Friday 10 /  h 6.30 pm

PIAZZA VITTORIO EMANUELE II

JOSHUA MONTEN    SVIZZERA / USA

GAME THEORY RESERVATION REQUIRED

choreography Joshua Monten
dance Sandra Klimek, Joshua Monten, Jasmin Sisti, Jack Wignall
dramaturgy Guy Cools
costume design Catherine Voeffray
produced by Verein Tough Love
coproduced by Dampfzentrale Bern, Krokusfestival Hasselt, Kunsten op Straat/Werkplaats Diepenheim

Before dance became art, before it tried to express anything, before it was a ceremony or a technique, it was a game.
Gaming is a thread that connects many of Joshua Monten’s previous work. Now, in “Game Theory,” Monten looks a bit more deeply at the basic building blocks of play: freedom and rules, ritual and surprise, adrenaline and flow. “Game Theory” is a kinesthetic portrait of play — a typology of play’s basic forms — which is highly personal and still immediately recognizable. The result is an aesthetically rigorous composition with ample room for freedom and joy.

The Swiss-American choreographer and dancer Joshua Monten was born near New York City. He studied literature and cultural anthropology at Duke University before discovering dance at the relatively late age of 20. As a dancer he performed with Bern Ballett, Stadttheater Heidelberg, Öff Öff Aerial Productions and DA MOTUS! He has worked with choreographers such as Stijn Celis, Hofesh Shechter, Irina Pauls, Konstantinos Rigos und Tino Sehgal. In 2012 Joshua Monten founded his own dance company. The Joshua Monten Dance Company has subsequently given hundreds performances at festivals and theaters around the world, including Hivernales d’Avignon, Swiss Contemporary Dance Days, Krokusfestival Hasselt, Festival de Chassepierre, MAC La Mercè in Barcelona, Gdańsk Dance Festival, Esplanade Theatre in Singapore, Ramallah Dance Festival in Palestine, CIFCET Festival in Cairo, Festival de Danza Nueva in Lima, and Queer New York International Arts Festival.

duration  30’

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