Type of work:
Contemporary Dance
Place of show: Indoor
Duration: 75 minutes
Release date: 2022
Photography @txikotaIs there anywhere —a place— for dance? How can one find it in a world in which virtuality threatens to fragment at every instant that ritual nature or ceremony of the body, movement…? ‘QUO’, the new programme by Dantzaz (which premiered at DFeria 2022), invites us to imagine that path and it does so by using the gazes which surround the works of the choreographers Gil Harush and Hilde Koch. The three pieces make up a mosaic which brings old fishing traditions to the stage; it portrays the anxiety produced by being permanently connected; and speaks about the four natural elements to recreate a lovely ancestral home in which to find calm.
Photography @txikota
Photography @txikotaProduction centre, creative laboratory and dance company. These are the marks of identity which define Dantzaz, a pioneering platform in the field of the moving arts. Since 2006, 98 dancers (from more than twenty countries) and 50 choreographers have formed part of its recent history. Assembled as a house of creation and artistic production, renowned artists are invited every year to conceive, expressly for the company (which is made up of 12 full-time dancers), different pieces and short performances. Some of them have formed part of productions like ‘Flash!’ (from choreographies by Itzik Galili and Jacek Przybylowicz), ‘Áureo’ (with works authored by Jone San Martin, Christine Hassid, Judith Argomaniz, Lukas Timulak and Itzik Galili) and "Harri, Orri, Ar" (Les Vikings, Jorge Jauregi and Paolo Mohovich).
Dantzaz, meeting space
Thanks to its International Choreographic Creation Centre, every year Dantzaz accepts 12 artistic residences which bring together six international artists and six Basque artists, a networking laboratorial and working formula which is reinforced by the collaboration offered by different Basque bodies and spaces, such as Dantzagunea, Donostia Kultura, Tabakalera, Azkuna Zentroa, CCN Malandain-Biarritz, and festivals like Dantza Hirian and Regards Croisés. Dantzaz supports promoting and developing international projects, as the collaboration agreements which it has signed with international dance houses demonstrate. This is the case with Korzo (Holland), Piemonte dal Vivo, Aterballetto and Scenario Pubblico (Italy), Danish Dance Theatre (Denmark), Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec (Canada), CCN Malandain-Biarritz (France), and DanceBase (United Kingdom), in a continually expanding and moving network, dedicated to creating opportunities for the world of dance, with a mark of unmistakable quality, energy and originality.
Fernando Saenz de Ugarte
Fernando Saenz de Ugarte
