NDT 1 tours internationally with Figures in Extinction, our coproduction with Complicité.
In season 2025-2026 we bring you bold, thought-provoking contemporary dance at its finest, featuring acclaimed artists from all over the world. Ticket sales for the performances in Amare, The Hague start Thursday April 10 at 12PM.
Welcome to the Open Night of NDT Summer Intensive 2025!
During this evening, the participants, choreographers and teachers of this year’s NDT Summer Intensive show you what they have been working on and what they have experienced in the studios of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT).
The last two weeks, these studios were the home base for sixty students that took part in an intensive training program comprised of NDT repertoire, working on a new creation, and classes focused on dance technique such as improvisation.
In this online programme book you will find more information about the 3 new creations made by choreographers Lea Ved, Jianhui Wang and Charlie Skuy, all in collaboration with the dancers.
We hope you enjoy tonight’s presentation!
– Team NDT Summer Intensive
Photos: Sacha Grootjans
ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Annika Verplancke
MUSIC
Lieder ohne Worte I, Op. 19b: VI. Andante sostento by Felix Mendelssohn
Tracks by Tim Hecker, album ‘Haunt Me’
It Ain’t Me Babe by Bob Dylan
LIGHT DESIGN
Loes Schakenbos
DANCERS GROUP A
Emmy Cheung, Jocelyn Wynn, Isabel Medalla, Ryan Pecorella, Mathias Mr Tannæs, Lexie Elliott, WangZhe You, Cecilia Napoli, Samuel Fine, Adam Takahashi, Giovanni Russo, Yujie Jiang, Yiru Mao, Isabella Chandler, Mariko Angela Ackermann, John Chappell, Martin Balaban, Nicolò Zanotti, Louis Pineau, Chen Hsuan Lin, Elijah Davis
Wildflowers
“I am struck by the abundance that comes by being informed by the same principles of gravity, space, time, structure — held by the same field of language — and then inhabited with singularity, with self nuance. What we worked with together was born out of this seed, an ever-brief, ever-true, live exchange where my compass remained in the spirit of playful composition and in the delight of directing a creation process where we could dive in and respond together. It all reminds me of wildflowers, grown, held together, and each also, singular and vibrant — like each of these dancers that share this space.”
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ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Omani Ormskirk
MUSIC
Receiving by Jon Hopkins
1542 by Xique-xique
Vrahor – Artificial Drm
Ring Angels by Nainita Desai
Chris Watson, Part vii
Dissolution by Jon Hopkins
LIGHT DESIGN
Loes Schakenbos
DANCERS GROUP B
Silvio Stoyanov Nikolov, Gael Canales Grau, Alessandra Gonzalez, Chloe Ohira, Gavin Grey, Ashley Davis, Jared Alequin, Robin van Sliedregt, Hadar Rosenfeld, Afonso Nunes, Emanuele Faifer, Benjamin Jones, Aaron Delamotte, Quinn Isert, Izabella Orozco, Liyah Avishay, Anton Pontet, Phusanisa Sapchartanan, Abbie Garmany, Avery Lau
“Before the river, the earth still whispers.
The wind leans in. The light glimmers in small gestures.
Here, on the threshold of movement, a group gathers—not to conquer, but to listen.
To follow a current not of water, but of awakening.
A journey begins not with crossing, but with opening.”
ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Isla Clarke
MUSIC
Kiko by Dead Can Dance
LIGHT DESIGN
Loes Schakenbos
DANCERS GROUP C
Maya Jackoby, Sophie Houle, Nicholas McClung, Guy Rosenzweig, Ian Stegeman, Marcos Marqueta Agelet, Annabel Kohn, Mai Martínez Ribas, Finley Adams, Ava Greenwaldt, Lorenzo Buffo Blin, Carissa Hsu, Sara Yu, Avery Hall, Gregorio Diana, Yasmine de Witt, Cameron Fikes, Yu-Hong Wang, Mariia Kravets, Chen-Hsuan Chuang, Jakob Wheway Hughes
“ki-joyful, ko-child.
This work is a world of thrashing, violent love.
The youth spirit and its yearning to feel more. The child so powerful it turns beastly.
Hair and smoke and wind everywhere.
This is our youth, our blossom warriors.”
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Petra Kamphuis, Aleid Verhaart, Claudia Pellegrini and Clara Elders for costumes
Daan de Boer, Yuka Hisamatsu and Loes Schakenbos for technical support
During the NDT Summer Intensive, photographer Sacha Grootjans made beautiful photos of all the participants. Are you curious about the work of Sacha Grootjans, and do you want to see more of the photos he made or puchase them? Then click here.
Stichting Vriendenfonds NDT, Charity stichting Rob Beers, Maanwater Foundation and private supporters.
