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for Tracey

For Tracey is about the paradoxes of everyday life; relationships between people that are brutally disrupted. Seemingly sweet, but with dark psychological undertones.

The film is based on scenes from the performance Disordery Conduct and a collaboration between T.r.a.s.h. and filmmakers Martin Kers (MMXI ) and Erik-Jan Maalderink (VOXL), former LADDS members.

During the Cinedans Festival 2011 For Tracey won the award in the category 'Camera Rework'.

Quote from the jury:
"This film astounded us by its brave portrayal of the unpleasant aspects of relationships, the freshness of the on-screen talent and its punk sensibilities." Cinedans Festival 2011



CAST & CREW:
Direction: Martin Kers (MMXI) & Erik-Jan Maalderink (VOXL), Choreography: Kristel van Issum & Guilherme Miotto, Music composition: Arthur van der Kuip, Set design & production: Paul van Weert, Created with & Performed by: Joss Carter, Oona Doherty, Aoife McAtamney, Stephen Moynihan, Theo Lowe & Louise Tanoto, Musicians: Michal Bitan (Soprano), João Paixao (Bariton) & Jacqueline Hamelink (Cello), Camera: Martin Kers, Grip: Erik-Jan Maalderink, Costumes: Jolanda Hendriks, Thanks to: Ruimte-X – Ernest Potters & Centre de developpement choreographique du Val-de-Marne (F)

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Agnes und Ekel

In between sunken ships four performers are waiting for their crossing. Intrigues and manipulations are happening on a daily basis. Only the own perception is measure. Old, conservative values are under pressure; affective closeness is opposed to clinic distance.

T.r.a.s.h. is renowned for its uncompromising dance performances, constantly seeking the boundaries with amazing dedication. At a crossroads of artistic disciplines – a combination of dance, performance and (live) music - for the past ten years the company has been challenging the traditional norms of theatre and dance.

In strongly styled images this dance theatre performance puts down reality as a subjective construction. In colorfull and spherical spaces the performers act out contrasting actions on each other: actions of oppression and depression, cruelty and show of force.

CAST & CREW
Concept & Choreography: Kristel van Issum, Music composer: Arthur van der Kuip, Set design: Paul van Weert, Created with & Performed by: Tobias M. Draeger, Sarah Lutz, Lucie Petrušová & Michael Watts, Music: Conny Essbach (clarinet & accordion) & Robin Rombouts (trumpet), Lighting design: Twan Mensen, Dramaturgy: Pietjan Dusee, Advice: Jan Zobel
Thanks to: Jorind Josemans & Het Zuidelijk Toneel

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Irina

True stories merge with an illusionary world, in which women can take on every kind of identity to survive. The spectator observes them closely.

Irina is a collaboration between T.r.a.s.h. and filmmakers Martin Kers (MMXI) & Erik-Jan Maalderink (VOXL).

Première NL | Saturday 2 March | CINEDANS 2013 | EYE Film Institute | Amsterdam.

PRESS
" Eigenlijk sluit de Nederlandse inzending Irina van T.r.a.s.h. wonderwel aan bij de Canadese expressionistische trend van façades omver werpen en onomwonden drijfveren tonen.
Meisjes die de draak steken met meisjes: soms is Irina wreed, soms toont het ook de overgave waarmee alleen jonge vrouwen kunnen lijden. Anorexia staat er ergens in de kantlijn van deze film geschreven. Het werk van regisseurs Kers, Maalderink en choreograaf Van Issum is een verademing tijdens een shorts-programma". Fransien van der Putt (Cultuurpers).



CAST & CREW:
Direction: Martin Kers & Erik-Jan Maalderink, Choreography: Kristel van Issum,
Music composition: Arthur van der Kuip, Set & production: Paul van Weert,
Created with & Performed by: Oona Doherty, Sarah Lutz, Katharina Meves & Lucie Petrušová,
Camera: Martin Kers (MMXI), Grip: Erik-Jan Maalderink (VOXL), Editing & Post-production: Martin Kers (MMXI) / Erik-Jan Maalderink (VOXL), Musician: Walter de Kok (violin)

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Auf Wiedersehen

Auf Wiedersehen zoomt in op de intieme ogenblikken na het vaarwel, op de situaties waarin het lichaam verkrampt en naar adem snakt. Afscheid nemen is een beetje sterven.
De vier danseressen combineren fysieke elegantie met een energieke bewegingstaal.

DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung) maakt sinds 1992 furore met een eigenzinnige mix van folk, punk en klassiek. Voor Auf Wiedersehen verzorgen ze een live soundtrack.
Ze herwerken een aantal van hun composities tot een actuele remix.

