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Binnenkort nieuwe voorstelling Jakop Ahlbom met Italiaanse tweeling

FOTO:©Studio MINSK Jakop Ahlbom Company komt deze maand met nieuwe vervreemdende voorstelling met Italiaanse tweeling in de hoofdrol:  Strangely Familiar is een surreële voorstelling over sociale druk en eigenwaarde. De woordeloze fysieke voorstelling vol magie en special effects gaat 15 december in première in de Meervaart, daarna volgt een landelijke tour. STRANGELY FAMILIAR – over een man die…

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Horror

Funny, unsettling, inventive and uncannily atmospheric, Horror comes back at The Peacock Theatre to scare us to death. And to make us think about the future of horror on stage. (more…)

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Teatro della Tosse

Genova, dal 28 al 30 marzo 2019

Ore 20.30

LEBENSRAUM

Director and concept Jakop Ahlbom

Performers Reinier Schimmel, Jakop Ahlbom/Yannick Greweldinger, Silke Hundertmark, Leonard Lucieer, Ralph Mulder/Empee Holwerda

Music Alamo Race Track,

Set design Douwe Hibma and Jakop Ahlbom,

Dramaturge Judith Wendel, Lighting Design Yuri Schreuders Technicians Tom Vollebregt, Yuri Schreuders, Allard Vonk, and Michel van der Weijden,

Special props Rob Hillenbrink Make-up Anabel Urquijo Claveria Marketing Janko Duinker en Danae Bos

Production management Sarah Faye van der Ploeg Management and sales Marc Pil

  VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZVqmow6Zkk&t=72s

    Dal 28 al 30 marzo arriva LEBENSRAUM regia di Jakop Ahlbom, presentato per la prima volta in Italia alla Biennale di Venezia 2018. Lebensraum è teatro fisico con una punta di magia. 

Il regista svedese Jakop Ahlbom, anche attore e acrobata, ha una grande passione per gli horror anni ’60 e le commedie anni ‘20.

Ahlbom porta la magia del muto su un palcoscenico teatrale con uno spettacolo divertente e brillante. Lebensraum (in italiano “spazio vitale”) si ispira all’universo di Buster Keaton e alla slapstick comedy e alle comiche dei pionieri del cinema come Stanlio e Ollio e Charlie Chaplin.

All’epoca, a fare da sottofondo alle proiezioni dei film c’era la musica di un pianoforte. Questo spettacolo sarà invece accompagnato dal gruppo Alamo Race Track: si crea così un originale e divertente contrasto tra le atmosfere visive anni Venti e la musica rock contemporanea. La storia racconta di due uomini che vivono in un piccolissimo appartamento.

Per risolvere il problema di uno spazio così  stretto, i due hanno inventato mobili con una duplice funzione: il letto è anche un pianoforte, la libreria funge anche da frigorifero e così via … c’è tutto in casa, manca solo una donna. Decidono quindi di creare una bambola meccanica che li possa aiutare a svolgere i lavori domestici. Ma ben presto scoprono che la bambola pensa ed esprime opinioni e la loro  vita viene spassosamente sconvolta.

La tensione sale tra i due sale, la stanza diventa sempre più piccola e il divertimento scoppia in sala grazie a gag irresistibili!

    BIOGRAFIA

JAKOP AHLBOM

  Jakop Ahlbom (1971) arrivò nei Paesi Bassi nei primi anni novanta, dove seguì il Mime Training ad Amsterdam. Nel 1998 ha ricevuto il Top Naeff Prizeper come lo studente più promettente. La giuria lo ha descritto come un talento desideroso, sorprendente ed esuberante.

Dopo la sua formazione, Jakop ha lavorato con vari produttori come Karina Holla , Roy Peters , Alex d’Electrique , De Daders , Nieuw West , De Groep van Steen , PeerGrouP / ZappSnacks, Orkater , Ro Theater (come coreografo) e Unique Affairs ( come regista). Nel 2000 ha realizzato la produzione di  Stella Maris presso l’ Het Veem Theater.

