LeineRoebana

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LeineRoebana

Treat for the ears, feast for the eyes

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Artistic direction: Andrea Leine and Harijono

Roebana

T + 31 (0) 20 – 489 38 20

E dans@leineroebana.com

I www.leineroebana.com

LeineRoebana, Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana’s contemporary dance company, has developed a unique and peculiar dance idiom based on a novel approach to symmetry, rhythm and composition. They combine dance with other art forms – primarily music – to create performance that provokes and seduces. They work with renowned musicians or composers for every production and create work in which a true symbiosis between music and movement takes place. But LeineRoebana goes further; employing live music and demanding an extra contribution from instrumentalists and singers - international stars such as soprano Claron McFadden and harpist Lavinia Meijer move with the dancers.

The choice of music ranges from the renaissance to the contemporary and mirrors their quest for authenticity. The common denominator is the search for an expressivity that challenges perception, that ensures unexpected performances that leave nobody untouched.

 

International: 

The group tours abroad regularly. In recent years their work has been performed in the Netherlands, as well as throughout Europe and in Indonesia, Tanzania, Canada, Brazil, Russia and the United States. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote (about the production Traces), ‘with a seventy-minute dance piece of the greatest complexity and sensual attraction the impressive Dutch dance programme of the European Central Bank Cultural Days 2010 reaches a new peak.’

The choreographies and dancers of the group have been awarded prestigious prizes including the Zwaan [Swan] for Heather Ware for the ‘most impressive dance performance’ of 2010 [172 suggesties aan een lichaam / 172 suggestions to a body] and the Concorso Internazionale di Coreografia, Cagliari (Italy).

In 2009 LeineRoebana started a project of artistic dialogue and exchange between Indonesia and The Netherlands: Ghost Track. The first results of this collaboration were received enthusiastically in Solo, Jogya, Bandung and Jakarta.