THE NUTCRACKER
PremiEre: October 14 2023
two more performances this season: April 14 & 19
Das Opernhaus – Staatstheater Kassel Germany
In 2021, United Cowboys created Reminition Swanlake, a performance inspired by Swanlake of Tsjaikovski. The performance was created on invitation of Thorsten Teubl - director dance at the Kassel State Theater and was performed there as repertoire piece over 20 times.
After Reminition Swanlake United Cowboys now is invited to sink her teeth into antoher “Tsjaikovski”: the famous ballet The Nutcracker. This time a production for Das Opernhaus of the Theater; a production with 28 dancers, 2 actors and 2 live musicians.
It will not be a version of the ballet, but a new piece, with elements related to the original, but mostly a contemporary, interdisciplinary production from a new approach; shifting form reality to imagination - with a light and a dark side.
"The Nutcracker is believed to bring good luck and fortune, but it is also a symbol of defiance and disobedience." United Cowboys
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CREDITS:
Choreography, concept and staging: Maarten van der Put / Pauline Roelants
Scenography: Sebastian Hannak
Costumes: Katharina Fitz – Ozer
Video: Maarten van der Put
Video editing and -mapping: Oscar van der Put
Composition and sounddesign: Pauline Roelants
Arrangement live muziek and postproduction: Donato Deliano
Dramaturgy: Silke Meier – Brösicke
Light: Jürgen Kolb
Created with- and performed by: dancers and performers of the State Theater; 2 actors of Schauspiel Kassel, 2 musicians of the State Orchestra and 28 dancers: the complete dance ensemble of Tanz Kassel, supplemented by 9 dancers of SOZO.
More Information & Tickets click HERE.
IN CASE - FUTURE REPAIR MACHINE - EU Project
MAY 21-26, 2024
DRAMATIKER(INNEN) FESTIVAL / GRAZ / AUSTRIA
With the project Future Repair Machine, we hope to redefine repair as a multifaceted tool for change within our shared spaces. The ultimate outcome will be a stronger awareness of the necessity of constant reflection on sustainability.
IN CASE shows the ongoing process of “being”; a self-regulating world, a biosphere, with maneuvers on the square cm., by scanning the space and each other, with silences, the breath, with body heat and sweat. Condensation blurs the view and the wiping and drawing in this natural haze turn this process into a beautiful balance between classical beauty and basic, animal like acting.
The environment is an inflatable transparent bubble; comparable with an autarkic biosphere, an egg maybe or a uterus.
The audience is welcome to visit this world during multiple hours, to observe and absorb; it can leave to come back later. Performers will stay, that much is sure; In Case, an ongoing process that shows growth, blossom as well as fall of Humans in all fullness, from the visual and physical power that characterizes the Cowboys. There is only a thin plastic membrane that separates performers from an audience; we can reach out, get really close, only some millimeters apart, but there is still the inside and the outside of the bubble...
United Cowboys, a dance and performance Company from Eindhoven The Netherlands creates performances that lug the audience along, with a different approach of timing, space, and presentation. Experiences, that rock between beauty, vulnerability, intimacy, and consolation.
Concept, direction and scenery: Maarten van der Put
Choreographer intermediary/soundscapes: Pauline Roelants
Created with- and performed by: Florencia Martina (CH), Reinaldo Ribeiro (BR), Eulàlia Bergadà (ES), Eleni Ploumi (GR)
Speechless Speech
IETM PLENARY MEETING 2024
Sofia, Bulgaria - June 12, 2024
In the frame of the IETM program, United Cowboys will perform the performance Speechless Speech at Toplocentrala.
Speechless Speech sets the non verbal, physical expression against verbal force.
In this version, 3 United Cowboys dancers - Florencia Martina, Conor Doherty and Eulalia Bergada will perform accompanied by 4 Bulgarian dancers. Together they state an open attitude in a World under severe pressure and polarisation.
Seasoning Summer
June 28-29, 2024
Art House United Cowboys, Eindhoven
The Sun, the sun. Time for Seasoning Summer!
