Cacti - Alexander Ekman (NDT 2 | Now here, Now always)

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) | Alexander Ekman's piece 'Cacti’ for the NDT 2 programme ‘Now here, Now always’. https://www.ndt.nl/en/agenda/now-here-now-always/

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As a choreographer Alexander Ekman is interested in humor and its effect on an audience. What do we consider to be funny? What makes us laugh and why? With Cacti (2010) Ekman amusingly challenges the audience to reflect on modern dance as a higher art form. Sixteen dancers stand, seemingly trapped, on oversized Scrabble tiles. They run, fall, writhe and try to escape their invisible prisons. Eventually they each acquire a cactus. But what does it all mean? Cacti is a gleeful parody of the art form’s greater excesses. A string quartet performs the music by Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert live on stage, while the dancers become the instruments of the orchestra, resulting in a rhythmical ensemble.

In 2010 Cacti was nominated for a Dutch Swan Award for ‘most impressive dance production’.

Cacti
Alexander Ekman

STAGED BY
Nina Botkay

MUSIC
Franz Schubert: Symphony in D minor Death and the Maiden IV: Presto, arr. and adapted for orchestra by Andy Stein.
Joseph Haydn: sonate no V “Sitio” from Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze, Hoboken XX, 1B; Allegro from string quartets Opus 9, no 6 in A major.
Ludwig van Beethoven: stringquartet no. 9 in C, Opus 59, section from: Andante con moto quasi allegretto.

MUSICIANS
Accompanied live by musicians of the Dutch Ballet Orchestra

LIGHT
Tom Visser

DECOR & COSTUMES
Alexander Ekman

LYRICS
Spenser Theberge

NDT ASSISTANTS
Lydia Bustinduy, Ander Zabala

WORLD PREMIERE
February 23, 2010, Lucent Danstheater, The Hague

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