Annotation:
Imagine it's the year 3035 and this building has been uninhabited for centuries. Now it is taken by a group of unknown inhabitants and you are the first visitor in decades. To them you are an intruder. Noticethe way the inhabitants relate to their environment, to each other, and to you.
The Inhabitants is a site-specific performance, for TANEC PRAHA 2017 specially re-adapted to EXPO58 location.
The performance may contain nudity.
Biography
The internationally renowned choreographer Iván Pérez (Spain, 1983) is based in the Netherlands. His work has been seen at prestigious venues such as Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London and the National Theatre of Taipei, in 2018 he will make a new work for the Paris Opera Ballet. With audience and critics acclaim, he launched his dance company INNE at Operaestate Festival with The Inhabitants in the summer of 2016.
Iván was only 19 years old when he created his first choreographies that immediately won awards. He danced with the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT). Since 2011 Iván fully commits himself to his career as a choreographer. For NDT 2 he created his debut piece Flesh. Iván developed further his work at the Dutch production house Korzo where he created Kick the Bucket (2011), Hide And Seek (2013), Exhausting Space (2015) and Waiting for the Barbarians (2016) with theatre maker Michiel de Regt. Next to Korzo, Iván has successfully set and made work for international companies such as Balletboyz London, Ballet Moscow, ZfinMalta Dance Ensemble, Dance Forum Taipei. In 2016, the feature film Young Men premiered on BBC2, based in the stage work created for Balletboyz in 2015.
In 2016, INNE was founded by Iván Pérez in The Netherlands. With audience and critics acclaim, it premiered at Operaestate Festival with The Inhabitants. As its first international collaboration, ISLAND was created with Song of the Goat Theater in Poland. The next work titled BECOMING will be seen during the season 2017 – 2018. BECOMING is developed as part of the European project Pivot Dance. A three-year program for 6 choreographers, 6 producers and audiences, coproduced by The Place, Dutch Dance Days and Operaestate Festival.