About Seasoning: Every change of the season United Cowboys invites you to witness new developments in the field of live-art. Local, national and international guest artists develop and show their new work and research in a transdisciplinary program.
We take the audience along the various spaces of the Arthouse; we tickle the senses en invite the spectator to observe and absorb from close range.
The upcomimg edition - Seasoning Summer will again bring a program curated by the artistic leaders of United Cowboys - Maarten van der Put and Pauline Roelants. New work and developments, we place in an interntional context of performances. An artistic dialogue with dance, muzies, performanc e and fine arts, in which physicality predominates.
The Biotope
AugUST 30-31 & SepTEMBER 1, 2024
at X10 / Prague,Czech Republic
On invitation of and in collaboration with X10 , performed in The Synagogue
The Biotoop - The Body as Reference for (R) evolution is a creation of United Cowboys, developed in an international context. After Paris, Olomouc, Cologne, Sofia, Katowice, Gothenborg and Barcelona, the biotope will be build in Prague, in collaboration with local performers. The concept will be continued by transferring the findings and artistic processes of this specific artistic performance series and is a combination of dance, performance art, sound en objects.
Concept and creation: Maarten van der Put, Pauline Roelants
Scenography: Maarten van der Put
Music and live sound scapes: Pauline Roelants
With both United Cowboys’ dancers and performers and local participants.
The project The Body as Reference for (R) evolution:The Body as Reference for (R)Evolution emphasises on the human dimension, the physical, in times of technology and digitalised dialogues also promoting the tangibility of all senses and bringing live experiences back into focus.
Presenting partners invite United Cowboys to execute and develop their Biotope concept in a chain of performances, that take along local artists, selected materials and content from each city to the next, and presenting these in relevant, unconventional locations.The Biotope format is a site-specific piece, an immersive, sculptural durational performance.
Resilience
September 7, 2024 - De Verkadefabriek - s’Hertogenbosch
October 1, 2024 - Theaters Tilburg - Tilburg
United Cowboys, that is chaos, rebellion, absurdity confrontation, but also beautifu dance. (...) Resilience (...) proofs that United Cowboys continues to develop and continuously strengthens its own identity. The overwhelming experience, a tribute to the arts, contains refernences to previous productions by the Cowboys, but every scene, every moment, every idea looks current. Mindblowing, what a lot is happening. (...) Resilience (literarly translated: resistance) is an exceptional experience that proofs that United Cowboys continues to take steps, without compromise, even after 30 years. - Joost Goutziers, 2023
Resilience stands for the ability to quickly recover from obstacles and for the ability to bounce back into shape – in other words perseverance and rebound. That attracts us. In this, we recognize ourselves. With Resilience, United Cowboys celebrates the Arts. The power, the beauty, the tragedy, the inevitable. United Cowboys as you know her, but have never seen them before.
Artistic concept, scenery and direction: Maarten van der Put, Pauline Roelants
Created with and performed by - amongst others - : Hanne Schillemans, Jef Stevens, Florencia Martina, Eulalia Bergada Serra, Reinaldo Ribeiro, Conor Doherty, Evelyne Rossi, Sarah Bostoen, Alina Belyagina, Anna Nilsson, Andreia Rodrigues, Wessel Verrijt.
Performance Installation by Wessel Verrijt
Artist in Residence
Wessel Verrijt collects his materials for the installations at the location where he is working. He uses cardboard boxes, pieces of foam or other discarded items to create mobile installations and costumes. The origin and form of the materials serve as important inspiration during the process.
In the 'scenes' that he creates, his props, set and protagonists come together as an immersive installation. Thus his own mythical stories and rituals arise. Within his work, he seeks a tension between the ordinary and the unusual, the every-day and the deviant by doing interventions in public space.
In May 2020, the Mondriaan Fund awarded Verrijt with the Stipendium for Emerging Artists.
From January to April 2021, Verrijt will follow a residency at United Cowboys. Within this residency he considers the residency-space as his base, where he collects new materials, create new installation and scenes. The final results of the residency will be presented in form of a performance installation.
Find out more here:
http://www.wesselverrijt.com
http://www.instagram.com/wesselverrijt/