Forgia il suo stile con elementi di mimo, teatro, danza, illusionismo e arriva così al suo linguaggio teatrale unico. Il lavoro di Ahlbom si concentra sulle persone che (spesso con difficoltà) si riferiscono a se stessi e al loro ambiente. Mostra come qualcuno si mantiene in un mondo che non è sempre quello che sembra. Ahlbom spesso sceglie il punto di vista di un personaggio centrale e attraverso il suo punto di vista, fa palpabili i sentimenti dei protagonisti al pubblico. Ahlbom esamina i limiti della nostra normale esistenza e cosa succede quando cerchi il confine o attraversi il confine.

L’amore è un tema importante nel lavoro di Ahlbom e lo usa come guida per i personaggi. Tragedia e umorismo sono elementi che Jakop Ahlbom lascia sempre andare insieme nelle sue esibizioni. Lo fa spesso in slapstick fisico. Jakop Ahlbom raggiunge un vasto pubblico. Egli usa lo stile e discipline come la danza, arti visive, musica, illusionismo, acrobazie, cinema, assurdo, la poesia e la magia diversa. L’immagine è fondamentale per il suo lavoro, immagini che collega a contenuti (a volte psicologici).

Nel 2012, Jakop Aalbom ha ricevuto il VSCD Mime Prize per la sua performance Lebensraum. La sua ultima Horror prestazioni selezionato per la fiamminga e olandese Festival del Teatro nel 2015 e nominato per il Premio VSCD Mime.

    Biglietti: 25 euro

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Botteghino tel.: 010 2470793

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Programma eventi Genova Celebra Colombo

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LEBENSRAUM – Genova, dal 28 al 30 marzo 2019 – Teatro della Tosse Teatro della Tosse Genova, dal 28 al 30 marzo 2019 Ore 20.30 LEBENSRAUM Director and concept Jakop Ahlbom…

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Silke Hundertmark, dancer and performer, Jakop Ahlbom Company

Silke Hundertmark trained in modern dance theatre at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam and soon after graduating in 1998 started working with director Jakop Ahlbom. She has appeared in five of his productions, and was nominated for the prestigious Colombina award for the best female supporting role in the 2011-12 theatre season for her role as the doll in Lebensraum. She also works with various choreographers in the Netherlands and Germany, including Antje Pfundtner and Andrew Morrish, and regularly performs for artist-puppeteer Ulrike Quade.

Now Silke plays the lead character in Ahlbom's award-winning HORROR, which has its UK premiere at the Peacock in London during the 39th London International Mime Festival, and follows the company's appearance in last year's event. She chats to Liz Arratoon from Amsterdam and they are occasionally joined by Jakop, who conceived and directs the production.

The Widow Stanton: Where in the Netherlands are you from? Silke Hundertmark: I'm German actually, from Hamburg, but I came to study in Amsterdam and since then I stayed. So I've lived here for 20 years; half my life.

You trained in 'modern dance theatre'. Does that mean modern dance and theatre? No. I had training in mainly modern dance styles… Graham, Cunningham, Limón and on top of that a classical base, but no acting.

So do you regard yourself as a dancer? I always say I'm a dancer because that's the starting point for my work; that's where I look for my entrance into the material. I know Jakop is considered more as a theatre maker but he's from the mime department, which means physical theatre. Of course I've worked with him since I finished school, so for a long time, and he influenced my way of working, my… everything. But still my starting point would always be movement.

Did you always want to perform? I always wanted to be the Swan Lake ballet dancer [laughs] and guess what? Jakop is doing a Swan Lake project starting in February!

So your dream will come true! My dream finally becomes true but he's not making a classical ballet. When I was little I wanted to be a classical ballerina but of course fast enough I realised that I had to broaden my vision a little bit.

Were you tiny when you started dancing? I think I was four or five but it was amateur dancing once a week.

Is there any showbusiness in your family or did you just love to dance? Yeah, I just loved to dance. I love to move. I guess it's in our family just the fun of moving your own body. I see it in my kids as well so it must be in the family. But no, no, my parents are not artistic in that sense.

When you started with Jakop, what drew you to his company? He actually asked me to join his graduation project at school. I was in my last year and he was as well and we studied in the same building; the departments were combined in one big building. He was always intrigued by dance, he followed also dance classes and he asked for two dancers to join him. It was me and another woman who did so, and since then we haven't let each other go.