Concept & choreografie: Kristel van Issum
Gecreëerd met & uitgevoerd door: Tegest Pecht-Guido, Lucie Petrušová, Helena Araújo, Eleni Ploumi
Livemuziek: Han Stubbe (klarinet), Roel van Camp (accordeon), Hannes d’Hoine (contrabas)
Dramaturgie: René Jagers
Decor: Paul van Weert
Kostuums: Jolanda Hendriks
Lichtadvies: Twan Mensen
Techniek: Ruben Steenmeijer
Tekeningen: S. Lloyd Trumpstein
Met dank aan: Jan Zobel, Pietjan Dusee, Martin Kers MMXI, Tony Hoffa

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Swamp

In a threatening marshland four dancers roam around like roadside tourists.
Already sinking they mock seriously with society. In both innocent and cruel games they search for togetherness. They sway each other back and forth, build and demolish sandcastles. With a series of self-made rituals they shake off the confusion and mud and go looking for love.

...Will we make it together or will each of us go down alone?

CAST & CREW
Concept & Choreography: Kristel van Issum, Music composition: Arthur van der Kuip, Set design: Paul van Weert, Created with & Performed by: Jason Gwen, Blazej Jasinski, Lucie Petrušová & Gieorgij Puchalski, Musicians: Jacqueline Hamelink (cello) & Walter de Kok (viool), Lighting design: Twan Mensen

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We must be willing to let go

Emptiness, adrenalin, humour, ridicule and clichés in an energetic, explosive, almost cartoonish dance duet. In We must be willing to let go the farewell of superfluous ballast and the tragedy of a seemingly forgotten femininity (in beauty and ugliness) is connected in a bizarre way. On the floor a hectic carnivalesque duo in a constant pulse, a continous flow of movement and music. A thirty-minute speed race, danced by two women, with minimalistic, repetitive live music, played by a violinist.

'We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.'
Joseph Campbell

CAST & CREW
Concept & Choreography: Kristel van Issum, Music composition: Arthur van der Kuip,
Set design: Paul van Weert, Created with & Performed by: Joanna Gruberska / Oona Doherty & Lucie Petrušová, Musician: Walter de Kok (violin), Lighting design: Twan Mensen

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Girl 29

A bright one-woman show. An originally African woman is in a constant metamorphosis.
A woman who is always changing and takes different forms.
The quest for identity, it consists of multiple selves; a tension between humour and menace.

Concept & choreography: Kristel van Issum
Composer: Arthur van der Kuip
Set design: Paul van Weert

Created with & performed by: Tegest Pecht-Guido / Vocal & keys: Artemisz Polonyi

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Einbahnstrasse

Einbahnstrasse is a tragicomic dance theatre performance that portrays the intensity, the void but also the meaningful of everyday traffic among people. A one-way street where reverse and/or return from a certain point is not possible. A collection of absurd, disordered, physically and emotionally charged scenes: (fictitious) rituals, actions of violence and inevitability of choices. Five dancers carry out their extreme physical actions, a ccompanied by a live score played by three musicians.

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Safe Absence

In Safe Absence five seductive women personify the themes of longing, sin and penance.

This second episode of Humanoid Trilogy explores what being a woman really means and represents this in atmosphere and mood. Carnival-like scenes in a surreal landscape, accompanied by intense live music, lead to extreme physicality between reality and trance.

CAST & CREW
Concept & Choreography: Kristel van Issum & Guilherme Miotto Composer: Arthur van der Kuip Scenographer & Illuminator: Peter Missotten Execution: Paul van Weert Construction Chandelier: Peter Missotten Costumes: Elisabeth Kinn Svensson
Created with & Performed by Hannah Shakti Buhler, Filine Volkmann, Melanie Wirz, Dagmar Dachauer, Katharina Meves & Katja Scholz
Musicians: Artemisz Polonyi (Vocals) & Sander de Bie (Keys)
Film & Editing: Martin Kers & Erik-Jan Maalderink

Safe Absence / Humanoid Trilogy Episode 2 is supported by Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf

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Disorderly Conduct

'Why do I have this urge to do things over and over again?'

Disorderly Conduct is the first episode of Humanoid Trilogy - sequal of three (dance)performances full of extreme physicality and live music in different settings.

Choreography: Kristel van Issum & Guilherme Miotto
Composer: Arthur van der Kuip  / Set: Paul van Weert
Created with & Performed by: Joss Carter, Oona Doherty, Aoife McAtamney, Stephen Moynihan, Theo Lowe, Louise Tanoto / Musicians: João Paixão, Michal Bitan
Film & Editing: Martin Kers & Erik-Jan Maalderink

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Portrait of T.r.a.s.h.

T.r.a.s.h. was awarded with the 'Dansprijs van Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds' ['Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund Dance Award'] in 2009. So the short film Portrait of T.r.a.s.h. was made.