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My True North Erik Kaiel , He earned his Masters Degree in Dance at New York University, and spent nearly a decade dancing and choreographing in New York City before coming to the Netherlands. His intensely physical performance work has been performed worldwide, not only on stage, but in subway stations, warehouses, sculpture gardens, city streets, and empty swimming pools. He has had numerous commissions, and been awarded artistic residencies at Djerassi, the Yard, the Silo, Dansateliers, and Catidans. He choreographs, performs, and teaches throughout Europe and North America, and is currently on the faculty at the Artez Dance Academy in Arnhem. Heleen van Gigch graduated in 2007 from the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Since 2006, she has been creating new work and touring extensively with Station Zuid, a dance company based in Tilburg. She recently premiered a solo by Arno Schuitemaker as part of Theater DeVorst’s New Makers series. She is one of the founders of the young movement collective Nachtbrakers. She has been working with Archeopteryx 8 since 2004. Kim Jomi Fischer graduated in 2007 from the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Since graduating, he been creating new work and touring extensively with Ann van der Broek, Andre Gingras, and Liat Waysborg. He is one of the founders of the young movement collective Nachtbrakers. He has been working with Archeopteryx 8 since 2004.
No man is an island
Erik Kaiel, He earned his Masters Degree in Dance at New York University, and spent nearly a decade dancing and choreographing in New York City before coming to Holland. His intensely physical performance work has been performed worldwide, not only on stage, but in subway stations, warehouses, sculpture gardens, city streets, and empty swimming pools. He has had numerous commissions, and been awarded artistic residencies at Djerassi, the Yard, the Silo, Dansateliers, and Catidans. He choreographs, performs, and teaches throughout Europe and North America, and is currently on the faculty at the Artez Dance Academy in Arnhem. Jasper Dzuki Jelen, He graduated in 2006 from the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Since then, he has worked with Compagnie FLAK/Jose Navas, the Nederlandse Opera, and Het Vreemdelingen Legion. He recently created work for the Holland Dance Festival, and developed an evening length piece in residencies in Rotterdam and Brussels. He has been an Archeopteryx 8 company member since 2004. Archeopteryx 8 is what the body of necessity leaves in its wake. Form is enfolded by function. There is an unrepentant intensity of being. In the work, the dancers are autonomous beings, busy with raw, pure movement. Rather than the beauty of masterful displays of technique, it champions the beauty of effort. Each body engages in a sequence of strenuous tasks, its relentless drive counterpoints the increasing exhaustion of the physical body. Through the twin motors of intensity and intention, an infectious solidarity arises between the performers and the audience. It is not something you watch, but something you feel, a gravitation that pulls viewers into intimate complicity with the dancers. |
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My True North is a relentlessly physical duet. Like Bela Tarr’s films, it is built on a succession of poetic images. It evokes a world that is both urban and outside of time. Both dancers are individuals unable to find their way alone – in three progressions of intimacy: orbit, touch, and intertwine, their surrendering of seperateness gives way to perspective. Archimedes spoke of “a place to stand”. For these two, it is a person to orient by. Each allows the other to find their bearings. A still point in a whirling world. Throughout the dance, there are moments where the music drops away. These are
embedded haiku – counterpointing the way in which the two find each other in motion, at these moments they find one another in stillness. Stepping outside the hegemony of the onward rush of time/progress/adrenaline, the dance is a post-Romantic pas de deux. It is Goethe doing parcour. 
A body lies on the ground. Another stands on its outstretched hand. He begins to explore the geography of the body beneath him. He pushes, pulls, and twists it into strange shapes. While doing this, he never touches the ground. When this origami of the body reaches the breaking point, the passive body comes to life. Rising unstoppably, the other body climbs upwards until it can go no higher. Suddenly, we dive into a duet in which both bodies are active. Twisting, turning, and burning with intensity, yet the challenge remains - one body still never touches the ground. Suddenly, without warning, that body collapses to the floor, and the other body now begins a slow duet, encircling but never touching the collapsed body. - Archeopteryx 8 engages in architecture of the flesh. Its unique blend of the simple and the profound has amazed and challenged audiences worldwide.