Double BIll: Groeipijn & House Decoded

Makers	Evelien Jansen & Vanildo Varela
Info	Language no problem
Duration	75 min

Two performances, one life lesson.

House Decoded

The scene: music thumping at 120 BPM, in a full warehouse full of sweaty night owls – your eyes closed, letting yourself go completely. House Decoded thrusts you back into the underground clubs of New York. Where house was born and people came to dance to free themselves. From expectations, from boxes, from systems and rules. But because house music became popular, its dance choreographies were pulled into the studio. And there, that free-formed dance was often reduced to a codified state. Vanildo Varela lets us experience again what real house is all about: to move your body.

Groeipijn (Growing Pains)

Sometimes you have to go through something to come out better on the other side. But sometimes it can feel like you are stuck forever. Choreographer Evelien Jansen & musician Tom van Wee show you that those growing pains in a person's life are not the end, but rather a new beginning. It’s a chance to digest all the lessons from the past, in order to see very clearly what lies ahead. It often takes something you do have to go through, something very personal and often unnecessarily lonely. Because growing pains are something we have all felt at some point, as a means to bring us closer together.

Vanildo Varela started dancing at the age of 20 at the HipHopHuis in Rotterdam. He then became a producer: with his organization House Jam Rotterdam, he organized many events for hip-hop and house culture. Now he is creating his own work.

Vanildo followed the House One Style program in Sweden, which specializes in dance movements in house music. During this training he took the opportunity to discover where the possibilities lay within and outside of house dance. In 2022 Vanildo collaborated with Lloyds Company and Dansateliers on One Night's Dance, as well as on his own solo. After this experience he finally knew: this is what I have to do. He started collaborations with other experienced makers who are interested in club culture, such as Wesley Rommy, Chilton Galimo and Wennah Wilkers and is now in Club Korzo.

Evelien Jansen (1998) moves like someone who has listened to silence. She studied at Urban Contemporary (JMD) in Amsterdam and danced with Hofesh Shechter Company II and Humanhood. In her work she searches for what we often skip: the feeling that lies quietly waiting inside us. Not to look at, but to move through. Dance as access. Dance as a necessity.

Tom van Wee started out as a dancer, but actually finds himself acquainted with everything that has to do with sound. He composes electronic music for dance, theatre and film: like, for example for Heidi Vierthaler, Dalton Jansen, Artbeat and Theater Utrecht. His work often starts on the floor, together with the dancers—improvising, reacting, playing. Sometimes it is a simple beat, sometimes a layer of sound that slowly builds up into an environment. His compositions move with what happens. The music serves not as a frame, but as a foundation. And that does something to you.