5 Men Dancing - a night of improv - 17. internationales TanzFestival Freiburg

5 Men dancing arose from an original idea by Thomas Mettler, when he was artistic director of «on.off Werkstatt» in Bern. Mettler was interested in performers and makers experienced in dance, theatre, voice and movement and, having invited numerous artists from around the world to teach in Switzerland, it was his long held dream to bring some of these people to work together. So he invited the original members of 5 Men Dancing, amongst them Jordi Cortés Molina, Rick Nodine and Adam Benjamin, and in 2004 they embarked on a period of research in Bern at on.off and in London at The Place. From this emerged the principle that formed the basis of their performance work.
Every night is unique and new. A night of dance created expressly out of the synergy of events, ideas, accidents and occurrences of this particular evening. With a fierce commitment to pure improvisation without script or structure.
Mettler had a vision of men who dare everything -- even to laugh at anything and specialy about themselves -- and therefore all wanting to go further than the sheer beauty of dance. A bunch of of wild, outrageous and (yet) tender men who would challenge each other in every performance with personal engagement and risk taking to bring out a dance and night of truth and personal depth.
5 Men are wild, edgy and humorous and herald an openness to emotional risk rarely seen on the stage.

"5 Men, playfull, keen, unpredictable, poignant, surprising, funny, mean and bittersweat were literally tearing the dance floor apart."
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