David Feenstra is described by colleagues as a maker with a triangle of humor floating around him like a halo, working with attention to detail and the present. In his dancing he likes to play with rhythm and dynamics while using a specific way of moving: sometimes cut-up and broken down, sometimes smooth and soft. His ongoing research questions how to interfere creatively or chaotically with pathways, which resulted in the creation of the solo ‘Choice of Line’. In this work David plays with live projected random pathways and live music that determine where the performer goes and how they move. David has performed in the production ‘Als Het Anders Loopt’ by Het Houten Huis, Club Guy&Roni and Plan-D (winners of a Jonge Zwaan and a Zilveren Krekel) and toured extensively throughout the Netherlands and Belgium. He is working as a performer/maker for Andreas Denk, a.o. Theater Orpheus, Korzo, ICK Dans Amsterdam and Magnezy Dance Productions.
Programme
NEW ADVENTURES 2024 #2
NEW ADVENTURES 2024 #2
New makers, new ideas, new adventures.
New Adventures is a programme by ICK Dans Amsterdam for new dance makers who want to deepen their creative practice. Every year, a number of makers are selected who can work on their artistic development for four weeks in complete freedom and safety. They receive artistic, production and financial support. During the residencies, the makers get to know each other better by sharing their vision and working methods. This results in a fruitful artistic cross-pollination between the makers. At the end of the residency, the results are shown in a double bill and the audience gets the chance to enter into dialogue with the makers. This time at Theater Studio Artist Space.
New Adventures is a programme by ICK Dans Amsterdam for new dance makers who want to deepen their creative practice. Every year, a number of makers are selected who can work on their artistic development for four weeks in complete freedom and safety. They receive artistic, production and financial support. During the residencies, the makers get to know each other better by sharing their vision and working methods. This results in a fruitful artistic cross-pollination between the makers. At the end of the residency, the results are shown in a double bill and the audience gets the chance to enter into dialogue with the makers.
— Location: ICK Artist Studio
Eerste Helmersstraat 102 ½ ( t/o nr. 147 )
1054 DR Amsterdam
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— David Feenstra
During New Adventures #2 David’s main research questions are:what do people do with randomness, and how does the random, irregular and illogical reality of everyday life influence your path to reach a specific goal? David questions what it means to watch the vast landscape of possibilities around us and realizing that the edges of that landscape are dictated by utter randomness, meaninglessness. Or are they?
During the residency in November 2024 at ICK Dans Amsterdam, David will continue his research into how he can use randomness in dance. He wishes to further use and develop his random movement generation methods in order to let human intuition speak inside improvisation-based scores.
— Niek Wagenaar
Within the context of New Adventures, Niek explores the physical language for his new performance "Sabbath," in which three dancers come together for a witches' Sabbath. His research draws a parallel between witchcraft and the queer community, and seeks to redefine the conventional image of queers and witches from a more inclusive lens.
In the November 2024 residency at ICK, he focuses on developing and specifying the dance vocabulary for the performance, andexplores how choices in that language can influence the viewer's experience to transform initial negative perceptions of queers and outsiders into positive feelings of inclusivity and belonging.
Niek Wagenaar is a contemporary dancer and choreographer from Amsterdam. During his studies at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (Urban Contemporary Dance), he joined the Hofesh Shechter company in London. His contemporary dance initiative, Niek Wagenaar’s Nymphs, premiered its first work, Nymphs, in the spring of 2022, which has since won awards both nationally and internationally. In 2023, his second work, titled After All, premiered and also received positive reviews from Dutch critics.
Niek’s work is fluid and organic, sensual yet powerful, rhythmically exciting, and rich in physical sensation and imagery. Deeply rooted in today’s society, Niek and his international troupe of young dancers bring major themes to audiences in a personal and intimate way. Through a sensitive movement language, they tell relatable stories based on universal emotions.
