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Bestiaires from Duda Paiva Company is theatre combining modern dance and object animation to create a bizarre reality where ancient myths interact with our modern world. Coming up the 17th and 18th of January in the Utrechtse Schouwburg. 19th in Amstelveen. 29th in Bellevue Amsterdam, 1th of February in Leiden, 2nd in Arhem and 8th in Amersfoort. Tour [...]

Most likely you have ever seen a Garden Gnome. A small humanoid creature, usually wearing a pointy hat. It has been produced for the purpose of ornamentation and protection from evil sorcery, typically of gardens. These figurines originate in 19th century Germany, where they became known as Gartenzwerg (literally “garden dwarf”). The garden gnome quickly [...]

Working on a music performance with the Rosa Ensemble from Utrecht, a coproduction with Intro in Sutu. ROOM BLACK It’s a multi disciplinairy experience for all senses, for the deaf and the hearing, including: dance, performance, percussion, ancient Japanese drum the Taiko, electronics, video, and light sculptures. Video teaser: Dates: 29, 30, 31 august on [...]

In the summer I’ve been working among others with Duda Paiva on his research project for his new dance and puppetry performance Bestiares starred by Mythologic figures. It will be performed this season in Norway and in January and February 2013 in the Netherlands. Schedulde will be posted soon. For now I’m proud to present [...]

Dear visitors. I’ve got trailers of my acts, finally. You can find them under the relevant act. For the lazy surfer hereby the links: The Doll: Black Swan: Egos remix: “When we speak the word “life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, [...]

Upcoming White Saturday and 2nd Easterday I’ll perform my own Passion. Saturday 7th @ Suppercruise Monday 9th @ Supperclub Hope to see you around.

Eind deze maand danst Nicole Beutler‘s Les Sylphides weer in theater Frascati Amsterdam. Met een gerecyclede versie van Ulrike Quade als dessert. http://www.theaterfrascati.nl/content/les-sylphides.

This act is a crazy happy & funny interaction act. The performer is hidden in a garbage bag, only her legs on high heels stick out. When you listen very careful you hear a bird whistle. The bag slowly becomes alive: flowers, birds and a frog peek out of it and the whole package starts [...]

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  • The Dutch Garden Gnome

    The Dutch Garden Gnome

    Acts

    World War II was hard on the German industry of the Garden Gnome and most producers gave up on them. Being a Garden gnome aint that easy as it seems…

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  • Egos Remix Act

    Egos Remix Act

    Acts

    Ego’s : Two identical, charming and “cool” looking woman unfold in a quick catchy tempo a story about the human ego, love, fighting, sadness, despair, hope and happyness. All played, danced and mimed on a catchy music remix. A must see!  

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  • The happy bird in a frog like jumping garbage bag act

    The happy bird in a frog like jumping garbage bag act

    Acts

    This act is a crazy happy & funny interaction act. The performer is hidden in a garbage bag, only her legs on high heels stick out. When you listen very careful you hear a bird whistle. The bag slowly becomes alive: flowers, birds and a frog peek out of it and the whole package starts [...]

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  • The Bolero Doll

    The Bolero Doll

    Acts

    The Bolero Doll act is a theatrical ballet-dance act on pointshoes. The doll is trying to become alive to play and dance with the audience but the invisible puppeteer is manipulating her in an unpredictable way.

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  • Elixir

    Elixir

    Creations

    Elixir – An conceptual Dance-theatre performance – Ostade Theatre Amsterdam 2007 Elixir tells the story of three women with a shared purpose: love. Yet their worlds differ and their paths are far apart. Elixir plays with the relation between our ‘words’ and the ‘world of things’, as elaborated by Michel Foucault in ‘The order of [...]

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  • Egos

    Egos

    Creations

    In 2004 Ester erected together with Eva Marie de Waal Dance-Theatre duo Ego’s, named after de first performance they created together: Egos

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  • Egos Hope

    Egos Hope

    Creations

    Ego’s Hoop is, again, a surrealistic and absurd theatre experience. Co-directed by Ria Marks (Orkater a.o.).

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  • Zijzoenen – Netherlands Dance Theatre

    Zijzoenen – Netherlands Dance Theatre

    Creations

    Zijzoenen – Netherlands Dance Theatre

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  • Brief A – DWA

    Brief A – DWA

    Creations

    Brief A – DWA

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  • Egos Remix

    Egos Remix

    Creations

    Ego’s Remix consists of Ego’s Hoop, which featured on the Oerol Festival, but with a twist…

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  • Netherlands Dance Theatre – The Hague

    Netherlands Dance Theatre – The Hague

    Performance

    Netherlands Dance Theatre – The Hague Several productions with NDT.

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  • “Lichtende Schemering” – Choreography: Gerard Mosterd

    “Lichtende Schemering” – Choreography: Gerard Mosterd

    Performance

    This contemporary dance performance takes place on the edge of two cultures whose contrasts often lead to incomprehension, tensions and even the unattainable. When action is taken

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  • ‘Communications from the Lab’ – Directed by: Ivar Hagendoorn – Ballett Frankfurt

    ‘Communications from the Lab’ – Directed by: Ivar Hagendoorn – Ballett Frankfurt

    Performance

    Premiere: 15 January 2004 Choreography: Ivar Hagendoorn in collaboration with the dancers.

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  • Introdans – Arnhem

    Introdans – Arnhem

    Performance

    Introdans – Arnhem

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  • Last Touch First – A Holland Dance Production – Directed by: Jiří Kylián & Michael Schumacher

    Last Touch First – A Holland Dance Production – Directed by: Jiří Kylián & Michael Schumacher

    Performance

    Last Touch First is: “…an intimate and moving performance, in which desperation, madness and loneliness touch the depths of the six characters.

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  • The Recycle Project – Director: Ulrike Quade

    The Recycle Project – Director: Ulrike Quade

    Performance

    Choreographer André Gingras and visual theatre maker Ulrike Quade are ‘recycling’ Nicole Beutler’s Les Sylphides (2006), itself a radical interpretation of Michel Fokine’s ballet Les Sylphides (1909).

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  • Les Sylphides – Director: Nicole Beutler

    Les Sylphides – Director: Nicole Beutler

    Performance

    We witness three ex-ballerinas on stage, each of them in a specific relation to classical ballet, performing the first non-narrative ballet Les Sylphides.

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  • GO! – Wereldband & Friends

    GO! – Wereldband & Friends

    All, Performance

    In ‘GO!’ verleiden drie briljante danseressen (zij dansten o.a. bij het NDT en het IDT) de mannen van de Wereldband om met hen mee te dansen. Op hun beurt verleiden zij de danseressen weer om te zingen en te musiceren.

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  • The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

    Acts

    The Black Swan act is a theatrical ballet-dance act on pointshoes inspired by the movie ‘Black Swan’ and the famous classical solo ‘The Dying Swan’ danced by Anna Pavlova.

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  • A Dog’s Heart – Directed by Simon McBurney

    A Dog’s Heart – Directed by Simon McBurney

    Performance

    To huge critical acclaim Simon McBurney directed the world premiere of Alexander Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart. An overwhelming opera with great puppetry, acting and scenery.

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  • Props

    Props

    Creations

    Together with writer and Puppeteer Babiche Ronday Ester made a dance- and puppettheatre performance inspired by the cuts in government funding of the arts, about the last living artist on earth: A Ballerina.

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