print paginaSimon Tanguy. Roger Sala Reyner en Aloun Marchal (NL/ ES/ FR)/ Het Veem Theater, Gerro, Minos and Him

in de Rode Zaal van de Brakke Grond
Première

Toen Simon het idee opperde om met Roger samen te werken aan een duet, begonnen ze elkaar brieven te schrijven. Ze bedachten een pen-naam voor zichzelf: Simon werd Minos en Roger werd Gerro. Naïef en simpel als het klinkt, zorgde hun nieuwe identiteit ervoor dat zij het maakproces met enige humor en afstand konden benaderen. En dat heeft zich geloond. Na het winnen van de 2e prijs op Danse Élargie in 2010 voor hun 10 minuten durende stuk, zijn Gerro en Minos daarom terug met Him. Met zijn drieën staan zij op het podium in de ‘full blown’ hedendaagse dans performance Gerro, Minos and Him die in première zal gaan op Something Raw Festival.

In Gerro, Minos and Him bewegen de lichamen van drie performers zich tussen eenzaamheid en saamhorigheid, tussen groteske en subtiele bewegingen, van verwerping naar wedergeboorte. De energie die ze delen is continu in beweging, het publiek in verwarring achterlatend over wie leidt en wie volgt. De speelse relatie die hen verbindt is er één van de jeugd: licht, wreed, eerlijk en gepassioneerd. Hun reis leidt ze door landschappen van lichamen heen. Door poëtische en tegelijkertijd gewelddadige realiteiten.
Gerro, Minos and Him is een krachtige, energieke dansperformance; Soms ruw, maar vooral vol liefde.

Choreografie en dans Roger Sala Reyner, Simon Tanguy, Aloun Marchal Lichtontwerp Pablo Fontdevila Artistiek advies Katerina Bakatsaki, Benoît Lachambre en Igor Dobricić Productieleider Stephanie Lühn Producent Het Veem Theater Amsterdam in Co-productie met zeitraumexit Mannheim en Musée de la danse /CCNRB

Met dank aan:
Institut Français Amsterdam, Institut Néerlandais de Paris, Dansbyrån Gothenburg,
Konstnärsnämnden/ Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Simon Tanguy, Roger Sala Reyner & Aloun Marchal (NL/ES/FR)
Gerro, Minos and Him

world premiere

 When Simon proposed to work on a duet together with Roger, they started writing letters to each other and invented pen names for themselves. Simon became Minos and Roger became Gerro. As naive and simple as it sounds, the new identity served as stimuli to approach their process with certain humor and distance. And it paid off. Together with Aloun Marchal, they won the second price at Danse Élargie in 2010 for their 10 minute piece Gerro, Minos and Him. After residencies in Sweden and France and a research presentation in Het Veem Theater in 2011, they are now back with a full blown contemporary dance performance premiering at Something Raw Festival.

In Gerro, Minos and Him, three performers shift their own bodies from loneliness to togetherness, from sensation to dance soli, from grotesque to subtle movement, from burning to shining, from shedding to rebirthing. The energy they share goes in and out, placing the audience into confusion about who is leading and who is following. The playful relationship they have is one of childhood: light, cruel, honest and passionate. Their journey passes through body landscapes. Through simultaneously poetic and violent realities.

Gerro, Minos and Him is a very powerful and energetic dance performance; sometimes rough but mostly full of love.

Choreography and dance Roger Sala Reyner, Simon Tanguy, Aloun Marchal Light design Pablo Fontdevila Artistic advise Katerina Bakatsaki, Benoît Lachambre and Igor Dobricić
Production management Stephanie Lühn
Production Het Veem Theater Amsterdam in co-production with zeitraumexit Mannheim and Musée de la danse /CCNRB

With kind support of:
Institut Français Amsterdam, Institut Néerlandais de Paris, Dansbyrån Gothenburg,
Konstnärsnämnden/ Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Biography
Aloun Marchal is a dancer, choreographer and dramatist, adopting different roles in the creation of works in the performing arts. He decided to devote himself to contemporary dance when he realized, following a Master’s in public economics at Cachan Ecole Nor¬male Supériereure, that he had confused two essentially different objects. He understood that intellectual work enabled him to produce a kind of map of the possibility of real events occurring. He also realized that he had viewed the map as reality itself.
Since then, the transition from an idea, concept or intention to its physical realiza¬tion, then to its being seen and intellectually grasped by the audience, is a process that fascinates him.
Aloun Marchal is based in Paris and in Gothenburg, Sweden.
He regularly collaborates with Gilda Stillbäck and the members of the “Embassy Of” col¬lective, which brings together 65 young artists from more than 45 different countries and to which he too belongs.

Roger SalaReyner is a Spanish choreo¬grapher and dancer, and a graduate of the Amsterdam School For New Dance Development.
He began working in theatre at the age of 13. In 2005 he obtained his degree in phy¬sical theatre and object manipulation at the Theatre Institute in Barcelona. Thereafter he followed varied training at the Jacques Lecoq Commedia dell’Arte, including masks, clowning and voice. In 2006, he developed his own work in Amsterdam. During his studies he danced with
Steve Paxton and Jeremy Wade. This season he is working with Meg Stuart in Berlin for her new production.

Simon Tanguy (1984) s a young choreogra¬pher and performer.
Since the age of 18 he has been creating his own shows within a youthful circus company that performs in the street and traditional circuses.
After ten years of practising high level judo, at the age of 21 he obtained a degree in philosophy at Rennes. He is passionate about the writings of Nietzsche and Epicurus (particularly his notion of pleasure).
Having taken up contemporary dance, he enrolled at the Samovar School in Paris, training in physical theatre and clowning, where he de¬veloped his ideas around burlesque, buffoonery and the grotesque.
In 2011, he anticipates being awarded a diploma from the Amsterdam School for New Dance Development (SNDO).
During these four years working as a choreogra¬pher, he has built up skills through the acquisition and comparison of varied experience (circus, clowning, philosophy).
His physicality is an amalgam that explores in¬tensity of movement, extreme emotional states, and musicality abruptly changing into burlesque. He brings to contemporary dance an energetic background derived from theatre and from the absurdity and openness of clowning.
He has worked both as a dancer and performer for a number of international choreographers, including Deborah Hay, Ame Henderson and Sarah Vanhee.