THE FIFTEEN PROJECT Arno Schuitemaker
The present seems to be screaming for a response. The everyday complexity around us makes the world become more and more intangible. Shifts on economical, social and political levels are overlapping and continuously follow. A natural cohesion seems to disappear.
With The Fifteen Project, Arno Schuitemaker sets a new step in his research about the relationship between the human being and the time we live in with two central questions: how we relate to ourselves, to our body and to others on one side, and how the science of mirror neurons influences the relationship between the performers and the audience on the other side.
Two male dancers, both with their own strong personality, dance a fifteen-minute duet.
Music: Wim Selles
Light: Ellen Knops
Costumes: Judith Abels
Production: Productiehuis Generale Oost and Productiehuis Brabant
About the artist
Arno Schuitemaker obtained his Master’s degree at the University of Technology Delft, Arno Schuitemaker (1976, The Netherlands) and then decided to drastically change course to study contemporary dance. Since his graduation in 2007, he has created many successful performances like Proxemics (2007), ZONE (2008), ANOMIA (2008), EXIT (2009), Couple (2010) and TIDE (2011). Other works were created for Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy, Artez Dance Academy, Legitimate Bodies Dance Company in Ireland, and Dutch company Conny Janssen Danst.
He is a teacher at the BA Dance and Choreography departments of Fontys School of Performing Arts and he regularly teaches (repertory) workshops and classes for professional dancers and dance students. In 2009, he won the Dioraphte Encouragement Award and in 2010 the Brabant supports Top Talent grant.
Performers
Manel Salas (1980, Spain) started his artistic career as a dancer, choreographer and teacher of hip hop, where he achieving success in working at international festivals and companies as Metros Ramon Oller, and Color company. Later he went to study contemporary dance at Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy. Since then he has been working as a freelance dancer and teacher for different companies and projects such as Cobosmika, Editta Braun Company, and Arno Schuitemaker.
Iker Arrue (1979, Spain) completed his training in contemporary dance with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Basque Country to develop dance studies at the Art Center Carmen Roche, Madrid (2002/03) and Edge, London (2003/04). Amongst others he has worked with Pascal Touzeau, Anders Christiansen, Dominique Port, Mark Spradling, Monica Runde, Olga Cobos and Peter Mika, and Russell Maliphant. He has also developed his own productions with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Basque Country: [fi: l] dance production (2009), Instants que Moren (2009), ukeNage (2010), (im)possibilities (2011) and Verfallen (2011)
Presenting partner
Theaterwerkplaats ‘Generale Oost’ (Producer)
Theaterwerkplaats ‘Generale Oost’ is Arnhem’s professional working space for up and coming choreographers and theatre makers, with an environment that allows dancers and choreographers, directors and actors to explore, discover, develop and put into practice their new artistic ideas and approaches to work. Various projects and collaborations take place throughout the year, each being shaped to the desire and needs of the individual theater and dance maker: artistic work created and performed both in the theatre and on location. Each project is supported artistically along with funding, production and publicity. Performances usually take place in our home theatre, Theater aan de Rijn, a small black box theatre in Arnhem that can seat 80 people.
Musis Sacrum / Schouwburg Arnhem (Venue)
Musis Sacrum/Schouwburg Arnhem is a combination of a concert hall and theatre with more than 500 performances and concerts a year. It is the most important show platform in and about Arnhem and one of the biggest halls in the Netherlands. It offers its audience a sample sheet of all that is produced in the area of stage art in Holland, from established to young and upcoming talent, from entertainment to experimental forms of theatre art. Approximately 150,000 people visit Musis Sacrum/Schouwburg Arnhem a year. The range of shows varies from theatre drama, dance, opera, sculpture- and object theatre, cabaret, childrens and youth theatre to music concerts in the area of classic, light and pop music. Along with the wide variety from the Netherlands, Musis Sacrum/Schouwburg Arnhem hosts a selection of prominent international performances.
Arnhem-based companies and initiatives – including Het Gelders Orkest, Introdans, Toneelgroep Oostpool, Keesen&Co and Generale Oost – present themselves in the theatre on a regular basis.
