première Festival Classique, 23 juni 2017
‘The longer you listen to the music of Simeon ten Holt, the more you hear.
I wanted to connect this to every day life. The more consciously you look at your own life,
the more you see and the easier you can move to create change.’
— Kalpana Raghuraman
Simeon is an Indian contemporary dance performance with live music by the Matangi Quartet and in collaboration with Festival Classique. A double bill based on the famous works Canto Ostinato and Lemniscaat by the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt, in which Kalpana Raghuraman focusses on the 'individual' and 'the group' and the pressures of everyday life.
Following Kalpanarts success with Kandam Ostinato, a research piece on Canto Ostinato in 2014, Kalpana makes a new version in 2017. She adds Lemniscaat as a new choreography allowing Simeon to be a full-length evening production. In Canto Ostinato as well as in Lemniscaat the well-known Matangi string quartet is performing live on stage.
Kalpana is captivated by the passion and sense of determination which are at the heart of these compositions by Ten Holt. In this double bill, musicians and dancers work closely together and create a new perspective on dance and the work of Simeon ten Holt. In Indian dance live music is an inherent essential part of theatrical works, the symbiosis of dance and music is organical and natural. The project is also of immense value to Kalpana personally since it sheds light on the important topic of how humans deal with the pressures of society, with holding on to his own values and with the complexities of the automatic-pilot life that has become the norm.
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Credits
choreography
Kalpana Raghuraman
concept
Kalpana Raghuraman & Gysèle ter Berg
managing director and artistic associate
Gysèle ter Berg
arrangment
Marijn van Prooijen
music
Matangi Quartet
dance
Canto Ostinato Anuradha Pancham, Indu Panday, Usha Kanagasabai
Lemniscaat Rosanna ter Steege, Usha Kanagasabai, Sooraj Subramaniam*, Lars de Vos, Goda Zukauskaite
dramaturgy
Marc Maris
costume design
Asalia Khadjé
lighting design & technical production
Peter Lemmens
sound & lighting
Frank van Schie
sales
Gysèle ter Berg
production
Susanne Tuny
publicity
Rinske Verdult
graphic design
Serena Kloet
photos
Saris & den Engelsman
*Op 13, 17, 18 oktober en 5 januari danced by Bilal Bachir
Funds & Sponsors
a production of Kalpanarts in coproduction with Festival Classique and Theater Korzo
financially supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten, Fonds 21, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
Kalpanarts receives structural subsidy from the City of The Hague.