still still \ Marta & Kim (2021-2024)
Meander (2024)
In Meander five circus and dance artists weave a visual landscape. They slide and climb over and under each other, soar into the heights or intertwine into one body. Like a new river finding its course, or like a flock of birds migrating as one body, this is how Meander was created. In this continuum of movement and rhythm, the performers highlight their mutual trust despite the frictions and fractures between each other.
Meander is an ode to the process, to our constantly changing view of how we experience each other and our surroundings. By breaking free from traditional lines of hierarchy and positions of power, the five performers create a space where every moment can bring a new discovery, a new question, or a new insight.
After numerous crossovers, partner acrobats Knot on Hands, Felix Zech and Marta & Kim join forces in the performance Meander. Together they won the BNG Bank dance and circus award three times, were selected for Aerowaves, CircusNext, were nominated for the Prijs van de Nederlandse Dansdagen and performed their own work more than 350 times at home and abroad. Under the wings of production houses TENT and Dansateliers, they realize their dream of making a production together with Meander.
Concept: Knot on Hands, Marta & Kim, Felix Zech.
Performance: Britt Timmermans, Mario Kunzi, Tijs Bastiaens, Kim-Jomi Alstadsæter, Felix Zech.
Co-creator: Marta Alstadsæter
Dramaturgy: Marc Maris
Music Composition: Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)
Mastering: Marlon Wolterink
Scenic & light design: Loes Schakenbos
Animation: Kaj Kian Rafael Fischer
Communication: Dansateliers, TENT
Production: Peggy Loch
Producer: Dansateliers Rotterdam, TENT
Co-producer: Cirklabo, Korzo
Supported by: Fonds 21, Gemeente Rotterdam, BNG Fonds, Dioraphte, Volkskracht
Our Arms Grew Together (2021)
Our Arms Grew Together is a live self-portrait of the love relationship between the couple Marta & Kim. In a world that celebrates independence, they choose deliberately for interdependency.
Marta & Kim are in search of physical metaphors for their relationship. This unfolds in an intimate, honest, almost documentary universe of what normally stays behind closed doors: the sensuality and vulnerability of becoming one body with two people. At the same time, it shows the discomfort of it: literally not being able to walk away from each other and letting go of control and personal agenda.
If ‘trusting you with my life’ is not only a metaphor, but a physical reality, then everything that is at stake becomes tangible. Do we dare to lose ourselves in a joint identity and depend on each other?
Concept, Choreography & Performance: Marta Alstadsæter & Kim-Jomi Fischer
Music: Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)
Mastering: Marlon Wolterink
Light design, video & technique: Loes Schakenbos
Dramaturgy: Marc Maris
Assistant choreography: Heleen van Gigch
Publicity image: Paul Sixta
Trailer: Paul Sixta
Co-produced by: Dansateliers, Festival Circolo
Financially supported by: Gemeente Rotterdam, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Fonds 21, Dioraphte