Viewture II

With VIEWTURE, Dansgroep Amsterdam yearly displays new works by talented choreographers. They are given the opportunity to work with a strong cast of dancers and may present their work on a broad scale. For VIEWTURE II, four choreographers were invited who live and work in Amsterdam: Jussi Nousiainen, Ivgi&Greben en Sjoerd Vreugdenhil.  Sjoerd Vreugdenhil’s stage decor connects the three works.

Jussi Nousiainen
Completed his Masters in dance at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki. After doing freelance work in Finland he left for Belgium where he danced with Charleroi Danses. In 1999 he started with Galili Dance in the Netherlands. In 2006 he decided to continue as a freelance dancer and choreographer. He worked with various companies such as the Frankfurt Ballet, the Batsheva Company, and Station Zuid, and with choreographers such as Stephen Shropshire, Vàclav Kuneš and Paul-Selwyn Norton.In addition, he is one of the cofounders of Random Coalition. Jussi Nousiainen’s movement language is strongly physical and poetic.

Ivgi&Greben
Uri Ivgi danced with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel from 1990 – 1997: Johan Greben danced with the Dutch National Ballet from 1985 – 1995. Both went on to a successful career as a choreographer. In 1998, Ivgi won the prize for Up-and-coming Choreographic Talent awarded by the Israeli Ministry for Culture. Greben received the Incentive Prize Choreography ’89 from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts for his first choreography. 2002 saw their first collaboration with a new version of Carmen on invitation by the Szeged Contemporary Ballet in Hungary. Since that time they created new works for companies such as It dansa, Spain, Modern Dance Turkey, Scottish Dance Theatre, Skânes Dansteater, Sweden, and Scapino Ballet in the Netherlands. The works by Ivgi&Greben are often described as passionate, theatrical, and very physical.

Sjoerd Vreugdenhil
Sjoerd Vreugdenhil is a familiar face to Korzo audiences. He danced for years with William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt and made a number of remarkable choreographies for his company. Two of these were reprised by Korzo Productions and presented at the 2002 CaDance festival for the occasion of his return to the Netherlands. Sjoerd’s talent to combine dance, theatre, and design in fascinating productions was immediately noticed. His two-year architecture study at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam strongly influenced his view of scenography. In the following years, Sjoerd made more works for Korzo Productions and for companies such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and the Zurich Ballet.