Rebound is a contemporary urban dance performance by choreographer and sociologist Alida Dors. Six dancers and a live musician examine the themes 'resilience' and 'identity'. A performance for and about the go-getters among us. Do you have the resilience, when everything has been taken away, to rediscover yourself and how do you do that?
We see six dancers enclosed by walls in an anonymous space. In this stifling situation they are condemned to themselves and each other. Visibly stripped of everything that gives them a social identity an investigative dance is created. How do you actually show who you are, when much of what you give an identity falls away and the word has no value anymore? What determines who you are when background, status and culture do not matter? The here and now is decisive, but memories, fears and structures bump mercilessly on the walls. Do you give up or: 'Rebound'?
Rebound
Cast & Crew
Choreography & concept Alida Dors
Composer & musician Vernon Chatlein
Dancers Pom Arnold, Donna Chittick, Thomas Krikken, Liza Panjoel, Remses Rafaela, Naïma Souhaïr
Dance dramaturgy Peggy Olislaegers
Decor design Ascon de Nijs
Decor construction Man met de hamer
Costume design Isis Vaandrager
Lightning design Jeffrey Steenbergen
Technical production Disappearow
Executive technique David te Marvelde, Jeffrey Steenbergen en anderen
Creative producer & business leader Ayra Kip
Sales Gysèle ter Berg
Productionleader Susanne Tuny
Marketing & PR Nanda van Aalst
Graphic design Serena Kloet
Photography campagne image Bowie Verschuuren
Scene photography Bowie Verschuuren
With special thanks to
alle dansers, Conny Janssen, Danstheater Aya, Solid Ground Movement, Senf Theaterpartners
Backstory
Alida takes Rebound (2005) from Conny Janssen as a starting point. Just like Conny, Alida researches the theme of 'resilience' and, with the addition of the theme 'identity', gives it its own twist. In a raw and at the same time sensitive performance the stretch of us human beings is made visible.
"I see the resilience of people in many places in society. At first sight hopeless people in our society transcend themselves, time after time. Refugees worldwide show their willpower and resilience. As species we are incredibly inventive. That touches me. "- Alida Dors
Rebound is a performance by BackBone in co-production with Theater Rotterdam and tanzhaus nrw and financial support from Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and Fonds21