Meeting Jan Martens
The talented choreographer Jan Martens will be a ‘Creative Associate’ for the next five years and we are kicking off this intense collaboration with an unmissable ‘Martens week’!
We’ll be starting with the 2011 creation ‘Sweat baby sweat’. Jan Martens drew inspiration for this performance about love from the concentration, tension and symbolism of circus acrobatics. On Friday evening, we’ll be treating you to a double bill featuring two solos. Martens created ‘BIS’ in 2012 for the 65-year-old Dutch dancer Truus Bronkhorst; and in the recent ‘Ode to the attempt’ (2015) you will see the man himself at work. Finally, the week will end with a genuine tour de force! ‘The Dog Days Are Over’, a choreography from 2014, involves eight dancers who surrender themselves to a single movement: the jump. It was this piece that led to Jan Martens’ definitive international breakthrough.
We’ll be starting with the 2011 creation ‘Sweat baby sweat’. Jan Martens drew inspiration for this performance about love from the concentration, tension and symbolism of circus acrobatics. On Friday evening, we’ll be treating you to a double bill featuring two solos. Martens created ‘BIS’ in 2012 for the 65-year-old Dutch dancer Truus Bronkhorst; and in the recent ‘Ode to the attempt’ (2015) you will see the man himself at work. Finally, the week will end with a genuine tour de force! ‘The Dog Days Are Over’, a choreography from 2014, involves eight dancers who surrender themselves to a single movement: the jump. It was this piece that led to Jan Martens’ definitive international breakthrough.