Performance 2009

 

5 Men Dancing

Improvisation

     


Rick Nodine

Dan Watson

Adam Benjamin

Thomas Mettler

Christian Panouillot

Jordi Cortés

and friends

.......... and maybe you.
















Next performance Freiburg Festival, Germany 22nd October 2009

On this page you will find details of choreography by adam benjamin currently being performed by different companies as well as information on improvised performances with 5 Men Dancing (Europe) and with Chieko Matsumura (Japan). For more information on dates and bookings please contact the individual companies below.

Improvisation in Performance / Japan 2010

Second Time Broken   Remix Dance Project

South Africa

Dancer’s Syndrome   StopGap Dance Company    UK

www.stopgap.uk.com/html/syndrome.html


Denise Woods

General Manager

StopGAP Dance Company

Farnham Maltings

Farnham, Surrey

GU9 7QR

+44 (0)1252 718664

denise@stopgap.uk.com


4 Dancers, 30 mins.

Music  Adrian Freedman

Lighting Adam Benjamin



5 Men Dancing gather periodically to perform without script and without steps, with a fierce commitment to unstructured improvisation. The work is therefore edgy, unpredictable, poignant and often very funny.



info@adambenjamin.co.uk



Adam has been performing with Chieko Matsumura in Japan since 2003. The performances take place in different settings each year in the city of Maebashi in Gunma Province. The next performance will be Easter 2010


contact


info@adambenjamin.co.uk


or for Japanese speakers please email:


tamami@macace.net

Remix Dance Project
Oppenheimer Institute Building
Centre for African Studies
University of Cape Town
Engineering Mall, Upper Campus
Rondebosch
7701

remix@humanities.uct.ac.za

Tel: (+27) 21 650 2538
Fax (+27) 21 686 1505

Angels of Incidence  Scottish Dance Theatre  

Although the full version of Angels is no longer in the rep, SDT still use excerpts from the piece. contact SDT for details.

"The most beautifully crafted work of this impressive season(Johannesburg Dance Umbrella 2006) has to be Adam Benjamin's Second Time Broken, performed with grace and expertise by Cape Town's Remix Dance Project"

                                                                                                                The Tonight

photo Kenny Bean

“An extraordinary example of integrated dance. Darkly lyrical, epic yet intimate, it flows like a disorienting, episodic dream”.

                                                                                  Donald Hutera, THE TIMES

Gradually unpacks and becomes mysterious and magical. Like little snippets of a dream. Wonderful response from the audience.

                                                                                  Gregory Nash - Director of The Point, Eastleigh

photos Omi Toshihiro

Slight                

              Choreographed by Adam Benjamin

                            The FATHoM Project 

For Information on 2009 tour contact thefathomproject@hotmail.com

Performing as part of the TaPRA conference at Plymouth University

7th September 2009 and Decibel showcase in Manchester.

This lecture demonstration is open to the public, tickets are free but must be reserved. For further information contact:

Peninsula Arts

University of Plymouth

6 Portland Villas

Drake Circus

Plymouth

PL4 8AA

Tel:01752 238684

Email:pen_arts_enqs@plymouth.ac.uk

www.peninsula-arts.co.uk

Holding    a free lecture demo at Plymouth University

Russell Maliphant and Adam Benjamin  Mon 2nd Feb Roland Levinsky Bldg

 

Choreographic conversations.






‘… with holding’ an improvisation by

Russell Maliphant and Adam Benjamin.






                                                          



Holding (work in progress)

Commissioned by DanceUnited and Sadlers Wells

choreographed by Russell Maliphant & Adam Benjamin.


Danced by Junaid Jemal Sendi and Addisu Demissie from the Adugna Dance Theatre in Addis Abbaba.   www.dance-united.com


Holding forth

An open discussion with the two choreographers and the dancers about the creation of the duet Holding, the role of improvisation in the creative process, and the story behind the work.






The FATHoM Project

A Holding Space   By Russell Maliphant and Adam Benjamin 

Danced by Junaid Jemal Sendi and Addisu Demissie from the Adugna Dance Theatre in Addis Abbaba







for dates see www.dance-united.com   and

photos Hugo Glendinning

photo by oran milstein

photo Tania Scott

photo Hugo Glendinning

“Strength, exuberant energy and a rooted connection to the ground”

                                            Copyright 2009 Josephine Leask  http://www.danceinsider.com/f2009/f0402_1.html