Are you a couple? We are.

It's wonderful that you've performed together all these years. Yes! It's a big gift.

If he weren't your partner, what is there you especially like about the way he works? Actually in the studio when we work it feels separate because I respect him a lot as a maker, as a creative person and it's not that I know him so well that I see myself in a special position. I always like to mingle in the group and I like to just be open to what he's asking for, putting everything that I find in myself into his work.

Tell us a bit about HORROR.  It's a very physical performance without words inspired by horror movies. Jakop is a big fan of horror movies, always has been, me… no! A woman, and that's me, is coming back to her childhood home and she brings her boyfriend and another friend with her. The reason I go back to my parent's house is to look for the past; I have to figure something out about my past. Something inside me makes me go back to see what was going on. While we are there, she is confronted by her evil past. There's revenge and a big finale with a lot of blood. I think Jakop should tell you about it…

Jakop Ahlbom: I always try to make performances that are more than one thing. So I tried to make HORROR scary, touching, fascinating, stunning and full of humour. I never try to make ‘one’ thing, I also try to bring a lot of elements in, which are all about experience, feeling, emotions. We talked a lot about the violence in the show. With all the terrible things that happen in the world right now. The genre is horror so there is violence, it is part of the performance, part of the concept. But it is more about the power of imagination, and the freedom that you create if you confront yourself with your fears. It is a way to free ourselves.

Where did your love of horror movies come from? Jakop: My first experience with horror was a ghost story on TV when I was young, maybe eight or nine years old. We only had a black and white TV. Every time it got scary, you could hear it through the music, I was running and hiding behind the TV. When the sound calmed down I dared to look further. Later I got more and more fascinated with the special effects and the surreal visualisation in horror movies. I would consume any horror film I could get my hands on, gripped by the absurd fantasies, the special effects, the extreme events, the dark unknown, and the adrenaline kick. Horror author HP Lovecraft wrote: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” This is the deeply hidden fear that I want to bring to life in HORROR. How can we deal with a traumatic past? Maybe we have to face it before we can go on with our lives?

Back to Silke… how do you cope with all the blood? It's horrible! I take an hour and half after the show to wash everything. It's in my hair… it's uncomfortable but it's a part of it.

What can you tell us about the use of cinematic special effects? Silke: There are a lot of great magic tricks using illusions. People find that very special about this piece that it's easy to have special effects, of course, in horror movies but Jakop's succeeded in really making people feel scared in this theatre performance. That was a challenge but I think he's really succeeded. Jakop: When I start thinking about a performance (and I started to think about this idea more than ten years ago) I see a lot of images in my head. And I had some images from horror movies that I wanted to use, because I wanted to make references to the most known films in the genre. Then we developed the story. I think the biggest challenge was to bring the images, the ideas I had about the special effects, into the storyline. I also tried to figure out how some effects were made. We made our own theatrical version of them, because it is live and everything is happening in the presence of the audience. So it was really a challenge to find out how to do things in real time and live. 

Silke, you said you don't like horror but do you enjoy playing darker roles? Yes, I actually enjoy them a lot. It was a little bit hardcore in the beginning because my character is very passive. She's just observing and seeing a lot happen. As a dancer, of course the things that I know from my nature are being active and moving. But here in this part Jakop always said: “No, you can't move, you're passive.” For me it was really difficult to grab my role because of that. Something dreadful happens; how do you deal with it onstage? I'm not an actor, I don't have tools to act in that sense but I took it from the movement, just breathing and looking, bringing focus, but finally one day in the studio I thought why not just use my breathing because if you are afraid it affects your breathing. I used it like movement and that was a key discovery for me for my part. So breathing and walking very slowly was my impetus and gave me an inner understanding of the part.

