DansClick is a national tour of the most exciting names in the dance world.
Since 2013, the winners of the BNG Bank Dance Prize present their work in the DansClick tour. The performances are always framed with video portraits of the makers and the Après Danse; an informal meeting between audience, makers and dancers on stage, over drinks.
The BNG Bank Dance Prize is awarded annually by the BNG Culture Fund with the aim of encouraging young Dutch talent to realize their productions and offering talented choreographers with national and even international potential an important step forward in their careers. The fund does this in cooperation with dance house Korzo, which produces the DansClick tour.
The winner of the BNG Bank Dance Award 2024 is Sheree Lenting with 'I am my ancestors wildest dream'. Besides Sheree, we also present our own house maker Tú Hoàng during Dansclick #26 with his work 'False Memories' which he created in collaboration with Hiro Murata.
A DansClick evening always starts with a video portrait of the creators in which they introduce themselves to the audience. After the performance there is an Après Danse where the audience is invited on stage and can chat about the performance with the choreographers and dancers while enjoying a drink.
In I am my ancestors wildest dream, choreographer Lenting works with two strong female dancers bridging multiple generations. These performers tell untold tales of past, present and future. The two are evenly matched, they support and strengthen each other in both movement and spirit. With the power, wisdom and love of their female foremothers as a legacy draw from, they look to their future with confidence.
Sheree Lenting is Rotterdam-based dance artist, program curator and teacher with Surinamese roots. Lenting fuses multiple art disciplines together through her works; as a born storyteller, she draws from her experiences in society as a Black woman to create art that’s reflective of our times. Sheree has a Bachelor's degree in Dance & Education from the Amsterdam University of the Arts and traveled across the African diaspora to hone her practice, which focuses on hip hop and African dance.
Sheree has received several grants, including the most recent New Makers Scheme from Fonds Podium Kunsten for her extensive research 'The R|Evolution of Black Dance and What Came Before Hip Hop'. With this grant, Sheree created her first short film SHE - The Black Female Body which was screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2022 and nominated for Best Short Film at Da Bounce Urban Film Festival. Her mission is to uplift, inspire and transform the world through her art.
‘False Memories’ is the result of a four-year collaboration between the two choreographers who danced at Conny Janssen Danst. The choreography is created around the concept of the psychological mind, through the perspective of two individuals that have an unspeakable connection with each other. In an abstract way, the feeling that they are one entity in their spiritual world remains, whether they are together or separated in physicality. Our memory is a very fragile concept. Sometimes we remember things the way we want them to be. Our imagination takes us to escape our own reality in order to find comfort or peace.
Tú Hoàng (1988) is a choreographer and dancer from Hanoi, Vietnam. In his choreography, Tú aims to combine his oriental background in Kung Fu and Tai Chi with Westen dance genres such as hiphop, ballet and contemporary.
Tú Hoàng will be artist in residence at Korzo starting in 2025.
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