Duet at Rode Loper
De Rode Loper (The Red Carpet) Festival in Amsterdam Oost will be celebrating its seventh edition at the beginning of September. Together with its future occupants and users, DansHuis Amsterdam will be present with dance workshops and a show featuring choreographies by Krisztina de Châtel among others. The Duet with the Plexiglas cylinder will be especially performed for DansHuis Amsterdam’s Oost Side Story programme.

Sunday 9 September, 16.00
DansHuis Amsterdam in the Wethouder Verheij Sports Hall, Amsterdam
More information about De Rode Loper Festival and The Oost Side Story at: http://rodeloper.org

Onderstebavo and Pulse in the Westerkerk
Amsterdam’s Westerkerk forms the new décor for two of Krisztina de Châtel’s successful choreographies: Onderstebavo and Pulse. A performance full of contrasts and unusual combinations, which is being brought to Amsterdam in cooperation with Dansgroep Vanuit Marlies and the Kwartiermakersfestival Amsterdam.

Westerkerk, Prinsengracht 281, Amsterdam
€ 16 euro (CJP/65-pas/stadspas: € 14)
Reservations: Amsterdam Uitburo www.aub.nl or 0900-0191
More information: www.kwartiermakersfestival-amsterdam.nl

Pulse at the Dutch Dance Festival and Dance Week
Nominated with the ‘Swan’ Awards for the best dance production of the 2006-2007 theatre season, the choreography Pulse is in the spotlight at the Dutch Dance Festival in Maastricht and during the countrywide Dance Week. On Friday night 5 October, the winner of the ‘Swan’ Awards will be announced. On Saturday night 6 October, Pulse will be performed during a festive ‘Dutch Dance Festival Favourites’ evening at Theater aan het Vrijthof. During Dance Week, Pulse will be at the Leiden LAKtheater together with a choreography by Keren Levi & Ugo Dehaes.

Prize-giving ceremony ‘Swan’ Awards, Friday 5 October, 21.00
Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht
Dutch Dance Festival Favourites, Saturday 6 October, 20.15
Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maasticht
Reservations: www.theateraanhetvrijthof.nl or 043-350 55 55
More information at: www.nederlandsedansdagen.nl
Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 October, 20.30

LAKtheater, Leiden
Reservations: www.laktheater.nl or 071-512 48 90
More information: www.dansweek.nl or www.laktheater.nl

Solos on location in Friesland
On the occasion of the Frisian edition of the 2007 Dance Week, four theatres, four museums, Galili Dance and Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel have joined forces to create one unique dance event. ‘Dancing on Location’ offers four premieres of solos that are danced in four different museums in Friesland. Audiences can see all four solos within one weekend or within a single day, using a special pass and a map outlining the ‘dance route’. Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel stages two solos: Burka in landscape and Solo in perspective in which dance, landscape and architecture merge.

Burka in landscape: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October 2007, 11.00 and 13.00
Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
Solo in perspective: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October, 11.00 and 13.00
Museum aan de A7, Drachten
Reservations and more information through Schouwburg De Lawei: www.lawei.nl

4 GO
4 GO is de Châtel’s new guest choreographers’ programme: five young, talented choreographers show their sources of inspiration, convictions and development in four personal choreographies. Together with de Châtel’s dancers, they offer a diverse dance performance in Holland’s theatres.

Choreography: Alida Dors, Bryan Druiventak, Giulia Mureddu, Sacha Steenks, Tina Valentan
Première 16 November 2007 Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
Theatre tour 10 November until 22 December 2007
Reservations at the various theatres, see play list at www.dechatel.nl

Imperium
Premiering in Carré in 1990, Imperium promises to be just as startling and fascinating 2008. Love, jealousy and power form the main ingredients of the struggle between court jesters and kings, between modern development and old regimes. Opera music by Henry Purcell and regal costumes by Rien Bekkers perfectly complement the baroque gestures, the exuberant solos, minimalist movements and spatial patterns which make up Imperium.

“Sublime de Châtel conquers Carré. Choreographer elevates simple step to regal stride.” (Trouw)

Première: 4 February 2008, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
Theatre tour: 2 February – 31 March 2008
Reservations at the various theatres, see play list at www.dechatel.nl

Dances in Concertgebouw
Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel makes its entry in one of the most famous concert halls in the world: the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Upon invitation of the Zaterdagmatinee (Saturday Matinée), Krisztina de Châtel seeks inspiration and direction from Louis Andriessen’s music and the impressive space of the Grote Zaal in the Concertgebouw.

Het Concertgebouw, Saturday 17 May 2008, 14.15
Reservations: www.concertgebouw.nl
More information: www.zaterdagmatinee.nl

The Circus Tent
Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel pitches its tents at the Sloterplas in Amsterdam for a new on-location performance. In the Circus Tent, de Châtel’s dancers meet with a brass band, majorettes and Turkish Sufi dancers and musicians. The rigid, rectilinear structure of majorette band also forms a source of inspiration in de Châtel’s new work. The performance revolves around composer David Dramm’s new work which connects Sufi and brass band music. It promises to be a kaleidoscopic performance for young and old, for lovers of rigid lines and effervescent dance movements.

May/June 2008
Sloterplas, Stadsdeel Geuzenveld, Amsterdam
In cooperation with the Meervaart, www.meervaart.nl

Photos: Ben van Duin, Jochem Jurgens, Hans Samson, Ton van Til, Karel Zwaneveld