In the end there's a big crescendo and a lot of hard-core fighting scenes and a lot of blood. Really, just two days before the premiere after a run-through I stood under the shower and I couldn't stop crying for an hour because of the tension that I build up… I'm a very soft person, I'm 41 years old but up to now I don't like conflicts. I avoid them, but I realised through this process that it's very important to face them, to not always avoid them but to take action. So this piece now I really think it's good for me to perform a role like this. In 2014's Mime Festival I played a puppet in Jakop's Lebensraum, so a completely different part to play. The puppet was funny, a little bit evil, but this role in HORROR really makes me grow a lot as a performer.

Oh, the role you were nominated for? You must have been really good! [Laughs] I was really stiff; a real puppet!

You work with Ulrike Quade, so have you done other puppet-y things? I've been doing some puppet work with her but she's approaching puppetry in a very physical way as well. I guess that's why we work together.

So although you're a dancer, would you say you're more doing physical movement than actual dance? Yes, these last years I'd say I'm a physical actor, maybe. But because we're going to be doing Swan Lake, I'm getting back to classical dance classes and I enjoy it a lot actually to dance again.

How do you feel about coming back to the festival? Wow! We all had such a fantastic time in London in this festival before and we're all very excited to tour this show abroad. We tour a lot in the Netherlands but we're a big group, eight performers and six technicians and it's a huge set, so it costs a lot of money to bring us across and we're really excited to come back to London.

HORROR runs at the Peacock Theatre in London from 25-26 January during the London International Mime Festival.

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Picture credit: Sanne Peper, and Paulina Matusiak & Eddy Wenting

Twitter: @JakopAhlbom @MimeLondon @peacocktheatre @Sadler’s_Wells

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Unseen: moet gezien worden

Unseen: moet gezien worden

Recensie en foto: Mieke van der Raay Afgelopen woensdagavond mocht ik aanwezig zijn bij de première van Unseen, Jakop Ahlbom Company in Theater Rotterdam. Jakop Ahlbom Company presenteert Unseen, een poëtisch liefdesdrama in de unieke visuele stijl van de makers van Lebensraum, Horror en Knock-Out. Een ongelukkige vrouw die zich eenzaam en niet gezien voelt. Een echtgenoot die het verleden…

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SYZYGY; een eigentijdse performance

SYZYGY; een eigentijdse performance

Recensie: Mieke van der Raay

Afgelopen 4 maart zou SYZYGY van Jakop Ahlbom Company in première gaan in de Meervaart in Amsterdam. Maar dit kon helaas door het coronavirus niet doorgaan, Afgelopen 4 september ging de voorstelling alsnog in première, helaas voor een kleinschalig publiek, in het Bellevue Theater in Amsterdam. Ik mocht de voorstelling afgelopen zaterdag 6 september zien. Ik wist…

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Teatro della Tosse

Genova, dal 28 al 30 marzo 2019

Ore 20.30

LEBENSRAUM

Director and concept Jakop Ahlbom

Performers Reinier Schimmel, Jakop Ahlbom/Yannick Greweldinger, Silke Hundertmark, Leonard Lucieer, Ralph Mulder/Empee Holwerda

Music Alamo Race Track,

Set design Douwe Hibma and Jakop Ahlbom,

Dramaturge Judith Wendel, Lighting Design Yuri Schreuders Technicians Tom Vollebregt, Yuri Schreuders, Allard Vonk, and Michel van der Weijden,

Special props Rob Hillenbrink Make-up Anabel Urquijo Claveria Marketing Janko Duinker en Danae Bos

Production management Sarah Faye van der Ploeg Management and sales Marc Pil

  VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZVqmow6Zkk&t=72s

    Dal 28 al 30 marzo arriva LEBENSRAUM regia di Jakop Ahlbom, presentato per la prima volta in Italia alla Biennale di Venezia 2018. Lebensraum è teatro fisico con una punta di magia. 

Il regista svedese Jakop Ahlbom, anche attore e acrobata, ha una grande passione per gli horror anni ’60 e le commedie anni ‘20.

Ahlbom porta la magia del muto su un palcoscenico teatrale con uno spettacolo divertente e brillante. Lebensraum (in italiano “spazio vitale”) si ispira all’universo di Buster Keaton e alla slapstick comedy e alle comiche dei pionieri del cinema come Stanlio e Ollio e Charlie Chaplin.

