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
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.
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
or for Japanese speakers please email:
Remix Dance Project
Oppenheimer Institute Building
Centre for African Studies
University of Cape Town
Engineering Mall, Upper Campus
Rondebosch
7701
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
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
utube link
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