Julidans at the park
Let's go outside! This summer, Julidans, the international festival for contemporary dance, will also appear in the Vondelpark for two inspiring evenings full of open-air dance. Combine your summer evening walk through the park with a dance performance with international allure.
On Friday, July 5, you can see A e R e A by Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi. The performance Fantasie Minor by Marco da Silva Ferreira cannot take place due to an injury, instead dancer Anka Postic will show an improvisation from personal work.
Festival Julidans
Programme section Julidans Open-Air
Location Vondelpark Openluchttheater
Run time tba
Genre Dance
Language Language no problem
Attention: The performance Fantasie Minor by Marco da Silva Ferreira cannot take place due to an injury
A e R e A
The Vondelpark Open Air Theatre is the ideal venue for the duet A e R e A by Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi. In it, the makers explore the connotations around one object that captures everyone's imagination: the flag. What is left when you strip that piece of cloth of all meaning?
As a military symbol, highlight of a festive event, banner of social struggle. As a warning of danger, and even a symbol of separation and death when used as a shroud. The flag automatically comes with all sorts of stories, creates myths and demonstrates power.
Traditionally, the flag aims to convey notions of loyalty and separation and to mark differences between a fictional 'us' and a group of 'them'. But the flags that Panzetti and Ticconi wave in their dance piece are monochrome silver and free of coats of arms-like symbolism. This reduces the flag to its pure plastic essence: a blank canvas on which anything can arise, start or disappear.
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The title of the piece combines two terms that are graphically superimposed to merge into one word: ARA – AEREA. Ara indicates the place dedicated to sacrifice in ancient times, while the Greek word for air, aerea, indicates the physical quality of the flag: it reaches its greatest expression of power when hoisted and flying in the air.
In their multidisciplinary productions, which balance at the intersection of dance, performance and visual art, Panzetti and Ticconi explore the complex relationship between communication, power and violence. They create layered images that explore both the past and the present for all that is yet to come.