NDT 2 in Grote Kerk Veere

NDT 2

Crystal Pite Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue

Edward Clug Cluster

Following the success of the performances in the Grote Kerk Veere in September 2021, NDT 2 returns with a new programme to this special venue. The NDT 2 dancers will perform Cluster by Edward Clug and Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue by associate choreographer Crystal Pite.

The programme

Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue – Crystal Pite

STAGED BY
Cindy Salgado

MUSIC
Cliff Martinez: High Energy Proton Accelerator, Maybe you’re my puppet, Don’t Blow It, Will She Come Back? Version Titles From “Solaris”/ Score (Twentieth Century Fox Film Music Corporation)

LIGHT
Jim French

COSTUMES
Linda Chow

NDT REHEARSAL DIRECTORS
Lydia Bustinduy, Ander Zabala

WORLD PREMIERE
June 30, 2008, Ceder Lake Contemporary Ballet

NDT PREMIERE
March 16, 2023, Amare The Hague

DURATION
14 minutes

DANCERS
Conner Chew, Ricardo Hartley III, Samuel van der Veer, Sophie Whittome, Viola Busi

Dancers: Sophie Whittome, Viola Busi. Photo: Rahi Rezvani

Crystal Pite

Associate choreographer

“I love the word “rescue”. It captures a whole story in a single word. Similarly, the body can convey narrative through the simplest of actions. For me, this work for Cedar Lake was an act of excavation. After creating the choreography, I searched within it for images that specifically evoked rescue. There are many of them. They exist inside the dancing like fragments of an untold narrative. I suppose the presence of rescue in this work is twofold, as I tried to liberate and expose these images for brief contemplation before releasing them back into the dance: saving and holding one picture of rescue in each of the ten duets.”
– Crystal Pite

Read the choreographer’s biography

Cluster – Edward Clug

ASSISTANTS TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Lydia Bustindy, Ander Zabala, Spencer Dickhaus

MUSIC
New composition by Milko Lazar

LIGHT
Tom Visser

DECOR & COSTUMES
Edward Clug

WORLDPREMIERE
April 21, 2022, Amare The Hague

DURATION
20 minutes

DANCERS
Rui-Ting Yu, Demi Bawon, Samuel van der Veer, Ivo Mateus, Barry Gans, Rebecca Speroni

Dancers: Barry Gans, Sophie Whittome, Auguste Palayer, Rui-Ting Yu, Kele Roberson, Annika Verplancke. Photo: Rahi Rezvani.

Edward Clug

Choreographer

“Coming back to create for NDT 2 felt almost necessary.
The company is completely new since the last time I worked with them and this aspect was the starting point in the process. No concept, no ideas, no music or other elements, I just wanted to work with them in the new empty space. As we approached each other, a dialogue of instincts began and the process unleashed spontaneously. After a few minutes we received Milko’s first fragment of music and the journey ignited.

The daily ritual of rehearsing gently united us behaving in the same pattern, somehow forming a human cluster that naturally became the pillar of this piece.”

Read the choreographer’s biography