Lucinda Childs

The bond between the American choreographer Lucinda Childs and Introdans can truly be described as unique. Introdans is not only the sole Dutch dance company permitted to perform the work of the ‘queen of minimal dance’ – she has also created new choreographies specially for the company. One of these is Petricor, inspired by the composition that Ludovico Einaudi wrote for the film Intouchables.
Petricor is the earthy scent produced when rains falls on dry ground. Childs translates various elements into a complex but also crystal-clear choreography based on repeated classical dance steps – with many turns, arabesques and small, low jumps – that are set in space with a feather-light touch. “Call it dancing mathematics, musical wanderings or moving figures – whatever the term, it’s exciting and lucid. As if Childs would like to tame human passions with a set square.” (de Volkskrant)
Dancing to the propulsive music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, seven dancers race across the stage like whirlwinds in Concerto. With tiny variations and shifts Childs creates a kaleidoscopic jewel: seemingly very simple but in fact amazingly refined and masterful.

Chairman Dances is like a spatial dance celebration in which the dancers create a fascinating interplay with Adams’ swinging minimal music. The repetitive movements have a magical, poetic effect and at the same time are amazingly virtuoso.

“The dancers are like a fish in water in this bubbling, vibrant battle between Childs and John Adams.”

de Volkskrant on Chairman Dances

Jiří Kylián

Petite Mort is a relatively new item in the Introdans repertoire. Kylián based his poetic choreography on the slow movements of Mozart’s two most famous piano concertos: Adagio and Andante.
In the absurdist Sechs Tänze the master choreographer reveals the most playful and frenzied side of his character. This choreography is an ode to Mozart, who in Kylián’s eyes is the prime example of someone who understood life in all its richness, imagination, clownery and craziness.

“Hilarity alongside subtly presented grimness of the world around us.”

Trouw on Petite Mort

“Kylián gives such a wealth of wigs, hooped dresses on little wheels, swashbuckling and other visual humour that you might almost forget there’s superb dance in between this stuff.”

de Gelderlander on Sechs Tänze

Adriaan Luteijn, The Encounter: Nest

Choreographer Adriaan Luteijn brings together unique people in his Encounters series. In this special jubilee edition it’s about the place you originally come from, or which you’ve created with the people who form your secure base. Where you can drop in and drop out, where bonds arise that can even overcome distances in time and space. Where you feel yearning in times of absence and you recharge on warmth in moments of togetherness. Until you separate again and move on, realising that the nest will always be there.