ArtEZ Master of Choreography

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In Memoriam Aat Hougee

Aat Hougée (1945-2021) passed away on October 5th, after a short illness, in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He was a fierce advocate for experimental dance in the Netherlands and beyond. His innovative spirit, bravery, openness, enthusiasm and support for dance have paved the way for numerous dance artists and educators all over the world. It is with sadness but also wonder and gratitude that we say goodbye to him. We also wish to express our heart-felt condolences to his partner Olga Pona and daughter Djuna Hougée.

Aat was, among others, administrator of the Opleiding Moderne Dans in Amsterdam till 1989. He then left for Arnhem to found a new school, the European Dance Development Center (EDDC), which had students enrolled in both Arnhem and Düsseldorf. Together with Mary O’Donnell Fulkerson (1946-2020) he directed EDDC till 2002, when it merged with the ArtEZ Dance Academy under the directorship of Hlif Svávarsdottir. After retiring from ArtEZ, he moved to Russia, where he tirelessly dedicated himself to the development of contemporary dance in Siberia.

From our guest teacher Eva Karczag
“Aat’s influence was felt by the many artists who taught, and the numerous students who studied at the Opleiding Moderne Dans, later renamed School for New Dance Development - SNDO (Amsterdam), and at the Center for New Dance Development - CNDO, later renamed European Dance Development Center - EDDC (Arnhem).

Working initially with Pauline de Groot and later also with Jaap Flier in Amsterdam, and with Mary O’Donnell Fulkerson and Lisa Kraus in Arnhem, Aat was instrumental in setting up and running experimental dance departments that were hotbeds of inquiry and exploration. His vision went beyond the confines of institutionalism. He bent rules in ways that made it possible for students to study in unconventional ways from artist/teachers who taught the passions they were exploring at that very moment. The studio was sacrosanct. Unlike the more usual institutional protocol of fitting subjects and students into existing curricula, Aat championed the principle that subjects taught always revolved around current interests of working practitioners. Ideas were constantly in development; there was a constant stream of showings of work-in-progress and performances - in studios, in theaters, in corridors and odd indoor spaces, in various and varied outdoor spaces. The atmosphere hummed with creative drive 24/7 - students had access to the building day and night.

Aat was more than an administrator. He had a keen eye for the most innovative and indomitable dance and performance artists, musician/composers, designers, video artists, thinkers ... whoever he could find working within the post Judson idiom. Invitations to teach provided income that saw many of the artists, who were predominantly freelancers, through lean times.

This was a time when wild joy ensued if unpredictability was in the air. Aat embraced this spirit of improvisational mind in the structures he created. It was during the early years of EDDC, inspired by Mary and her experiences at Dartington College (UK), and Lisa and a number of resident and guest teachers, (including Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson and Richard Kerry), who had taught and/or studied at Bennington College (VT, USA), that this was stretched most expansively. The school year was run as a series of workshops lasting from 2 to 6 weeks; 2-hour morning Awareness Classes took the place of traditional technique classes; students were actively encouraged to create work and perform; the curriculum was incessantly tweaked and re-tweaked to adjust to the needs of students and teachers. All this, of course, held difficulties as well as delights - we were all learning along the way.

These practices, curiosities and insights have been spread worldwide, carried by the numerous students who graduated from these two schools. Many of us who taught or studied under Aat’s leadership remember him as the unassuming witness who watched, often from a back corner, the workings of the astounding phenomenon he had set in motion.”

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Dear friends from afar!
This is Tel Aviv calling! This time to tell you – with much excitement – that I am creating these days for the first time – a performance for youngsters, based on the well-known and much loved stories of Pippi Longstocking, called in Hebrew - Bilbi! http://bit.ly/2GcI0y6

The performance is directed at 9-13 years old, a time of drastic changes to the body. Hence, dance enables a feminist wide angle view point on the body exactly when it is needed most.

In this q***r feminist performance, we give time and space to different possibilities of being a ‘girl’, including the one I was – one moment playing football (soccer) with the boys, the next rising on point at a ballet class.
Together with me is a gang of powerful women that create a deep and at the same time humorous performance. We offer a fantastic world where we make room for strong, powerful young girls that can hold horses in the air in many ways, as well as to their friends; a world where we can be both Anika and Tommy, both a girl and a grandma that used to be Bilbi.
The performance is independent with a very partial support. We premiere at the end of March 2020! In order to lift the performance onto the stage, we have issued a crowdfunding campaign, and we need you to join forces with us!

Join us in support, and together we dance the revolution
http://bit.ly/2GcI0y6
(it is possible to support with an international credit card)

הגיע הזמן לרקוד את בילבי בפמיניסטית! מופע פמיניסטי-קווירי לנוער בהשראת סיפורי בילבי המוכרים והאהובים. אנו כנופיה של נשים חזקות המשלבות ידיים כדי ליצור מופע עמוק ומלא הומור. בואנה, בואו הצטרפו אלינו ליצ....

“Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food and fresh air and play. “ Wise words from Philip Pullman, who received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2005: Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food and fresh air and play.…

Im Hier und Nichtjetzt Diese Tänzer haben nichts außer sich selbst. Alexandra Waierstall setzt sie auf einer kahlen Bühne mit spiegelnd schwarzem Boden aus. In dieser kalten Atmosphäre gibt es keine Ruhe, keinen Halt, und so rattern die sieben, noch bevor es hell wird, im Gleichtakt durch den Raum wie aufgezogen.  Einen F...