EUTERPIANS
In EUTERPIANS by LeineRoebana, Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana take the joyful creativity of Euterpe, the irresistibility of the Sirens and the martial nature of the Amazons as their starting point. Together with dancers and musicians, they make the feminine power and energy tangible.
Run time 60 minutes
Genre Dance, music
Language Language no problem
EUTERPIANS
Self-confident, with passion, doubt, lightness and irony, women take charge. Every moment on stage is an invitation to feel, reflect and experience the beauty that arises when the poetry of the (female) soul reveals itself in the language of the body.
EUTERPIANS is situated on the border between a dance performance and a concert. In their quest to intertwine dance, text and music into an indivisible integral whole, Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana create with old and contemporary sounds from, among others, the 12th century Comtessa del Dia, Hildegard von Bingen and Barbara Strozzi to Billy Holiday, Kate Moore and Sofia Gubaidulina. Solo singing, percussion, harmonic composition, everyday movements, words and gestures together form a layered choreography of sound and image. In addition to the martial sensuality of the dancers, the sound and spatiality of music, and the movement and body of the musicians are also part of the choreography.
Cellist Maya Fridman is praised for her passionate playing, unconditional theatrical commitment and talent for interdisciplinary work. Percussionist Marianna Soroka is a multi-instrumentalist who, with psalterion and vibraphone, is equally at home in old and contemporary music. Singer Elisabeth Hetherington, with whom LeineRoebana has worked for a long time, will receive the Dutch Music Prize from the Performing Arts Fund in 2024. Andrea Leine, Harijono Roebana and Hetherington find each other in their love for Old and New music, which combines the crystal-clear soprano with a great passion for dance. All this feminine power is connected by the soft and hard harmonies of guitar experimentalist Wiek Hijmans, with whom the choreographers have also worked extensively. Tatiana Rosa creates electronic soundscapes for this project to complement the extraordinary compositions of various composers. Partly due to the texts of writer Erik Bindervoet, who previously worked on SOLAS and CABARET DECONSTRUIT , a formal game is created that increasingly evokes images and associations about the nature of being a woman.
Audience Reception
At LeineRoebana, the performance begins half an hour before curtain-up, with a unique on-stage introduction. You are welcome to join the warm-up, where you too warm up for the performance. Meet the choreographers, musicians and dancers, who talk about special events, dilemmas, insights during the creative process.
About LeineRoebana
LeineRoebana, the dance company of choreographers Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana, fulfils through its unique, idiosyncratic dance language and working methods a place of its own in the Dutch and international dance world. The company is known for its exciting physical dance idiom and the central role of live performed music in its work. LeineRoebana's productions surprise with extraordinary interweaving of contemporary dance, text, design and the most diverse musical timbres.
In 2023, choreographers Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana were awarded the Award of Merit by Dansersfonds'79, founded by the famous ballet couple Alexandra Radius and Han Ebbelaar, for their contributions to Dutch dance.
Winner Nederlandse Muziekprijs 2024
Soprano Elisabeth Hetherington, one of the dancing musicians in the performance EUTERPIANS, receives the Nederlandse Muziekprijs 2024 from Fonds Podiumkunsten.
The committee about Elisabeth: “With seemingly effortless suppleness and clarity, she moves through diverse repertoire from Renaissance, Baroque, to the latest composed music. Elisabeth Hetherington switches with a stunning naturalness between intimate and whimsical, hushed and agile.”
REVIEWS
Theaterkrant
“Elisabeth Hetherington, seen in LeineRoebana's EUTERPIANS, is a phenomenally versatile soprano with a very contemporary look who can also move wonderfully.”
Credits
concept, choreography Andrea Leine, Harijono Roebana
dancers and musicians Aika Goto, Benedita Crispiniano, Saoirse Lambkin O’Kane, Andrea Pisano, Timon De Ridder, Mariví van den Hooff (stage), Elizabeth Steele (stage), Elisabeth Hetherington (zang), Marianna Soroka (percussie), Maya Fridman (cello), Wiek Hijmans (gitaar)
text erik Bindervoet, Andrea Leine
music Beatriz de Dia, Kate Moore, Hildegard von Bingen, Barbera Strozzi, Billy Holiday, Sofia Goebaidoelina, Wiek Hijmans, Maya Fridman, Tatiana Rosa (elektronische soundscapes) en anderen
repetitor Michael Jahoda
dramaturgical advice Luc de Groen
lightning design Jeroen Smith
set design Jeroen Smith en Yvon Muller
sound technology Oscar Bouwmans, Arjan van Asselt
lightning technology Barry van Rooijen
technology Thijs Moerland of Nick van der Meij
production Elaine Gadet
marketing and communication Vera Goetzee
scene photos Sjoerd Derine
trailer and edit LeineRoebana en Jessica van Rüschen
thanks to Chassé Theater Breda, Bestuur en Raad van Toezicht LeineRoebana en de Vrienden van LeineRoebana
special thanks to musici Talitha van der Spek en Robbert van Hulzen