EUTERPIANS
EUTERPIANS by LeineRoebana connects the joy and creativity of the muse Euterpe with the irresistibility of the Sirens and the martial spirit of the Amazons. It highlights the strength of women throughout the ages. EUTERPIANS is an ode to women.
Run time 60 minutes
Genre Dance, music
Language Language no problem
EUTERPIANS
Choreographers Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana were recently awarded Prijs van Verdienste van Dansersfonds’79, founded by the renowned ballet couple Alexandra Radius and Han Ebbelaar. for their contributions to Dutch dance. The jury report praised their "impressive performances, which are always entirely unique and often show a surprising interaction between dance and a wide variety of musical styles."
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That certainly applies to the new dance and music performance EUTERPIANS, where a collaboration is established with three equally outstanding and diverse musicians: featuring vocalist Elisabeth Hetherington, in whom a dazzling soprano resides, renowned cellist Maya Fridman, and percussionist Marianna Soroka playing earthy sounds and who is equally at ease on keyboard, vibraphone, or psaltery. Together with the choreographers and dancers of LeineRoebana, they take the feminine in art and life as their starting point. Not consistently or exhaustively, but self-assuredly, naturally, and with gentle irony, women take the lead.
Audience Reception
Meeting the audience is important to LeineRoebana. Each performance starts with the so-called 'Audience Reception'. Half an hour before the start, the audience is welcome to enter the hall and the makers talk about the performance and the work process while dancers and musicians warm up on stage. Audience receptions - where the combination of special questions, impossible assignments and inside information often leads to hilarious but also to quiet situations - have increasingly become an integral part of the total theatrical experience of an evening with LeineRoebana.
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.
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 and choreography Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana
dancers and musicians Andrea Pisano, Timon De Ridder, Aika Goto and Benedita Crispiniano, Saoirse Lambkin O’Kane, Mariví van den Hooff, Elisabeth Hetherington (vocals), Marianna Soroka (percussion) and Maya Fridman (cello)
lightning design Jeroen Smit
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