Overview labs

BOLLWERKlab 6

BOLLWERKlab 5

BOLLWERKlab 4

BOLLWERKlab 3

BOLLWERKlab 2

BOLLWERKlab 1

What is BOLLWERKlab?

What is BOLLWERKlab?

   BOLLWERKlab is a mobile laboratory for research, development and improvisation. Along with the dancers, performers, musicians and composers choreographer Andrea Boll and dancer Peter Kadar work on new ideas and style development and take the freedom to cross boundaries. Dance and live music are combined in a theatrical performance full of possibilities. A Bollwerklab presentation may be a single event, form a series and / or serve as research for a new production.

The labs are flexible, can be presented in venues or out-door and can be booked on a short term.

Bollwerklab 3 in collaboration with orkest de ereprijs was selected from the Nederlandse Dansdagen 2008. The jury praised Bollwerk: ‘A joyful abandonment, strong and effective combination of music, dance and theatre mark this partly improvised performance.’

Next presentation: Bollwerklab 6, on 8 of March 2011, CC de Werft Geel (B)  

BOLLWERKlab 1

Melkweg Theater Amsterdam / 18 and 19 of January 2008, 20.30   
with Andrea Beugger, Peter Kadar en Jaakko Toivonen   

In the Melkweg Theater Amsterdam Andrea Boll presented her first research project  BOLLWERKlab 1. Together with three dancers she worked during three weeks on the theme "indifference versus vulnerability". This physical and theatrical research resulted in a unassuming and surprising presentation.   

Bollwerklab 1, 2 and 3 served as inspiration for the production Lost & Found, a coproduction with the Grand Theatre Groningen; with six dancers and live music from orchestra de ereprijs, premiere November 2008. 

BOLLWERKlab 2

Grand Theatre Groningen / 22 maart 2008          
met Ivan Blagajcevic, Jurgen Hierck, Peter Kadar, Efrat Levy, Csilla Nagy, Andrea Beugger en Jaakko Toivonen    
 
Bollwerklab 2, research, experiment and improvisation with elements of Bollwerklab1,based on the theme "indifference versus vulnerability"

' It has always been a dream...'


With limited resources (three chairs and a small table) the three dancers deliver a remarkable performance. The virtuous combination of dance text and play lets the audience gasp.

BOLLWERKlab 3

... The result of a short and intensive working period was presented in the Melkweg Theater Amsterdam (22 / 23 May 2008)
and in Korzo Theater Den Haag (24 / 25 mei 2008).
BOLLWERKlab 3 was the de last of three researches with the theme "indifference versus vulnerability".   
    
dancers: Ivan Blagajcevic, Peter Kadar, Csilla Nagy, Andrea Beugger, Jaakko Toivonen with live music from orkest de ereprijs conducted by Wim Boerman. 

BOLLWERKlab 4

On 15 of August 2008 Bollwerklab 4 took possession of the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. On this evening Andrea Boll showed parts of earlier BOLLWERKlab’s and presented as well a preview of Lost&Found.   
 
Bollwerklab 4
Open air theatre Vondelpark,  Amsterdam 15 of August 2008   
with Andrea Beugger, Jaakko Toivonen, Peter Kadar, Audrey Borthayre, Manon Avermaete, Oscar Padrosa

BOLLWERKlab 5

... a step towards the performance Lost & Found with the dancers from Lost & Found and orchestra de ereprijs

BOLLWERKlab selected for the Nederlands Dansdagen 2008.
The jury about BOLLWERKlab:
‘A joyful abandonment, strong and effective combination of music, dance and theatre mark this partly improvised performance.’  

Bollwerklab 5 was presented on 4th of October 2008 at 13.00 and at 14.30 in Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, NL.

It has always been a dream of me to go to a foreign country. And now, here I am, in a foreign country / The Netherlands. But I do live here now already for such a long time that it doesn’t feel like a foreign country anymore. So and now, how to go further? Because, you know I still have this dream. I mean the dream to go to a foreign country. But if I would go now somewhere else than I probably would miss The Netherlands. Do you understand? It became really confusing for me: what is a foreign country and what is – home?'

-lab6-

You undergo how the dancers and the musician create a scene with your help. We depart from press photos and conversely art photos from the Czech photographer Jan Saudek. Those pictures are the departing points for each time twenty minutes improvisation.

The dancers and the musician bring the pictures to life and make you experience them in all their facets, possible interpretations and associations. We take you along on a journey through different epochs, ways of life and “conditions humaines”.

We don’t show a finished performance but include you in the making process. We show the influence from everybody on stage on the action and make ourselves depending on your influence, opinion and comments. You are playing a role in the process of getting to a performance. Every show of Bollwerklab 6 is therefore unique and exists only if you are there.

Next presentation: Bollwerklab 6, on 8 of March 2011, CC de Werft Geel (B)

Dance & instant choreography: Andrea Boll, Peter Kadar, Randi de Vlieghe

Music: Ernst Reijseger

Light: Loeki Wiefferink

Bollwerklab 6 is supported by the Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst

BOLLWERKlab 6

17, 18 september, 20.30  in Melkweg Amsterdam
 19 september, 20.30  in Korzo5hoog

Departing from press photo’s and art photography and creating while improvising a scene.
All this with live music from Ernst Reijseger !