of the dance. We are then witnesses to the creation of diverse male and female duets as the romance, their emotional and physical interaction, develops.

" All the time we are driven by the music of Steve Reich and a new composition on marimbas and percussion from a collective of composers from Holland, Percossa."

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Veil of Stars

Choreography & Costume Design: Andonis Foniadakis
Composer: Julien Tarride
Lighting: Joe Fletcher
Costume Maker: Rhia Whitnell
Costume Assistants: Angharad Gamble, Bethan Riggs, Danni Walden
Masks: Nia Thomson

Andonis Foniadakis grew up in Crete and began his training at the local dance school. He continued his studies at the State Dance School of Athens and Rudra Bejart Lausanne.
Andonis has danced with Bejart Ballet Lausanne, Lyon Opera Ballet, Saburo Teshigawara /
Karas Co. He also performs and creates work for his own dance company Apotosoma which
he created in Lyon in 2003.

Companies he has worked with as a freelance choreographer include Geneva Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Ballet du Rhin, Cia Sociedade Masculina (Brazil), Helsinki Dance Company, National Ballet of Greece, Benjamin Millepied's Dance Company (USA), Washington Ballet, Bejart Ballet Lausanne, Hellenic Dance Company, CNSMD Lyon and Copenhagen International Dance Festival.

" The inspiration for the piece is more to do with a state of mind, related to identity, how we protect it, what we reveal and what do we want to show to society. I am trying in a sense to combine physical dance work and more theatrical elements, such as a mask, and see how the audience deals with this. It isn't classical dance nor strictly abstract as there is a strange relationship between the characters, a story but one that is not precise.

" My work is emotional rather than intellectual; it does not have a story board start, middle and end. So I want the audience to sit down and try to feel and recall and relate to emotions that will be provoked by what they see and hear."

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Lunatic

Choreography & Costume Concept: Nigel Charnock
Lighting Design: Jackie Shemesh
Costume: Shanti Freed
Music: Glen Miller, Underworld, Kitty Kallen, Bach, Billie Holiday, Johnnie Ray

Co-founder of DV8 Nigel Charnock was born in Manchester and went to school in Abergele.
He trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama followed by a year at the London
Contemporary Dance School. He co-founded DV8 in 1986 and founded his own company –
Nigel Charnock + Company – in 1995. Nigel is renowned as a maverick and totally captivating
performer with a string of internationally acclaimed solo shows to his name.

"Moon, Luna, Lunatic. A kind of madness, yes, but also an intoxicating look into the world of moonlight and dreams, romance and sleeplessness. The piece is heavily influenced by the
fashion and styles of the 1950s with costumes that capture that fascinating decade just after the war, filled with much unrealised hope of better times and prosperity.

"The work is flavoured by earlier times but crafted with the immediate engagement desired by the ‘You Tube Generation', scenes that quickly flow and develop, dance that immediately communicates and connects."Nigel Charnock

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Hinterland

Director: Roy Campbell-Moore
Music: Alun Hoddinott
Visual Artist: Emrys Williams
Lighting: Joe Fletcher
Costume: Suzi Dorey
Costume Make: Rhia Whitnell
Music Advisor: Jeremy Huw Williams

Scottish-born, Roy was educated in Australia. He began dancing at the age of 20; studying at the Rambert School of Ballet and then performing with Scottish Ballet. In 1983 Roy co-founded Diversions, now National Dance Company Wales, with Artistic Director Ann Sholem.

Since then, Roy has choreographed over 25 productions for the Company and his work has been performed throughout the UK and internationally. Since the opening of the Dance House at the Wales Millennium Centre, he has used its extensive facilities to further his other interests in co-producing and presenting new choreographers and giving opportunities for visual artists and composers to create new ideas in dance. He continues to choreograph, drawing on his long experience of both ballet and contemporary dance, being especially keen to work with composers and visual artists.

"I have created a work with five dancers who represent different characters interacting like a community of people. There is young romance, corrosive anxiety, playfulness, humour and high
drama between the characters as they celebrate their uniqueness as human beings.

"Alun Hoddinott's remarkable Welsh Dances Suites are celebratory; life at its biggest, based on the feel for the land, people and songs of a Wales that he loved so much. I also wanted the dance to take place within a set of colour fields that gave insight into the background hues and shape of a poetic rolling landscape, breathing a seductive glow like the procession of the seasons." Roy Campbell-Moore

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Choreography & Set Design: Stijn Celis
Assistant to Choreographer: Joanne Fong
Lighting Design: Erik Berglund
Costume Design: Kathy Brunner
Music: James Brown, Bretschneider, Aka Pygmie

Belgian choreographer Stijn Celis danced with many companies, including Royal Ballet of Flanders, Contemporary Dance Zürich, Cullberg Ballet and Geneva Ballet until, in 1998, devoting himself to choreography and other artistic disciplines, including working set design. From 2004
to summer 2007, Switzerland-based Celis was artistic director of the Bern Ballet. His Practice Paradise was presented by Diversions in 2004. 

"I've set out to introduce for each of the five sections a different physical idea, working from the group as a whole into the individual and personal. I'm hoping for it to be a sensual experience for the audience. I am proposing new ideas, new physical ideas. It is very physical, bold, in the detail,and, I hope, poetic with a hint of philosophy. I have also used text from the book ‘Will Happiness Find Me?' by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. The music is American minimalist, electronic and even a little tribal." Stijn Celis

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Strange Attractors: Prelude & Part II

Choreography: Stephen Petronio
Assistant to Choreographer: Gerald Casel
Music: Placebo with vocals by David Bowie (Prelude); James Lavelle (Part II)
Original Costumes:Tara Subkoff and Mathew Levi of Imitation of Christ (Prelude); Tanya Sarne of Ghost (Part II)
Costume Realisation: Rhia Whitnell
Lighting Design: Ken Tabachnick
Lighting Realisation: Joe Fletcher

Petronio was born in Newark, New Jersey, and received a B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he began dancing in 1974. Initially influenced by the works of Steve Paxton and Rudolf Nureyev, Petronio went on to become the first male dancer of the Trisha Brown Company, where he danced from 1979 to 1986. He founded Stephen Petronio Company in 1984. He has received international acclaim for his ground-breaking choreography and the company has toured extensively across the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, Australia, Korea and Russia.

Petronio is known for his high profile collaborations with the Greenwich Village elite and has worked with artists including Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, Rufus Wainwright, Laurie Anderson as well as Lou Reed, Michael Nyman and James Lavelle; the list goes on.

His status as the pride of the New York dance scene is represented by an equally impressive award line-up, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts award, the first American Choreographer Award in 1987, and a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) in 1986. 

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