David Middendorp at Bienal Internacional de Dança

Dutch choreographer David Middendorp will perform at the International Biennale of Dance in Curitiba, Brazil, with the below described performances.

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For this work, David Middendorp sought inspiration in the phenomenon of 'time'. All that we do, think, and make is related to time, and yet time is also intangible. To look at the person next to you, light only needs the merest fraction of a second to reach the eye. When we look at the stars we go back millions of years in time. The moment we experience as 'now' is actually partially in the past...

‘An illusionary fifteen minutes that throws your gaze into space, though no more than a few square meters are used.’ (de Volkskrant)
‘Suitable for framing’ (AD/ Haagsche Courant)

David Middendorp blends dance with self-made video animations in his work. In Blue Journey we see the struggle of a girl who is different than the people around her. Her search for her identity is rendered in a shadow play of surrealistic animations.

After a successful career as a dancer with companies such as Introdans, the Saarlandisches Staats Ballet, and BalletTheater München, David Middendorp created his first choreographies Breadpiece (2002) and Dreamsketch (2003) with the BalletTheater München. He returned to The Hague in 2004 where, with the support of Korzo producties, he made various productions that were distinctive through the ingenious combination of dance and technology. In the fall of 2006, he was invited for the first DansClick tour with his choreography Dreamsketch. Since then he has made performances for young and adult audiences with Korzo and Introdans among others. His work was included in festivals such as Lowlands and Oerol. Middendorp also appeared at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.

Breadpeace, a duet made as part of Four Steps Forward 2004, was the first choreography that David Middendorp presented in the Netherlands. With Breadpeace, Middendorp immediately presented his credentials, with dance, humor, and technical ingenuity as main ingredients of his performance.

On this occasion, his dancers – Thom Stuart and Hironori Sugata – were challenged by two remote controlled loaves of bread. The unusual love duet even ends with a new addition to the family…

from the press

Press and public respond with praise: ‘Moving Bread dance…’ (de Volkskrant, February 2004)

‘…a dance piece that because of its pretentiousless character will certainly be seen again.’ (Haagsche Courant, February 2004).

"Being a choreographer I am always thinking of new ways to improve my working methods. Combining the latest digital developments with the way I want to create and improvise, I developed an App for the Ipad and together with Marcus Graf we named it TimeTouch. This application can be used as a professional tool to time manage visual elements made on the Ipad. TimeTouch records lines, shapes and words that the user draws on the Ipad. When playing back the shapes and lines, everything will reappear in the same timing and with the same dynamics as when created. Besides recording the lines, there is also the possibility to link the drawings with music so the lines could follow the melody and beat." >>>