Endlessly Free

Walerski will create a new work with two dancers for the programme Endlessly Free. Besides this world premiere NDT 1 will stage his SOON (2017). SOON started off with a piece of music that was of great significance to the choreographer: “A few years ago I went to a Benjamin Clementine concert. From that moment on, I knew I wanted to create a piece to his music”, Walerski says. “The sheer uniqueness of his voice and the raw, profound poetry of his lyrics kindled a spark that I wanted to express through this piece; four songs, four dancers, echoing Clementine’s vision of life.”

The triple bill is completed with Crystal Pite’s The Other You (2010), a duet she created for her company Kidd Pivot. The work is a portrait of a man in dialogue with ‘his other’ and lives in the tension between contrasting states.

"Clementine's honest sound has similarities to the pure dance language, giving the sensitive texts extra eloquence." - Leidsch Dagblad about SOON

"SOON is more than a dialogue between dance and music. It is the sound that sets the quartet in motion, makes the dancer's bodies wave and thus seems to make subcutaneous emotions tangible". - Leidsch Dagblad about SOON

"The two women and two men in shirtless men's suits move comfortably with the bluesy sounds of the British singer-songwriter. Too comfortable. The choreography, like the whole programme, is performed flawlessly, but adds little to the music and tends towards the decorative". - The Parool *** about SOON

"[Walerski] knows better than anyone how to playfully grow dancers into the light." - de Volkskrant **** about SOON

"Four dancers are propelled by a rotating satellite. They're chased by it but also challenged to seek each other out." - Trouw to SOON