DanceXchange 2025 – Tebby W.T. Ramasike, Consorzio Coreografi Danza d’Autore & Simone Heijloo

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DanceXchange 2025 - Tebby W.T. Ramasike, Consorzio Coreografi Danza d'Autore & Simone Heijloo

za 13 september 20:00

€ 16,00

DanceXchange 2025

We have the pleasure of inviting you to DanceXchange 2025, our first edition with dance performances from Italy, France and the Netherlands. DanceXchange performance program aims to connect artists, encouraging collaborations, foster artistic exchange and growth, and creating engaging experiences for audiences.

This program is organized by Tebby W.T. Ramasike, Consorzio Coreografi Danza d’Autore and Simone Heijloo, progressive choreographers each with their own work, with a message and a pearl for the eye.

An evening of dance no to be missed!

Saturday 13 September 20:00pm

‘RISE…’

This solo ‘RISE…’ is inspired by the performer Simone, with its technical, physical, emotional and spiritual demands. The essence of this work has been enhanced by the cultural and artistic exchange between Tebby and Simone, in working with their different dance and movement vocabularies. That is their respective practice in African Contemporary, Afro-Butoh and South African ritual dances.

From here, the project started following the first lockdown and the closure of cultural institutions. The impact that affected many people mentally was enormous. Despite the uncertainty and difficulties, we have given light to the voices that have been silenced.

The piece reveals moments of a woman in her isolation room, reflecting on her memories of life, past, present and possibly of an uncertain future.

Credits:

– Concept & Choreography: Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE

– Dancer: Simone HEIJLOO

– Music Composition: Ben BROWN

– Lighting Designer: Ellen KNOPS

– Costume: Marja Tanssi asbl

– Make-up Artist: Giselle Stardust

– Production: TeBogO Dance – TBO in collaboration with Simone Heijloo

– Duration: 20 minutes

– Trailer: https://youtu.be/Xy4Yx1fJS2s?feature=shared

‘M.an.Tis’

This solo has been inspired by a notion of survival in a field of where safety can be endangered. A cross between the animalistic and humanistic nature is the driving force in this imaginary setting.

Credits:

– Concept & Choreography: Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE

– Dancer: Lyudmila KUSHNIR

– Music: Sounds Of The Earth , Mark Nolan, Matthew Doyle & Tony Lewis

– Duration: 10-12 minutes

– Production: TeBogO Dance – TBO in collaboration with Paris Marais Dance School (PMDS) – Junior Ballet

‘IT SEEMED LIKE A FAIRY TALE TO ME’

Show against domestic violence towards women, winner of the “Donne da Palcoscenico” Award 2022, curated by Minimiteatri, the Municipality of Rovigo, and the Rovigo Culture Foundation.

Production supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Tuscany Region.

The performance “It seemed like a fairy tale to me…” explores the theme of domestic violence against women through the expressive language of dance-theatre. A relationship, initially experienced by the woman as the fulfillment of a fairy tale—a dream complete with its “Prince Charming”—quickly changes, revealing the dark side of a passion that turns into possession, domination, and violence at the hands of the man.

Credits:

– Concept, choreography, and performance: Leila Ghiabbi

– Artistic collaboration: Flavia Bucciero

– Duration: 32 minutes

– Trailer: https://youtu.be/zhK_akAWfg8?si=x2swbNH-qr6dx117

***BREAK***

‘BEHOLD!! – It’s a Gloomy DAY When My World is Empty Without YOU’

BEHOLD…

Lest we forget

Nothing comes from violence

Nothing comes from pain

In the fragility of love

Behold …!

© Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE

A dance piece set to a gloomy Sunday atmosphere, where the husband portrays his madness, in believing that his wife has been unfaithful. He scourges her and disapproves of her love for him, despite her showing her love and questioning why he can’t believe her.

Credits:

– Concept & Choreography: Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE

– Dancers: Lyudmila KUSHNIR (as the woman / wife) and Jean-Baptiste BRAUD (as the man / husband / priest)

– Music: Diamanda Galàs

– Duration: 13 minutes

– Production: TeBogO Dance – TBO in collaboration with Paris Marais Dance School (PMDS) – Junior Ballet

‘LA NONA’ – What’s left about us and the earth

Guest show of the ProART Festival Czech Republic, Brno and Slavonice – 2021; of the “Soirée Danse Contemporaine”, Review on Italian Dance at the Italian Cultural Institute of Marseille (Tour abroad supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Ministry of Culture) – 2022 Production supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Tuscany Region Credits

The intent perceived in Beethoven’s music, which exemplifies the essential theme of the work, seeks to reconcile the separation between humanity and Nature that eroded the equilibrium of the beginnings. The lack of harmony leads to malady and mortality. This theme, observable from the primary notes, is profoundly meaningful. Regressing to the primitive condition is infeasible, yet all must unavoidably change to something unique, more sophisticated both in the connections between human and Nature, and in those among humans, as a unified entity.

Credits:

– Choreography and concept: Flavia Bucciero

– Electronic music interventions: Antonio Ferdinando Di Stefano

– Pas de deux: Iolanda Del Vecchio and Alice D’Urso

– Duration: 20 minutes

– Trailer: https://vimeo.com/796214910/06b0166e99