All’epoca, a fare da sottofondo alle proiezioni dei film c’era la musica di un pianoforte. Questo spettacolo sarà invece accompagnato dal gruppo Alamo Race Track: si crea così un originale e divertente contrasto tra le atmosfere visive anni Venti e la musica rock contemporanea. La storia racconta di due uomini che vivono in un piccolissimo appartamento.

Per risolvere il problema di uno spazio cos��  stretto, i due hanno inventato mobili con una duplice funzione: il letto è anche un pianoforte, la libreria funge anche da frigorifero e così via … c’è tutto in casa, manca solo una donna. Decidono quindi di creare una bambola meccanica che li possa aiutare a svolgere i lavori domestici. Ma ben presto scoprono che la bambola pensa ed esprime opinioni e la loro  vita viene spassosamente sconvolta.

La tensione sale tra i due sale, la stanza diventa sempre più piccola e il divertimento scoppia in sala grazie a gag irresistibili!

    BIOGRAFIA

JAKOP AHLBOM

  Jakop Ahlbom (1971) arrivò nei Paesi Bassi nei primi anni novanta, dove seguì il Mime Training ad Amsterdam. Nel 1998 ha ricevuto il Top Naeff Prizeper come lo studente più promettente. La giuria lo ha descritto come un talento desideroso, sorprendente ed esuberante.

Dopo la sua formazione, Jakop ha lavorato con vari produttori come Karina Holla , Roy Peters , Alex d’Electrique , De Daders , Nieuw West , De Groep van Steen , PeerGrouP / ZappSnacks, Orkater , Ro Theater (come coreografo) e Unique Affairs ( come regista). Nel 2000 ha realizzato la produzione di  Stella Maris presso l’ Het Veem Theater.

Forgia il suo stile con elementi di mimo, teatro, danza, illusionismo e arriva così al suo linguaggio teatrale unico. Il lavoro di Ahlbom si concentra sulle persone che (spesso con difficoltà) si riferiscono a se stessi e al loro ambiente. Mostra come qualcuno si mantiene in un mondo che non è sempre quello che sembra. Ahlbom spesso sceglie il punto di vista di un personaggio centrale e attraverso il suo punto di vista, fa palpabili i sentimenti dei protagonisti al pubblico. Ahlbom esamina i limiti della nostra normale esistenza e cosa succede quando cerchi il confine o attraversi il confine.

L’amore è un tema importante nel lavoro di Ahlbom e lo usa come guida per i personaggi. Tragedia e umorismo sono elementi che Jakop Ahlbom lascia sempre andare insieme nelle sue esibizioni. Lo fa spesso in slapstick fisico. Jakop Ahlbom raggiunge un vasto pubblico. Egli usa lo stile e discipline come la danza, arti visive, musica, illusionismo, acrobazie, cinema, assurdo, la poesia e la magia diversa. L’immagine è fondamentale per il suo lavoro, immagini che collega a contenuti (a volte psicologici).

Nel 2012, Jakop Aalbom ha ricevuto il VSCD Mime Prize per la sua performance Lebensraum. La sua ultima Horror prestazioni selezionato per la fiamminga e olandese Festival del Teatro nel 2015 e nominato per il Premio VSCD Mime.

    Biglietti: 25 euro

Info: www.teatrodellatosse.it

Botteghino tel.: 010 2470793

    Davide Bressanin

Ufficio stampa

Fondazione Luzzati – Teatro della Tosse ONLUS

www.teatrodellatosse.it

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Cooperativa Battelieri del Porto di Genova

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Quezzi.it

AlfaRecovery.com

Comuni-italiani.it

Il Secolo XIX

CentroRicambiCucine.it

Contatti

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Impianti Elettrici

Informatica Servizi

Edilizia

Il Secolo XIX

MusicforPeace Che Festival

MusicforPeace Programma 29 maggio

Programma eventi Genova Celebra Colombo

Genova Celebra Colombo

LEBENSRAUM – Genova, dal 28 al 30 marzo 2019 – Teatro della Tosse Teatro della Tosse Genova, dal 28 al 30 marzo 2019 Ore 20.30 LEBENSRAUM Director and concept Jakop Ahlbom…