Reviews
Here you will find night critiques and reviews, which we usually accompany and supplement with dance photography and dance films of the performances to offer an additional, independent and hopefully artistic view of the choreographic events.
schrit_tmacherjustDANCE! Festival in Heerlen
One shall bear the other one’s burden
With mixed feelings: Rick Takvorian, artistic director of schrit_tmacher justDANCE! Festival, is welcoming the audience in Heerlen in his usual whimsical manner. But at the end, after a 75-minute attempt to translate the feeling of loss into performance, […]
The Festival Specials of schrit_tmacher justDANCE! 2023 in Aachen
Dance in the morning, in the museum and in music
The first weekend of this year’s 28th edition of schrit_tmacher justDANCE! 2023 offered exclusives under the title „Festival Specials“: the performative experience „Double Helix“ by Nanine Linning at Fabrik Stahlbau Strang, the German […]
schrit_tmacher justDANCE! Opening
Perfection would not be alive
in Heerlen with Marie Chouinard’s „Radical Vitality“
review by Melanie Suchy
translated by Karoline Strys
Instead of a big bash, 2023 Schrittmacher Festival began with a series of smaller parties. Marie Chouinard from Montréal, Canada, was actually supposed to present her performance „Radical Vitality“ with her company […]
schrit_tmacher justDANCE!
Gone with the wind
The end of this year’s schrit_tmacher festival in Aachen leaves the audience satisfied with „Flow“ by Linga & Keda
nightreview by Rico Stehfest
translated by Karoline Strys
Charming is here not the dance itself. It is the music, played live by E’Jong-Ju on a Geomungo, a Korean zither, and […]
schrit_tmacher justDANCE! – Finale in Heerlen
Rage against the dying of the light
The last evening of schrit_tmacher-Festival in Heerlen demonstrates, with Dada Masilo’s “Sacrifice“, the communicative power of a community but also its limitations
review by Rico Stehfest
translated by Karoline Strys
She is a singular phenomenon. This woman is completely with herself. For […]