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ZOO
"Zoo shifted from circus to abattoir, via hospital, club and bedroom on the way, exploring the mucky relationship between man and beast... With vivid satire elevating the more commonplace shock value of its nudity and dark sexuality, Zoo merits a wider audience."
Lucy Ribchester , January 07, Aerowaves, the Place Theatre, London
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«Tonight we are the ZOO. We are the Monstrosity, the Provocation, the Beast, the Beauty, the Myth;
We are the ones you love, the ones you dream of, the ones you fuck, you manipulate, you trample, you torture, you mutilate, swallow, digest, shit and throw away. Come along. Enjoy your ZOO. »
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"With ZOO we celebrate the predominance of instinct and magic on the phenomenon we are able to understand and classify with appropriate categories and unambigous words.
The animal, or our "wild side", is seen as an insult, the monster that appears in places where we don't expect it to be, or as perfection, in the form of the mythical animal - beautiful, proud, noble and powerful (the inverse of the dirty beast) - that is linked to superior forces or gods, in a relationship that we can only witness from our compromised point of view as humans. We also dwell upon the base elements in an animal's panorama, on the ones living, moving and crawling in the ground; the ones we trample, mutilate, torture, violate and rape due to our infinite fear of them, or fear of us mirroring them."
   
   
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Choreography: Gabriella Maiorino
Dance: Samir Calixto/ Daniel Hayward, Gabriella Maiorino, Fornier Ortiz Bedoya, Marlene Vilhena, Maria Chernova, Valentina Campora, Cordelia Lange, Cristina Leitão
Live Music: Simone Giacomini
Light design: Claus den Hartog
Stage and image advise: Ascon de Nijs
Production: Danswerkplaats Amsterdam, co-production Interplay Torino.
Financially supported by the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst.
ZOO went on tour to Italy, London, Spain, Germany and Norway. The piece was also selected for the Aerowaves Festival as one of the best European choreographies of 2006.
Performance list:
2006
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26 April |
DWA studiotheater, Amsterdam (NL) |
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27 April |
DWA studiotheater, Amsterdam (NL) |
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28 April |
DWA studiotheater, Amsterdam (NL) |
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11 May |
Teatro Astra, Focus Torinodanza, Torino (IT) |
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14 July |
Vondelpark, Openluchttheater, Amsterdam (NL) |
2007
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19 January |
The Place, Aerowaves, London (UK) |
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9 March |
Gasthuis Theater, Amsterdam (NL) |
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16 March |
Melkweg theater, Amsterdam (NL) |
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17 March |
Melkweg theater, Amsterdam (NL) |
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18 March |
Melkweg theater, Amsterdam (NL) |
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12 April |
Korzo theater, Den Haag- Voorjaarsontwaken (NL) |
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13 April |
Korzo theater, Den Haag- Voorjaarsontwaken (NL) |
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14 April |
Korzo theater, Den Haag- Voorjaarsontwaken (NL) |
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15 April |
Korzo theater, Den Haag- Voorjaarsontwaken (NL) |
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23 November |
Teatro Caos, Torino (IT) |
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24 November |
Teatro Caos, Torino (IT) |
(reworked version)
2008/ 2009
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28 February |
De Lieve Vrouw, Amersfoort (NL) – try-out |
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5 March |
Theater Gasthuis, Amsterdam (NL) – try-out |
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6 March |
Theater Gasthuis, Amsterdam (NL) – try-out |
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6 June |
Festival Punto Aparte, Murcia (ES) |
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6 October |
Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam (NL) – dutch premiere |
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10 October |
Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE) |
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11 October |
Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE) |
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23 October |
Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam (NL) |
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28 November |
PAL Theatre, Amsterdam (NL) |
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29 November |
PAL Theatre, Amsterdam (NL) |
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30 November |
PAL Theatre, Amsterdam (NL) |
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17 January |
Dansclick Showcase, Korzo Theater, Den Haag (NL) |
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19 January |
Dansclick Showcase, Korzo Theater, Den Haag (NL) |
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5 February |
Dansens Hus, Oslo (NO) |
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6 February |
Dansens Hus, Oslo (NO) |
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7 February |
Dansens Hus, Oslo (NO) |
* Photos of ZOO by: Filip Molski and Katharina Pohlmann |
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