Guilherme Miotto
RISE UP
Korzo producties & Dans Brabant
SAT 20 May — 7 pm Konvikt / K3
SUN 21 May — 3 pm Konvikt / K3
choreography Guilherme Miotto
stage design Peter Missotten
dramaturgy Jack Gallagher
music Justin Wiggan
costumes Jookje Zweedijk
photos Robert Benschop
premiere 30 January 2015
performed by Menno van Gorp
In a shadowy twilight world, time propels the dancer forward and every
little impulse is visible in the constant search for balance. Gravity increasingly
gains a better grip on the moving body, but surrender is not an option.
In the expressive production Rise Up the heart of the performer's
dance language is exposed, allowing us to see an unexpected side of his
amazing abilities. Menno van Gorp – the multiple world-champion in
breakdance received a Swan nomination for the most impressive dance
achievement in 2015.
Menno creates movements that seem to be physically impossible. He
shows us the intelligence of the body. To see him dance is almost like
a divine experience.
Guilherme Miotto about Menno van Gorp, BN de Stem
During the 45 minutes the versatile dancer and world champion in breakdance
Menno van Gorp tries to rise up, step out of the darkness, the shadowy
world between life and death. (…) The beginning – in which he flies
like a moth around the seven lights (set design by Peter Missotten) madly
breakdancing and at the same time is uncontrollably attracted to it and
therefore falls down, is fascinating.
Bregtje Schudel, Theaterkrant.nl, 1 February 2015
In the past six years, the Brazilian choreographer and dancer Guilherme
Miotto (1979) has been teaching his own method ‘Instinctive Performance’
at the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg and the Theatre Academy in
Maastricht. He has created works for Dansgroep Amsterdam, Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, Galerie Roodkapje (Rotterdam, NL) and Fricties Festival
(Hasselt, Belgium). With the startling performance Gefallen (2014) for two
b-boys he made a big impression just like with Rise Up, a project tailormade
for the multiple world-champion breakdancer Menno van Gorp
(1989). In February of the same year, he won the André Gingras Award,
an award given to inventive choreographers who dare to risk venturing
outside the established bounds of contemporary dance.