okt 16, 2009
ZOO helps bring contemporary dance to a wider audience
As a prologue to an educational DVD that ZOO/Thomas Hauert are planning to produce by 2011, the company will be running an outreach programme to bring contemporary dance to young people from seven schools and extracurricular establishments in the Belfort area and Jura in Switzerland.
okt 13, 2009
“Parallallemande” at the Biennale de Charleroi/Danses
Already presented at the Kaaitheater and at Centre Pompidou as part of Ircam’s Agora Festival, the short duet “Parallallemande” was originally created by Thomas Hauert and Chrysa Parkinson. At the closing evening of the Biennale de Charleroi/Danses, ZOO will present a new version of “Parallallemande” performed by Thomas Hauert and Mat Voorter.
okt 13, 2009
ZOO’s choreographic creation on Maurice Ravel’s “La Valse” presented with live orchestra as part of “Equi Voci”
To complement the presentation of the first two parts of Thierry De Mey’s “Equi Voci” in Charleroi/Danses on 27th November 2009, and as anticipation of the last part of this polyptych projected to be realized in June 2010 on a choreography by Thomas Hauert on Maurice Ravel’s “La Valse”, 8 dancers from ZOO will perform this piece live with the Brussels Philharmonic - Vlaams Radio Orkest.
sep 5, 2009
danceXmusic
In September and October 2009, Thomas Hauert will be working with 13 students from PARTS to create a new piece with music by Claude Debussy and Salvatore Sciarrino. The performance will be presented in March 2010 as part as “danceXmusic”, a four nights program set up by PARTS and La Monnaie in the framework of the Ars Musica festival. The music will be performed by musicians of the Symphonic Orchestra of La Monnaie.
apr 6, 2009
“Korean Screens” premièred in Seoul
Korean Screens is a dance project made up of Belgian and Korean ingredients. Thomas Hauert, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Michèle Anne De Mey and Arco Renz have each created a solo dance for a young Korean artist. Thomas Hauert has decided to work with Eun-Kuyng Lee, a dancer he discovered while making the piece 12/8 for the last year students of P.A.R.T.S. in 2007. Korean Screens will be presented in avant-première on the 11th and 12th of April in the frame of the B:OM Festival in Seoul.
apr 6, 2009
Thomas Hauert takes part in Pierre Droulers’ “Walk, Talk, Chalk”
Pierre Droulers asked Thomas to participe in his new creation for Charleroi/Danses: Walk, Talk, Chalk. The piece will be premièred in Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, before travelling to Charleroi/Danses, Festival de Marseille and La Bâtie - Festival de Genève.
okt 24, 2008
“Accords” to open the Swiss Dance Days 2009
Accords has been selected to open the Swiss Contemporary Dance Days 2009. The platform takes place 22-25 January in Ticino. Info: www.swissdancedays.ch
jun 25, 2008
“Accords” nominated for best dance show of the year
On June 23, ZOO’s new creation Accords has been nominated in the category "Best dance show of the year" at the Critics Prize awarded by the Belgian French-speaking press.
apr 15, 2008
“Accords” opens at PACT Zollverein Essen
The new creation of ZOO opens on the 2nd of May 2008 at PACT Zollverein in Essen. Shortly after, Accords will be presented at Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Alkantara Lisbon and International Festival of Salamanca.
In Accords , Thomas Hauert continues his research on body and
movement, focusing more specifically on the relationship between dance
and music. Dance and music are parts of a classic combination, perhaps
even the
very first one… Anyone watching Accords might think that they are
seeing a choreography written to music, because ZOO’s dancers attempt
to come as close as possible to the precision found therein. Yet the
process of creating movement turns out to be radically different here.
It involves a “democratic” process, based on individual freedom and
permanent attention being paid to others: a process aimed at obtaining
a choreographic complexity beyond that of a written piece. Thomas
Hauert chooses to rely on the intuitive intelligence of the body and
the group.
apr 9, 2008
“Hà Mais” goes on tour again
In 2008, ZOO/Thomas Hauert is celebrating its 10th anniversary. For this occasion, ZOO reprises two shows: Cows in Space , its very first piece, and Há mais , a project that is very dear to Thomas Hauert. Há mais
(“there’s more”) was created in 2002 with 5 dancers from Maputo,
Mozambique, as a part of the project “Alma Txina”. In the summer 2008,
the piece will be restaged with the original dancers in CCN de Franche-Comté in Belfort and then
go on a concentrated tour passing by Theater Spektakel in Zurich, La
Bâtie in Geneva and Kaaitheater in Brussels. For this re-run, Há mais will be presented with the piece Mafalala2 by the Mozambican choreographer Panaïbra Gabriel and its company Culturarte.
jan 12, 2008
ZOO restages its first performance “Cows in Space”
To mark the 10th anniversary of its creation, Thomas Hauert’s ZOO dance company is restaging its very first piece: Cows in Space . This is an exceptional opportunity to see (again) a show that was an award-winner at the renowned Rencontres chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis in 1999 and took this Brussels dance company all the way to Japan. The national and international reprise of Cows in Space will be launched in Brussels’ Kaaitheater on 25 and 26 January – the start of a year of celebrations for ZOO.
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