TODAYSART 2009 - F. H. Magadan & H. Straatman: Naked Ape

Dance has always been a natural element of cohesion, expression and communal identity. These social functions of cooperation, expression and identity are essential for our own development and physical relations. In a time where new technologies are changing the way we communicate, the way we express, and how we inhabit the world, how much space is left for pure social physical experience and the relation with the natural environment? "Naked Ape" is a collaboration between choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan of Nederlands Dans Theater and multimedia artist & sound designer Harmen Straatman. Using dance and technology as a medium, this choreographic work explores the relation between the human physical expression and instinct and the artificial environment we have created around us. The confrontation between the insensitivity of the technological media with the expressive human capacity may create an identity crisis for the lost of our inherited natural faculties. Dancers in this piece are Sandra Marin Garcia, Roger van der Poel, Anna Herrmann and Bastien Zorzetto. Choreography: Fernando Hernando Magadan. Dancers: Sandra Marin Garcia, Mengham Lou, Bastien Zorzetto, Anna Herrmann. Music: Murcof, Louis XIV Demons, The Vesrsailles Session, J.S.Bach, Solo Violing Partita#1 In B Minor, BWV 1002 - Sarabande / Double, Jonsi and Alex, Sleeping Giant, Riceboy Sleeps. Sculptures: Fernando Hernando Magadan, Harmen Straatman. Interactive Decor and Soundscape: Harmen Straatman. Costume: Tomoko Inamura.

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